FASHION

Nike is being a must-have item for girls this day. But some people maybe have some problem to mix and match it. Actually Nike will go well with anything if we know this trick. So, I gotta share about tips and tricks to wear Nike sneakers with style.

1. The Basic Style
    The basic style is match your sneaker with skinny jeans and T-shirt or skinny jeans + shirt/sweaterlike the photo below.

    

    
















to make it look more stylish you can change your skinny jeans with boyfriend's jeans and add long coat, leather jacket + scarf  for more formal look. It can make you a little boyish somehow. This is he examples :

 










you can also make the sporty casual looks by adding a maxi coat. Sneakers added to a perfect Fall look!

like I said before, "You can't never be wronged when mix 'n match nike sneakers". And this pretty cool to wear nike with overall.

If you prefer to look more girly, I'll show you how to wear it with skirt, maxi dress, tulle skirt and a few more.

Yups! I  hope you get inspired and may this post bring you idea to make your own style!!

POEMS

A Dream Within A Dream

by : Edgar Allan Poe

Take this kiss upon the brow! 
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow-
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream; 
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone? 
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.

I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand-
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep- while I weep! 
O God! can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp? 
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave? 
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream? 

POEMS

I Am Vertical

by : Sylvia Plath

But I would rather be horizontal.
I am not a tree with my root in the soil
Sucking up minerals and motherly love
So that each March I may gleam into leaf,
Nor am I the beauty of a garden bed
Attracting my share of Ahs and spectacularly painted,
Unknowing I must soon unpetal.
Compared with me, a tree is immortal
And a flower-head not tall, but more startling,
And I want the one's longevity and the other's daring.

Tonight, in the infinitesimal light of the stars,
The trees and flowers have been strewing their cool odors.
I walk among them, but none of them are noticing.
Sometimes I think that when I am sleeping
I must most perfectly resemble them--
Thoughts gone dim.
It is more natural to me, lying down.
Then the sky and I are in open conversation,
And I shall be useful when I lie down finally:
The the trees may touch me for once, and the flowers have time for me.

POEMS

Mad Girl's Love Song

By : Sylvia Plath

"I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my lids and all is born again.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)

The stars go waltzing out in blue and red,
And arbitrary blackness gallops in:
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.

I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed
And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)

God topples from the sky, hell's fires fade:
Exit seraphim and Satan's men:
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.

I fancied you'd return the way you said,
But I grow old and I forget your name.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)

I should have loved a thunderbird instead;
At least when spring comes they roar back again.
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)"

FASHION

What is a Thrift Store?

It seems like a silly question, but you’d be surprised out how many times people ask “What is a Thrift Store?.”  Well this post is going to talk about the finer points of thrift store shopping, along with some things to watch out for.

What is a Thrift Store?

Thrift Stores are resale shops that sell used goods (sometimes new if you’re lucky!). Usually a thrift store builds its inventory off of donations. Some are non-profit organizations, while others are not. You can see whether a thrift store is a non-profit or not usually by looking at the signage. But if you are unsure and would like to know, be sure to ask an employee. Mungkin bagi sebagian orang Indonesia belum terbiasa mengunjungi Thrift Store ( Toko Barang Bekas). Karena biasanya barang bekas kita berikan kepada pembantu atau disumbangkan ke panti asuhan. Di Amerika ini banyak juga Thrift Store, karena orang Amerika terbiasa untuk membeli barang baru dan biasanya barang yang lama mereka sumbangkan ke lembaga sosial.

Karena situasi ekonomi Amerika yang lagi kurang baik, sekarang banyak juga orang yang mulai melirik Thrift Store untuk membeli barang-barang keperluan, harganya sangat bersaing hanya sekitar 10 - 25% dari harga toko. Ada juga yang memang sengaja datang ke Thrift Store untuk melihat barang-barang yang termasuk 'Vintage' (antik - barang sekitar tahun 70-an sudah termasuk) dan mereka bisa menjualnya dengan harga cukup mahal di online.

How can I find a thrift store?

Depending on where you live, it can be either easy or difficult to find thrift stores. Places like Goodwill are usually easy to track down, but what about those little local shops? Here are a couple of ways to track them down:
1. Do a quick search on Google Maps for “thrift store” to see what pops up. Likewise, it’s good to also search for “thrift stores in X city” on your search engine. This could produce some good local results.
2. Ask local people. If you have a community forum for your area, that’s a great place to ask questions. Or you can post the question to your friends and family on a social network.
3. Keep your eyes open every time you are out driving. You’d be surprised how many off-the-beaten-path places you can find just by keeping those eyes peeled.
My Mom and I have this running joke that we can smell a thrift store if it’s within 1o miles of our current location. The jury is still out though as to which one of us has the better sniffer (psst…it’s me, but shh don’t tell her that).

What are the best tips for shopping at a thrift store?

I think there’s a misunderstanding going around that if you bought it at a thrift store, then you got a good deal. This simply isn’t the case. Many times I have seen an item actually priced higher at a thrift store, than what I know I can get it for brand new at a retail store. Smart shoppers should keep their wits about them (and their smartphones for searches) when entering a thrift store.
1. First off, shop at a thrift store that doesn’t regularly overprice its items. You will be far too tempted to buy something, even though you know it isn’t a very good deal.

2. Set yourself a budget and make a list of things you need/want. If I know I am only looking for Summer clothing for the children, then that’s what I focus on so that I don’t go over my budget and come home with a bunch of things I don’t need.

3. When you see an item that you want to buy, do a quick search online with your smartphone (or go home to do this) to see if you will actually be getting a good deal. After a while, you will get used to recognizing good prices
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4. Before making a purchase, check your items to make sure that they aren’t broken, stained or have any defects that you can’t live with. Too often I’ve witnessed people purchase something to later regret it because they didn’t inspect the item carefully (achem – okay maybe I’ve done this…once…okay I did it a couple times, but who’s counting?).

5. “Look outside the box” when considering an item. When you are looking for something in particular, especially furniture, think outside the box if you are browsing. Could that awful piece of furniture for $5 be turned into something spectacular with a little bit of paint? Perhaps I can use that old frame that is .50 cents to make myself a chalkboard or dry erase board. There are so many possibilities when shopping at thrift stores, so let your imagination run wild!

6. Try on clothing before making a purchase. You can’t usually return items at a thrift store, so make sure clothing fits before you purchase.

7. Test electronics before purchasing. As with clothing, more than likely you can’t return an item to a thrift store. So just check to make sure your item works before buying it.

8. Take one last look at your item choices altogether before you go check out. At this point you should decide what you really need, and what you only took off of the shelf during an impulse. If you think impulse buying at a supercenter is hard, it’s even worse at a thrift store!
Thrift store shopping can be a lot of fun. It’s one of my favorite pastimes, and is what I do to unwind when I’m stressed and need a break. Even if I don’t bring anything home, I enjoy perusing all the unique items and letting my creative juices flow. And I simply love the fact that I can buy new seasonal wardrobes for a fraction of what it would cost me at a retail store. Who wouldn’t like that?

DIY

Sudah bosan dengan peralatan sekolah yang ada di toko-toko saat ini? You wanna have something cute and limited but with low price? I can help  you out with some solution. But, your creativity is needed here. Don't worry, it's really easy step to follow.
To make your work easier, I'll show you some video that I take from youtube.

ini adalah beberapa DIY favorit saya :

1. How to Make DIY Paper Notepads

         This cute paper notepads can be yours if you follow siple steps in this video. Let's check  this out.

 

 2. How to Make DIY Paper Envelopes and Liners 

        Now you can sent mail or else to your friends with no more boring-white-envelope.

3.  How to Make Textbook Covers

          Your journal  will be more cute when you've added stamp that perfectly symbolize you

Have you seen it? Is it help you? You can watch more video here.
In the end Iant to thank you for reading my post!

WRITER

Dou you know who is she? Sylvia Plath was an American poet, novelist, and short-story writer. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, she studied at Smith College and Newnham College at the University of Cambridge, before receiving acclaim as a poet and writer. Sylvia Plath was one of the most dynamic and admired poets of the twentieth century.

Puisi-puisinya sering disalahartikan sebagai puisi yang romantis. When actually she wrote about her depression an all. Biografi Sylvia Plath dapat kamu baca di sini. Here the list of Sylvia Plath's work :

Poetry collections

• The Colossus and Other Poems (1960) William Heinemann
• Ariel (1965) Faber and Faber
• Three Women: A Monologue for Three Voices (1968) Turret
• Crossing the Water (1971) Faber and Faber
• Winter Trees (1971) Faber and Faber
• The Collected Poems (1981) Faber and Faber
• Selected Poems (1985) Faber and Faber

Collected prose and novels

• The Bell Jar: A novel (1963), under the pseudonym "Victoria Lucas"
• Letters Home: Correspondence 1950–1963 (1975)
• Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose, and Diary Excerpts (1977)
• The Journals of Sylvia Plath (1982)
• The Magic Mirror (published 1989), Plath's Smith College senior thesis
• The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, edited by Karen V. Kukil (2000)

Children's books

• The Bed Book (1976), illustrated by Quentin Blake, Faber and Faber
• The It-Doesn't-Matter-Suit (1996) Faber and Faber
• Collected Children's Stories (UK, 2001) Faber and Faber
• Mrs. Cherry's Kitchen (2001) Faber and Faber

These are some of my favorite quote from Sylvia Plath :