He Copied Me & I Copied She

Wow, was the blame game rampant on this episode or what?!? To me it sounded a little bit like this:

Logan copied Althea's zipper collar,

Who copied Meana Irina's over-sized sweater,

Who is competing on Project Runway with Heidi Klum,

Who appeared in The Devil Wears Prada with Meryl Streep,

Who was in The River Wild with Kevin Bacon!

Phew! I guess all things really do come back around to Kevin Bacon.

ANYWAY... Here are our updated scores:

16 points: Leah
14 points: Lisa, Emily
13 points: Ashley
12 points: Shana, Scott, Cheryl, Sue
11 points: Dana R.
10 points: Nina, Kathleen
8 points: Sharon
7 points: Kirsti
6 points: Dana A.
2 points: Tyler

Til next time!...

Episode 11 Picks

As you know in fashion- one day you are in, and the next, you are out. We'll see who is out tonight! Here are our picks for who is in:

Althea: Lisa, Ashley, Sue, Sharon, Kirsti, Emily, Nina
Carol Hannah: Shana, Tyler, Kathleen
Gordana: Leah, Dana A.
Irina: Scott, Cheryl, Dana R.


Girls rule & boys drool... these two got no respect this week:
Christopher
Logan

Enjoy the show!

Nice Knowin ya Nicolas

Ooh la la... we have got some scores on the rise! There were lots of winners among our league thanks to Irina's rich ski-bunny look, and here's how our scores are looking as a result:

15 points: Leah

11 points: Lisa, Shana, Scott, Cheryl, Emily
10 points: Ashley, Dana R.
9 points: Sue, Kathleen
7 points: Nina
5 points: Dana A, Sharon
4 points: Kirsti
1 point: Tyler

And with fewer and fewer designers left, our scores will likely continue to make some drastic changes! Very exciting!!

So, I don't know about you guys but I thought that the "Michael Kors Inspiration Challenge" really lacked inspiration. In my opinion, none of the designs were really wow-ers. What did you guys think? I feel like we need an 'avant garde' challenge to really spice things up... hopefully next week. But lucky for us, though the show may be a bit drab recently, there are still fun things to enjoy in our fantasy league! You may remember that the wedding dresses like these:

...from the divorcee episode a couple of weeks ago, inspired a Wedding Story Challenge of our own within the league. The winner of that challenge, Emily, provided me with the following pictures to go with her 2-point-worthy story, which I've included below for all to enjoy once again. Thanks to Emily for being brave enough to share the pics and story from her painful experience! ;)

Emily said...
I was the maid of honor at my best friend's wedding. She decided it was a good idea to give drunk people sparklers (yes, the fire-burning sticks) at the end of the reception to send the newlyweds on their way. Well, the best man was standing next to me and the hot, charred ember at the end of his sparkler fell into my cleavage and down my dress. The polyester-blend of the bridesmaid dress material quickly melted with the heat of the sparkler. I was trying to keep my composure in order to not ruin my best friend's 'moment,' but my boobs were on fire. Literally!! When others realized this, they began dousing my dress with drinks...alcoholic ones...which only made things worse. The paramedics were called and my dress was cut off of me by some hot (and I mean, HOT) firefighters. It was so embarrassing (and people were documenting the scene with the disposable cameras from the reception tables). Needless to say, I have a great story, and SCARS, to remember my best friend's wedding!!

Episode 10 Picks

Hey everyone! Here are our picks for tonight's show:

Althea - Sharon, Kirsti, Nina, Leah, Emily
Carol Hannah - Tyler, Dana A., Kathleen
Christopher - Lisa
Irina - Shana, Scott, Cheryl, Sue, Dana R.

Slim pickins, eh?!


No votes tonight:
Gordana
Logan
Nicolas

And here's a picture of our hostess with the mostess, just for kicks:

Enjoy the show!

I Am Beautiful, No Matter What They Say

There was a lot of glitz & glimmer tonight as the designers made an outfit for this "fashion icon":

Um... if they say so. While I can't say that I personally aspire to dress like Christina Aguilera (though I do own an outfit similar to the blue one above- but then, who doesn't?), I do think she has a pretty voice and I liked the idea of making a fun stage outfit for her. Besides, I don't want to just talk shit on this blog- I'm not Irina, after all. (Seriously, I found myself talking a lot of shit about her due to her talking shit about others. It was a vicious cycle. Anyone else partake in a similar pattern?) But anyway, I do have some positive things to say so here they are:

1. I do think Irina is a very good designer
2. I liked Tim Gunn's bright yellow/gold-ish tie
3. My favorite part of this episode was when they played sexy music while showing Carol Hannah & Logan together
4. Sometimes I really like Nicolas
5. Next week's preview showed Nina, Heidi & Michael Kors all together again!!

What positive or negative feedback did you guys have from this episode?? Also, I would love any other suggestions for ways to earn additional points like we did with the wedding stories. Please let me know if you have any ideas!

Ok here are our updated scores:

14 points: Leah
10 points: Lisa, Ashley, Emily
8 points: Shana, Scott, Cheryl, Kathleen
7 points: Dana R.
6 points: Sue, Nina
4 points: Dana A., Sharon
3 points: Kirsti
2 points: Esteban
0 points: Tyler- sorry buddy :(

Til next week!

Episode 9 Picks/Winner of Extra Points!!

Wow! Thanks to everyone who shared your great wedding stories! Some were funny, some were sweet, some were painful, (many were drunken)... but the story worthy of 2 extra points had all of those qualities wrapped into one. The hands-down winner for sharing the most interesting, funny, painful and embarrassing story is:

Emily Maxwell!!

Congrats Emily! Your story made me cringe and laugh all at once. You are the lucky winner to receive 2 extra points, and the rest of us are lucky in that Emily has agreed to share a picture from her wedding story... soon to be scanned and posted, so be sure to check back!

Now, back to business as usual- here are our bets for tonight's show:

Althea: Shana, Cheryl, Sharon, Kirsti, Kathleen, Emily
Carol Hannah: Ashley, Sue, Nina, Leah
Christopher: Scott
Irina: Dana & Dana!
Nicolas: Lisa
Shirin: Tyler

No votes:
Gordana
Logan

Enjoy the show!

Divorcees to Divas

Epperson? Really?? Did they see what Logan made though? Or more accurately, what Logan safety pinned together? I have to say, I was on Team Logan tonight, but the judges' decision really left me stumped. Although I suppose this gives us more time to enjoy the love affair that is slowly developing between Logan & Carol Hannah! Yippee!

Ok but seriously, which outfit did you think was worse?:




Epperson's or Logan's??

Another aspect that stumped me about this episode- was it the saddest challenge ever ("...and I've been divorced for 3 months...") or the most liberating? I'm voting saddest, as I can't imagine that many of those divorcees left FIDM feeling too hot about themselves, right? I mean, there was the Space Bubble Dress, 2 Oktoberfest outfits... I feel like I might be asking for a refund if I were those ladies. Then again, they signed up to have their wedding dresses revamped... for better or for worse... (Pun intended.)

This challenge inspires an idea. In the 'comments' section below, post the most outrageous wedding story you know. It must be true, and preferably one that you witnessed. Whoever has the most interesting story will get 2 extra points! Please post your story before next week's show.

Speaking of points, here they are:

11 points - Leah
9 points - Lisa
7 points - Shana, Scott, Cheryl, Ashley, Kathleen, Emily
6 points - Dana R.
3 points - Tyler, Dana A., Sue, Sharon, Nina
2 points - Esteban, Kirsti

Looks like next week will have some star power! Should be fun! And best of all, I saw a preview with Nina in it!! Hopefully the gang's all here, and here to stay. Til then!...

Episode 8 Picks

Well we started with 16 designers and have said auf wiedersehen to 7 of them. After tonight's show the number of designers will be halved from that first episode! Likewise, our league here has done some shrinking of its own. We started with 21 players, but seem to have lost 5 along the way. So without those players, but including some generous donors, the winner of our league will still get $95! Not bad! Can't wait to see how tonight's bets effect the winner of that big fat pot! Here they are:

Althea - Kirsti, Leah, Kathleen, Emily
Carol Hannah - Cheryl, Sharon, Ashley
Christopher - Sue, Dana R.
Epperson - Esteban, Dana A., Nina
Logan - Lisa, Shana
Shirin - Scott, Tyler

No lovin:
Gordana
Irina
Nicolas

Good luck everyone! Enjoy the show!

Louise Has the Blues

I knew I complained about Michael Kors being gone for a reason... he's hilarious! And for a kind of boring challenge (or at least, I didn't think any of the designs were any big whoop,) he really spiced things up, like when he described this outfit as looking like it had "a shower loofah ruched up the front of it"

and that he came up with the "disco pumpkin" diss about this one:

Disco pumpkin?! HA! Oh how I've missed you MK.

I also want to say thank you to the Project Runway gods for letting Christopher stay on the show. That would have been just too heart breaking to have to watch him leave in tears, especially after he was so dang confident about his designs. I thought Louise was the right choice to have to leave the show. How about you guys??

So here are our updated scores:

10 points: Leah

8 points: Lisa

6 points: Shana, Scott, Cheryl, Ashley, Dana A., Nina, Kathleen, Emily
5 points: Esteban, Dana R.

4 points: Brett

2 points: Tyler, Sue, Sharon, Brad

1 point: Kirsti

Who knows how our scores will change as we have fewer and fewer designers! Only time will tell...

Episode 7 Picks

In the preview for tonight's show, Heidi said "one or more of you..." may be out this week. Should be a nail biter!! Here are our bets:



Althea - Shana, Kirsti, Leah

Carol Hannah - Ashley, Dana R.

Christopher - Cheryl, Sue, Kathleen

Epperson - Scott, Esteban

Irina - Lisa

Logan - Sharon, Nina, Tyler

Shirin - Emily


Also, I think I am going to start updating scores on Fridays, that way I can include fun pictures from Lifetime's website. (They're slow to update their page). Hope this works for everyone! Enjoy the show!!