Let the Wild RUMPUS Start!

I highly recommend seeing Where The Wild Things Are, its not a kid's movie, but a movie about a kid. It exceeded my already high expectations and surprised me with the endearing story - I laughed and got teary eyed. If you wish to rekindle your childhood notions of happiness, loneliness, love, and using your imagination then please see it - it is a truly beautiful film.

**also get the soundtrack by Karen O - complements the movie sooo well!

This House Smells of Ghosts

Indie yet fierce Halloween songs along with Halloween items:

1. Halloween – Matt Pond PA

cookies, Eleni's Bakery NYC

2. Is There A Ghost – Band of Horses

dress, Fendi

3. The Garden - Mirah

necklace, fredflare.com

4. Dimension - Wolfmother

cardigan, Marc by Marc Jacobs

5. Ain’t No Rest for the Wicked – Cage the Elephant

cupcake toppers, Layer Cake Shop

6. URA Fever – The Kills

skirt, Ashish

7. Black Magic (Magic Love and Dreams Masters) – Magic Wands

heels, Giuseppe Zanotti

8. The Death - Fields

sweater, Markus Lupfer

9. The Lake - Aqualung

fredflare.com

10. Not a Robot, But a Ghost – Andrew Bird

dress, Preen

Spider(wo)man

Can fashion inspire food?

When I was asked to make a Halloween cake, I was bored with the idea of the typical pumpkin, orange and black theme. Instead that inspired me was the Rodarte FW08 collection. Rodarte always impresses me with their ethereal, lookslikeafairymadeit clothes. This collection in particular looks like a bunch of fashionable spiders all got together and spun these red and black dresses and tights.

To make the spiderwebs, I melted chocolate, put it in a Ziploc back, snipped off the end and made spiderwebs onto wax paper. Before they dried, I sprinkled big clear crystals on them.

Feline Friends

Songs about cats, tigers, or lions:

1. Tiger, My Friend - Psapp
2. Tiger, Tiger – Bishop Allen
3. The Lion Sleeps Tonight – The Tokens
4. Snow Lion - Feist
5. Lions and Tigers - Asobi Seksu
6. The Lion and The Tea Cup – Bishop Allen
7. Lion’s Jaw – Neko Case
8. My Tiger My Heart – The Boy Least Likely To
9. I Believe in You – Cat Power
10. Lovecats – The Cure

Fright Fest

I have expressed my love for Amy Atlas Events before and how much I would kill for an internship there! She is the queen of all dessert tables and I found this Halloween table of hers looking as delicious as ever!
This really makes me want to have a Halloween party...

I Put A Spell On You

You readers will have to bear with me that in the month of October there will be lots of Halloween related posts - why? Because I LOVE it!
Lula Magazine has put together this creepycool short fim called "Spell." Watch it and you will see how it fits in with the whole Halloween theme :)

I'm So 3008

Ive always been fascinated with fashions from the future, ever since I watched Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century. These looks from the SS09 Balenciaga show are uber futuristic and look like something I'd like to wear on a space station in 2080. This stellar music also reminds me of the future:

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1. Time to Pretend - MGMT
2. Boom Boom Pow – Black Eyed Peas
3. Walking on a Dream - Empire of the Sun
4. Creator - Santogold
5. Crimewave – Crystal Castles
6. Bruises - Chairlift
7. The W.A.N.D. – The Flaming Lips
8. Sleepyhead – Passion Pit
9. Scary World Theory – Lali Puna
10. Human – The Killers

Flower Child

I am LOVING the adorable Moschino Cheap and Chic SS10 collection! The punchy daisy hats, sunglasses and prints make it all so youthful and girly. I am loving the color palate they used (the shade of pink is just right) and how cute are those shoes?!? I created a little montage of the collection along with pictures of Gerber daisies I took - thought they were quite fitting :)

New Moon, New Music

I am really in Twilight - I even have several posts related to it. So when the soundtrack came out last year, I bought it just because it was the soundtrack to the movie that I was dying to see. After a listen, though, I was a little disappointed - Paramore? Linkin Park? Really? The only standouts to me were the Iron and Wine and Black Ghosts. And most of the songs on the album had already been out for a while - it brought really nothing new to the table. However, the soundtrack for New Moon is polar opposite. It may have something to do with the better plot line, a new director and a new music supervisor (the same girl who picks out music for Grey's Anatomy and Gossip Girl - great taste already!). This soundtrack is all original songs from some of my FAVORITE artists and it looks amazing! With this music alone, its already going to be a better movie lol! I pre ordered it on itunes (you can get bonus songs that way) and it already downloaded 1 song off of it. From what I've heard, its much moodier and darker than the last, very fitting to the movie though :)

1. Death Cab for Cutie - Meet Me on the Equinox
2. Band of Skulls - Friends
3. Thom Yorke - Hearing Damage
4. Lykke Li - Possibility
5. The Killers - A White Demon Love Song
6. Anya Marina - Satellite Heart
7. Muse - I Belong to You (New Moon Remix)
8. Bon Iver and St. Vincent - Rosyln
9. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Done All Wrong
10. Hurricane Bells - Monsters
11. Sea Wolf - The Violet Hour
12. OK Go - Shooting The Moon
13. Grizzly Bear - Slow Life
14. Editors - No Sound But the Wind
15. Alexandre Desplat - New Moon (The Meadow)

Oooohh my Lord, I cannot wait for this!

**in other soundtrack news, just got the Where The Wild Things Are soundtrack by Karen O (of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs) and am enchanted - very fun and cute - sounds like it will go perfect with the movie!

Matte About You

Matte polish is in - its official. But instead of buying the same shades of glossy colors i already own in a matte finish, I bought the Matte About You Topcoat by Essie. It is a quick drying mattifying layer that makes any nail polish you already own matte! Its a much more practical solution with many options. (You just might to have to reapply this topcoat after a few days, to keep the shine from coming through)