don't sweater the small stuff

honestly, i have nothing more to add this. some pictures just make you laugh...so you share 'em. enjoy!

vintage sweater pattern

buy it here on etsy

moving right along

2 days before moving from San Diego, some good friends gave me the best birthday present ever!
...a private viewing of the Muppet Movie after hours in their art theater!!! 
it was so much fun and truly a dream come true. the day after that, we held a massively unsuccessful garage sale (our signs blew down but we didn't figure that out for hours), packed up and moved to our new spectacular Santa Monica home.
as i am now leaving the 40-hour desk job, work week FOREVER, i think this is most fitting for the month's theme:



p.s. the Muppet's Green Album just came out. Covers of all their songs by Weezer, OK Go and the like. I took a listen. ...eh.  at least people are showing appreciation for muppet awesomeness.

Do you have your library card?

You know how sometimes you look at a piece of artwork and say, “I could totally do that”? This is not that kind of art. Brian Dettmer makes crazy intricate scalpel and razorblade-cut paper sculptures that would have me literally in stitches if I tried to replicate. …And so I just enjoy the view (click for flickr amazingness). NYC kids you can too this month at Kinz + Toulou Fine Art. Opening reception is May 19th!

i can't WAIT until they make tails!!!

do i like necromimi because it's got my cat's name in the title, or do i like it because i can now communicate with her on her terms? i don't know and i don't care.
i want neurowear necromimi cat ears!!!

stop go go go!!!

my ears, eyes and toes are having a mini dance party!

KLEMENT - “Supersize” from Château-vacant on Vimeo.
new favorite website...here

Vintagiture

ohmigosh, all i want for christmas is a dollhouse.
from Mini Modern (best website ever!):

 and then i think i'd fill one room up with these super tiny, super vintage, super cute dollhouse toys: via twelfthdimension

this is so addictive

now that i've started wordling, i just want to wordl everything!!!
here's a wordle word cloud made of this here blog:

make your own here: http://www.wordle.net/

LLOVE is only temporary.

Someday, and maybe sometime more details in another post, I will stay in the Lloyd Hotel in Amsterdam but today if wishes made things true…I’d be on a plane to Tokyo before November 23.  And shortly thereafter having a slumber party at the LLOVE Hotel (in the mattress room, if possible). This very Japanese pop-up hotel is an art/architect collaboration between Japanese architect Jo Nagasaka and Lloyd director Suzanne Oxenaar (plus several guest Dutch and Japanese artists) and I really, really want to jump on these beds!

Designed by Richard Hutten, here's just a snippet of this room's description:

As an extra layer, referring to the outdoor, you will find some leaves growing on strange places. The room is not suitable for business men on a business trip, but very suitable for tourists not in a hurry, people in love, and everyone who knows how to enjoy life!

Book your stay (or just check out the rooms) here and here.

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme

spending time daydreaming about impossible seaside getaways to attend fairs that ceased long ago...

Nothing more fun than a bevy of colorful beach huts!
Plan a Scarborough holiday here with the Yorkshire Visitors Guide.

WANT!

If you're feeling techy, you can make one yourself via the helpful people at USB Typewriter or if you're feeling spendy, just go to their etsy site - usbtypewriter.

capital fun!

 you can make one too...right here:
Daily Drop Cap

Give me Liberty or give me flowers! Maybe both.

Truly, liberty prints and detailed, paint-by-number floral patterns have been a bit on overkill lately but I couldn't resist checking out Liberty of London's collection at Target.
And discovered, when it comes to floral, it's definitely appealing when it has to do with gardening!

Didn't see them in stock though so I instead decided on some posh, Liberty loungewear and am now sipping a cocktail and pseudo-channeling my own glamorous grandmother. Doubt that's turn-on for the Boo but it's inspired me to shop for patio furniture on craigslist and I just now found an awesome new loungey couch.
I'm deliberately keeping quiet about the former Neat Freak 101 postings because they inspired a sort of madness around here. We've thrown almost all our furniture out!
It's like the yearly move has been transformed into a massive redecorating party instead.
Who knows what will happen now?

Neat Freak 101 - Day 5

Crime = closet requires gymnastic type feats to reach the back row of clothes
Punishment = throw out everything that hasn't been used for over a year
Grade = F = I barely attempted this. Threw out one jacket and decided it wasn't worth the effort.
Reward = take a week off of stupid neat freak class.
It's February, which is a very indulgent month for me and the Boo.
I'm not going to dwell on this failure.
Classes resume February 22nd.
Happy Valentine's Day to all & 5th year wedding anniversary to moi!

Neat Freak 101 - Day 4

Crime = bad living room feng shui
Punishment = heavy lifting!
Grade = C+ - I cleaned up & rearranged but it's still lacking a chair or something
Reward = bought two smushy pillows (not really visible in blurry pic below) to make the couch actually comfortable, then went out for half-priced sushi and sake bombs at ono shushi.

mimi approved.

 

yummy ono sushi! 

Neat Freak 101 - Day 3

Crime = wasting valuable storage space in the only house closet
Punishment = Container Store (entirely overpriced crap!) & IKEA (crap within budget) shopping on a weekend
Grade = C - I did the shopping and shelf building, Adam did the actual reorganizing, since it's mainly his closet
Reward = a cup of the most delicious hot chocolate in the entire world! (with a side of pancakes and a mushroom & swiss omelet) courtesy of Richard Walker's Pancake House.

Reward #2 = all the stuff jammed into random crevices of the bedroom closet now has a home of its own, which may make Day 4's assignment of cleaning said closet much easier.

Neat Freak 101 - Day 2

Day 2 -
Crime = sock & undies hoarder
Punishment = dump out sock drawer and throw away all mismatched pairs or things with holes
Grade = A - i got rid of 21 things! Plus Neat Freak extra credit for using some old socks to clean the kitchen floor.
Reward = bought a new wristlet on etsy.

knowing there was $200 waiting in the sock drawer made day two's assignment a breeze. and guess what? i found MORE money hidden in the bottom. being senile like this is like winning the lottery.

Neat freak 101 - week 1

seeing as how my boo's got a tough school schedule this semester, i started feeling guilty for all the lazy non-learning i do and decided to "enroll" myself in a class i've desperately needed to take
- Neat Freak 101 - a beginner's guide to organizing your life.
unfortunately this is an entirely imaginary and self-taught class so i'm not really sure how to begin but here goes nothing...
week one is entitled Crime, Punishment & Reward
Here are the assignments:
• clean out t-shirt drawer - donate at least 10 things to goodwill
• clean out sock & undies drawer - throw out at least 10 things
• clean out closet - resell clothes or donate at least 10 things to goodwill
• rearrange living room and get rid of old couch
• build shelves in the hall/mailorder closet so bath towels have somewhere to go
Today's Class -
Crime = being unable to shut my shirt drawer because it's too full, even though i RARELY wear t-shirts.
Punishment = dumped out drawer and ruthlessly narrowed down its contents.
Grade = B - Goodwill will soon have 13 new shirts!
Reward = bought & read something that's the equivalent of a gossip mag - Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea.
And of course, the reward of now being able to shut the drawer!

best of all, it turns out i'm one of those crazy old ladies who hide money everywhere! apparently at some point i thought it would be a good idea to hide 2 $100 bills in that shirt drawer. and it sure was. i promptly re-hid the money in the sock drawer as motivation to continue these lessons.

time to-a-go-go

being that i almost get into a car wreck if ever a slam-on-the-brakes-worthy RV comes into sight and have to wipe drool off the steering wheel when kickass chevy/dodge vans are in the vicinity...

kevin cyr is, most definitely, a man worth some well-deserved admiration.

and it looks like he's invented that most covetous item of all - the snail home to go, for human bicycle people!

want!

if you've got a heart, then gumby's a part of you!

so long, mr. magic!

R.I.P. Art Clokey

"Goliath, do you think Mr. Clokey went to heaven?"

"I don't know Davey...but i'm going to guess that yes. yes he did.

and all the clay people said....YAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!we love you mr. clokey!!! thanks for all the adventures.

blue

this has been a totally depressing day and like some stupid perfect patty world in a phillip k. dick book, i am online bathtub hunting, for no reason other than escape and wishing the room below was somewhere near. somewhere by a beautiful body of water in the middle of nowhere, where i could take a bubble bath, drink a glass of wine and have a good cry.

it's a cool italian website though and should be inspiration for the creation of more colored appliances, bathtubs, showers and the like worldwide. ***sigh