Twitter Tuesday to Thursday Contest

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Every now and then I will hold this contest starting on Tuesday and ending on Thursday, lasting a total of 48 hours.

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Hello Fall

Hello again Fall. You are quite cold. I do not prefer that part of you but I do like your colors. Hopefully you will "slow the rain" for my birthday. Heheh so corny (Ingrid Michaelson reference ... I'm a big fan).


So, the holidays are coming up and their influences have affected me. (Hmmm does that make sense?). I have been screen printing on burlap for christmas items. More to come.


Over the last two weekends I have painted my bathroom green. Like a slightly dark avocado green. I didn't paint the wood trim because I think they look great together. I bought an antiquing kit today to antique the hardware. Next, I'd like to cover my bathroom floor in grass green bathroom rugs and get outdoor animal decorations (the ones people get for their gardens) but I'd like for them to look as life-like as possible. I moved to my current location last year and before I moved I came up with the idea of making my (future) bathroom have a forest theme. So far, my only decorations are a red lantern and two candles that look like logs of wood. Hmmm I need more inspiration. And when I say inspiration I mean money.

I love her music!

Ingrid Michaelson is a fantastic performer/musician/singer/song writer!

I saw her three times this week (once at Fingerprints in Long Beach and twice at the Troubadour in LA)! So much fun! Despite her second Troubadour set being a lot like the first.

"It's all love, all love..."

This was at Fingerprint's New & Used CD's & LP's

October 4th, 2009

Looks familiar...

So I signed up a while ago to get google emails for sites that have the keyword "headband". And today I received one which was a style blog which posted about "Blair's Best Headband Looks". If you don't know who Blair is, she is a character on a tv show called Gossip Girl played by the actress Leighton Meester who wears a lot of headbands (not at one time of course). Quite a long sentence, feel too lazy to correct it. Moving on.

Here is Blair...

Her headband look familiar...

Either completely unintentional or subconsciously I remembered her wearing that headband in one of the episodes.

Want this headband?

To Make or Not to Make?

Yesterday I spent my day eating ice cream. Just kidding. Only for lunch. Yesterday I was experimenting and I came up with a ruffled ribbon headband. I'm wondering if I should sell this one and make more to sell...

I just realized I tilted it the wrong way for the picture. Next time I will tilt it towards the ruffled-ness.

Deconstruction Reconstruction headbands headbands headbands

So, I have been making more headbands. Darker ones - or at least not so bright. In fact, here is a sneak peek of some I have completed so far. Sorry for the poor picture quality, it's late and I can't find a happy medium between flash and no flash.

Green, Purple, Black, Gray, Reptile skin pleather, & Halloween Editions: Black covered with large white tulle netting and orange covered in black large tulle netting.

Recently someone has asked me to make a headband, a Cinderella one for a child, and my headbands are 15" and I could have either cut and trimmed one of my plastic headband which seemed too difficult so I opted to go out and look for one. The second store I went to, The Gap, had exactly what I was looking for! Quite exciting. The only thing left was to take the Gap headband apart then make it one of my own. Here is a peek into my deconstruction:

Oh how cute it used to be:

College started today. Big stinky. Hopefully it won't be too difficult.

Well, I'm going to get back to headband making. Then sleeeeep.

Headbands and Surgery

So I made my ad but the right and left sides were cut off a bit when it was made into a stop-motion movie. Which is quite disappointing to find out when I'm done taking ALL of the pictures. I don't know if I'll release it due to this and the fact that I'm having trouble uploading my avi format video onto imagecabin.com.

My little Tucker, a four year old Jack Russell, had his cataract surgery today. His eyes have been quite watery but he seems almost back to normal. He is much tamer than usual but he still has the desire to play, which is very him. My etsy store's announcement states that all sales will go towards his surgery and they still will! Tucker's surgery debt. I got some donations but not a lot so I resorted to using my student loans to pay for it. I feel like I'll have this debt with me for a long time but hopefully I'll make some sales and the debt weight will get lighter.

I have been making more headbands since yesterday. I have been making some different ones. Some that don't include a plastic headband base. I finished today and now back to my satin covered headbands. My friend suggested darker colors and some without bows. How does that sound?