I don't know much, but I'm learning.

I can remember clearly the first time I wore mori kei. I had only discovered it a month prior, and it had taken only a few weeks for me to convince my mom to help me remake my wardrobe. We spent hours looking through thrift stores, not quite knowing what we were looking for and buying everything we thought might work. After hours of blind shopping I had somewhat assembled a wardrobe, and I was eager to create outfits. I spent hours mixing and matching my pieces, and I came up with several outfits I was happy with. (Although looking back, there were all really awful.) Up until that point in my life, I had only worn t-shirts, jeans with holes in the knees, and worn-out converse shoes. That was my wardrobe, and I had never experimented with fashion (besides a weird phase in middle school where I wore fingerless leather gloves all the time, and dyed a large strip of my hair pink). So the idea of going out in public in such a unique style as mori was a bit daunting to me. I spent a whole ...

Hello again my deers! I'm back again with another Instagram spotlight. Today, I want to highlight two different instagram pages for you. One already has a large amount of followers, and another is a smaller account that I feel deserves a bit more love. Both are lovely in my opinion, and I hope you enjoy them too! The first account I want to spotlight is momochy_. She is a lovely artist from Japan who makes mori and lolita inspired art. Her style is very cute and soft, and never fails to make me feel warm inside. She's relatively popular, and rightly so, as she really is a great artist. I really enjoy her use of soft, pastel colors! #illustration #drawing いのり。 A photo posted by momochy (@momochy_) on Apr 18, 2016 at 7:10am PDT #illustration #drawing フォロワーさんが7000名に…！ いつもありがとうございます❁ 皆さんからのいいねやコメントに励まされています。 これからもどうぞよろしくお願いいたします！ A photo posted by momochy (@momochy_) on Jan 12, 2016 at 6:31am PST #illust #draw #ghibli #風立ちぬ 風立ちぬ、初めて観ました。 ...

Hello my deers! I have another outfit post for you all today. As always, you can keep up with my outfits on my instagram (@forestsandtea) if you're interested, and almost everything I'm wearing is thrifted from local thrift stores. I hope you enjoy! I hardly ever wear long skirts, because I feel like they don't look good on me, but I think that this one actually looks alright. Also, I feel like a walking piece of Kath Kidston dinnerware. And I am 100% okay with that. #morigirl #森ガール #morikei A photo posted by Kathryn Elaine (@forestsandtea) on Oct 25, 2015 at 6:10am PDT Trying to dress like a teacher today! My class is taking a field day to shadow some teachers as part of my major. #moriinspired A photo posted by Kathryn Elaine (@forestsandtea) on Oct 27, 2015 at 6:42am PDT Wearing my polka-dot jean dress today! #moriinspired A photo posted by Kathryn Elaine (@forestsandtea) on Oct 29, 2015 at 8:59am PDT Feeling cozy...

For those of you who have been following me on instagram, you've probably noticed me posting quite a few drawings for the Mori Challenge . It seems like it's been forever since I first started the challenge, but I have finally finished! It's crazy how much I've grown from this, and I'm happy to say that my art has definitely improved. I thought that now, since it's over, I would compile all of the pictures in one place. (And just so you're aware, the first 5 sketches were completed about a year ago, before I took a lengthy break and started again in April.) I hope you enjoy them, and hopefully you'll be inspired to try the Mori Challenge yourself! Tosca cake and tea | Sketch number 1, comfort food, 5 minutes. #morigirlchallenge #morichallenge #morichallengedraw A photo posted by Kathryn Elaine (@forestsandtea) on May 27, 2015 at 3:48pm PDT Challenge 2, Mind Garden | 5 minutes (and definitely not my best, but oh well) #morichalleng...