Be on the look out.

Just a quick post to let you all know about some updates coming to the site.

I will be adding an 'inspiration' section to my blog. It will consist of photos/art that inspires me, as well as scanned pictures from my journal of images that I carry with me. Most are tear outs from multiple different magazines or things I find and print off the internet.

Also, if you haven't already checked it out yet, I added an 'artwork' section last week. Right now it has only a couple of my own original photographs, but I will also be adding original sketches and many more photos.

Additionally, I am hoping to get some interviews in line and uploaded of some interesting and fashionable people. Perhaps even some video as well!

So be sure to stay tuned to these new updates, and please feel free to give me comments and feedback on the posts you have read and enjoyed thus far!

Best,

ALV

Style icons

Browsing around the internet today, I came across Forever21's website. At the bottom of their homepage on the right hand side it says to shop their 5 style icon pics. What Forever 21 did was pick their five favorite fashion bloggers and had them choose things from the new fall line that they liked best. You can scroll through and see all of the bloggers, and then literally shop for what they 'picked.' In essence, Forever 21 created mini boutiques for each of the bloggers which you can shop from on the site. I think this is a pretty interesting concept, and one that would benefit both Forever 21 and the bloggers chosen. They did a good job of picking interesting and popular bloggers, as I recognized most of them. I also liked that all of the bloggers had their own individual and unique styles, so their 'pics' were all very different. Also, be sure to watch the behind the scenes video of all the girls during the Forever 21 photo shoot.

The bloggers they picked were:

Emily from cupcakesandcashmere

Rumi from fashiontoast

Louise from MissPandora

Minnie from TheStylishWanderer

Kelly from TheGlamourai

Half way there.

After spending the better part of yesterday getting set up with a hosting site and buying a new domain name, I am now finally able to write my first post.

I was hoping to be able to connect to my brand new domain name instantaneously, however, that is not the case. According to the website it takes at least 24 hours before everything gets connected properly. So right now, if you search for amandavogt.com you will get a godaddy error message. Very frustrating, I know…

Nonetheless, I feel as if I am off to a great start. I’m so excited to get this goal off the ground (so to speak). Hopefully by tomorrow sometime I will have my own personalized website off and running. But until then, I will be dodging tornadoes and getting some shut eye.

Best,

ALV