I'm a bit obsessed with peeling walls. You know the kind...the ones with hundreds of years of paper and paint showing through in all different ways. Can't get enough. I even have watched movies which included them in the set designs just to gaze at them...hello, Kings Speech! Decayed architecture in general makes me swoon...rather morose, but I love em!
ps...I have an entire board of decayed images over on ...just sayin'.
I was a very lucky kid growing up in that my mom celebrated all holidays with extreme enthusiasm, including half birthdays. Btw, I realized this year that no one else celebrated half birthdays. When Adam and I set the date for the wedding we were back and forth between two dates, but the one we settled on and kept coming back happens to be my half birthday. When I share this fun little fact with anyone, I just get a confused stare. Sad for them, because half birthday rock.
Anyway...I had to smile this morning when I woke to both facebook and text messages from my mom wishing me a Happy Valentines Day and lots of love and it made me smile and reminded me that to me Valentines Day was never about showing one special person that you love them, but rather a day about celebrating love...or candy hearts...but whatever, I have a weird fixation on holiday specific candy. Well, and about making cards, but I just realized that when I moved, I did not bring my glitter and how the heck am I supposed to make a Valentines Day card without glitter???
Anyway...I have more thoughts on the subject, but this week Adam and I are posting on today rather than Monday in honor of Valentines Day, and I don't want to step on my own toes. So I'm signing off to go search for candy hearts, which I love, but only the Sweethearts Conversation Hearts...not the knock off brands. Also not a fan of chocolate...ok this is becoming about candy, time to go...but wait...Happy Valentines Day!
I didn't think I'd miss winter as much as I do. I'm finding myself missing the magical feeling when you walk outside after a huge snow storm and the entire world has turned to a glimmering white...especially at night...there's nothing like it. It gets cold here, and it even hailed yesterday for a few minutes, but to me, winter will never feel right without snow days.
Getting ready for a show tonight...we don't set up until 5 so I course had put off getting everything together until this afternoon. I also have put off taking a shower and getting ready until now...which of course meant that the maintenance men came by at 5 minutes before shower time to fix my tub faucet. I had a silent,m internal panic attack and decided to blog while waiting and guess what...they're already done, yay! I'm only 10 minutes behind schedule...so off I go!
p.s. if you're in the Austin area I will be at with the tonight from 7-10!
edited to add: Photo by Marcel Bednarz taken in Bonn, Germany where this awesomeness occurs for 3 weeks every spring.
I'm a bit sleep deprived today. I had to get up super early and even with a tiny nap, I'm pretty out of it with only 4 hours sleep. Is it better to power on through it sluggishly or take another nap? If I didn't have so much to do before the show tomorrow night I would opt for a nap...but even sluggish work is getting stuff done right now. I will however make a cup of tea. That will help, tea makes everything better.
On a fun note, Adam and I had our first big planning meeting with the wedding planners today. I may even be starting to get excited about he wedding. I haven't really talked about it much here, but Adam and I decided that we wanted a teeny tiny, very dressy wedding. It's fun planning a lavish event for 4o guests and much much less drama than if were having 150+ like it was starting to grow to when we began planning.
*sigh*, Now I must get back to work so I can at the very least go to bed a decent hour...
I have no idea where this is, but I wish I did because I think it would be amazing to drive through it. The Hudson Valley had spectacular autumns and vivid colors, but they were more of the traditional New England mix of reds, oranges and yellows...the intensity of all red almost doesn't look real!
ps..there is a at Manic Trout right now!
I have a thing for decayed buildings and spaces. They are romantic and beautiful in a twisted type of way. Today it started out sunny and bright but turned rainy and gray as my day became busier and filled with things I needed to do and yet stress me out. No matter how nice laundry and sweeping my apartment are once done and how gross it is when they are not, they never seem seem like a good use of my time. So now as I sit at my desk, listening to the rain and preparing to work into the late hours of the night, I feel that beautiful decay is what is making me the most inspired.
On a less dismal note...yesterday ended up being such a lovely Sunday, all the plans I had were wonderful and I got to end the day doing two of my favorite things...making jewelry for the upcoming bridal line and writing the with Adam. Maybe there's hope for my least favorite day yet!
Vogue China, January 2012
Ah Tulle. How I adore thee. In any way, shape and form. I even once designed a line of jewelry with you...although I realized I may be one of the few women over 20 who wishes to wear it in any form not bridal. Eh, whatever, I will forever sing your praises you feminine and sassy material!
If you ever read here that I don't have much to do or anything going on, tell me to shut up and enjoy because wow do I love to pile on the busy. No time to breathe these days...thankful that Adam travels so much right now as I don't stop working until about 2am most nights recently. 2012 is however, going to be a fantastic year!!
ps...this weeks post from where Adam and write about the difference between the male and female perspectives is up!
I have been designing up a storm this week! I have also been devouring inspiration...want to see more than what I post here? Well, luckily, you can find oodles of images I have been collecting on my boards. I have locked myself in my studio for the weekend finishing the samples of the first collection for the Bridal Line (which should be available in late February...you can see sneak picks on ) Wish me luck!
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