Merry Christmas!

 

Merry (belated) Christmas everyone! Hope you are all enjoying the holidays and time at home with family and friends. :) I just made it home two days ago from school, and it's been quite relaxing (and much warmer!!)

Hello and happy holidays from Albuquerque! 

  

I love the look of Christmas lights. They're so romantic. The lights are so tiny yet they manage to give off such a joyous sparkle that make me feel so ridiculously warm and merry (hehe) inside! :)

 

Some Floral Layers for the Philly Cold

 

 

 

 

 I had this funny phase where I was completely obsessed with owning a fedora. :P Even though the ones I've found are all one size, and my head seems to be slightly small...I still love them! I was also absolutely crazy for these owl knee socks when I saw them at the store. It was amusing listening to the girl behind me in line talking about how creeped out she was by everyone loving owl stuff so much. Oops. What's wrong with owls?! THEY'RE SO CUTE!

 

 

Coat: Anne Klein

Fedora: TJ Maxx
Scarf: NY&Company (from my Secret Santa last year!)

Dress: Forever21
Cardigan: Kohl's
Belt: Thrifted
Gloves: Target
Tights: J. Crew
Owl Socks: Forever21
Boots: Target

Happy December everyone! It's been getting colder and colder in Philadelphia these days, and to make it worse, it's getting windier! Earmuffs, hats, scarves, and gloves have become my best friends. I've been trying to make as little bodily contact with the cold air as possible--if only I owned a ski mask so my face could be warm too. :( Some days I have fantasies of wrapping my scarf completely around my head like a mummy. Ridiculous!

Days have been flying by, and I didn't even have time to realize how long it's been since my last update! Things have been really busy here. The weeks after Thanksgiving were packed with assignments, and now it's time for finals. Just one more week to go before the semester's over, which means I'll be headed home for Albuquerque, New Mexico soon (hopefully it'll be warmer there, or at least less windy...) 

It's pretty strange thinking I have homes in two places. I really look forward to going back--it'll be the first time I've been home since last winter break. It'll be fun lounging around the house with my hyper little sisters (they're twins!) and my fobby asian parents. :D I'm excited to FINALLY see my best girl friends who are like sisters to me. I still find myself calling them up at 2 am in the morning to ask for advice or to cry when I've had a rough week. There's something comforting when I hear their voices over the phone. Is that corny? I love them to death. I'm really unconvinced that I could have survived those rough teenage years without them. :) And even if they would tell me otherwise, it wouldn't have been nearly as crazy and beautiful as they made it for me. It's so odd that we're growing up, and I never really get to see the different places they are or where they're going or the new people who are important in their lives. Hopefully winter break will change that, since I'll be meeting and spending time with some of the boys in their lives :D It's exciting also because my boyfriend will be visiting Albuquerque, and we'll get to go on many crazy New Mexican excursions together!

Stay posted for some New Mexican scenery soon! Have a fantastic week! :)

Joseph Gordon-Levitt in Philadelphia!

It's been a busy few weeks at school, but this week is Thanksgiving break so hopefully I'll be able to update everyone with a real post soon! 

Last Wednesday, Joseph Gordon-Levitt came to our campus to speak about his collaborative production company hitrecord.org. I was super excited about the event since 500 Days of Summer was such a good movie, and he was just so darn cute in it. :) Charley and I bought tickets for the event a week before, and the entire week, I kept thinking how amazing it would be if we got to take pictures of him for Jing & Charley? I saw him dressed quite snazzily in GQ and Nylon. Two days before the event, I'm yammering on about how excited I was about seeing Joseph Gordon-Levitt to my friend in class, and this girl asks me if I'm going--turns out she was on the planning committee for the show! I ended up sending her a few samples of my photography, and she let me be the event photographer. Of course, Charley was my guest. We had reserved seats and everything! I ended up sitting in the center aisle near the stage so I could get some nice pictures. Charley used my camera for the event, and my boyfriend let me borrow all his super nice camera gear. :D

At the end of the show, we got to go backstage with the event planners to take some pictures with JGL. Right when he was leaving, I mustered up enough courage to ask him for a picture. :D Charley was so selfless and let me have the picture with him (since we couldn't find someone who was willing to take the camera to take a picture of the two of us).

Blazer: Walmart
Tank Top: Kohls

Jeans: Forever21

Bow: Forever21

Earrings: Korea

Pretty plain outfit. I didn't want my ability to photograph everything to be affected by what I wore, so I decided it would be best to play it safe. Good thing because I did a lot of fiddling around on the floor in the aisle and probably would have flashed a bunch of people if I had decided to wear something more daring.

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving! I'm thankful for everyone reading this blog :)
<3
Jing

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Shirt.Woot Derbies are FUN

 

Hi everyone! Just a quick update! I entered this t-shirt design competition at shirt.woot.com on Friday. My entry can be found here. And yes, breadthless is me!

For those of you who have never heard of shirt.woot, it's a site that sells one original graphic t-shirt a day (one design...not just...one shirt). So usually the shirts are designed by shirt.woot's designers, but the cool thing about the site is that every week, there's a competition (they call it a derby) where anyone can submit a t-shirt design based on a theme chosen by shirt.woot. Voters determine the top three designs and on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, the top three designs are printed and sold. So the first place design is printed and sold on Friday, and the second on Saturday, and the third on Sunday. :) It's pretty neat! 

So what I'm getting at is I'd really really reallyyy appreciate it if you guys would vote for me :) To vote, you need to have an account, and you need have bought a t-shirt from shirt.woot.com or an item from woot.com (the main site which has one product deal a day) before. Voting closes on Wednesday, so make sure you vote before then! Even though my design is far from winning, I'd like to see how far it goes! And if you can't vote, I still encourage you to go check the site out, they have quite a lot of incredibly adorable designs. Also, I have a question for everyone, do you think wearing graphic t-shirts has become completely unfashionable? I feel like every fashionista outgrew graphic t-shirts in middle school, but I still find them so much fun to wear!

Have a lovely week <3

Jing