Greetings, 2009!

I've been on a decor fix these past few days, delving through archives of Design*Sponge. Today I came across a lovely DIY from Mr. Peacock for decoupaging your ceiling! He used birds and flowers, but the possibilities are endless! I was thinking I couldn't do it because I rent an apartment, but he was saying that the decoupage will just wash off when you want to take the birds down. Brilliant. Check out his DIY here!

Also, check out these really neat calendars from norawhynot at etsy.

From the description: "The calendar is hand silkscreen printed onto recycled boxboard using hand-mixed inks to produce an original colour palette. Each month is separately printed with some months having as many as four separate passes, one of the colours being unique to that month, making all pages exclusive and individual - NO TWO ARE THE SAME."

Neat stuff for the new year!

I have to say, one of the banes of my existence (okay there really aren't that many...) is that I can't paint my apartment. Adding color to a living space really livens it up and makes it your own. I have tried quite hard to make my living space my own, however, sans paint. I can't tell you guys how excited I am for my first living space which I can make completely my own. Check out how incredibly this color transforms this little space! (design*sponge)

I think so many homeowners these days are scared of color. Houses are full of beige, white, and tan rooms. Color makes life so much more exciting. Live in color!!

Bob Ross

If you know anything about me, you know I have a healthy relationship with all things ugly and tacky from times before 1980. Give me anything avocado green, harvest yellow, burnt orange, or brown and I am a happy camper. Give me ugly old Bob-Ross-esque landscape paintings and my insides will squiggle with delight. Give me the lamp your grandmother had in her living room and... you get the picture. So imagine my wonderment when I found this:

Behold! A noteboard made from an old ugly painting!! I found this little gem over at Design*Sponge, and was so tickled with delight I can hardly wait to go to Value Village, Classy Rack, Goodwill, etc. etc. to find just the right painting to do this with. Check out her directions here. I thought it would work also as a push-pin board, if you put corkboard beneath the painting, but she does it as a magnetic board.

There are some exciting things happening in my brain of late, hopefully I will have some concrete things to share with you all in the near future!

Rockabilly Christmas

Well, in a fit of genius, I have failed to bring my memory card downloading device, so there will continue to be no outfit posts until the new year. I have finally reunited with my family in western Washington and we had our (mainly my) Christmas last night. I recieved many lovely things, but here is my very favorite bag:

Since I cannot post any outfits yet, here are some things I have found on the interweb:

(Lookbook, Behind the Seams)

(Pinup Girl Clothing)

I have recently been reminded of my passion for the pinup and rockabilly aesthetic. I go through style phases but the 'ugly 70's' and Pinup looks are always at the core of who I am as a person. My absolute adoration for vintage cars is probably at the root of that. I wish I lived in a warm sunny place where I could drive around all day in the hot vinyl interior of my car wearing one of the above outfits or leopard print cigarette pants and curled hair, or a high waisted pencil skirt and white tank. There is something so inherently sexy about the car culture rockabilly that is just natural.

Merry Christmas everyone. Many blessings to you all.

Linger on

Well, I am back home now after eight hours of driving. My family's flight to Seattle got cancelled because of "all the snow" so they probably won't make it to Washington until friday. I decided I did not want to be stuck alone in a big house for a week, so I came home. Let me tell you, it is the most wintery wonderland of all winter wonderlands here. I would take a picture but it is dark and it would lose the impact, probably.
I am cozy in my little apartment now, however, with my 'Christmas Wreath' candle lit (even though my nose is stuffy and I surely will not be able to smell it), Velvet Underground playing, and a Bailey's coffee warm in my hand. I am a very happy person right now, even though I am not with my family. Second best scenario.

I will leave you, for now, with one of my favorite pictures. It is from a Canadian Whiskey ad, but everything in this picture is me.