braidy wavy

I went to bed like this:

And today I wore my hair like this!

ACTUALLY. I didn't really "wear" anything. Wanna hear a story? Last night, I fell asleep around 1AM. Today, I woke up at FOUR OCLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON. uhmm whattttt? Is this jetlag? Or am I just CRAZY?

I s'pose I'll have one helluva time going to bed at a normal hour tonight...
but at least I have a certain boy wizard to keep me company :)

love and right triangles,
april

18 for 18 update

I'm slightly changing up my list from this:

 

By April 4th, 2010:

ONE save up for and purchase a Canon Rebel
TWO sell an item on Etsy
THREE turn all my fabric/stash into gold
FOUR get in shape and get healthy

pointFIVE experiment with fashion!

 

 to this:

By April 4th, 2010:

ONE save up for and purchase a Canon Rebel
TWO sell more items on Etsy
THREE turn all my fabric/stash into gold
FOUR get in shape and get healthy

pointFIVE experiment with fashion!

 

Starting today, and regularly over the next week or so, I'll be listing some destash items on my etsy.

GA GA ooh la la

About this teeshirt:

I started with a plain big-on-me teeshirt.

After resizing and such, I cut out letters out of masking tape sheets that I made on overhead transparency paper. (I would have used contact paper but I don't know where mine disappeared to!)

Then I spray painted it with silver metallic spray paint from Lowe's.

After letting it dry, I peeled off the tape.

 It's sort of metallic-y.

I asked my friends for their favorite fun song lyric. And out came their New-Birth-Mas presents.

I used neon pink on the light blue and neon orange on the darker blue.

But the orange on blue FAILED.

So I re-did it on a lighter shirt.

He very much enjoyed his new shirt. And indeed he was 'stylin' and bein' fly.' :)

(I don't have any pictures of the other one finished, but it was definitely crazy and wild)

love and right triangles,

april

obligatory food porn post

LA is heaven for foodies. I'm not really a foodie, but I enjoyed every meal I had.

Some highlights: (and if you're ever in LA, I highly recommend these places!)

The Number Nine in Long Beach, CA.

It's a MUST to get the Calamari. For serious, yo.

Pink's (I actually don't really recommend this place, but it's legendary)

Famous chili dogs = long line and major disappointment.

Wurstküche (absolute amazing, DEFINITELY go there)

They have gourmet sausages and delicious fries with really awesome sauces.

(Pictured here: Mango Jalapeno sausage with sweet and spicy peppers; fries with Curry Ketchup)

And last but not least, YOGURTLAND! (I'm addicted and crying inside at the thought of no Yogurtlands in New York)

SO GOOD.

love and right triangles,

april

look to my right, and i see the hollywood sign

I don't condone listening to Miley Cyrus songs, but everytime I think about LAX or the Hollywood sign, I start singing "Party in the USA" in my head.

I just got home from a week-ish in Los Angeles, California, and it was beautiful. My friend from Philly - we'll call him AH - flew in the same day as me to stay with another friend, JP, who lives in Palos Verdes.

On the first day, we went to the ocean. It was gorgeous and SUCH a change from the below-freezing-snow-covered-Upstate-NY-land.

 JP, AH and me! (more on that teeshirt in a future post)

Sunken City. Such an awesome (and off-limits) place, where a sidewalk collapsed and then got graffiti'd all over by hooligans and coolcats alike. Looks mad cool.

Getting ready to go clubbin' in LA :)

Snoop dee-oh-double-gee.

The HP kids on Hollywood Blvd.

Venice Beach

Trippy ferris wheel on Santa Monica Pier.

 Carousel in Santa Monica. (note the triceratops)

 hot stuff.

 

fist pumpin' at the Hollywood sign

The 103 dollar fine

Closest I've been to the Hollywood sign :)

 love and right triangles,

april