Day of Valentines

ALAS - to be single on Valentines Day!

PSYCH! 

Honestly Valentines day has never really been about couples for me.  Instead it is another occasion to use skirts as dresses, an opportunity to craft geeky, fandom oriented cards, the promise of baked goods, and another reason to listen to good jazzy love songs.

Example:

Ella and Louis!

So really - things aint too bad at all!

Especially when you receive a wonderful package will tiny envelopes stuffed with goodies!

And a crafty entryway.

braided newspaper...who knew!

Also, life is perpetually good when you have a really spin-erific skirt!

So even though I am so culturally uninformed that I don't actually know what a certain St. Valentine has to do with love - I still manage to get my fair share of pink, red and white out of the day!

Also: is the white background & new font working out?

Should the grey background be restored?

Addiction

Alright, here it goes.  The world finally needs to hear my addiction confession.

The truth is:

I'm addicted to color

Seriously, color is just about the most amazing thing to grace this planet - and I am absolutely in love.  

I mean just look at this:

and this!

and so on, and so forth.

I'm sure to some I may get border line clownish with some of my outfits, but I like to hope I keep my color to a tastefully outrageous level at all times.

The other night, zee roommate introduced me to a most glorious site-web:

Design Seeds

Pretty much what goes down at this website is as follows:

- genius lady finds or takes (unknown) gorgeous pictures

- genius lady creates color schemes from pictures

- my eyes are very happy.

And there are over 300 pages of these...

Honestly, if you ever feel like you're out of color combinations, take a look outside.  I think you'll change your mind quite quickly.

I really like the idea of getting color schemes from photographs you love.  I never really thought about the option, but it would really be quite simple.  

- open up a photo in photoshop or similar program

- use the little eyedropper tool to suck up colors

- create palate of beautiful colores!

So after spending a good 20 minuets staring in awe at all the wonderful colors, we decided it was time to take action ourselves.  H had been collecting paint chips over the summer, partially for inspiration for the family living room, partially because they were really pretty, partially because she thought they might make good tiny canvases to paint on.

Splaying them out of the floor, it didn't look like we had a very smooth spectrum going on.  There seemed to be loads of one color, few of another, and very stark transitions.  Still, we set our minds on and end goal, and got sorting...

some hours later, we had almost completed a project that makes me just that much happier ever time I walk into the room:

it began on the floor...

then migrated to the wall,

crawled up a little more,

more complete than it was before,

 until finally...

IT WAS COMPLETE!

Personally, I love the energy it brings to the room - and inspiration for that matter!

 It's like a big, glowing, power-circle of radiance and majesty...

well, maybe that's taking it a little too far.

~ what says the general public? ~

bum-shot!

(sorry)

Christmas time is here!

What's better at Christmas than a little decking-of-the-halls?

I've been busy decking what halls I have with what time I have not reserved for:

a.) studying for finals

b.) procrastinating about finals

c.) complaining about finals

as you can see, it's a busy schedule to be sure! 

(but in all honesty...)

many thanks to the kind citizens who randomly left christmas tree trimmings outside of the building!

what's winter without some clementine cuties?

And now, it is with great pride that I present:

The Evolution of a Dorm-Tree:

take that finals! You can't suck all the craft out of me no matter how hard you try!

Window decor curtisy of HRH:

Do you see all that GLORIOUS SNOW?!

(10+ inches baby...pictures to come!)