Anthropologie Sweaters!

YAY!

This past summer I took a basic web design course and this week I finally got my portfolio website up and running!! It is not 100 percent finished but close to it, i am so glad to not have to worry about that any more and maybe now I can start applying for jobs...AHH!

The Halworth Home

This past weekend I visited a local nursing home. I realize that this does not seem like a huge deal, but I think it is important for everyone to know that I go to RISD and we are smack dab in teh middle of finals week. SO finding some time to tear my self away from my work seemed liek the biggest deal of my life, hehe.

The first very cool thing abut this was going into a buildig that I've past so many times throughout the past four years and I had know Idea it would look like that! I really enjoyed talking with these people about their lives, one of them was an activist with Martin Luther King Jr. another owned a whole lot of companies and I even got to play bingo, and pet cat!

All The Time

This is a perfect representation of how much I am working lately. It's the hardest time of the semester here at RISD and I am getting no sleep. I can not wait for thanksgiving break this coming week!

My favorite part of thanksgiving is the cranberry sauce and mashed potatoes. I like to mix up all my thanksgiving-y food together. What is your favorite part of thanksgiving?

photo via This and again

Back with a vengeance

HA! you thought I was gone....
no such luck, I have just been so busy and this took a back seat.



HA! you thought I was gone....no such luck, I have just been so busy and this took a back seat.
Hope you are having a lovely summer, I recently come across this gem of a designer....Her name is Erin Jang...

Grand Design

This is a designer who does absolutely beautiful work, In my own work I have been trying to incorporate vintage like effects and designs. Cynthia Warren does awe inspiring work!!

Beautiful Art

A friend of my recently graduated from the illustration department at RISD, and her work is beautiful! She recently put up a website which is completely coded and designed by her!! I am so proud of her, she has worked do hard over the past four years!

Check out her work here

Me Likey

I was shopping around my town and I found jewelry from this company Me & Ro. They have some of the most beautiful pieces I have seen in a long time. The jewelry that they design often has to do with religion and they even have a very nice collection of men's jewelry. Below are two of my favorite pieces from the website. 

Reflections on a Gift of Watermelon Pickle Received from a Friend Called Felicity

During that summer
When unicorns were still possible;
When the purpose of knees 
Was to be skinned;
When shiny horse chestnuts
    (Hollowed out
    Fitted with straws
    Crammed with tobacco
    Stolen from butts
    In family ashtrays)
Were puffed in green lizard silence
While straddling thick branches
Far above and away
From the softening effects
Of civilization;

During that summer--
Which may never have been at all;
But which has become more real
Than the one that was--
Watermelons ruled.

Thick imperial slices 
Melting frigidly on sun-parched tongues
Dribbling from chins;
Leaving the best part,
The black bullet seeds,
To be spit out in rapid fire
Against the wall
Against the wind
Against each other;

And when the ammunition was spent,
There was always another bite:
It was a summer of limitless bites,
Of hungers quickly felt 
And quickly forgotten
With the next careless gorging.

The bites are fewer now.
Each one is savored lingeringly,
Swallowed reluctantly.

But in a jar put up by Felicity,
The summer which maybe never was
Has been captured and preserved.
And when we unscrew the lid
And slice off a piece
And let it linger on our tongue:
Unicorns become possible again.

John Tobias

tags!

Here is another example of using clothing tags for a new purpose. 

I want to do this with my own business cards...but It has no relation to what I do

Season Finales

Okay, It is time for me to admit that I am TV addict, I have watched so many season finales this past week and my first reaction was on no what am i going to do with my life now?! It's probably a bad thing if I'm ashamed to admit how many shows I watch, but here it goes... Lost, Ugly Betty, Grey's Anatomy, Gossip Girl, One Tree Hill, Samantha Who and 30 Rock. So in someways I am relived to have so much more free time but really I am kind of sad.

Since I watch so many shows I can compare what trends are happening in  terms of plot line on all of these shows. On a few of these shows there a weddings that quickly end with death or at least passing out and there is a lot of cancer. 

anthropolgie invitations

aren't these invitations awesome, i love the simplicity of them .... there is so much good design out there it's overwhelming. 

Gingerly

...That is all I have to say

Recipe and Photo Via 101 cookbooks

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Sparkling Margarita Float

Ingredients

- one 12 oz can frozen lime-aid concentrate

-  1/5 cup of tequila

- .5 cup of triple sec

- 2 quarts tonic chilled

- 1 pint tangerine, lime or lemon sherbert

Chill glasses. In a pitcher, stir together the limeade, tequila and triple sec. Refrigerate for 30 minutes. Stir the tonic into the limeade mixture. Place 1 scoop of sherbet into each of the glasses, and stir in the margarita mix.

Via Everyday With Racheal Ray

5 to 21

Clover Club Cocktail 

Ingredients

-Juice of 1/2 lemon or lime
-1/3 grenadine (1 part)
-2/3 dry gin (2 parts)
-1 egg white

Place all ingredients in cocktail shaker along with ice. Shake well and strain into glass.

"Two quick notes on the use of raw eggs in cocktails: 1) There's nothing to worry about as long as you use fresh eggs from a reliable source. I used fresh organic brown eggs. 2) When using egg whites in cocktail recipes, I prefer to do a dry shake (shake egg white by itself) first for 30 seconds to 1 minute in order to really froth the white, before adding the remaining ingredients and shaking again."

Via UmamiMart & Design Crush

The Mad Ones

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing but burn, burn, burn like fabulous roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes 'Awww!"

- Jack Kerouac

6 to 21

Ahh...less than a week till, I turn 21...I still haven't decided what my first legal drink should be!...any input is much appreciated

Here is a classic

Sex on the Beach

Ingredients

- 1.5 oz Peach Schnapps

- 1.5 oz Vodka

- 2 oz Cranberry juice

- 2 oz Pineapple juice

- 2 oz Orange juice

Combine ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake and strain into a highball glass filled with ice.

Via Drink Nation

Beautiful wedding Invites

Via A Cup of Jo

Via 

7 to 21

Ingredients

- 1 scoop vanilla bean ice-cream

- 1 14.9 oz can guinness

- Draught beer

- Whipped cream, for topping

- Dash nutmeg

Place the ice cream in a large soda-fountain glass. Fill the glass with the beer. Top with a swirl of whipped cream and the nutmeg.

Paper hearts

This movie looks so cute. Micheal Cera is adorable. I can't wait for summer!!

swimingly

It's almost swimsuit season [AAHHH!] and I need to buy a new bathing suit. I was reading the latest edition of "Real Simple" and this bathing suit was featured in it, isn't it a beauty!? It is so hard to find such pretty one-piece bathing suites. I and thinking that maybe people are beginning to go back to wearing one-piece bathing suits. This bathing suit would either make my hips look huge, or it could be extremely flattering with the scrunching on the sides.

The company that designed this swimsuit Malia Mills has a lot of really beautiful swim wear. I think it is definitely worth checking out! The one down side to this whole thing is that it is $395 dollars and I cannot afford to buy a bathing suit that is that much money :(

Maybe sometime when I am out of school and have a steady job, I will be able to buy it!

12 to 21

"This cocktail is a creation from the bartenders at Club Med Bahamas.  It’s inspiration is a natural tropical phenomenon called a …… (can you guess it?)…… That’s right, a 'green flash.'"

Ingredients

-1 oz vodka

-1/2 oz Blue Curacao

-1/2 oz Peach Schnapps

-3 0z sprite

-3 oz orange juice

-ice

Mix alcohols and juices together with ice in your serving glass.  Stir to chill.  Garnish with a decorative slice of orange.

Photo & Recipe via white on rice

? to 21

Mango Slush

Ingredients:
- 2 oz bourbon (or rye whiskey)
- 1/4 oz sweet vermouth
- 3 dashes of bitters
Garnish: maraschino cherry

Mix all ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice. Strain into a chilled martini glass and garnish with cherry. 

18 to 21

The Country Bumpkin

Ingredients- 

- 2 shots gin

-1/2  a lime 

- 4 fresh blackberries

-1/4 shot sugar syrup

-2 dashes peach bitters

Muddle blackberries and lime in the bottom of an old-fashioned glass. Add other ingredients and stir well with ice. Garnish with blackberries and raspberries.

picture & recipe via Oh Gosh

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Quoted Noted

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?... We are all meant to shine, as children do. We are born to make manifes the glory...that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates other!"

-Marianne Williamson

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Island Blossom 

Ingredients

-pre-marinate fresh fruit pieces with lime juices and malibu passion fruit rum

-1 part pomegranate juice

-1/4 part simple syrup

-1/2 soho leyhcee liqueur

-2 parts tezon blanco tequila 

Mix juices, tequila, simple syrup and lychee liqueur with pre-marinated fruit in a mixing glass. serve over ice. 

via cocktail times

soft sink

what do you think about this sink? I guess that it is made out of a silicon kind of material. I think that it seems pretty cool, although I don't quite understand the pro to having a soft sink rather than a traditional one.

This is from a company in Amsterdam, Droog...they have a lot a interesting and cool products but a few that I couldn't really understand how useful they would be for example check out this interesting bath mat

"You can dance if you want to"

A few weeks ago Perez Hilton posted the video below. It is so cute and really fun! I wish I had been there to see it, or better yet been able to be part of it. It kind of reminds me of the happenings of the 1970's. I love it when people stir up the ordinary. 

20 to 21

Today's drink is called the aviator, I am not so sure about it because i have never liked the taste of gin. I'm posting mostly because I am so curious About this creme de Violette, It is made from the petals of violets, I think i would like it because i really love rose flavored drinks. If any of you try it let me know how it tastes!

Aviation: 

Ingredients

-2 shots gin

- 1/2 shot lemon juice

-1/2 shot maraschino

- 1/6 shot creme de Violette

Shake well with ice and fine strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with a maraschino cherry

recipe & picture  via Oh Gosh

Belated

I realize it's a little late, but hope you had a great Easter weekend and are having a fun passover!

The Tiny Art Director

This is a blog that is so adorable. It is about a father who is an illustrator and the advice his 3 year old daughter gives him about his illustrations.

Check it out The Tiny Art Director

21 to 21

It's been a few days, since I've posted. I've been so busy, this weekend I went home and had an internship interview at Alexander Isley  It's a really great small design company about 30 minutes away from my home. 

I also finished my stamp collection, which I will probably put up on the next post, I worked really hard on them and I think that they came out really nicely.

BUT THE REAL REASON I AM POSTING NOW!! *drum roll please*

Today marks the day when  in 21 days I will turn 21!! I will post one fun drink everyday until May 5Th [my 21st]

Blackberry Martini

Ingredients

-1 pt chilled blackberry sauce

-1 pt vodka

-ice

Put into a shaker with ice & shake well. Strain into a martini glass...finito!

Blackberry Sauce- 

Ingredients

- 1/2 lb blackberry

- 1 cup water

- 1/3 cup sugar

Heat all those ingredients in a saucepan on medium-heat. Mash the berries in a wooden spoon to release all the juice. Stir for about 10-15 minutes [or until all the sugar is dissolved]. Strain mixture into fine sieve, as to get all the seeds out. 

recipe via designcrush & foodista

'Pop, Lock & Drop it'

Why is it that vintage things are so great?

In my opinion no matter what it is, it's a thousand times better if it's old.

This store; AntiNu on Etsy has a great collection of vintage finds. 

Going Postal

For my Visual Systems class we are designing postal stamps, dealing the theme of Mathematica. in my research I have come across so many beautiful examples of stamps. Stamps in the Netherlands are designed at the highest level.

The United states has increased it stamps price 13 times in 32 years and in May they are going to be adding 2 more cents so it will be 44 cents. It seems like a good time to invest in forever stamps.

If you want to see some more examples of stamps you can check them out here or here

and here sweden decided just to use posters and shrink them down to stamp size. 

"The Moon is Not Only Beautiful...

...it is so far away" - Cat Power

well, not anymore with this 'personal moon' . Isn't this a beautiful project. I do not know who designed this but I know it is a project taking place in russia

You can see more of these images here and here.

High Wire Act

I can't wait for summer...I am not sure what I am doing yet with my summer but I know what ever it is and where ever I end up interning it will be great! I just love the fun laid back style summer brings out in people. 

These chairs from Anthropologie are so whimsical, I can imagine them at a house on Fire Island. sitting in them on a warm, breezy day sipping lemonade.