So, a mixture of the stuff I like is Boho Chic with all kinds of fusion, and I ALSO love RAVE CULTURE. Yes. It's VERY ME.
I did a whole blog post about my Independence Day weekend this year n the internet went gaga over that stuff! My Instagram shot from under 300 followers to way over 500.... of course several dropped off because they realized I'm in my 30s and have a kid and a life... Whatevz...
Look, I know what I like. And, I do what I like. I'm an artist.
So, I put together this whole rave photo shoot the same night I shot the other stuff early this month.
The lights I have I got from Spencer's way back a while ago and I've used them in several photography experiments.
I shot this last week at night here in New England.
DSLR CANON
In case you haven;t noticed, or didn't know already, I have this affinity for lanterns. I've liked lanterns for years, but never had the opportunity to ever get some until last year in the fall/autumn when I just happened to walk into Marshall's as nabbed 3 at bargain prices.
Then, I went nutsoid about some lanterns I saw at Pier 1 Imports a few weeks later when I happened to just walk-in over there, and I got a whole set of them in a whole series of events. You can read that story HERE and HERE if you want to.
Anyways, my so-called balcony on the first floor (since it's not really a patio, nor a porch) was something that bugged me since we got this condo. I've been working on it for years trying to do SOMETHING -Nay ANYTHING w/this thing. We used to be allowed to have a grill out there, and we had 3 different ones. But, stupid building admin board is headed by sadists so, no more cooking with fire anymore. *rolls eyes*
I never really thought I liked decor or decorating... until sometimes I find I kinda do... I guess I never realized it...
I still wish I could get a mosquito net and rig that up somehow, and hand stuff from the ceiling... but, hey, that's something I'm trying to work on, penny by penny because poverty blows chunks.
But, this year, I'm actually getting somewhere! This is probably THE CLOSEST I've ever gotten to my vision of what I want.
These are the 3 lanterns I got from Marshall's. The candles are from the dollar store, the incense & burner is some leftovers from my old store we used to own. The old vintage copper tray was from a yard sale Mr. Wang bought as a gift for me last summer.
There's no real rules for Boho Decor, Boho Style, or Gypset Style. It's generally a mixture of stuff, and many items from your various travels around the world, or various sentimental things, or old objects and a fusion of new things.
I like a mixture of old & new, East & West, often with a whimsical vibe. I like COLOR and vibrancy. I also like mood, ambience, and feeling.
I get more compliments on my so-called balcony on the first floor, that people actually say stuff as they walk by in the parking lot, when I come out the lobby door, or back door exit/entrance, and even when I take walks outside, or at the pool.
Oh, are you the one with that fancy set up on your balcony? I like that!
Yes, that's me. And thank you.
The above uses a star filter or cross filter, or whatever you wanna call it. It's an old old old school analog trick from the old school SLR days, but I shot these digitally. I can't afford analog film.
Anyways, I shot most of these manually, but I can't remember which ones. I'm sure if you downloaded and saved the photo the stats are inside the digital image of you know how to look that up on your computer.
So, even tho' my computer was slain by vicious malware... I did manage to do other things... besides watching YouTube and being obsessed with all things Star Wars, and Snapchat...
Well, I do have photos of these with a candle in one... but I'll post that on a different entry.
Anyways, I've been obsessed with lanterns lately... I already wrote 2 long blog entries about that...
I ended up getting 2 because they and UPS screwed up in multiple ways. And, since I shopped from EBATES from Pier 1 Imports and also Sephora which also botched an order I ended up getting THIS:
A $10 giftcard from Kohl's. All of these long strings of SNAFU events always ended up being some sort of dumb luck in the end.... 1 after the other!
So, I'd been wanting to go get some LED string lights, and I just KNEW that Kohl's STILL had some in the store if I could just manage to get there and hunt them down...
Anyways, if you want to know the whole bargain story about how I got the LED Lights for practically FREE plus got a $1 back in CASH, you can read it here:
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If u are NOT using EBATES, I CAN'T UNDERSTAND WHY yet! Klick my link and just buy ANYTHING. You could even return it, and u will still get the credit for it.
So, I got the lights... Mr. Wang was a punk to me throughout the whole process, and kept delaying to take me to Kohl's even tho' he kept promising... a ton of excuses: I'm tired. the bad weather. When good whether, he's either tired, or not enough time, or traffic, or tomorrow... We'd make a plan, and he'd break it...
Anyways, he just couldn't delay it anymore, and i didn't feel like fighting, so I do the whole nag thing instead, and suck-up thing.... like do favors, be extra sticky sweet nice, and if its still not happening i become a broken record... so, when he finally stops blocking it, i say: May i have the keys to the minivan?
Mr. Wang has some kinda stress mental malady... so, it causes him to have paranoid delusions of imaginary scenarios in his mind that he thinks will come true... he's convinced himself that i'll crash the minivan, get crashed into, have a breakdown, or that I'm incompetent... it's not even worth arguing about because it just makes him more sick.... then I have to take care of his skin even more, and he self attacks as his own form of therapy, like scalding himself in hot water in the shower. He thinks it helps him, but it makes his hives worse. Then, i have to apply the medicine to his back even more...
Well, he was so resistant, and abrasiveness to the entire process because he doesn't understand my vision. he's been like this over several issues for a while now... only to change his mind once he realizes what I'm doing or what I'm going for... So, just like the story of how I got these lanterns, there's a lot of that in how I got the lights as well...
-he'd gotten me some candles... but the wrong ones, and also ONLY 1 large one... I have TWO large lanterns.... pointing this out to him, would make him upset... so, i said nothing, and just burned 1 candle... which IMHO looks stupid...
Plus, it will stress him out, he'll say that I'm ungrateful, give himself more hives, and berate me AGAIN for being unemployed, etc...
At this point stress is SO HIGH here that even my daughter has bleeding & scabbing scalp psoriasis as well....
Anyways, when I'd gotten the LED lights, I'd assumed he would be pleased that I saved money, got cash back, and didn't use my credit card, since he seemed to be paranoid that i'd go on some sort of shopping spree... which is totally illogical... but, then man is severely afflicted, so what did ya expect? He's kinda like this.... Just gotta live with it....
Anyways, i was in a GOOD MOOD, got my LED string lights, and got home to unpack them, and try to figure out the battery pack.
It wasn't anything difficult to understand, but unscrewing them was needlessly complicated, and difficult. So, i asked him for a screw driver...
So, of course, that leads to him calling me dumb or stupid, or can;t do anything without him.... but, if I'd tried looking in the closet myself, he'd stress out over that and possibly start yelling about going through the closet and messing up his stuff as tho' it were somehow organized (it's not).
He grabs makes it sound like it's easy to find... but takes forever finding it, then hands it to me, and walks away telling me i can;t do anything without him...
But, I still couldn't get it open. So, he's teasing me.... then, finally, I asked him to help me, so he teases me some more, same kinda thing, and then takes over the entire project, and starts doing it all himself. Once I have 1 the first string lit, and uncoil it, he's still shaking his head at me, like I'm a weirdo.... but, once I placed it into a lantern.... his mood, tone, demenor, and attidtude totally changed.
Oh, THAT'S what this is!
Um... yeah dude...
Once I had the lanterns all set up, I stuff them by my window.
Well, once Mr. Wang realized all this lovely lantern creativity happening, he suddenly decided he had better ideas, and insisted I put them on the Coffee Table.
So, that's what he did. I cleaned off the whole coffee table, and he put them there.
Then, he kept commenting about how he had such great ideas, and it looked so good, etc.
( .....er... um.... they're my lanterns, and it was my idea to use them to decorate the house... that's why I wanted them so badly... )
The rest of the night, he kept coming out to admire the beautiful lanterns (like an art gallery attendee) lit up by the LED lights and commenting on how "pretty" he thought they were. He also tore the house apart looking for better batteries, and succeeded.
He did this throughout the rest of the week, and would even suggest when I ought to turn them back on.
Somehow, I figure there's a joking reference to "My Big Fat Greek Wedding", somewhere... If u didn't catch that, then sorry it's over your head...
Well, this is it for these photos. I shot these on my iPhone. But, I also did a photo shoot on my DSLR CANON. maybe I'll post some of those here. Or, perhaps on my Photography blog.
