Swoon...and a thank you

this is how I spent the rest of my weekend....watched Justin on SNL, watched Inventing the Abbots, listened to some Chris Isaak...and of course, painted a little....and made a bunch of stuff to re-stock my etsy shop.

(check out how hot Joaquin is in that picture...)

Tomorrow (monday) there will be no blog from me, as my bubs has the day off, and now...so do I.

thanks to everyone for making this slumber party weekend a total blast....we will do it again!

love you all, lots and lots.

xoxo

And So it Begins.....

here are just a few of the goodies I have, please note the cheap red wine and wonderful movie choice...Girls Just Want To Have Fun.....starring miss Sarah Jessica Parker!!!!

Oh and you ALL Have to go to jungle dream pagoda's blog.....it is fantastic!!!!!!! Go, go now!!!!!

I will post more pictures later!!

guests so far

aimee
aaron
gillian
ben
evil kate
tara
michelle
vanessa
karin beth
jungle dream pagoda
rebekah
Kandeedo Bandeedo the artist formerly known as Cinderella's Revenge



xoxoxoxo

The Most wonderful Day of the Year

morning loves

ok, first the business....today is the beginning of the slumber party weekend, yay!!! I am posting the people coming to the party so far, please feel free to visit them, many of them will be blogging about their slumber party related activities, also....please feel free to use the comment section almost like an interactive forum, talk to each other, I guarantee you will all adore each other.

I know there are a ton of you on my space who comment there too...don't worry, I will spread the love around.

I will be blogging again tonight with more slumber party news etc, as right now it is 8:15 in the morning and I have normal "stiletto" business to take care of.

ok, the guest list as I know it.

aimee
aaron
gillian
ben
evil kate
tara
michelle
vanessa
karin beth
jungle dream pagoda
rebekah
Kandeedo Bandeedo the artist formerly known as Cinderella's Revenge

that's it for now....I think.

ok, so yesterday while reading Ben's blog I noticed that he "tagged" me....so now it is my turn to tell you all three things about me that you probably don't know.

1- when I was little I slept with a little stuffed animal of a cat on a heart shaped pillow, in fact I slept with it until I was 28 years old, and its name was Kitty Cuddler. Not too original I know....people would tease me relentlessly about it and call it bad names like "kitty c#*t licker...I hated that and it made me very mad...I slept with that stuffed cat through my entire first marriage, in fact I cuddled that, and not my ex.

I have not slept with it since moving to Ohio and being with my bubs, all of a sudden I didn't need it any more.

2- I am incredibly self aware at all times, I cannot pass a mirror without looking into it, some think I am very vain and maybe to some degree I am, the difference being is that instead of vanity it is almost crippling low self esteem. This being the case, I am sometimes very hard ti be around, and probably even harder to love. I put so much energy into worrying about how I look it is exhausting at times., and also not good for me, in fact I can say with certainty that I would rather look good than feel good, which is why I will only wear high heels even though I have had knee surgery and am in pain most of the time. Wearing heels makes me feel thinner, because I look taller.

3- when I was in second grade someone tossed a very sharp pencil and it jabbed me in the eye, my eye bled and everything, I fainted and when my teacher, Sister Asunta, picked me up I threw up all down her back. It was mortifying.....that being the case, I now have a total obsession with eyes, I hate them, in fact if someone even rubs their eyes around me I feel like I am almost about to faint. Watching someone take their contacts out actually did make me faint once.

ok that's it for three things, I know some of you might have known these...but now you all do. So now it is my turn to tag three of you....now, who to choose....

I think I am going to go with Gillian, Tara, and Karin Beth. That seems like a diverse group.


So I have been incredibly busy the past few days in my shop, which has been wonderful, and a bit overwhelming, I am so excited for this weekend "slumber party festivities" and popping onto the the computer will be a fun little escape for me.

also...who can forget JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE on Saturday Night Live tomorrow night....really it can't get much better that that...can it?

and before I bid you all a fond farewell (for a little while, I'll be back later tonight) the piece I have featured today is called "When No One Was Around" and it is available in my shop, I have no good reason to tie it into todays post...as all the pieces I was thinking about using have sold....

I will be with any hopes listing at least one more Marilyn piece soon, as well as more art cards....finally.

till later strangers.

xoxoxoxoxox

Yesterday

morning sunshines

wow, so yesterday was.....I have no idea what yesterday was. equal parts terrible and beautiful and all the lovely little moments in between.

I was going to blog today about Fashion Week in NY, but now I'm not.....yesterday was hectic and crazy, I worked here in the morning, and then at the comic shop during the day, by the time I got home I had a zillion emails to go through and frankly I just wanted to relax and watch "The Office", not think about how a huge part of my day today is going to be spent packaging up orders and cleaning up before we get the mean cheese this weekend...when all I really want to do is paint...

so anyway, I was wading through emails late in the afternoon when my bubs came in and told me that Anna Nicole Smith died...

at first I though he was pulling a mean prank, but alas...as you all know.He wasn't.

I was upset, I'm still upset. you see, I honestly loved her...is that strange? I just did.

In all of her glory and no glory at all, she always made me smile and cry a little inside.

You have to understand that truthfully I am one part fashion obsessed pop culture and celebrity junkie, and one part whimsical little creature who drinks too much chocolate milk and is still madly in love with the first boy who ever broke her heart....

To me, Anna Nicole....how she looked, how she sounded, all of it reminded me so very much of my mother's sister Sylvia, it was not even funny.

My beautiful Aunt much like most of the women in my family was an equal mix of beauty, sex appeal,m and and odd child like quality that made you just love them, no matter what.

She lived with us off and on when I was growing up, as she was a very "troubled" woman. It is because of her I love Marilyn Monroe, butterflies, and bikinis....

My aunt died when she was 39....just when seemingly her life finally began to take shape, suddenly it was gone.

So last night when I heard about Anna, all of that came back to me....and all at once I was a poor little 10 year old....

and it was all just so beautiful and so incredibly sad all at once.

Anna Nicole to me, was like the Crocodile Hunter was to a lot of people...just a smile.

I know, I know...such a downer for a Friday morning...

there was some really wonderful points to yesterday, after hearing the sad anna news....a but later in the evening I noticed that I was featured on the home page of Etsy....

which was so very cool, I need to thank the lovely Heatherly for sending me a screen shot of it...as I can never figure out hoe to do it. My piece was on the bottom row on the left. I also want to thank moxiedoll for making the list...oh and I also want to thank the Academy and the cast and crew of....wait, sorry I lapsed into my Oscar Speech that I have been preparing since I was small.

ok....onto other news....

Next Friday is the beginning of the Slumber Party Weekend, and you are all invited. Just please make sure that at some point over the weekend starting on Friday, you swing by my blog and leave a comment that you are attending and exactly what you will be bringing to the party and what we will all be doing. I will update my blog periodically with links to all of you....so this should be fun.

please keep in mind that since I am an awfully liberated girl, that the following items would be fine to bring to a sleepover weekend....mini bottles of alcohol, boys, music that would be a bad influence on us.

Oh, and to top it all off......I believe they are re-playing the Justin Timberlake Saturday Night Live Episode next Saturday...I missed it the first time as we had the "mean cheese"....

The piece I posted today is available in my Etsy shop, it should be posted later on today, I did it in conjunction with the Creative Challenge on etsy, hosted by jewelstreet. The theme was to do something inspired by a slumber party....I created this piece titled "When It Seemed This Was All There Was"

hope you all have a beautiful day....

xxxoooxoxoxoxoxoxo