I Want a Slice of LA Sun

Last year for spring break, I went to L.A. I hit all my places on my to go list: kitson, the ivy, rodeo drive, celeb tour, etc...... I even saw Ciara and Lindsay! Here are my pics:

In theme of these pictures and memories, here is my playlist of California/LA songs:

1. Ode to L.A. - The Raveonettes

2. Hollywood - Madonna

3. Los Angeles - SUGARCULT

4. Californication - Red Hot Chili Peppers

5. Hollywood Kids- The Thrills

6. California - Rufus Wainright

7. Stars and Boulevards - Augustana

8. Dani California - Red Hot Chili Peppers

9. All the Stars - Leona Naess

10. California - Phantom Planet

This spring break: college visits in Nashville, St. Louis, and Chicago!

CIRCUS! CIRCUS!

So, I am in a musical right now called Barnum, about - you guessed it! I am a clown - yes fun. It actually is though, but taking off the makeup is a pain. Here is my top 10 list of carnival/circus themed music, in honor of my musical:

1. Carnival Town - Norah Jones
2. Pageant of the Bizarre - Zero 7
3. Sunday - Sia
4. Chicago - Sufjan Stevens
5. Light & Day/Reach for the Sun- The Polyphonic Spree
6. Side Dish - Psapp
7. Night of the Dancing Flame - Roisin Murphy
8. Don't Get it Twisted - Gwen Stefani
9. The New Pollution - Beck
10. Because you CAN - Moulin Rouge Soundtrack

Butterfly Cupcakes

Spring is in the Air

As cheesy as this title is, its true. Its finally warm. But enough about the weather (people only talk about the weather when there's nothing else to talk about). Next weekend I'm going spring shopping - I'm getting my to get list together. Like the photo? i took it (brag). Anyways, here is my top 10 list this week, with a spring theme:

1. Change in the Weather - The Concretes
2. Sunrise - Norah Jones
3. Tout Doucement - Feist
4. Complainte de la Butte - Rufus Wainwright
5. Sundress - Ben Kweller
6. At the Zoo - Simon and Garfunkel
7. Pull Things Up - Inara George
8. Nightingale - Norah Jones
9. Dawn - Pride and Prejudice Soundtrack
10. Daisychains (demo) - Youth Group

I also got the Amy Winehouse CD - soulful, vintagey = REALLY GOOD!

Boombox Cake

To go on with the ghettofabulous theme I had, here is a boombox cake I made for our dance team dinner this past Sunday night. It was yellow cake with cream cheese frosting. Then I cut off an inch from the edge to make the front, put a blank cd on it, decorated it with candies and polished it with clear piping gel.

YO yO Yo!

Feeling pretty GHETTOFABULOUS!!!! haha. yea. anyways! This is a boombox cookie - I made them for my whole dance team. This year was like year of the boombox for us - I drew an old school boombox for our sweatshirt and i made our lockers look like boomboxes. I think next year will be year of the turntable.... Here is my ghettofabulous playlist:

1. Idlewild Blue - Outkast
2. Cellphones Dead - Beck (3rd time on the list)
3. We Dance Alone - Beck
4. My Chrome - Big Boi
5. Crazy - Gnarls Barkley
6. Kids with Guns - Gorillaz
7. Yummy - Gwen Stefani
8. Knock E'm Out - Lily Allen
9. Morris Brown - Outkast
10. Can I Have it Like That? - Pharrell w/ Gwen Stefani

I think Ii have more of an alternative hip hop taste in music. I'm not really into those silly hard core rappers.

OHHHH and you must check out the new Peter Bjorn and John CD - its amazing (especially Young Folks)

OFFICE Party

So, I love the show, "The Office" and decided to have a viewing party for 25 of my friends. They all came dressed as if they were going to work - it was cute. The invitation was yellow lined paper with the details printed on it. I decorated it with hole punch circles, dots, and stars - all found @ an office supply store. I enclosed the envelope with paper clips, as opposed to confetti. As you can see, I made the Dunder Mifflin sign to go over the food table. I also put the stickers used on the invites on the table cloth and scattered paper clips. The streamers were crepe paper ones, hole punch stickers on a roll, and red sticker dots on a roll. There is also my attempt to put a stapler in the jello - yeah. I bought coffee to-go cups with lids, even though we didn't drink coffee. I put name tags on the cups so people could keep track of their cup (we also wore the name tags as if we didn't know each other). I bought all those restroom and office signs and put them in the appropriate places. Last, but not least are the cookies I made that are supposed to be shirts. We also played the diversity game (like on the episode). It was sooooo much fun (that's what she said!)

Need some SLEEP

Sorry this post is late - this week has been sooo busy - more on that on a later post. Needless to say I havent gotten much sleep this week and this is my belated playlist - lullabies and songs to sleep to:

1. Sleep - Azure Ray
2. Jersey Clowns - Josh Rouse
3. Now at Last - Feist
4. Everything'll be Alright - Joshua Radin
5. Carnival Town - Norah Jones
6. Rabbit Fur Coat - Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins
7. I Will Follow You Into the Dark - Death Cab for Cutie
8. Edelwiess - The Sound Of Music Soundtrack
9. Lullaby - Jack Johnson
10. Parachutes - Coldplay

I had an Office party this weekend - I'll post the pictures tomorrow.