Hey, it’s Friday!! Haven’t Done One Of These In Awhile…

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Hey friends! Guess what, I have a job! It’s pretty rad, and I’m especially stoked to be able to pay my rent next month! That’s why I’ve been MIA all week, but now that my training is done I think I’ll be able to get back to daily posting. I’m living a pretty charmed life out here on the gold coast and I can’t wait to tell you all more about it. The Boy is coming to visit in 9 days (who’s counting?), and I hope to to put him to work building my mustard yellow diamond tufted headboard, so I can finally show you guys my absolutely STUNNING apartment. Here are some fun tidbits to tide you over until next week…

Some wild, jaw-dropping playgrounds and classrooms (plus a very interesting article). Check out some more crazy views of this guy.

WOW WOW AWESOME WOW!

Really digging the illustrations of Yoko Furusho. I especially love this, which I can’t seem to find on her website. And this.

Lovely photo series “OFF THE GRID” chronicles the lives of those lucky and brave enough to head out into the wild unknown.

Really fascinating article about what it was really like for gay men in advertising during the 60s, which only affirms my (scandalous) belief that MAD MEN is not as honest a portrait as it would like to think.

I wish I could have about 5 weddings so I could incorporate all the cool ideas that don’t really fit with my aesthetic, like these amazing invitations.

So obviously this is something I need in my life.

This is such a genius idea!! And there’s one not that far from my house!! As an avid lender/recommender of books, I’m actually more excited to leave books behind than to take.

Punch and Judy turns THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY!! Wow. With some gorgeous photos

How to be the hero at any party.

Top photo found here. Enjoy your weekend!!

 

My Ma

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I never do posts on Sundays but today I’m making a BIG exception because it’s Mother’s Day. Mother’s Day is all about being grateful for the woman who brought you into this world, who took care of you, yelled at you when you needed some yelling, and hugged you when you needed some hugging. I love my mom every day of the year, but today of all days I’m reminded to be grateful, and I have a lot to be grateful for. You see, my mom and I are actually pretty close. I call her at least every two days, I send her recipes and funny dog videos from around the web, I complain about The Boy when he’s being a doofus. As I’ve gotten older, I’ve started to voluntarily share more and more of my life with her. And I am so grateful for that, because as recently as five years ago we had a very different kind of relationship.

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I Wish I Could Go Back To High School

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… JUST KIDDING! High school sucked. But ROOKIE is awesome! So awesome that I feel no shame for being a college grad still reading about “How to Find Your Perfect Vintage Prom Dress.” So today I’d like to share two ah-mazing videos from ROOKIE. The first is an excellent tutorial for a beehive hair-do, which looks so easy I think even I might be able to manage it. With supervision.

That’s Tavi Gevinson, the brainchild behind ROOKIE, and guys: she is 15. Why is she so much cooler than me? The second video is from ROOKIE’s Ask A Grown Man series. This installment features Jon Hamm of Madmen fame, talking about all kinds of fun things like sex and the classic book “Everyone Poops.”

Both videos courtesy of ROOKIE MAG.

Eagleman Stag

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Everything posted on COLOSSAL is always, always awesome, but this is especially great. The video above is EAGLEMAN STAG, a BAFTA award-winning stop-motion short about age, the bittersweet passage of time, and entomology. You can check out more cool “making of” videos on their vimeo page.

Also, I know it’s eight minutes long and that’s kind of a lot in this OMG world but seriously people, watch it. Watch it while you drink your morning coffee, or while you get ready for bed, but just watch it.

Courtesy of Mikey Please, via COLOSSAL.

Someday We’ll Be Together

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Hey kids! It’s been awhile, but I’m feeling pretty settled out here, and after many long, intimate conversations with the fine people at AT&T my internet is finally working well enough to post! California is amazing. I’m never, ever, ever, not ever leaving. I just can’t wrap my head around why anyone would ever want to live anywhere else. The sun is aways shining, you all know how I feel about the ocean, and I’m never more than a block from an amazing taco truck. I’m a taco monster. I’ve eaten them for my last three meals. The Boy is getting really sick of it, because tacos are all I can talk about these days. Well he doesn’t really understand, because he’s never been to southern California, so he really has no idea what a taco tastes like. Gosh, I’m starting to crave another one…

Anyway, since I’ve been gone so long I’ve put together a BIG post for you guys today. I’ve been getting a ton of questions lately about the (eventual) wedding, whether or not I’m planning yet and what my ideas are. So here’s the skinny: The Boy is due to graduate in May of next year. Obviously this is priority number one in both of our lives, and we’ve decided that planning a wedding is too much to deal with while he’s still in school. So the tentative date is June 21, 2014, which happens to be the summer solstice, the longest day of the year, and our 5 year anniversary.

But just because I’m not putting down deposits yet doesn’t mean I’m not planning and working out ideas. I’ve got wedding fever bad, bad, bad; almost as bad as my taco fever. But as much as I want to be married like right now, right this second (an especially strong feeling now that we’re 3000 miles apart), the one nice thing about this loooooong engagement is I have plenty of time to play with different ideas about the aesthetic and mood of the event. So, without further ado, I’ve put together some wedding inspiration pieces, so that you guys can kind of get a feel for what it’s in the works.

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It Has Arrived.

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This is my Crayola 150-count Telescoping Crayon Tower with Sharpener. It just arrived from Amazon today, and I’m pretty much the happiest girl on Earth.

Last week I went to Target to buy necessities for my new house such as towels, toothpaste, storage bins and, of course, crayons. I’ve been really into coloring lately. I picked up this 120-count box, and went home. A day later, I went to use my new crayons and discovered that I’d been had. I had assumed this was your standard big box of crayons, you know, the kind that has every known Crayola color in it. Wrong. I opened the box and therein lay 2 smaller, 60-count boxes. Of all the same colors. Why would anyone want such a thing?? Naturally I had to return the crayons to Target, and thus began my search for the real deal. Which led me to the beauty pictured above. And as soon as I saw it, I had to buy it. I mean, it’s a CRAYON TOWER. Plus, this is the largest set of crayons Crayola makes. And I’m about to pose a truly philosophical question to you guys: What in the heck did I do before I had glitter crayons in my life??

PS: I apologize for the crappy photo, I had to use my computer’s camera because *someone* forgot to pack my camera charger and USB coughcoughahemyouknowwhoyouarecoughcough

I’m A Creep

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Hey guys, posting is going to be pretty sporadic for awhile because I’m way too excited about exploring my new neighborhood and styling my new bedroom to spend a whole of time on the internet. But here’s a little something to tide you over. This cover of Creep by Radiohead is just gorgeous. Thanks to my new roommate for playing it really loud in the living room so I had no choice but to come out and see what was going on.

 

 

Greetings From The Best Coast!

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Hey guys! I made it, I’m alive, and I’m back online! California is wonderful amazing, I’m so happy to be here and I can tell things are just going to get better and better. The sun is shining, my shoulders are burnt, and my apartment is so beautiful. I’ll be doing a full post on the apartment soon (I hope), but I can’t post any pictures until it looks exactly the way I want it to (this involves a mustard yellow suede headboard and 1940s writing desk, it’ll be worth the wait I promise.) Until then…

Loving these mid-century vintage shots of motels and roadside eateries. They remind me of the road trip passages in Lolita, which were always some of my favorite, most dog-earred parts of the book. Especially for a non-native, Nabokov’s descriptions of highway  American landscape, of highway diners and motocourts are so lush, so meticulously detailed and spot on. And that’s because he culled them from his own time spent criss-crossing the country with his wife, collecting field research in entomology (collecting bugs! He was a great butterfly enthusiast among many other wonderful things). These photos can be found here, along with many other marvelous retro gems.

 

All photos found here, via.