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The Pajama Game

So the reason for my serious lack of posts is because I have a lead in a musical called "The Pajama Game". Rehearsals ran until 8 and I had them on the weekends too. But finally all our hard work has paid off! We had our show Thursday, Friday, and tonight. It's so much fun, but very exhausting! Anyways above is our T-shirt and program design that I drew and below is how it looked on the shirts.

The play was an old Dorris Day movie and has been on Broadway. You might of heard that song before called "Steam Heat"? It takes place in the 50's, so of course the costumes are awesome lol! I usually don't like my costumes in plays, but I'm in love with all of them in this play- shirt dresses, full skirts, pencil skirts, a Mrs. cleaver hair do, etc. so this week's playlist has a sort of 50's sound to it:

1. Your Kisses Are Wasted On Me - The Pipettes
2. My Boyfriends Back - The Raveonettes
3. Sisters - The Puppini Sisters
4. You Make Me Feel So Young - Frank Sinatra
5. I Love How You Love Me - Camera Obscura
6. Pennies From Heaven - Louis Prima
7. Old Cape Cod - Patti Page
8. Tea For Two - Pink Martini
9. Happy Feet - Shall We Dance Soundtrack
10. You Belong To Me - Tori Amos

**starting Monday I'll finally be posting more than once a week - I'm excited!

The Floral Trend

Pictures from this Easter weekend

Hoppy Easter!

Going out of town to visit some family for Easter - be back Monday!

(cookies, Eleni's Bakery)

Fairy Ring

Spring is a day away and the weather is actually starting to warm up, with including the inevitable April showers. I loved these photos from the March issue of NYLON. Absolutely breathtaking and I think really capture the essence of spring: dewy, flowery, and fairy-like. Oh how I wish I could go put on a pair of wings, a summer dress, and go sprinkle fairy dust all over the yard hehe :)

Of course the week's playlist with songs that give off that feeling of springtime:

1. Birds - Kate Nash
2. I'll Be Your Man - The Elected
3. Tiergarden - Rufus Wainwright
4. Marry Me - St. Vincent
5. Breakable - Ingrid Michaelson
6. Fidelity - Regina Spektor
7. No Poem - Inara George
8. Are We Different - Priscilla Ahn
9. Jack and Jill - Katie Herzig
10. Love the World You Find - The Flaming Lips

For more springness: Flower Pictures, Butterfly Cupcakes, and My Favorite Cake

Kiss Me, I'm Irish

cookies, Eleni's Bakery NYC

Yes, I am part Irish (even got the red hair to prove it), so my family actually has shamrock decorations and we eat corned beef and cabbage on St. Patty's Day. I think its a cute holiday ;) so I actually put together a playlist concerning rainbows, luck, gold and also 2 awesome bands from Ireland:

1. I Was Zapped By The Lucky Super Rainbow - The Flaming Lips
2. Spitting Games - Snow Patrol
3.Vertigo - U2
4. Gold Lion - The Yeah Yeah Yeahs
5. Lucky - Britney Spears
6. Rainbows in the Dark - Tilly and the Wall
7. Tears of Gold - Ryan Adams
8. Fools Gold - Katie Herzig
9. How Lucky We Are - Meiko
10. Beautiful Rainbow - The Elected

this is a drawing I did for my school's 5k fundraiser that's happening tomorrow. Its on the green tees and metals :)

Happy Early St. Patrick's Day!

La Femme Chocolat

We watched this video last week in French class and I immediately went home and downloaded it off itunes. It's by Olivia Ruiz and is such a fun song and video, girls can definitley relate to this for its about our love/hate relationship with chocolate :)

Very Versailles

The Fall 08 Luisa Beccaria collection was oh so delightfu! The gilded shoes, white tights, confectioned colors - Marie Antoinette would go crazy for these frocks and what-nots!

I'm In Love With A Trick, So Pull Another Rabbit Out Your Hat

Do you believe in MAGIC?

1. Magic - Ben Kweller
2. Sister Rosetta (Capture the Spirit) - Noisettes
3. Spectacular Spectacular - Moulin Rouge 2 Soundtrack
4. The Great Escape - Gwen Stefani
5. Phenomena - The Yeah Yeah Yeahs
6. Mr. Magic - Amy Winehouse
7. The Great Escape - Patrick Watson
8. Forces - The Concretes
9. In The Morning of the Magicians - The Flaming Lips
10. Greatest Show on Earth - Andre 3000

Also, sorry if I haven't linked you yet - I'm gonna try to get around it this weekend :)

Four Left Feet

Let me present to you 2 pairs of girls: two sisters and two lovers, all of which whom make AWESOME music! I decided to put them together in this one post because, not only are the bands just a 2 girl duo, but their music is very similar...

The Pierces

I first discovered this sister duo on the cotillion ball gossip girl episode. They were those girls on the stage singing and swaying left to right, remember? Anyways after hearing their music and having it stuck in my head, I decided to buy their second album Thirteen Tales of Love and Revenge. The sisters leave behind their southern, Alabama accents while singing but a weensy bit of "twang" can be found in the music and beats of their songs. Provocative, femme fatale lyrics...french pop-ish.... a little banjo and theatrical moments add up to one unique and cool CD!


The Ditty Bops

If you liked The Pierces, then the next step is to listen to The Ditty Bops. I first discovered about the lover duo on a Grey's Anatomy CD and immediately bought all of their albums, and not one song is bad! They're VERY theatrical, folk, waltz-y, and love to use sound effects. Its all very fun music and sounds like something they would sell at an arts and crafts folk gallery. Their 3rd CD comes out soon as well - I am very excited!



**I put some of both The Pierces and The Ditty Bops on my music player - enjoy!

All in a Day!

1. Dawn - Pride and Prejudice Soundtrack
2. In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning - Frank Sinatra
3. Perfect Timing (This Morning) - Orba Squara
4. Mornings 11 - The Magic Numbers
5. Late Morning Lullaby - Brandi Carlile
6. Evening Sun - The Strokes
7. Warm Night - The Concretes
8. Tonight - Kate Walsh
9. Sleep Tonight - Stars
10. Breeze Black Night - The Ditty Bops

These songs aren't on the music player because i could only find two songs for the music player lol!

Mirror, Mirror

And just like the Marc by Marc Jacobs SS08 line, I spied another DIY in his FW08 line. If you look close enough, you can see little mirrored pins, which were trendy in the 80's much like this line's inspiration.


I have actually already posted about a mirror broach DIY back in the summer, but if you missed it, click HERE!

Happy Crafting :)

Jungle 2 Jungle

Here's the week's playlist, with an African, Jungle sound to them:


1. Heart it Races - Architecture In Helsinki
2. Picture of Jesus - Ben Harper
3. Blessed to Be A Witness - Ben Harper
4. Earth Intruders - Bjork
5. Black Tambourine - Beck
6. Clap Hands - Beck
7. Send Me on My Way - Rusted Root
8. With My Own Two Hands - Jack Johnson
9. King Without a Crown - Matisyahu
10. Multiply - Jamie Lidell

HeartsForever

ARGH! Really sorry about the 2 posts a week! I've been uber busy because the musical I'm in has just started rehersals and dance team is still going on as well! I have a 4 day weekend next week so I'll be able to catch up and deliever some posts. Anyways, here are the top 10 songs of the week, all relating to hearts because of V-Day coming up :)

1. Melt Your Heart - Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins
Sunglasses, fredflare.com

2. Secret Heart - Feist

Cookies, Eleni's Bakery

3. Your Heart is an Empty Room - Death Cab for Cutie

cardigan, delias.com

4. Young at Heart - Frank Sinatra

tote, Harijuku Lovers

5. Heart of Glass - Nouvelle Vague

Heart shirt, American Apparel

6. When Did Your Heart Go Missing? - Rooney
Necklace, Juicy Couture

7. Way to Your Heart - Persephone's Bees

slip ons, Vans

8. Dont Phunk With My Heart - Black Eyed Peas

heart plush, fredflare.com

9. Cheated Hearts - The Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Bathing suit, delias.com

10. Weak Strong Heart - Leona Naess

flats, Betsey Johnson

Cookies and Cream

Here is a recipie for a yummy candy that only has 2 ingredients! I make it for teachers and friends around Chrsitmas time, etc, but my dance team coach loves it sooo much that I pretty much make it every holiday for her. And with Valentines day approaching, you may want to make that special someone easy homemade chocolates <3

Cookies and Cream Chocolates

1 package of Oreos (you can use reduced fat, extra stuffed, peanut butter, mint, the colored ones - whatever one you like best!)

1 bag of white chocolate chips

1. Put all the Oreos in a sturdy ziplock bag and crush them all, you can pound them with a cup or rolling pin.

2. Melt the white chocolate chips in a microwave safe bowl, using the microwave (about 1 minute, stirring in between)

3. Stir the Oreos into the melted chocolate, using as much oreo crumbs as you can (you may have some left over).

4. Spoon the mixture onto wax paper by the tablespoonfull into clusters. Let dry. Remove from wax paper and VOILA!

Weekly Top 10 Songs!

Put my itunes on random and here's what I got:

1. Does He Love You? - Rilo Kiley
2. Would You Come With Me - The Elected
3. Boy With a Coin - Iron and Wine
4. Closer - Joshua Radin
5. Samson - Regina Spektor
6. Your Picture - Camera Obscura
7. Radio Song - JET
8. Choke - The Cardigans
9. Gleaming Auction - Snow Patrol
10. Do You Realize? - The Flaming Lips