Happy Friday, Friends! If all goes according to plan today, a ton of new items will be added to the shop. Stay tuned!
Friday, October 29, 2010
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Monday, October 25, 2010
Clownin' Around
For Halloween this year, I am going to be Pierrot the Clown. Here's a sketch I drew of the costume I hope to create:
Friday, October 22, 2010
A fresh batch of vintage lovelies were posted today! Check out my online store for prices and sizing information. Have a nice weekend!
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Monday, October 18, 2010
The King
Before Elvis, there was nothing.
-John Lennon
I don't know what it is about 2010, but for some reason, I feel like not a lot of good, new music emerged this year. At times like these, I always find myself returning to the classics.
A few fun facts about the King:
-He was related to two US presidents: Abraham Lincoln and Jimmy Carter.
-He had a black belt in karate.
-He recorded approximately 600 songs, but was not solely responsible for writing any of them.
-10 consecutively released Elvis songs went to No. 1 on the charts.
-He used the name "Jon Burrows" as an alias.
-Currently, there are roughly 50,000 people worldwide that make their living as Elvis impersonators.
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Friday, October 15, 2010
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Items of Interest
Hope you all are having a nice week. My back has been acting up (again), so I have been staying off my feet as much as possible and trying to take it relatively easy the past few days. It is really time to start going to physical therapy to strengthen my core.
Anyway, here are some of my picks for the week. Enjoy!
1. Repurposed vintage suitcases:
2. This dreamy practice room:
3. This album:
4. Afternoon shadows in my boyfriend's bedroom:
5. This lovely little feather garden we encountered at the beach a few weekends ago:
6. Illustrations from children's books that were read to me before bedtime when I was a kid, like this one from Caps for Sale:
7. Thrifted kitsch; I just can't say no when it comes to embroidery and woodland creatures:
Friday, October 8, 2010
Taco Night
Yesterday was Thursday, meaning last night, was taco night here at the Belinsky household. I was in charge of the guacamole. You don't even want to begin to doubt my capabilities when it comes to guacamole-making. It's really all about the proportions.
So what if I play with my food?
I'm off to the thrift stores. I have a good feeling about the potential of today's finds.
Monday, October 4, 2010
A Soup Sort of Day
Today was one of those gloomy days where all you want to do is curl up in bed, watch movies, and drink soup. I indeed made a soup from scratch just a couple of hours ago. Its ingredients include carrots, apples, onions, garlic, ginger, chicken broth, orange juice, nutmeg, and cinnamon. I love making soups because it's pretty much impossible to mess a soup up. I'm waiting for Noel to get here so we can have some together.
I finally got around to uploading pictures I took of a rainbow from last week. How gorgeous is this?
Friday, October 1, 2010
Lately, I've been thinking about the idea of change and adaptation.
It's been about 4 months since I graduated and moved back home and it's finally starting to hit me that I'm in a major transitional shift in my life. I guess it would have settled in sooner if the past few months hadn't been so topsy-turvy.
Four months ago, I was so happy to be finished with school, to move out of the "Boulder Bubble", and to move back to San Diego, where it doesn't snow and where all the people that I love and care for live. I was home for a month and a half or so before I left for Israel and Europe. I had an amazing time, but I couldn't wait to get back home to begin my so-called adult life. Just a couple days after I got home, my best friend passed away completely unexpectedly, just two days after his 23rd birthday. It turned everything upside-down.
I would've shared this sooner, but I didn't know what to make of it.Now it's been nearly two months since his death and things are slowly starting to become less blurry.
I would not consider myself a religious person. I don't necessarily believe in a Heaven, a Hell, or a God for that matter. Perhaps if I was religious, it might be easier to come to terms with his death, but then again, nobody said coping was an easy thing.
Before this happened, I never really spent much time thinking about death. After all, nobody close to me has ever passed away before. Now, I believe that when somebody you care deeply for passes away, bits and pieces of them live on through the people that they knew.
I feel that a piece of him has entered my spirit. Even though I welcomed it warmly, it has thrown my equilibrium off balance and it has been changing me in certain aspects as I assimilate to it, especially in the form of the relationships I have with others. Lately, I have been receiving a lot of unwarranted negative energy from people that I feel close to. It is upsetting and distressing. It doesn't feel fair in any way.
The other day, my brother brought up the idea of spiritual awakening. I wanted to learn more, so I hit the internet and found a (discernibly subjective) dot org website describing the symptoms of ascension, such as, "a sudden disappearance of friends". It explained that when one experiences a spiritual awakening, they are evolving beyond who and what they used to be, and that consequently, their environment and the people they surround themselves with no longer match their vibrational energy.
The funny thing about change is that as soon as you start changing, the world around you (as you know it) also changes. Your environment might not look any different, it just feels different, and at times uncomfortable. You can battle it, or embrace it. I'm thinking it's going to be a lot easier to act upon the latter.
It's been about 4 months since I graduated and moved back home and it's finally starting to hit me that I'm in a major transitional shift in my life. I guess it would have settled in sooner if the past few months hadn't been so topsy-turvy.
Four months ago, I was so happy to be finished with school, to move out of the "Boulder Bubble", and to move back to San Diego, where it doesn't snow and where all the people that I love and care for live. I was home for a month and a half or so before I left for Israel and Europe. I had an amazing time, but I couldn't wait to get back home to begin my so-called adult life. Just a couple days after I got home, my best friend passed away completely unexpectedly, just two days after his 23rd birthday. It turned everything upside-down.
I would've shared this sooner, but I didn't know what to make of it.Now it's been nearly two months since his death and things are slowly starting to become less blurry.
I would not consider myself a religious person. I don't necessarily believe in a Heaven, a Hell, or a God for that matter. Perhaps if I was religious, it might be easier to come to terms with his death, but then again, nobody said coping was an easy thing.
Before this happened, I never really spent much time thinking about death. After all, nobody close to me has ever passed away before. Now, I believe that when somebody you care deeply for passes away, bits and pieces of them live on through the people that they knew.
I feel that a piece of him has entered my spirit. Even though I welcomed it warmly, it has thrown my equilibrium off balance and it has been changing me in certain aspects as I assimilate to it, especially in the form of the relationships I have with others. Lately, I have been receiving a lot of unwarranted negative energy from people that I feel close to. It is upsetting and distressing. It doesn't feel fair in any way.
The other day, my brother brought up the idea of spiritual awakening. I wanted to learn more, so I hit the internet and found a (discernibly subjective) dot org website describing the symptoms of ascension, such as, "a sudden disappearance of friends". It explained that when one experiences a spiritual awakening, they are evolving beyond who and what they used to be, and that consequently, their environment and the people they surround themselves with no longer match their vibrational energy.
The funny thing about change is that as soon as you start changing, the world around you (as you know it) also changes. Your environment might not look any different, it just feels different, and at times uncomfortable. You can battle it, or embrace it. I'm thinking it's going to be a lot easier to act upon the latter.
Crystal Castles
My boyfriend took me shooting for my first time a few days ago. I didn't like it. In fact, I started to cry. Then I started to laugh because I thought it was funny that I was crying. Oh, to be a dainty flower. Anyway, I took some of the shells with me when I left. I knew that I would eventually find something to do with them. It didn't take long:
I think it's time to start collecting rocks and minerals...
