Just Another Manic Monday!

Today just feels like the kind of day where everything seems great so I'm making a list so I can look back when I have days that aren't so great.

Amazing things today:

1. NO SNOW!! yay!!

2. Breakfast at Tiffany's on the television

3. Looking at past sketches and deciding I love them more today than I did the day that I sketched them

4. Eating mini oranges and cheese-its

5. Diet Coke

6. Being random

7. Knowing that I've got some amazing people in my life that I can tell anything to

8. Driving down non-icy roads

9. Sleeping in until 10:30

10. Burlesque is coming out on dvd tomorrow!!!

11. Looking at the scale and seeing I've lost 10 pounds!!!!!!

12. Watching That 70's Show and seeing Fes wear a dress

13. Blissing out on Jimmy Choo's and Louboutin for seriously like 3 hours

14. Purple painted toenails

15. My beautifully clean Claddaugh ring that my friend gave me for my birthday last year

16. High-Lo hemlines on wedding gowns that show off your cute pedicure and even cuter wedding shoes!

17. Looking through my facebook friends and seeing all of my cute married friends and remembering how much fun their weddings and engagements were.

18. My CTR ring that people tend to mistake for a promise ring

19. The fact that I can still watch any of the Disney princess movies repeatedly and never tire of them

20. My complete and total clumsiness at times

21. that I can laugh at myself with my friends

22. My countdown until Spring semester is down to only 7 weeks

23. I have 2 GREAT jobs

24. I love my best friends who get me through everything

25. Getting "crunk" with my bestie 'Raskie when boys are being dumb, or even just for the heck of it

26. having a sport that I love and still have the capability (for now) to play and participate in

27. doing random web surfing to do the typical "girl thing" and look at wedding gowns that I have no use for any time soon

28. turning 2o in a matter of only 8 WEEKS!

...AND....

29. Blogging for my own personal sanity.

There may or may not be another post later with some actual fashion commentary!

Lots of love!

xoxo

Annemarie Krystine

Oscar Inspiration!!

Well like most people tonight I have been caught up in the excitement and fashion feast that is the Academy Awards. My favorite look of the night? Mandy Moore's GORGEOUS cerulean blue Monique Lhuillier gown! The sweetheart neckline and full flower covered ballroom skirt was every little girl's princess fantasy come true. She paired her ethereal

princess gown with a simple sidesweep with a simple jeweled comb and pulled of the perfect princess chic for her performance with fellow Tangled star Zachary Levi!

This cerulean blue wonder reminded me of the new Emilio Pucci Spring 2011 collection that is all about the cool blues and a greek revival feel! Some of my favorites??

This dress is the epitome of the new spring trends that we are going to be seeing a lot of this season. The high-lo hemline is fun and flirty while also being sophisticated and formal, while the airy chiffon gives a full, energetic and light feel to what is soon going to be a hot style in the coming years. As well as its deep blue and black pattern giving that oceanic beachy vibe.

And here we have yet another high-lo hemline that is accentuated by a

sleek black pleated chiffon and black stone detailing on the empire waistline.

Emilio's twist on the gladiator heel sandal is true greek revival with its thin leather straps and circular hardware, these sandals are sure to be the "it" style of sandals to be worn this summer in flats and you can bet that this shoe girl will be rocking a similar (and less expensive) pair!

And thus another Oscar night full of amazing gowns has come to pass and more and more inspiration has walked the red carpet runways.

"There is no time for cut and dry monotony. There is time for work. And there is time for love. That leaves no other time."

-Coco Chanel

Do what you do because you love it not because you think you should.

Until next time.

xoxo

Annemarie Krystine

Oh how I LOOOVE Shoes!

So today ended up being a shoe obsessed internet scour!! As per usual I had no particular problem finding shoes that I adored though I am beginning to see that I love love love platform heels more and more especially if there is some sort of contrast detailing on the heel...

No big surprise I am in love with a nude colored pump with a patent black heel and punch hole detailing! Found this gorgeous shoe, called the Bevv-B from one of my favorite, affordable, shoe men Steve Madden.

As per usual Mr. Madden does not fail to deliver me many, many options on a new obsession, hence this other beauty I found!

This shoe is called the Lisette!

A bit more of a dressy sandal, than a pump, but I am in complete adoration of

the contrasting black lace detailing all over the back and heel of this champagne satin work of art! Speaking of art my shoe-venture of the day sent me on an awesome journey in to some rather unique, elegant and even avant garde art shoes and the awesome repertoires of the designers who brought some amazing shoe visions to life!

Mai Lamore is by far my favorite I found! this amazing shoe visionary London-based Parisian has been a renowned name in Europe for years and is now on the top of my LOVE list for amazing shoe designers!

Her shoes have graced the feet of Rhianna and says "A shoe, more than any other clothing item, is an object that already exists before even being worn; shoes do not generally fold

up or fall lifeless as most clothing items do when not worn. This 'object' quality has a certain mystery to it, akin to a sculpture with a life of its own. A high luxury shoe should look as stunning on the foot as it would in a vitrine."

"In order to be irrplaceable, one must always be different."

-Coco Chanel

Stay true to you and be yourself!

Until next time!

xoxo

Annemarie Krystine

Here We GO!

Goal: post pictures of fashions and objects that inspire me and also some of my own designs for my future line Love, Annemarie Krystine.

Since my discovery of my love for shoes and fashion in the 5th grade, I have spent the last 14 years of my life in awe and drooling after the amazingness and perfection of the pieces of art for your feet that one Christian Louboutin has continued to create since 1982. Lately I have been designing and thinking about wedding attire and stumbled upon this BEAUTIFUL shoe by Mr. Louboutin and automatically found my future something blue!!

Along with this amazing shoe I found some strange yet wonderful, inspiration from a very unique bird and its brightly colored twin. Pretty much forever I have been obsessed with and in LOVE with peacocks and their gorgeous rainbow plumes and the incandescent confidence that anyone who wears peacock feathers automatically has! I love the cool combination of the bright blues and greens with brown neutrals and sparks of purple and yellow. The calming and soft white peacock gives a subtle yet unexpectedly, almost sexy innocence to any type of clothing and the shape of its tail plumage makes for great inspiration on the shape of a gown and the type of flow that one could imagine in a wedding dress! And voilé you get THIS!

"Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman." - Coco Chanel

Never forget to put your best foot forward in your wardrobe and in your life!

Until next time,

xoxo

Annemarie Krystine