Kerry of Lenora Belle!

Since I am moving on the first, Kerry from Lenora Belle (oh my god most amazing cookies ever) is making me a huge batch of cookies! Yes! So I drew her a picture and hopefully she likes it!

(her bakery facebook!)

Meet my new friend, Pug! Yeah, that's his name. Creativity strikers others differently I suppose. I have SO many name ideas for my future pug! (Fig Newton still stands at numero uno though.)

Pug belongs to a nice lady my cousin was house sitting for this past weekend. Pug enjoys long floats in the pool, sunbathing, and cuddling. He also loves popcorn! I love pug!

Watermelon Nails!

Summertime Nails! I chose to do mine watermelon because that ALWAYS makes me think of the summer. I don't much care for watermelon though (although I do enjoy watermelon candy!)

Also, here's a collection of my favorite summertime nails from flickr!

Pelitron STRAWBERRIES!!!!

DelaneyMacMath

Octoberism.

BuffBum ! Oh my gosh her watermelon nail is ADORABLE! I'm totally doing blue bunting on white next time!

Panphila This girl has a bajillion amazing designs on her blog!

Teeny little drawlin's!

Beetlejuice!

Todays Doodles!

Yesterday was Fag day. Or flag day. Tomato, Tomatoe!

Hand Drawn Stickers!

Played around a bit at work with some adhesive cardstock & made some hand-drawn stickers! Anyone else make stickers? Wanna trade some?

I LOVE the rain!

I DON'T like my feet being wet! Love/Hate relationship.

A dying tradition.

Little Peche is in my dreams!

I always have these thoughts in my head before bed. I always stay up late rummaging through them like I'm reorganizing the contents of the footlocker at the end of my bed. I've had a lot of organic materials and shapes on my mind and when I finally DO fall asleep, I have all sorts of things in my dreams that reflect that. In my dream last night I had this wooden necklace that was chevron shaped and it had a pattern of lace on it. Lace is an organic pattern right? I mean, it does sort of mimic what a spiders web is, right? Anyways, so I scoured etsy looking for something like it because I am interested in playing around with some painted lace patterned wood block earrings or something, and I ran into

LittlePeche!

(visit their etsy store)

LittlePeche is a U.K. based design-led jewelry and accessory studio that draws inspiration from nostalgia, woodland, and vintage ideas!

I love...love...love these necklaces! They are so simple, and I love the childlike-ness of the stitched patterns in the wood.

I loooove the small faceted beads!

LETTER WRITERS ALLIANCE

Letter Writers Unite!!

Oh cool! My Par Avion decals from christmas time were on the Chicago Based Letter Writers Alliance blog!

This blog is drool worthy for those still enveloped in using the post (see what I did there?)

If you missed my initial post, go download them from their FANTASTIC amazing blog!

Par Avion Decals at LWA

and of course, hangout at the rest of their amazing site here!

ASHEVILLE, NC BOUND.

July 3rd (tentatively) is my move date. I'm moving from good ol' Smithfield, VA to the amazing Asheville, NC! My boyfriend and I are moving into an apartment downtown! How exciting! I am an avid letter write-er, so...gimme your addresses! I'd like to stay up to date and make sure I keep in contact with as many people as possible. If you are already an Asheville resident, I really look forward to seeing your face! Hooray!

MY LEG IS DONE!

Well...done for now. I plan on making this into a sock with the super talented and amazing and generous and charming Mr. Gabriel Cece!
He the owner of Studio Evolve in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Amazing spot, with amazing artists.

PUGAPALOOZA 2011

So, if you know me you know my obsession with Pugs. I long for one. They have SO much personality and have their moments of independence and their moments of "oh please I just want to cuddle".....just like me! Their little smooshed faces are just about the most adorable thing ever to be, and they are so quirky and fun. So yeah, I don't have a pug...YET. BUT! I got to go to Pugapalooza in Norfolk, VA with my friend Lizzle and my cousin ALLEY! People kept asking us where our dogs were, and I felt like the child molester hanging out at the kids playground.

"Ehhh...I don't have a pug?? YET??!"

Everyone was so super duper nice though!

There was a costume contest. ( I squeeled)

There was a Oldest and Youngest contest (I screeched at the little puppy and the frumpy old man pug)

There was a pug race! A curliest tail contest!

I tell you, it was heaven.

Then, I got to spend the night at a house my cousin Alley was housesitting for. THEY HAD A PUG. Named pug. *die*

Cure Coffeehouse Chalkboards!

So, I've been working as a Barista as Cure Coffeehouse in Freemason (which is an amazing other-worldy neighborhood in Norfolk, Virginia) and I pretty much got the gig because the owner (who so happened to be a guy I went to HIGHSCHOOL with) liked my handwriting and wanted me to write their boards. So, in my typical fashion, I show up and demand a job there(just kidding, I didn't demand! But....I did get the job!)
So after a week or two they got an A-Frame chalkboard sign for outside so i can doodle on it. I don't think they realize how much artistic freedom I've given' myself. Either way, *most* of the customers like it.
MOST. heh heh.
But these are all in good fun, and I'll be sad when I move to Asheville, NC in about a month and leave them :(