I have two Marimekko pieces… the bf got this shower curtain and piece of fabric for me for X-mas last year. My dad made a wooden panel and it’s hanging in our bedroom. They’ve been around for so long, even my mom had their fabric framed, hanging in her first apartment.
shower curtain
enormous wall hanging
Their Autumn fabrics are now out and I can’t say I like many of them at all for wall hangings, pillows, upholstery, anything. They used to have a lot of variety. You could get these big retro patterns but you could also find an intricate clean repeat. What do you think? I think it looks dingy, boring and old… and not in that good old way.
- I finally watched The September Issue and if you get stupid excited about the 5 pound September fashion magazines like I do, you will love it! I have always enjoyed Vogue creative director Grace Coddington‘s luxe editorials but after seeing the struggle she goes through with editor Anna Wintour, I am in awe. You can watch it instantly on Netflix.
- Ask and ye shall receive. I have slowly [finally grown up and] come to the realization that men are not mind readers. No way, right? It is soooo much easier to simply ask for what I want. Feeling overwhelmed with household duties? Ask him to wash the dishes. Feeling frisky? Pounce. Need some alone time? Make it happen. Want a romantic evening out? Make the reservations. Instead of building up resentment and tension, living together has become a lot easier. Showing appreciation for all the little things instead of complaining, not asking him to help with chores when he’s in the middle of something, warning him ahead of time and not springing things/requests/moods on him… these little actions have made for quite the peaceful happy home. I’m getting it all in return as well! Funny how that works out. (PS – What’s with the commercials where the woman stands there holding a full trash bag while her man is watching a game? Take the damn trash out yourself!)
- Sewing machine:
It’s all about good friends dude. Seriously. This post reminds me of when Jen’s dear cat Cleo died about 10 years ago and we buried her in a friend’s back yard. Jen and I (during the grunge days) used to say we wanted Mother Love Bone’s Chloe Dancer played at our funerals but instead we burst into CLEO Dancer as we stood by her little grave and everything was okay. (Oh and I totally started boohooing for Cleo when I heard that song again.)- Sometimes you need a visual to imagine putting different colors together. For your wardrobe, your home, projects, anything… this little tool is a lot of fun!
- An enviable birthday gift haul. Good grief.
- More reasons why I love TJ Maxx/Marshall’s – I got this glowing blue rocks glass for the bf (last one – we keep breaking all the cool glasses), an aqua Kuhn Rikon 12″ non-stick pan (the non-stick of our old pan died), and a Kenneth Cole wallet (my old one was soooo funky) for less than $30. (Oh and an extra pair of cute pink tweezers because I have plucking problems.)
- Another great artist via My Love For You… this painting is by Kristine Moran. I have this weird habit of deconstructing everything beautiful I see to assess if I could do it myself. This is completely beyond me.
- Alas, I won’t be making it to New York Fashion Week this September. I told myself last year that I would go this year but it’s not in the cards/budget. To rub salt in the wound, I actually got invited to a few things this time around and didn’t even register for a press pass! Argh! I don’t like to make promises I don’t know if I can keep but I really really want to try harder to make it next year!
- We have been dragging ass with some weird bug for over a week now. I feel achy, slightly feverish, eyes burning, bronchial tightness. We’ve been going to bed before 10pm most nights and have wasted 2 free weekends that could’ve been filled with fun, instead laying around doing nothing. I saw this picture on Saturday when I was feeling like crap and started laughing hysterically then started sobbing uncontrollably. Sick and tired of being sick and tired.
- Dear People Who Sell Shoes Online, Please quit it with only offering whole sizes. That is so weak! I am a true-to-size 6.5. I cannot squeeze into a 6 and a size 7 will fall off my feet. You are losing out on a huge customer base and I have yet to discover what you are gaining from this nonsense. Just knock it off! Thanks, Me.
Thanks again to MJ for tweeting this awesome piece of embroidery by Rosie Geissler from her very new blog. This is one of my all-time favorite quotes. (via Craft)
Here’s one more piece of her work. Love love love her messy style!
Her etsy shop is empty at the moment but keep an eye on it!
I keep seeing these wonderful prints I want on my walls. I never wanted to decorate with small wall hangings. It starts to feel messy. A few large pieces were fine with me but now, I’m starting to justify a few groupings in my head because these prints are so great!
All from Little Paper Planes. Click picture to be taken to it.
Someone is finally selling prints of particle tracks officially licensed from CERN. I am sooooo excited. I have been searching for so long. I even wrote to CERN to see if they were selling prints but they have bigger fish to fry. Media Storehouse has them in different sizes, framed and unframed.
I want to get a few of them in smaller sizes and hang them together. These are the ones I’m considering. Sorry about the watermarks. Nerds unite!
Bubble chamber particle tracks. Coloured image showing a collection of tracks left by subatomic particles in a bubble chamber. A bubble chamber is a container filled with liquid hydrogen which is superheated – momentarily raised above its normal boiling point by a sudden drop in pressure in the container. Any charged particle passing through the liquid in this state leaves behind a trail of tiny bubbles as the liquid boils in its wake. These bubbles are seen as fine tracks, showing the characteristic paths of different types of particle. The paths are curved due to an intense applied magnetic field. The tightly-wound spiral tracks are due to electrons and positrons.
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Streamer chamber photograph of 220 charged subatomic particles spilling out from the collision of a high-energy oxygen nucleus with a nucleus in a lead target. The picture was obtained by the NA35 experiment at CERN, the European particle physics laboratory outside Geneva. In addition to the 220 charged particles that leave a track in the streamer chamber, physicists estimated that a further 80 electrically neutral (& therefore invisible) particles were created in the collision. From a run in November 1986.
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No idea who nominated me, and it was most likely a joke but, being in the list of contenders for RVANews’ Class of 2010 as “most artistic”, is hilarious to me. Last year, my blog was nominated as “best kept secret”. I of course didn’t win that and I won’t win this.
If you want to check out what makes me so gosh darn artistic (other than my general love for amazing works by others), check out these posts of copy-cat art I’ve done on the cheap for my apartment. post 1, post 2.
This post will help you make your own.
My graphic t-shirt criteria:
- v-neck or deep scoop neck – hard to find with a graphic tee (If it’s something that I simply must have, the neck can always be cut out. I like to trim the arm holes and bottom hem below the stitching as well, to keep the frayed-edge look more cohesive.)
- fitted for a woman, longer
- arty and clever, not cheesy licensed motifs or slogans
- will this look good under a blazer with some skinnies and heels?
Threadless is a good source for tees w/ indie designs but it’s usually hit or miss.
^ My bf’s most fave tee in the whole world ^
Rumplo has tees by artists from all over the world. They curate from all sorts of great tee sites (even etsy), separating the gems from (a lot of) the junk and simply redirect you to purchase from the original site.
I just discovered Little Paper Planes. They have great art prints and tees!
There’s also DesignByHumans. Most of their designs are huge and have back detail as well.
The antlers go down the back.
The back of the tee is full of wires.
My favorite tee of all time came from my mom. She wore the hell out of it in the 70s and I sent it to its grave in the 90s. It was covered with a fine detailed jungle motif and jungle animals. It was fabulous. I usually have one favorite graphic tee at a time that I wear to death. The last one was a white v-neck from Urban Outfitters that had a thin black scribble all along the neckline. It’s on its last leg. The bf just bought me the keyboard cat tee I’ve been dying over for almost a year but it is soooo ridiculous that I can only see myself wearing it casually.
What’s your favorite graphic tee?
I was such a sourpuss last time – only plusses this week!
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- Weekend before last, we roasted ourselves in 90 degree heat and battled the hills of Maymont Park. While I think we were near death, it was pretty.
- I love open-toed ankle booties but, this is so right on:
- I love it when the checkout lady gives you a deeper discount by accident and doesn’t correct it!! I have been searching high and low for decent yet inexpensive frames for my pie cat and Tara prints. The least expensive (and horribly rated) frame for pie cat was going to run me $40 on Amazon. I just couldn’t do it. So the prints have sat in their mailing tubes in my hallway waiting for a bargain and it broke my heart. Yesterday, I scored BIG TIME! I went to Ben Franklin to get some tiny thing to redo on the necklaces I had made that I was dissatisfied with and found a corner stash of frames at 60% off! The lady messed up and didn’t even correct it when I was honest (because 60% off was kick ass enough as it was). I got a $38 and $28 frame both for $16!!!!! Here are my crappy phone pics:
Pie cat in my kitchen!!!
Tara in the bedroom! I received #476 out of 500 signed prints! Barely got it!
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This set of two eyeshadow brushes are the best I have yet to find for a smokey eye and they’re dirt cheap. The smaller brush deposits a concentrated amount of color (great for the lash line) and the larger is good for your crease and blending.
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This past weekend, the bf had to go visit his family in Northern VA for the annual festival in his parents’ town. His sister and fiance and son were coming all the way down from Jersey as well. It’s a pretty big deal for his family and I wasn’t going to go. I needed to take my friend out for a very belated b-day dinner and I wanted some girl time. I was also planning to go to
Broad Appetit and meet some Richmond blogger chicks. Well, I got the guilt trip from the bf’s sister, who I really
really like and have only met once in over 1.5 years. I had to do the right thing and go to nova. I ended up having a blast! I ate waaaay too much terrible food, had wonderful conversations, helped with gardening and drank a wee bit! The bf’s mom even refered to me as her daughter-in-law. Too cute! It was a lovely weekend.
here’s the bf and I looking creepy at dusk
delicious meat on a stick!
- How cute is this anchor necklace? It comes in both gold and silver finishes and it’s less than $6!
For a while now, I’ve been escaping into this dreamy world of soft focus pictures and an ultra-feminine aesthetic. I love my clean minimal apartment with all my heart but; there is another side of me that would be just as happy in a little country cottage, growing my own vegetables and making art.
I posted about the image bookmarking site called We Heart It a while back. Every few days, I peruse the pics and add a few more to my collection of these fantasy images. This is my latest favorite picture:
Outdoor party in the country anyone?
Yesterday, shoppher tweeted about this post which ended up turning into one of those internet perusing explosions where I discovered a few new blogs I think I’m going to love. You might too!
Habit
Dreamcats – if you love dreamy cats. I submitted some pictures of Nibbles when she was a kitten. Here’s one:
The Snail and the Cyclops – love this girl’s style
Fieldguided – a nice little life
Any recommendations?
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