Uh...I mean...I didn't do this at work. Yah. I did it at home. That's right. Anyways, I wanted to elaborate on my "This is what I feel like when I listen to Coldplay" sketch from the earlier post. So I modernized the darling and gave her some arms and a torso. How generous of me right? Anyways, I think it's fun. Lotsa movement.
This was in my latest catalogue from Sephora. They are press and peel eyeshadow pads. It looks like they're available in leopard print, two different zebra prints, and camo.
I have to say, I'm not impressed with the zebra print ones. I'm not a big fan of zebra print in general though. And I don't think I'm the type of girl that wears camo anything...no I know I'm not the type. BUT. I LOVE the leopard print! Doesn't that pic at the top look awesome! Now obviously this would not be an everyday look. Honestly the only time I would consider wearing this would be for Halloween or a night out to the clubs. Oh, btw, I'm not the clubbing type either so really we've narrowed it down to Halloween. But how awesome would that be? Yes, I'm now designing my entire ensemble in my head around those leopard print eyeshadow pads. It's going to be fabulous dahling!
My dad and sister rode out Hurricane Dolly in South Padre Island, Texas yesterday and sent me videos while it was taking place. These were taken with his Blackberry and he hooked his laptop up to a charger in his truck and connected to the internet via a Verizon aircard.
Hurricane Dolly reached CAT 2 status and the eye of the hurricane hit right around South Padre. Don't worry, they were perfectly safe. That's my dad and sister on the video and they were staying in a house that's rated for hurricanes. Also, my dad has now been through 9 hurricanes (5 of them at sea!) and he's also an environmental consultant for the coastal region. He was actually excited that they were going to get to see the eye of the hurricane.
Today he and my sis are out helping clean up and measuring the damage and effects to that region. If you follow the videos back to the YouTube page they're on, look at the comments, especially on the second one. I love the internet. It cracks me up the things people feel free saying on it.
So of course I have subscribed to the Daily Heller from Print, and what should I find in my Inbox today? Why it's yet another reason why I heart Obama and I don't heart McCain. Look at Obama's Bauhaus-esque fantabulous poster! It was created by Obama's design team in honor of his trip to Berlin. I LOVE IT! Seriously, I want to marry that poster.
Do you see the difference, people? I'm not saying you should vote for Obama just because his poster is better. You should vote for Obama because his policies and ideals are better, the poster is just icing! Haha, you know what I just realized? McCain's poster which claims that "peace is born of wisdome" has fighter jets on it. Peace....fighter jets...and golden clouds for some reason. Yeah, good job. (and Jizzy Crizzy McCain is old!)
I recently found John Mathais through a link on Design Sponge. I love that his work is both feminine and retro and some of it has a slight punk feel to it. Enjoy :)
Well, as you may have guessed, finals are over! Thank god! I managed to do quite well this semester with four A's and one B. But, as of late I have been getting everything together for my trip overseas. Italy is calling my name people! She beckons to me and I have only a week left before I board a plane and head across the Atlantic.
Why post a picture of Clive Owen? Because he's handsome, sexy, and British and I want to. 
You know what...I don't even care if it's not cool to like JT. He's freakin adorable and he really did bring sexy back (although I'm not actually sure that sexy left and if it did...where did it go?). And it never fails that if I'm in a bad/stressed/upset mood, if I listen to a little JT I'll be feeling better in no time. And also I'll probably feel like doing a little dance and some crappy lipsyncing...or worse...singing along! But only if I'm alone. So thank you Justin, you sexy adorable white boy, for elevating my mood!
Chelsea Talks Smack: Her posts are articulate and almost always leave me feeling like she has spent time in my head and completely understands. Seriously...I don't think I've ever read a post that I haven't deeply related to. I want to take this opportunity to thank her for her candor and eloquence. Oh, also, the song list on her blog is amazing. I alway pop out the player and listen while I work on the computer.
Du Wax Loolu: This girl just makes me laugh! The way she relates her life, which often seems to be quite an adventure (especially when it comes to flowers and wedding invitions), is entertaining and quite relatable.
And can I just tell you I cannot freaking wait for the first batch of delicious strawberries! Oh I'm drooling on my keyboard just thinking about them. Strawberries and blackberries and raspberries. mmmmmmmm. And this year I live in an area with actual farmer's markets so I'm going to check some of those out and hopefully come home with tons of delectable little berries to be devoured raw or put in my little tartlette dishes with simple syrup and a graham crust. Oh man...it's going to be so great.
Yup, trellis and all! But then the rest of me knows that would be a LOT of work and also I'm a bad gardener. I'm getting better but the count of plants I have killed overwhelmingly outweighs the ones I have kept alive. Ah well, a girl can dream, can't she?
he's just so cute i just want to smoosh his little head with my kisses! i forget to wash my hands and then i rub my eyes and it's just bad! i guess i'll just have to find some way to cope because there's no way i'm going to stop loving on the tiggmeister (his name is tigg...yes with two g's. deal with it). which is unfortunate for him because he HATES it when we kiss him. he tries to wriggle free and he gets this miserable look on his little kitty face. poor tiggy....he's got such a hard life.
isn't that a gorgeous grecian hunk of man meat! btw, this is a roman copy as evident by the supporting block between his hand and thigh. the romans were turning out these copies at a mad pace and didn't have time to make sure all the sculptures were perfect and wouldn't fall over or apart without braces. those romans loved them some cheap grecian knock offs. actually, we know a lot of greek sculptures only through their roman copies because the greeks were always at war and melted their bronze and ground their marble sculptures for battle related needs. especially the bronze ones. which is why we have only a small handful of orginal greek bronze statues. and now you've learned something new. don't you feel better about yourself?
she's sassy isn't she? her posture seems to say "excuse me, i'm trying to bathe. would you please go away!" but her facial express says "seriously, go away. if you don't leave i'm going to use my goddess powers to turn you into a frog (or other small, slimy creature)". of course, that's not the academically accepted interpretation (and also not the one i put in my essay) but whatever. and here's your official historical tidbit about this artwork: the Aphrodite of Knidos was the first artwork to represent a nude woman in the history of western art (at least as far as we know). this little lady was the start of a long....long...long parade of art representing nude women. i'm not going to go off on a feminist rant or anything because i have mixed feelings about it, but i just thought you might like to know. alright, that's it for the art history lesson today. i hope you enjoyed it :)
so i just recently got all my braces off and am quite happy that i no longer have a mouth full of metal. and i'm not embarrassed to smile now :) yay!
it's called "Will You Please Put Down That US Magazine and Listen to Me?". all of his prints have cheeky titles like that. i just love it. and at $13 ($15.25 with shipping) it's completely affordable. i also love the felted pebbles that Holly posted about. i'm thinking a purchasing handful and placing them in some simple dish or arranging them on a table somewhere.
can i just tell you how much i love feist? i really really do. one of my favorite things is to take a walk on a nice day, somewhere out in nature (my school has a really great nature reserve with winding trails) and listen to feist on my ipod. well, okay, it's a mix on my ipod. the trifecta: feist, yael naim, and kt tunstall. could it possible get any better? i submit that it could not! okay okay...maybe through in a little glen hansard and some beck and then! i'm in pure heaven.
the top ones are art prints and are smaller (call them either mini posters or giant postcards) and the bottom ones are posters. all of them are available for sale on Hammerpress' website. they also have some really neat stationary. i think i'm going to order the "Merde" one (which btw means "shit" in french) and the "Bonjour means hello and howdy" one. enjoy!
so i browse on over to one of my favorite blogs, oh joy!, and i see this post about Paul & Joe Beaute. first off, i downloaded the black kitty background and then the screen saver and then i looked around the site and it is fabulous! i love the whole design and had to post a couple pics from it. the whole thing is like candy! i just want to eat it up. speaking of eye candy, i believe their products are sold at anthropologie. can i just say, the next time i move, it will be to a city that has an anthropologie store! this city sucks. i'm leaving. goodbye. okay, i'm going to finish my degree, maybe get a couple years experience (and maybe meet some wonderfully sensitive, cute and funny man), and then i'm going to leave (and take him with me). goodbye!
should we ever meet, become great friends or lovers, and decide to spend a lot of time together doing many wonderful things, you should know one thing: unless you are a military strategist or otherwise world domination boardgame champion, you probably shouldn't play Risk with me. because i will smoke you. don't take it personally, it's just the way it is. now, i'm not saying i won't ever be defeated. i'm just saying it hasn't happened yet.
i always play the black game pieces so my friends and family who have played Risk with me call me the Black Plague. i don't know if this means anything about me personally. i think i'm a relatively nice person. i care about other people and their well being. but, i play Risk to win. i kick tiny plastic army butt.
alright, if you haven't seen Juno yet, for the love of pete, go see it! it's a wonderful movie, very sweet in a sometimes biting sarcastic way. it's funny and loveable so just go see it already.
this weekend i rented Paris, je t'aime which is a collection of twenty short films from various directors. there's quite a few big names in it, both american and french. some of the shorts were great and you connected with the characters almost immediately, some were a little strange, and there were a couple that didn't do anything for me. but overall, i enjoyed it.
i also rented Once. i had heard good reviews on it both from critics and saw some mentions on other people's blogs. i enjoyed it overall. the music was moving and well written...so much so that i bought the soundtrack from itunes. it's not one of those films where everything is wrapped up and tied in a pretty little bow at the end, which to tell the truth can be quite tiresome. it was real. actually, i think the more i contemplate it, the more i like it. so you should watch it too. go ahead...do it! i know you love it when i boss you around so.
these pictures were taken this past summer in port aransas. this is when i discovered how much fun the high speed setting on the camera was. the pic on top is me followed by the middle sister, kristen, and the youngest (and most athletic) hannah. i'm really glad my sister caught me mid air because that was my one and only jump and it resulted in a skinned knee.
as much as i hated living in port a, looking at these pictures made me long for summer and the warm weather on the texas coast. it made me remember perfect days at the beach and long, lazy swims. i guess you usually remember the good things. i'd never want to move back, but now i have the urge to go somewhere warm with a beach. i know it's only january but i can't want for spring/summer!
artsy photos i took over the holiday (except for the first one (me) which was taken by my sister)
