Postcards From Venice

Finally just got all the pictures from my trip onto my computer= about 4,000 (between me, my dad and mom). So expect Europe posts well unto next week lol!

Venice is beautiful and so mysterious, naturally I loved the less crowded areas of it :)

Nearly Nude

A mixture of pale pinks and nude nail polishes

Postcards From Lake Como

This is the area where my boy George (Clooney that is) lives and where Gwen Stefani shot her "Cool" Music Video. So lush! and very classy :)

Postcards From Tuscany

The relaxing countryside - def my fave part of the trip! We stayed in a farmhouse with a little kitchen and would "make" dinner in it each night. You NEED to go there!

Postcards From Cinque Terre

ITALY

It's A Summer Day...

Summer has finally set in for me. The Tuesday after the weekend I graduated I left 2 weeks for Italy so I have been on the go go go. Now that I'm back, I'm all relaxed and lazy again - like summers are supposed to be like. But I can only recoup for a few days because next week I will be painting a mural half the day and babysitting the last half, but nothing like 2 jobs in one week :) anyways here is the weeks play list, all songs with a very summery feel to it:

1. Summer Day - Coconut Records
2. Why Do You Let Me Stay Here? - She & Him
3. Wash In The Rain - The Bees
4. We Get On - Kate Nash
5. A-Punk - Vampire Weekend
6. Summer Sun - Koop
7. Anecdote - Ambulance Ltd
8. Seems Fine Shuffle - The Concretes
9. Summertime - Josh Rouse
10. Seaside - The Kooks

HAPPY SUMMER!

Greetings!

I am finally back! It seems like forever and I know I have missed many of your posts and need to catch up. Italy/France was absolutely fabulous! Its a completely different world there, its unreal. Each day for the next week and a half or so I post pictures from some of the places i went. Today it's...

POSTCARDS FROM PISA


of course it had scaffolding all over it lol!

Postcards From Italy

Today I am leaving for Italy for 2 weeks. Before I leave I want to leave you with some inspiration, etc. Can't wait to show you all the pictures when I get back!

a suitcase I painted in art

I won't actually be going to Rome, but I love "Roman Holiday" lol


2 weeks worth of playlists, all which make you feel like you're going to Italy/France:
1. Leaving On A Jet Plane - Peter, Paul & Mary
2. Postcards From Italy - Beirut
3. Beyond The Sea - Bobby Darin
4. Paradise - Ana Serrano van der Laan
5. Volare - Bobby Darin
6. Sway - The Puppini Sisters
7. That's Amore - Dean Martin
8. Elephant Gun - Beirut
9. Somethin' Stupid - Frank Sinatra
10. On An Evening In Roma - Dean Martin
11. Bei Mir Bist Du Schon - The Puppini Sisters
12. Koop Island Blues - Koop
13. They - Jem
14. A Cold Wind Will Blow Through Your Door - Bill Ricchini
15. Breezin' Along With The Breeze - Josephine Baker
16. La Même Histoire - Feist
17. Je Chante - Charles Trenet
18. La Femme Chocolat - Olivia Ruiz
19. Itsy Bitsy Petit Bikini - Richard Anthony
20. The Miles Till Home - The Elected

**watch the videos below!


BE BACK SOON!

Gwen Stefani - Cool

I have always been in love with this music video. It was filmed at Lake Como (where George Clooney lived) and we are going there on our trip too! BEAUTFIL VIDEO! So glamourous!

Beirut: Postcards from Italy

love the vintage summery feel to it!

As We Go On, We Remember...

4 years went by too fast. I cant believe I have already graduated from high school. It was a really fun weekend filled with many parties and little sleep. I was balling during the ceremony when my best friend, the salutatorian gave her speech and looked at me when she said " make friends that we will keep forever." Its was pitiful lol. Last night I stayed up till 3 talking to friends. Good times had by all :) and YAY ITS SUMMER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here is an extra long playlist, all songs about graduating, leaving home and friends, and moving on with life, enjoy:
1. Graduation - Vitamin C
2. Goodbye To You - Michelle Branch
3. Shine On - Jet
4. Far Far - Yael Naim
5. First Day of My Life - Bright Eyes
6. Do You Remember - Jack Johnson
7. Somewhere Down the Road - Feist
8. Adventures in Solitude - The New Pornographers
9. Seven Years - Norah Jones
10. HighSchool - The Watson Twins
11. The Prettiest Thing - Norah Jones
12. You Have Been Loved - Sia
13. Us - Regina Spektor
14. Dream - Priscilla Ahn
15. Until The End - Norah Jones
16. The Greatest - Cat Power
17. After The Curtain - Beirut
18. With Arms Outstretched - Rilo Kiley
19. How It Ends - Devotchka

Nineteen

Tomorrow on May the 12th at 11:57 PM I will enter my last year of teenage hood (aka its my 19th birthday). A little sigh of relief, a little sadness. As a pre-teen, movies and TV shows definitely gave me a false idea of being a teenager: I would be beautiful and popular and have a boyfriend, have the coolest car, and well I guess just be "perfect". Looking back my expectations were sort of hilarious, but I'm not sad about how my teen years have been. Seriously I have the best friends a girl could ask for who help make the teen years playful and fun like they are supposed to be. Late night talks, going to the grocery store in the middle of the night to get junk food, running around a field on the first day of summer with sparklers, and skinny dipping are all the things that have made my teenage years so special. I am excited to go on with the next year of my life which will contain: graduating high school (ironically tomorrow is my last day of high school), going to Italy, and going to college. So, happy birthday to me lol! I want to make the absolute most out of my last year of teenagehood!
I'm not having a birthday party this year because I'm having a graduation party next weekend. And I'm not expecting many gifts either, but here is my wish list (emphasize the WISH part lol)

OF course this week's playlist all has to do with being a teen:

1. Teen Angst - M83
2. Teenage Kicks - Seabear
3. Teenager - Camera Obscura
4. Thirteen - Ben Kweller
5. Seventeen - The Cat's Miaow
6. That Teenage Feeling - Neko Case
7. Teenager - The Thrills
8. Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
9. Sixteen - Los Super Elegantes
10. Teenage Hustling - Tori Amos