Why Charlotte's Attic?

So why Charlotte's Attic? Well, why not?? I just thought I would do a short and simple post on why I named this blog what I did and why I think people should read it! For starters, I wanted a vintage sounding name, and I knew that I would not be focusing on really any one thing (like, I wouldn't be blogging only about books or fashion etc) in particular on this blog, just whatever seems fun to write about and is on my mind. And I knew that it would also be focused on history mainly from the past century, books, T.V. , movies, fashion, and so on. I have always wanted the name Charlotte as well. And my logic in naming it Charlotte's Attic was that all my posts would be like going through an old attic. An attic with stuff from every generation. So you might find an old book from the early nineteen hundreds but you could also find a pair of go-go boots from the sixties, old VHS tapes from the nineties, a record player with records from the seventies, a flapper dress from the twenties, an awful hair scrunchie from the eighties, a television set from the fifties, and any array of things. The way that pieces from lives from every time would be in an attic, it is much the same with my blog. That is the essence I am trying to create. Also, if anyone sees any awesome attic pictures that display what I have a fore mentioned I would really appreciate it if you let me know!! Thanks, and I hope you guys enjoyed this post but that it was also informative. Have a good day!:) Or night depending on when you read this...

"The whole damn world is just as obsessed with who's the best dressed and who's having sex. Who's got the money who gets the honeys who's kinda cute and who's just a mess. And you still don't have the right look and you don't have the right friends, nothing changes but the faces, the names, and the trends. HIGH SCHOOL NEVER ENDS!!!"

So I have a million and one blog post ideas, but... They are being neglected at the moment. But hey, they are being written on notebook paper in my classes so that I have something fun and worthwhile to do. I have a different post topic that I write about in every class. Provided I am given time that is. But that is not the point of this post so I will just get to it. I am really not pleased with my life at the moment. I know, I know, I'm a teenager, things are supposed to suck. And I guess since that's the way it's supposed to be apparently, I'm doing pretty damn good! But going to school and being miserable pretty much all the time is not very fun. I know in high school people aren't supposed to like you if you aren't popular (which I'm not) but I am just... tired. I live in the south, always have, but I'm not a redneck so naturally I don't fit in. And being a throwback to the 70's doesn't help my position. Whatever. This post is for, well, me mostly. It is so I can vent in a healthy way. But it is also for my school: I have a song you should listen to, after all, people like you guys are the ones who inspired it!! Read the lyrics below for extra emphasis!

For years you think for sure

that's all you've got to endure

all the total dicks all the stuck up chicks

so superficial so immature

then when you graduate

you take a look around and you say

Hey wait! This is the same as where I just came from

I thought it was over

Aw that's just great!

The whole damn world is just as obsessed

with who's the best dressed

and who's having sex

who's got the money

who get's the honeys

who's kinda cute

and who's just a mess

and you still don't have the right look

and you don't have the right friends

nothing changes but the faces the names and the trends

high school never ends

Check out the popular kids

you'll never guess what Jessica did

 how did Mary Kate lose all that weight

and Katie had a baby so I guess Tom's straight 

and the only thing that matters

is climbing up that social ladder

still care about your hair and the car you drive

doesn't matter if you're sixteen or thirty-five

Reese Witherspoon she's the prom queen

Bill Gates, captain of the chess team
Jack Black the clown

Brad Pitt the quarterback

I've seen it all before

I want my money back!! 

The whole damn world is just as obsessed

with who's the best dressed

and who's having sex

who's in the club

 and who's on the drugs

who's throwing up

before they digest

and I still don't have the right look

and I still have the same three friends

and I'm pretty much the same as I was back then

High school never ends

High school never ends

The whole damn world is just as obsessed

with who's the best dressed 

and who's having sex 

who's inda cute and who's just a mess

And I still don't have the right look

And I still have the same three friends

And I'm pretty much the same as I was back then

High school never ends

High school never ends

High never ends!

Here we go again

This might be a super stereotypical and cheesy song to play due to my feelings but it is so freaking true!!! But I suppose it is better than talking about some angry grunge song (Which I seriously considered). God, Nirvana, Hole, Alice in Chains, and Pearl Jam, all those great grunge bands really knew what they were talking about with the whole I hate you assholes message of their's. Especially Courtney Love and Kurt Cobain.

"I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I'm not." -Kurt Cobain
Let's all start living by that quote. And to my whole me-hating school, thank you! Because what doesn't kill youonly makes you stronger... But to be fair, I haven't gotten through it yet! This might be like Mean Girls where someone gets pushed in a bus! (Even though no one actually got pushed in front of a bus in that movie but still! You get the point!) Anyway, I sure as Hell hope so!

Summer Reading: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and Dairy Queen

Summer reading is something people so often times dread, but not me! I am probably the only one in my entire grade who enjoys to read (most of them are idiots though, who saw that coming?). Anyway, our summer reading consisted of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis and Dairy Queen by Catherine Gilbert Murdock. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe was required reading for everyone and then you had a small list you could choose from of books and I choose Dairy Queen. It was SUCH an amazing book, I must tell you that I wasn't looking forward to reading it. Me being a girly girl and all, well, I didn't think I would be able to relate at all. But before I go on confusing everyone let me give a summary of the book:

When you don’t talk, there’s a lot of stuff that ends up not getting said.

Harsh words indeed, from Brian Nelson of all people. But, D. J. can’t help admitting, maybe he’s right.

Stuff like why her best friend, Amber, isn’t so friendly anymore. Or why her little brother, Curtis, never opens his mouth. Why her mom has two jobs and a big secret. Why her college-football-star brothers won’t even call home. Why her dad would go ballistic if she tried out for the high school football team herself. And why Brian is so, so out of her league.

Welcome to the summer that fifteen-year-old D. J. Schwenk of Red Bend, Wisconsin, learns to talk, and ends up having an awful lot of stuff to say.

So it is really a great book that I would recommend to almost anyone because it is so gender friendly. I mean, it isn't one of those bubble gum chewing teeny bopper girly books that no boy in his right mind would read. And if a girl as girly as me could read it, anyone can.

Now, I know everyone knows about the The Chronicles of Narnia. What with a movie franchise and C.S. Lewis's books being classified often as classics, we have all heard of The Chronicles of Narnia. I hadn't read The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe since fourth grade and it was just as good if not better than I remember it. It was just really interesting and well written, with a great plot but also an adventurous and fantsasy filled. Which always provides a great escape from life. I won't provide a synopsis for this book, I think everyone has heard of the story. So, yea, please check them both out if you hadn't already, they are REALLY great!! I just love Narnia because of the greatness of it's writing and the Christian symbolism I find really interesting as well. So check them out!!!

"Julia, Julia, ocean child, calls me. So I sing a song of love, Julia. Julia, seashell eyes, windy smile, calls me. So I sing a song of love, Julia."

So I am doing this blog post for a friend of mine. It's like a tribute to her awesome indie-ness. The reason I am doing this is because she told me the other day that she doesn't think she's very indie when she is literally the most indie person I know!! She is a cool, girl next door, funny, normal, and interesting person. Not to mention a great friend! She loves The Beatles and really all the great oldies music, and Indie fashion, and art and is so creative! I asked her and she said that her most Indie favorite very-her outfit was a navy blue romper. "A lovely thing" I believe she called it. And it took me an eternity before the song to quote for the title came to mind. But when it did it smacked me in the face like a ton of bricks. Artistic, music loving, even a little hippie-esq. I just wanted my friend to know how Indie she really is!! So I have included pictures that remind me most of her, what comes to mind when I think of her....

Navy Blue Romper:)

I put this because she is more of a neckace person than an earrings person and she LOVEESSS owl anything, but especially necklaces.

This is soooo her, the hippie girl!

A Doors quote, one of her favorite bands

This just looked like her and it is pretty cool

One of her favorite movies:)

Again, obsession with cute little owls

Jules lovesss converse and has a pair just like this, except all the spaces are filled in

Indie Rock Fashion!

This struck me as being so her, it reminds me of how she was when she was little, being stuck in a dress than finally let loose upon the world to play in the grass and skip. Free spirit.

The Doors! Need I say more, because who DOESN'T love them?!

And last but not least her (and with great reason, one of my favs too!) favorite actress, Zooey Deschanel, very AWESOME and cool actress!

So see, Jules? You thought you weren't that Indie, when in fact you couldn't be more Indie if you tryed, my dear. So hope this tribute has made you realize that! And that it is ok, better than ok, cool, to be the girl next door. You are a very rocking chick, don't change! There need to be more us rocking girls out there, we are out numbered by the idiot wanna-be masses!! But seriously, hope you liked the post and hope everybody else did too, there will be a few more to come!:)

Sincerely Yours,

Ms. Charlotte

Painted Pretty to Please

This is a drawing I did one night when I was bored, everything on the drawing is done with some beauty product, but mostly makeup. I think it really symbolizes how crazy us girls can get about being all made up all the time. But really I did not create this with some underlying metaphor in mind. I was just really bored and decided I would draw with some of my makeup and other beauty products. I think it is really a cool drawing if I do say so myself, and it really shows like girly girl pretty-ness but in a messed up kind of way. Know what I mean? Like a broken doll sort of? Anyway, hope everyone likes it and who the Hell cares if they don't? What the Hell? Lol, using my new motto:)

"All my life I been good but now I'm thinking what the Hell?!"

Jeez, isn't she a really rockin girl?? Really kickass, and brave to wear so much eye liner

This song, What the Hell, has been a new song I discovered this summer and I absolutely love it!! But I also loveee Avril Lavigne so not that surprising. I love the catchy tune and lyrics, of which I know all by the way! I play it on repeat wayyy to much, I have been driving my family and friends insane with it. But I just love the message of it which is basically take a chance, do something crazy, have some fun!!! And throw your hands in the air and just say what the Hell? It is a new motto of mine, and I definitely relate to the message, and agree with it and doing just that! Throwing my hands in the air and saying what the Hell and taking a chance. It's the best feeling of freedom to just be free and have fun sometimes. So I encourage everyone to do. Have some fun this summer, do crazy fun stuff you wouldn't normally do!! Don't go insane or anything but you get what I'm saying! So, go, hence forth!

The Antique Pink of Hollywood

Antique pink, such  pretty color. The reason I am naming my post this is because it is what makes me think of these beatiful, brave, smart, elegant, charming ladies I will be writing about. But the list of great qualities does not stop there, but I figure I won't bore you with adjectives that describe them. Antique Pink is a series of posts I will be doing, as I become more acquainted with more old Hollywood actresses. But here are the great women I know lots about, that I love and wish to emulate. I love their real beauty, I love their red lips and rosy cheeks and thin but not to thin frames. But I will stop gushing and get to the point of this post..

And here they are, some of my personal favorites:

The strikingly beautiful, Natalie Wood, although to fans of my blog (which I am convinced there are none) Natalie being on this list is really not all that surprising. She has an EXTENSIVE list of movies she has been in, acting from the time she was a child in movies such as the iconic 34th Street and many others. As a teenager she starred alongside James Dean and Sal Mineo in Rebel Without a Cause. And after that, moving on to movies such as West Side Story, Inside Daisy Clover, and Splendor in the Grass to name a few. She had such a draw to her, she was attractive, but part of her beauty was that she could transform into cute, sexy, gorgeous, very young, very adult, or any array of different things. Her beauty could change, she didn't have just one look. Becuase if you look at pictures of her she looks very different in all of them, and in her movies you can sort of sense this change as well.

Next up, Audrey Hepburn! We all know of her beauty, in Breakfast at Tiffany's, Roman Holiday, The Nun's Story and others I am to lazy to type. The thing about Audrey is, women emulate her because she had this unmistakable air of confidence and charm that you could practically smell like perfume! She knew who she was and was so unafraid to be herself. And, isn't that something we all want? She earned the right to be referred to as a classic actress and if you do not belive this, go watch any of her movies, and if you have any brains you will understand exactly what I am talking about. Elegance radiated from her very being.

Elizabeth Taylor, pretty little violet eyed Liz. What a raven beauty, with her dark locks. She looked so much like a porcelain doll with beautiful porcelain skin. She was an uncommon gorgeous gal, in that not everyone has porcelain skin, black hair, and violet eyes. But she was also gifted with the ability to capture the attention of an audience while on screen, so very talented. Grace, something she had so very much of. It is hard to explain but she could just act with such grace on screen and off, all the time setting an example for everyone for decades to come.

Last but certainly not least, Marilyn Monroe. The ultimate blonde bombshell, who pretty much every girl and woman alike wishes they could be just a little like, and who every man desires and longs for. Ladies and gentlemen Marilyn doesn't require much to be said about her, because her personality comes through so well in her photos and movies. But let me just say, a magnificent actress, a wondrous beauty, and an honor to even be able to look at in movies and interviews. Just a damn shame she had to go for a president, or maybe her end would have been different. But then again, no one could resist her, not even a president.