The nook of all nooks....

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     I wish i had this little nook in my house!! Perfect for a rainy day...

All this rain in LA.....

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....makes me WANT. WANT. WANT.

The holidays means travelling, so……

(via bookshelf porn)

...So, I thought I'd take a mini break from the crazy Christmas posts, and share this awesome states shaped bookshelf : )..... oh, and also to announce that I will be frequently posting pictures of the coolest shelves from around the web!

Store the sunshine for the night-time!

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   My favorite thing about Christmas is that everything sparkles!!! Christmas lights, tree ornaments, shiny bows and paper.... I can't get enough of the stringed lights!!! I wish we could keep them all year long... These DIY solar powered light jars are perfect for keeping the sparkle all year long!

Gift ideas for the tea lovers in your life...

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The top are tiny kits to grow your own tea garden at home! I've always wanted my own tea garden!

I collect vintage tea cups, and I adore this monogrammed little cup. It's perfect and understated and different from the colorful ones I already have!!

Gift ideas for your sister who is quirky, brutally honest, and has a lion's mane for hair....

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...who likes nonfunctional things (as long as she can say she's the only one who has one), and has particularly high standards when choosing beau's (because she prefers them ultra funny!)

DIY gift idea: Stationary

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I LOVE letters. There is absolutely something sweet and endearing about a real handwritten letter! In my books, nothing can top that.... except maybe a handwritten letter in a beautifully crafted fabric envelope!!

Twiggy

Nobody can sport a pixie cut better than Twiggy... except for Emma Watson! New favorite girl crush!!

Holiday wrappings

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In my opinion, it's not about what you get em'... it's about how you wrap it!! I've always loved the classic brown butcher paper with a pretty bow, but this year we're going to try and get a little fancy.

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     How great are these?!? Isn't it fascinating what you can create with old billing envelopes and colorful masking tape!!! These gifts are wrapped in such a whimsically original way that it would break me to have to rip them to shreds on Christmas morning. I would much rather hang them on my wall.

Dead week is among us



     Dead week- The duty of students to rally every last ounce of strength and motivation left in their malnutritioned and sleep deprived bodies to run head-on towards the last week of the semester. It's time to tackle papers, projects, and deadlines with gusto.

     A personal characteristic of mine (to which I owe this very blog), is procrastination. To those out there who do not know what that is, two things- one. We cannot be friends. and Two. Procrastination is the crafted art of doing all the things you don't have time for.

     In efforts to maximize my time by combining play with work this dead week, I've come up with a few tips for you. I've found a lovely (and absurdly true) essay on How To Bullshit Your Way Through Any Essay. It's priceless, in every sense of the word.

     And when your brain finally feels like a bowl of soggy cereal, take a breather from actually having to think. My go-to mindless entertainment is stumbleupon. Click, look. Click, look. It's numbingly simple.

     When all else fails, try daydreaming about the light at the end of the tunnel. I like to imagine myself in the picture above (which I ironically found on stumbleupon). Isn't it sooo dreamy, and very very far from deadlines of any kind!

Good luck everyone!!

    

Rainbows all the time

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want.

Monday afternoon pick-me-up

"The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn't matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is that we embark."
Barbara Hall, Northern Exposure, Rosebud, 1993

Fabulous flakes, if there ever were such a thing

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Paper snowflakes are the absolute ultimate Christmas decoration! They are tons of fun to make and they always look dreamy no matter how creativley challenged you are!! If you are growing tired of the plain white folded paper, try a pattern instead! I LOVE using old book pages when I make my flakes, there's just something so cool about that old yellow paper!

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I ADORE these fancy flakes! Have you ever seen anything like them in your life?!?! Isn't it funny how everybodys snowflakes turn out just a littttle bit different? It's just like handwriting!!



And for all you noobs, here is THE BEST paper snowflake video out there! She's absolutely right on the spot when she says that you want to cut most of the paper away and leave even boarders!

Here's a really aweful snap of my flakes this year! I'm not quite done making them but I hope to hang them from the ceiling, or maybe make a snowflake chandelier!! Any ideas?!?!

Merry Flaking Everyone!!

DIY Christmas decor idea #1

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There's something magical about seeing book pages in places they shouldn't be, don't you think??

My apologies to all

I haven't posted in a few days. And for that I am sorry... so, for now this picture of Salvador Dali walking his ant eaters will have to hold you over untill I get home from work today. Be prepared for some serious holiday festivities!!

Beautiful my dear...

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.



Havelock Ellis

The revenge of the nerds

(via nerd boyfriend)

How can you NOT want one?!?! Com'on, addmit it, their quirkiness is cute. They are sesitive, smart, wear glasses, and usually have a (or many) awesome collections. Aaaaand, they clearly make the best dressed beau's. If you're not convinced then take a look at nerd boyfriend, a lovely blog that features iconic nerds and how they dressed!

And if you prefer the more tech savey geek, check out A Girls Guide to Geek Guys for their proper care amd feeding.

P.S. I was inclined to post a photo of my very own beau, but I new he would have freaked out by the idea that his identity was revealed... I know, what a dork, right?? He's the cutest!

Update: I now have permission to post pictures! So, here they are.... 

Six advent calenders I wish I had this holiday..

Having to wait for a dainty treat makes it THAT much better when we finally get it! With three more days until the December 1st, here are a few of the most dreamy advents from around the web...

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How amazingly rad is this fourteen year old kid?!?!

Litterally gave me goosebumps. Seriously.

Read the article about this rad kid (oh, and also a Ellen DeGeneres appearance here).

It's officially the Christmas Season!!!

(photo via Retro Ways)

And the Christmas festivities start with Black Friday!!!  Good luck to all those shoppers still out and about!! And before we all get sucked into a hloliday delirium, let us remember that we all have something to give and giving to those who genuinely need it, without any expectations or honor, has a particularly momentous quality about it.

A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.

- Lawrence G. Lovasik

Happy Thanksgiving!!

An old picture of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade!!

Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts. 

-Alan Cohen

Transformation!!

This perky piece used to be an old junky desk!! I love it! I've always wanted to do a furniture transformation like this!! See what it looked like before at knack!

Have you ever done a furniture makeover? Any tips are appreciated : )

Dreamy winter gardens

The one thing I really dread about Winter is the lack of perky little plants and flowers. Fortunately, the one thing that doesn't disappear is moss!! I love this perfectly tiny indoor water garden, and it's terrific for the winter blues! The glass mug makes it so chic- as in "I don't really try all that hard, but I'm lovely anyways".

Speaking of moss, I seem to have an odd infatuation with moss of all kinds, especially these Marimo balls! Marimo are a rare form of algea that grows underwater in the form of a perfectly fuzzy spherical ball! They are considered to be lucky and treasured in Japan, and they even have the tendencey to bounce!!!

 This is one dreary winter garden that I wouldn't mind having in my backyard! Arte Sella is an environmental art exibit that takes place in the fields and woods of the Sella Valley in Italy. How enchanting! Rather than making me feel like a beaver, I imagine walking through this forest would make me feel like a kid who just crawled into the ultimate snow igloo!



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