Purple Mania: Purple Senior Prom Dress(from High school)

Hey Everyone!

I was looking around the pictures of my Senior prom, and remembered how pretty was it (is). I have it hanged in my closet in a garment bag to keep it safe and pretty and I am not always openning the bag just to appreciate it. It has embelishments hand sewed and took 2 months to finish the dress and the sewing. My mom and I designed it and I am happy, very happy how it turned out.

That flower arrangement was just breath taking to I had to take a picture next to it.

I think this is it for my Purple Mania series, or maybe not?! Let's see what comes up and I'll update you.

Until next time with this pretty series!

Have a great day!

xo,

S.A 

Purple Mania: Purple on the blog

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It's the third post for purple mania! Who's liking the fact that I am giving too much (embarrasing) info about this color? It was a secret affair...well maybe not so much as you can notice in this very own blog. You are right, it's time to talk about the purple in the blog and it's different shades.

It was also an unconcious decision to make the elements of the blog purple, I just wanted something different and was looking at different blogs and never found that many with that color and I figured it was a right choice for me.

After the long intro post of the story why I like this color, i though maybe I could tell you the other meanings I found about the imagery of the color. As I have not much to tell about the blog that you can't already tell.

Here we go. The other meanings were the opression, the slavery and the harm caused towards slaves, and, in the US, the black slaves and how it meant that if their skin bruised, they were not worthy enough, they were not as pressured as white people were. Thankfully slavery has been reduced all over the world and there are organizations fighting it.

This color now, portrays how they were able to overcome all the abuse and be professionals and have the rights they should have had since the begining.  It reminds that after a tough ride there is hope of stepping up and fighting for what is right.

Don't miss the remaining Purple Mania posts left!

Xo,

S.A

Picture from here.  

Purple Mania: Purple Phone Case

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As promised, here is the second edition of my purple mania series which came up while day dreaming in bed. Click here to read the previous post and all about my purple room.

This time, the post is going to be much shorter because I just have to talk about the case of my phone, the most important thing in my life which keeps me connected while I don't have a laptop with me and to catch up on my emails and everything that happens in twitter and facebook (quite an addict). I have my phone on my hands the majority of the day and yes, it has a purple case. The case is plain, boring purple.  But it changes out the dull black from the actual phone.

I haven't had the time, nor energy to find another case, (actually I have another acrylic one but it is almost falling appart in pieces) but soon I will. I am not complaining about the case, I love the color, it's just that it could be much nicer.

See? It's breaking and all. Someone, please, remind me to change it! 

So here it is, Purple on my phone, purple mania is all I know…

Have a great day!

xo,

S.A

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Purple Mania: Purple Room

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Now that I am a free student for a while, I have been having tons of ideas about what posts to do.one of them came when I was looking around my room lying in my bed, doing nothing at all, and figured that I was kind of surrounded (and kind of burried) with purple stuff in my room, from my bedding to my walls and the case of my Blackberry. Then this idea came to my mind… why not write a series about the Purple Mania that's going on in my room? (and life if you might as well say it).

The first topic I will be, as the tittle of this blog states, the purple elements in my room. I don't know it started, but I kind of gravitate towards purple, some might say that purple is not a well defined colour, but it has always been pretty to me. I am one of those persons that just don't want to admit that a book actually influenced this behaviour, but it totally was a book which made me gravitate towards it. I remember reading the book "The Color Purple" by Alice Walker, which in the imagery of it (thanks Miss Wendy for teaching me actual literary language) included a lot this color. In one of the papers we had to present, I investigated about the meaning of this imagery, and actually found out a lot of meanings, the one that I remember the most, is that Purple represented the royalty, monarqy and it gave status to the people. We have a winner!! I know now why I always gravitate to that color and, of course, you know now too.

Going back to the main point,  my room. I am writing this post as I stare to the only purple wall in my room. I have a huge tree painted on my walls, it covers two of them with the branches and the leaves, and yes,  the leaves are PURPLE, oh my, Purple everywhere. Here is a picture of it.  

Pretty isn't it? My adorable mother helped me draw it and then I painted it, love my art forward mother.

Another purple element in my room, is my blanket, which is very cozy and warm and makes me happy, specially in this cold weather we are having here. Oh and also, a smaller blanket, which is lilac, a shade of purple.

Yes that is an animal print pillow cover (guilty pleasures revealed?)

Now, I am peaking over my dresser and I notice my infamouse Happy Birthday Balloon my parent gave me when I turned 15, which is proudly going to turn 6 this Tuesday. 

This is it for this series, I will try to upload them everyday or every other day!

I hope you enjoyed my purple room elements!

Xo,

S.A

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