photo finish

on friday I attended a lovely wedding with katie, bill, and ben. It was too. much. fun. Please, everyone getting married, get a photobooth for your wedding. Everyone will think you're awesome.

Twin Cities residents: The Traveling Photobooth seems to be the photobooth of choice - used at such places as ROCK THE GARDEN and THAT WEDDING I WENT TO ON FRIDAY.

I also think Smile Booth would be rockin, too.

fall into place

Recently I decided to become a seasonal tourist. In other words, do all the typical things you're supposed to do in any given season. I already drink gin & tonics in the summer and whiskey gingers in the winter, so why not go all out? Food, clothing, activities, all of them WILL GET DONE this year. What's on my fall docket?



Food-wise, I'm all about the spices, apples, and pumpkins. I've never baked a pumpkin pie before, and my mom has a pretty killer recipe that I'm totally going to snag. For all of you not related to my mom, Martha's got a few good recipes. I'm also pretty set on drinking apple cider, making mulled cider, eating apples, and going to an apple orchard.

Before it snows. This may prove to be difficult, but hopefully Minnesota will be good to me.



The chill of fall means two things to me: tons of blankets and TEA TEA TEA (and hot coffee in the mornings). I have the perfect blanket right now - polar fleece on one side, fuzzy lamb-like fleece on the other. IT IS SO COMFY. but I do like this plaid one from Pendleton... it's called the LUMBERMAN BLANKET!! As far as tea goes, I can never have enough cute mugs, and I desperately need a new tea kettle.



With all these blankets and tea and apples, I will probably need to curl up and read a few books. Right now I'm working my way through Stiff, but next up I'd like to read some books that are good on the inside AND the outside - like Cheerful Money (getting tons of write ups) or The Mysterious Benedict Society... the first book, that is. THE ONE THAT CARSON ELLIS ILLUSTRATED. She is my hero, guys.

Also, I'm still obsessed with these ugly/cute boots. I CANNOT TELL IF THEY ARE UGLY OR CUTE PLEASE HELP.

shop around

in case you haven't seen it yet, alli and i have updated the shop with plenty of items for the coming school year - like a sweet jumper and a monogrammed cardigan, and more will be on their way!

Whenever we do these big updates, I always get to shopping for myself... today I'm yearning for bib necklaces.



cookoorikoo's is so lovely and charming, but there are TONS of them on etsy that I cannot help but squeal over. THAT ONE, oh, no! THIS ONE! OR THIS ONE?! Want plz.

work in progress

this is probably a combination of my just signing the lease for a little fixer-upper artists studio and then seeing this lovely nursery and thinking to myself "If I could decorate a room just for me, I'd definitely put that frickin' awesome fake alligator head in it."

And then I decided to play the "Lets Pretend You've Got Big Dollars to Spend" with my dream studio as a theme.

+It would definitely be a combination of old but architectural (like the chair & the flat file) and modern design (including the invisible book shelves and the urban outfitters couch).

+The first thing I'd buy would most certainly be that beauty of a desk, by Wintercheck Factory. It's basically perfect - room for me to put my papers and bills, and enough room to draw. I'd probably want an extra table for a printer/scanner, too...

+LOTS of random tchotchkes. I'd want plenty of great vintage mugs and TONS of stuff by Harry Allen - especially that piggy bank.

+Grey and white walls (paint swatches are Sherwin Williams) with great colorful curtains.


of course, I'd also want my dream studio to look like it was something right out of the Selby. How great is Thomas Lelu's?

life drawing

one of my favorite illustrators/similarly named ladies, gemma correll recently started a great alternative to wardrobe remix (my #1 guilty pleasure), a what i wore today community... for drawings only! It's been a pretty big help in wanting me to draw every day, which I've had a hard time doing as of late. It's also fun to see such wonderful illustrators as Lizzy Stewart and Jen Collins.

If you'd like to see just a smattering of Gemma's faves, also check out the blog.

Maybe you should join, too!

chain of fools

nope, my newfound love for bracelets hasn't died yet. And yes, this one by neaware on etsy is making me blush with wish listy goodness. My birthday, it is mere months away.


Perhaps it is because I am just now realizing that the wrist is a lovely area to play up, but I just cannot get over seeing a lovely bracelet on a lovely limb! However, I have a strangely wide knuckle area but small wrist, so for me the bracelets have to be clasp-only. For the sake of my knuckles.

(this one from mpaperarts makes my list of wishes, too.)

marked

A lot of my friends and (very wonderful and accepting) parents already know, but last Sunday I GOT A TATTOO. It was a very strange experience - definitely a tad painful, but I didn't cry... so not too bad? For a very long time I was extremely sure I'd never get a tattoo, but for about a year now I have been considering one, and I finally took the plunge.

I designed it myself - it's based on a key that goes to my bedroom in my parent's house, which I love very much. It's a wonderful house, and I wanted something very personal. SO VOILA. It's finally healing, lots of gross peely skin.