Its really dreary outside today…and cold…and the sky keeps spitting out snow/hail/rain type weather…icky. I thought it was the perfect time to share one of my new favorite photogs and give you a dose of brilliant color…meet Mrs. French, the talented lady behind Bliss and the taker of some fantastic photographs! My three current favs…
1. Tiny Moon
2. Tips of Light
3. Ginkgo
There is also a delightful blog full of wonderful colors and images…it’s already on my blog roll and its worth perusing often!
I spent last night playing around with making pom poms and ooooh, lookie what I made:
Bright green pom poms, purple vintage lucite beads and vintage brass chain…this pretty little ditty is one of a kind and more colors are coming!!!
OK, the Pre Holiday Sale is underway, which means Manic Trout housecleaning is happening, don;t forget that if you enter CandyCorn at check out all week you receive 25% off your entire order! Now I just have to finish up the 1,001 new designs in various stages and get them online…they’re coming though so don’t you worry your pretty little head about it…want a sneak peek at my jewelry work space at the moment?
Hmmmmm…I see pink tulle, pom poms, big brass chain, colorful glass, whimsical lucite and sketches, sketches and more sketches!
Go Check out the Weird Stuff In My Desk Haunted Bloggy Carnival Spooktacular event! The carnival starts at 8:00 am Central time October 27th ALL WEEK and ends on November 2nd at 11:59 pm Pacific time.
There are oodles of prizes to win…including a $25 Manic Trout Gift Certificate!!!
I have a lot of books, thousands and thousands in fact. So many that when my ex husband and I split up amicably, he mentioned how glad he was to never have to move all of my books again, and in the past three years since then, I have only increased my collection. I do try to donate any books I no longer want, and I try to resist book gluttony…I also buy almost all of them used…(these little tidbits make me feel a little better about the bulging book shelves around my apartment)…although I am really lucky to have beautiful built in shelves in the living room, I still have 4 free standing ones taking up room.
While most people dream of gorgeous views, square footage and claw foot tubs, I have simple house dreams…a cottage by the ocean with built in book shelves in every room and a huge studio in a building of some sort a few feet from the cottage…which I would prefer to be covered in weathered shingles, but I can give on that, I also always loved old churches turned into homes, but I would really rather live in a cottage…ahhhh, one day it will be mine.
I also think I’ll have to stay in the northeast, as much as I adore San Diego, I don’t think I am able to deal with living any where other then the northeast, and I do love those seasons…ok I’m done daydreaming of waves and shelving, now back to work…
Weekends are work days for me, and very busy ones at that, so I usually don’t have much fun stuff planned for them, but I am really excited about this Sunday! Gilly is coming home and we (this could be a large collective) are going to the awesome Haunted House in Stanfordville, Frankensteins Fortress which is created by the talented Peter Wing…I am so excited for this, I look forward to it all year…and would be even more excited if a certain someone would be able to join me this year, as I usually have the most fun in the years that they have gone with me…anyway…I’ll let you know how it goes!
On a side note, I really need to go clothes shopping, I am getting ready to head back to work and this is how I feel at the moment:
…but I cannot go to work like this, so I have to go scrounge up something to wear…
photo by Jonathan Leber
I am really enjoying fall this year, I cleaned my home from top to bottom, including defrosting my freezer and flipping my mattress and therefore I am enjoying being in it when I get the chance. I am loving my new “day” job and although its the busy season there as well as with Manic Trout, I am so into both of them that I am pretty excited to be overwhelmed with work right now. The leaves are falling everywhere and as I live in New Yorks Hudson Valley, its gorgeous outside! I am even getting used to my new schedule and therefore able to exercise again…and one more thing…for the first time in YEARS I am cooking meals for myself again…crazy I know, but so good at the same time…tonight I had grilled chicken (the George Forman is the single gals best friend) with a Cajun rub, couscous and a tomato salad with balsamic…so yummy! Hmmm, I think I dare say that I am really happy right now.
Photo Courtesy of Mark Roper and shows some of my favorite simple pleasures right now…a clean house with a pristine white bed full of lots of layers and wellies to leaf kick in…
I will be working on Halloween this year, and I will be dressing up…I do every year anyway…I do love Halloween…however I have no idea what so ever I should be…
I did at one point go to a school dance in a green thing similar to the one above, with my face and hands pained green and antenna in my hair…I was an alien of coarse, albeit with out the Louboutin heels…and in the 8th grade with an amazing amount of courage when I think back on it…I’ll need to be a bit more conservative this year…any ideas?
I was going through the website and studio inventory last night and I realized that if I am overwhelmed with the amount of jewelry that is available, then you must be too…so its time to really clean house (as I did yesterday in my apt…I even flipped my mattress!) and get ready for the holidays and all of the new goodies I am working on.
What does this mean? Huge deals for you! Take 25% off anything on Manic Trout.com by entering CandyCorn (my favorite Halloween candy) in the coupon/voucher box at check out!
There is also a Specials page right now where you will find discontinued pieces at 50% off (with the coupon you’ll receive %75 off!!!!) as well as a section at the bottom letting you know which items there is only one left of!
So go crazy and shop your heart out for the next week…sale will end October 31st, so act fast!
