Prints!

Currently Listening To: Dirt Road Anthem by Jason Aldean

I forgot to tell y'all that I bought some prints of Etsy for my new room! And now that I finally set some things up today -- like all my lil' knick-knacks on my desk and such -- I'm excited to work on getting them in some cool frames and on the wall! (I want to spray paint some frames in some bright colors, kinda like this...but not round.)

These are the prints I got:

from OriginauxMoose

from Vol25

both from Poppy and Pinecone

What do you think? And do you know of any other amazing ones I need??

Given a Cape and a Nice Tiara...

Today, I had lunch with Zanna, who was my neighbor and good friend when we were about three. We had crepes, caught up on a decade or so of life, and wandered around some shops, including a secondhand bookstore and a store called Hello Bluebird that felt like I was walking into Etsy in real life.

There were all sorts of things I loved in this store, but in particular, these designs by Leigh Standley of Curly Girl Designs. I'm such a sucker for eclectic, mixed media designs and random, witty sayings. 

If I had some extra mula laying around, I would buy all of these in card form and send them to everyone I love. And then I might buy that top one to hang on my wall.

Love 'em.

And added bonus: there was a hand-written sign by a stack of prints in this store that read "With us, you can be that artsy-urban roommate!" (I took a picture but, alas, did not bring my card reader to Pennsylvania). ...HOW DID THEY KNOW??

P.S. My V key fell off my keyboard today. Thus, every V I've typed here has been a struggle. You are welcome for all that extra effort... :]

Friday Five

Currently Listening to: J.Biebs. Inspired by watching this video...

My former-roomie-but-still-housemate Monique and I decided we want to start being really artsy, especially on Fridays, when neither of us have classes and opportunity abounds. Sometimes I kind of wish I was one of those super artsy/alternative/borderline-hipster kind of people…you know, those people who are all creative and awesome and anticonformist  and stylish and effortlessly chill at the same time?

In light of this, here are
5 Things I Can Do To Become More Artsy/Alternative/Borderline-Hipster:

1. Go to art shows! (…obviously?) I did this accidentally last week, and it was great, so I want to do it more preparedly this week. Which I am about to do.

2. Hang out in coffeeshops. But only small, non-commercially, non-Starbucks ones. Luckily this is a college town and there are a bunch of those around. And luckily I kind of do that already.

3. Get and wear this:

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(I asked for one for Christmas, but didn’t really get it yet, so I’ve been meaning to go out and buy one. Now, for the sake of my artsiness, I have to.) Other artsy clothing options: plaid, leggings, those beret hat thingies, big oversize cable knit scarves, big (nerd) glasses?

4. Listen to obscure bands no one’s heard of. I think I’m going to need to be checking these websites to find out what those are… (when I googled “hipster music,” this is what I got…) (umm, let's just forget that I'm listening to Justin right now...)

5. Stalk other people’s artsy blogs/facebooks/flickr streams to death, and wish I was them. Potentially some day this might actually inspire me to action? Hmm.

I'll keep y'all posted on how this goes for us...


P.S. Here's me and Monique in our room last year. Can't you just tell that we're destined to be super artsy??