{Anna} Code Red

Hi peeps! It sure feels like forever that I've not post any of my remixes. Well the fact is it has been long and I'm truly guilty as charged. Sadly, my camera's busted and looks like I gotta go either get a new temporary camera right now to snap me me me. Lol..

I've a thought and  not sure whether will it be a brilliant idea, [in my mind.. I think it is ;p]. I would like to hear, read and view your take on Code Red. This will be a fun and great way to get to know all of you stylistas or one another. Here's my take on Code Red.

So my lovelies, would love to hear from you and also because I'm testing inlinkz, a new tool that I'm playing with. If all goes well, I will keep this tool and organise some blog parties or events when I could. This is something small I start and having you fashionistas supporting me means the world. To participate, is just a few steps away:

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1) What are the rules? No rules.. but just make sure you have something RED.

2) Grab the "Code Red" button
3) Follow DUnderdogFashionistas and other fashion bloggers participant and of course we will follow you back.
4) Leave a comment, feel free to suggest how else we could spice up our blog or any activities that we all could take part in even though we are all over the world.
5) Click on "Add Your Link" button at the bottom of post and proceed from there.



**P/S: We will be away for a short relaxing vacation.

StephAnna

Helping Angels : Socks for Japan

Stamp designed by Anna ©

Hi peeps! I wish to share something with you and perhaps we all could lend a hand too. I assure you that I do not get anything out of this, but a sheer joy to know that all of us still have compassion in our hearts. Do read on, if you're interested to make a difference as I believe every little bit helps. Or do spread the word around :).

On March 11, 2011, Japan part of our Asian neighbouring country has been struck with a massive quake and lives changed for many families and friends, including for some Malaysians who live in Japan.

American author Jason Kelly, who lives in Sano, Japan, is collecting socks for earthquake victims. He writes:

Here’s a way you can help Japan, directly and meaningfully.

Hundreds of my readers in the United States and other parts of the world have asked me how they can help the victims of the devastating earthquake that struck Japan on March 11. There are many places to donate money, and that’s a wonderful thing to do, but direct aid is also cherished by victims.

My office location is perfect for managing a direct-aid operation because it’s close enough to the primary damage zone that we can physically get there to help, but far enough away that mail delivery is working. So we quickly set ourselves up to run this operation, called Socks for Japan.

Guidelines:

- Send only new socks.
All human beings are comforted by a fresh, clean pair of socks. Other advantages socks offer this operation: their sizes are easy, they don’t break, people need lots of them in disastrous times without running water, people can keep them forever and remember that somebody from far away cared. Please do not send any other items of clothing, food, etc. Just socks, but go ahead and choose nice ones that will brighten somebody’s day.

- Group similar socks in one package.
To help our inventory management, put all socks of one type in a single package. For example, “men’s large,” “girls’ medium,” “boys’ small,” “baby girls’,” and so on. Different colors and styles are fine in the same package, but keep the gender and sizes consistent, please. If you include several different groups in a single box, please pack the groups in clear bags with a description enclosed, facing out.

- List package contents on the package.
To help our inventory management, write on the outside of the package exactly what’s inside. For example, “ten pairs, men’s medium socks” or “one pair, girl’s small socks” and so on. This will enable us to quickly group inventory for efficient distribution without opening packages.

- Enclose a short care letter. Japanese people treasure letters, especially ones from foreigners. Victims of the 1995 Hanshin quake in Kobe said that care letters were among the most uplifting items they received. If you enclose a care letter, provide a copy of it for each pair of socks you send. This will enable us to hand each recipient of your socks a letter from you. Please keep your letter brief. You can save us time by enclosing a translation of your letter into Japanese, which you can make easily at Google Translate, then copy, paste, and print the result to attach to each copy of your English version. Machine translations are imperfect so be sure to send your English version in case we need to tidy up the Japanese. If you send only English, we’ll translate it to Japanese and include your information that the recipient can use to respond later if they would like. No guarantee on that, of course, and any replies will probably arrive months or possibly more than a year later. We’ll translate replies from Japanese to English.

- Write your email address on the package. The most efficient way for us to keep in touch with you, and track the status of your package once we receive it, is via your email address. Please write it on the outside of your package so we can communicate with you without opening the package.
Please ship your package to my office:

Jason Kelly
Helping Angels : Socks for Japan
Plaza Kei 101
Wakamatsu-cho 615-6
Sano, Tochigi 327-0846
Japan

Thank you for your support! When your package arrives, we’ll send a note to you at the email address you wrote on it.

Join Helping Angels here for more of where this comes from http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5583718222

Have a pleasant week and thank you for reading!

StephAnna

{Anna's No.17} In Love with My RED heels

I'm loving my red heels. Basically, my best buddy Steph will tell you this "she doesn't wear much heels". Yup that is right ladies, I'm a self-confessed flatties [is that even a word] or ballerina flat shoes kindna' gal. I love my flats so much that if possible I would love to collect all types of design, colours in various material whether leather, suade or velvet.

similar jeans, shoes

not sure what i was doing with my lil bro's soft-toy..kekeke

However, recently or sometime back I bought this fabulous pair of red wedge and it's so comfy that for the first time..my feet don't ache much from walking in them. What an improvement from me [self  gloating..give me 1 sec] Okay am back ;p.. I've always adored ladies who wear killer heels and walk like there's no tomorrow. Perhaps I look at their lovely heels in envy and wished I could do the same. Now, I say "bye-bye" to my tiny-whiny envy cause I believe I'm embracing myself to wear more heels.

To all the sexy sassy lovely heels out there.. if you can hear me..that is, you will soon be finding your way to my closet. Muahahahahha [okay.. i know that sounded twisted and evil, but oh well..] We girls just gotta have some FUN!!

StephAnna

{Anna's No.16} Serious or Play?

I broke a rule in the office recently [cheeky me]. Lol.. Not to mention that I have to attend meetings etc. I thought my outfit was fun but had some serious-ness to it. To make myself look super chic and smart for day, I wore my jacket. This jacket was a bargain. The one and only one left in the Forever21 rack. [what a buy?.. ^.^]

The fun part comes in when I matched my red belt and heels with the outfit. Had loads of nice generous comments as no one realised that we could pair red with an all round black and white colour co-ordinated outfit. The comments sure made my day.

Oh! This is also a shout out to Jamie-Lee from Page Sixxx to her "one hundred & thirty-five" post. I just realised I was wearing red and black  [Cantabrian colours], well maybe not much red.. but this is also a tribute to the citizens of Christchurch from a far.

So many things happening arounds us.. sure makes me appreciate life and what we have suddenly seems sweeter in life.

StephAnna

{Anna's No. 15} Old School.. and Halfway there...

Hi peeps.. and ahhhh!!! I'm finally halfway of my 30x30 remixes. Yipppiiiiieeee... I know I'm slow.. but hey slow and steady wins the race right? Or so I think [thinking really hard right now.. do you see any light bulbs around my head?]

It's quite odd, but for a slight moment I feel like I'm back in the 70's or 80's. Then again.. what do I know about the 70's.. [very little am sure..]. When I was much younger, I like going through my mom's old photos and she is really stylish. If only I had her petite frame [lol...] Certain elements that I put together now resembles what she wore during her time; except mine are boot cut jeans and her one was a bell bottom jeans. Do you realised that the old 50's-60's fashion is coming back in trend?

Hehehe..I decided to edit my photo to have a vintage flare. "how cools technology now?"

I wish I could take one of my mom's photo.. scan it in and show you how gorgeous she looks during her younger years, not that she's not gorgeous now ;p.

Okay now, people may I draw your attention back to me please? [Lol..] Here's also a recap my very first 14 remixes.. now it's time for me to embrace for the final 15 more pieces challenge!

StephAnna

{Anna's No.14} British India Style??

Now what's with this British India post you might ask? Well.. to be honest, I might have hit a wall as my brain was stuck thinking of a post title. [lol...] If you like British India's style like I do.. and how they usually would dress up a mannequin, consider this outfit ;p.

Okay, a brief description.. basically over here in KL, M'sia we have a brand called British India and everything is apparently from India. Not sure if you have this brand overseas though. It's more like a travellers/safari clothing style but the pricing is way over the top [noticed how I've bolded this line..keke] I mean really the price is super expensive. Then again that's in my opinion. Perhaps it could be due to the bottoms or tops which are heavily embroidered either with stones or sequins or maybe because the fabrics used are mainly organza, linen, or cotton.

Well, I do own a couple of British India pieces but I usually get them on sale whereby if there's only 70-80% then only I'll consider getting a piece of item. In this 30 remixes, I only included one item from British India. Perhaps next time, my other upcoming posts, I'll show case my few pieces I collected from this brand.

However, this time.. the pieces I placed together are not from British India, and I believe I did pretty well in emulating their style. So what I can conclude is, we don't need super expensive clothes to emulate a style. We just need to be creative and work with our pieces. Agree?

StephAnna