Tag Archive: inspiration

Tarot Inspiration: Dream Enchantress

The Dream Enchantress is a fantasy tarot deck, either done with watercolors or done in a style intended to imitate watercolors. Most or all of the people in the deck are female, or at best, androgynous – this might put some people off, but I think it looks like a fascinating ethereal deck. Check out…

A Traveller’s Tale

One day, you’ll go someplace a little…different. Crawl through a door that goes nowhere, perhaps. Or maybe under a tree. You might not want to eat the food. It’s been known not to sit well. See a circus. Know things aren’t what they seem. Come back home. And then you’ll wonder… Was it all a dream? I’ve been thinking…

Tarot Inspiration: Deviant Moon

I’ve been getting back into tarot again, after several years – I gave it a shot when I was younger and didn’t find it worked very well for me. I’m giving it another go with some less traditional, more intuitive decks and having much better luck this time around – along with having a newfound…

5 Movies to Watch for Their Aesthetic

Movies are a huge source of inspiration for me, style wise. The first time I saw Moulin Rouge, I was absolutely dumbstruck by the sheer…awesomeness of it all. I watched it three days in a row, like we did as children with Aladdin and Jurassic Park and the Lion King. (Nobody else watched Jurassic Park…

Everyone Hail to the Pumpkin Song

Halloween is definitely my favorite holiday, like so many other people out there! I’m a bit late to the game with this post, but there’s still plenty of time to come up with a kick-ass costume. Want some ideas? Here’s my three favorite costume ideas for this year: V for Vendetta by declinedesigns I love…

10 More Places + Ways to Find Inspiration

After posting in the personal style series about finding inspiration, I thought I’d make another list of wacky and not-so-wacky ways to find inspiration: Books! Pretty obvious, I’ll give you. Coffee table books – maybe one on a subculture? Orrr vintage fashions? Rock posters? Or of course; there’s always fiction. Alice in Wonderland is a…

Defining Your Personal Style, Part Three: Using Your Inspiration

So! Now that we’ve discussed how to get a rough concept and figuring out what your wardrobe essentials are, we’re going to discuss what is the logical next step (to me, anyways!): using your inspiration. You should have had some time now to build up an inspiration folder or think about movies that inspire you….

Defining Your Personal Style, Part One: The Concept

Defining personal style can be an intensely difficult thing to do. For some people it comes very easily, for others, not so much. If you’ve spent every day for the last several years just throwing on whatever is comfortable in the morning, it can be pretty challenging to start actually thinking about your clothing choices….

Making an Inspiration Board

No, not one with Polyvore or Picasa – those are for wimps! We’re talking a real, get your hands dirty (or at least, covered in rubber cement), paper-and-scissors inspiration board. Oh yeah. This is great for two reasons: 1: If you’re a compulsive magazine hoarder like me, this gives you a chance to give them…

Mmm eye candy

Looking around on Flickr…(pictures are clickable) Makes me miss my mohawk a little! And here is another one, that won’t seem to let me grab the image source, but it is too awesome to pass up. Enjoy!