Owlet

17 June 2011

Random Updates

I know you've been dying to know if I bought those sunglasses and if I figured out what to do about the friendship bracelet trend while my wrist heals and before it's taken over the world again and I'm not ahead of the curve but behind it! Good news: I have updates on both. (let that breath out!)

I did buy those sunglasses this week, after I got a few virtual kicks in the pants regarding their cost (you'll recall they were just $10). However, they didn't work. Adorable they were, but too wide for my head they were, too. Sigh. Big one. I was very disappointed. So I went back to Nordstrom today to return them, and instead found another great replacement! Whee! Check out my rad cheap shades:

(they kind of make me feel a little Max Headroom-y)

(ooh la la!)

(i'm hot 'cause i'm fly.)

So that's solved.

And as for friendship bracelets, I have succeeded in jumping on that trend/mindless diversion/trip-down-memory-lane train in spite of my silly injury! And not only do I remember how to make friendship bracelets, but I remember how to make the fun fancy ones! AND they're the greatest fun in the world!

(this is the early stages of my first attempt from earlier this week)

While playing with these this week, I recalled that at age 12 or so, I made myself a board to make my bracelets on. It helps to keep your strings in order, keeps your bracelet taught while you're making it, and gives you easy storage if you need to pause mid-bracelet so your strings don't get tangled:

Just take any good sized piece of thin cardboard (I recall I used to cut mine out of shoe boxes), and using scissors, make a short cut in the middle of the board at the top. Hook your knot at the top of your bracelet through the cut, and secure with scotch tape behind the board. Make similar short cuts along the bottom of the board, evenly spaced, for the number of threads in your bracelet. Easy, right?! Seriously, it's way better than your big toe, I promise.

Everyone can expect a bracelet soon. This is a perfect replacement for my excessive TV schedule that's now on summer vacation.

(Aren't you so glad to hear how I've solved these two major issues?)

Pods

I'm seriously obsessed with these hanging air plant pods from mudpuppy and just need to pull the trigger and buy them. But here are the questions: color? number? which plants?

(black)

(natural/buff)

(glossy white)

(moroccan sand)

INPUT PLEASE! (aren't they awesome?!)

14 June 2011

White and Gold

Delicate and so so beautiful. I'm melting over these pieces:

(all images from Up in the Air Somewhere; found via tilly | maison; more of my love of ceramics here)

13 June 2011

Happy Place

Stealing this right out of my previous post comment from my bro (thanks, brother), because, in line with my previous post's theme, I'm working on getting to my happy place today, and this is definitely my happy place:

(A view of the Bubbles via Jordan Pond, Acadia National Park, Maine)

magic...

What/Where is your happy place?

Perspective

Today is one of those days when everything feels like it's happening at the same time, and maybe it's too much. Being pulled in lots of directions; feeling some weight on my shoulders. Just one of those moments when you feel so small and everything else is so big. Basically, I'm in need of some perspective today...