Weekly Top 10 Songs!

My nails are wet with red polish right now. I'm getting ready for prom - more about that later! Anyways I like to listen to certain songs while I get ready: martini music, chill stuff - this playlist is sooooo random!

Getting Ready Playlist
1. One Evening - Feist
2. Beyond the Sea - Bobby Darin
3. Warm Sound - Zero 7
4. Just One of Those Things - Nellie McKay
5. Come Fly with Me - Frank Sinatra
6. F-cking Boyfriend - The Bird and The Bee
7. Sleeping Lessons - The Shins
8. Loose Caboose - Breakfast at Tiffany's Soundtrack
9. Throw it All Away - Zero 7
10. Goodnight and Go - Imogen Heap

The Look for Less

In all my magazines, I've been seeing those Marc Jacobs HUGE rhinestone hair pins. Being the cheap person I am, I hot glued rhinestones onto big bobby pins. You Like?

Dance Concert

My school's annual dance art benefit is this weekend. Each year the dance program and art program team up to put on a show/gallery. And since I'm in both, I was able to design the poster/tickets, etc for the event (see above picture). All proceeds go to Habitat for Humanity, so i drew the silhouettes of dancers make up a house. Here are some of my favorite songs that we are dancing to:

1. Hide and Seek - Imogen Heap

2. Hi - Psapp

3. Breathe Me - Sia

4. Dice - William Orbit

5. Stay or Leave - Dave Matthews

6. Headlock - Imogen Heap

7. The Words - Psapp

8. Tic Tac - Elisa

9. Hard to Concentrate - Red Hot Chili Peppers
10. King Without a Crown - Matisyahu

Also being raffled off - a statue I made - inspired by the Futuristic trends:

Cardigan Junkie

I don't know why but i have an obsessions with cute and different looking cardigans and button up sweaters. They are my staples. I like mine to have a patterned or cool buttons - something quirky. I had this plain ice aqua one that I kinda reinvented (it was long sleeve and boring buttons before).

Here are the directions (got this from last April's Teen Vogue - taken me time yet?):

1. Remove buttons from a long sleeved cardigan and line with grosgrain ribbon.

2. Sew vintage buttons on using needle and thread

3. Cut the sleeves at the elbow and fold them 2x; sew cuff in place

4. Stitch one big button to the outermost point of each sleeve cuff

Sugar Rush

Sooo im feeling yummy head to toe, and candy/sugar/ food is the theme of this weeks top 10 songs. Like my candy picture? p.s. these songs make you feel cute....yea

1. Yummy- Gwen Stefani

2. I Want Candy - Bow Wow Wow

3. Lollipop - Mika

4. Cupcake - Nellie McKay

5. Banana Pancakes - Jack Johnson

6. Food - Nellie McKay

7. Sugar - The Concretes

8. Lolipop - Ben Kweller

9. Honey and the Moon - Joseph Arthur
10. Lemon Tree - Peter, Paul and Mary

Here is a cake I made recently for a friend whose nickname is Special K. Yes thats cereal on the cake.

V is for Vocab

I was inspired by the Teen Vogue March issue and drew on $9 white tennis shoes from Walmart with fabric markers.... pretty cute?

Blueprint's Versailles Party!

I love the magazine Blueprint and am a religious viewer of their blog. I was ESATATIC when they posted pictures of a Versailles themed bash. Here are some gorgeous pics:

Marie would love it!

http://blogs1.marthastewart.com/blueprint/

"Drove to Chicago"

Im back from my midwest college tour/spring break. Nashville, St. Louis, Chicago, and Louisville. After seeing many a campus', I am still even more obsessed with Charleston. Here are some pictures of Chicago: American Girl Place (I think I was the oldest girl having tea in there), shops, etc.

Now to go along with this entry, here is my weekly top 10 songs, all from Sufjan Stevens Illinoise CD. The Whole CD is great but it has about 22 songs, so here are my favorites : 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 13, 22 - ENJOY

Happy Easter!

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!)