Come Claim Your Bunny

On Sunday a neighbor rang our doorbell asking if we'd lost a bunny! It was hopping around between our front yards on its way to our backyard (we are still at my parents' house). I cut through the house to see James sitting in the back confused over this little fellow. He admitted that he never considered it was someone's pet, haha. Before long, most of the neighbor kids had filtered into our yard. I was a bit nervous because we back up to a fairly busy road, I didn't want the poor guy to get scared and dart off in the wrong direction. We eventually called a neighbor who is good with animals. She came out and we managed to corner the bunny in a bush, she caught him, and we stuck him in one of our cat carriers. The neighbor kids were so excited and just so funny to James and I. They were super efficient and ready to take care of this poor bunny. He's currently residing at one of their homes, and I'm sure he has a lot of visitors. Today my mom and I went on a walk and I snapped photos of the posters they put up.

 'come claim your bunny'

 'wants family wants to be home'

 'claim your bunny (only if it's yours)'

 my favorite one. 'spread the news'.

Rear Window

Rear Window Timelapse from Jeff Desom on Vimeo.
All footage taken from the original Rear Window (1954) directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
The order of events is pretty much as seen in the movie.
more info: http://www.jeffdesom.com/hitch/
Hungarian Dance No. 5
composed by Johannes Brahms
arranged for easy listening by Hugo Winterhalter

This is pretty neat, especially in full screen. Rear Window was one of the first old films I remember watching- for sure it was my first Hitchcock movie. In 4th grade when my family went to Disney World, we got free passes to Universal Studios and I was able to see exactly how they filmed this movie! They had a miniature (but large set) with tiny screens in each window! It was amazing to me. In 6th grade we were allowed to vote on movies to be shown before holiday break and I pretty much campaigned to have Rear Window shown and recruited as many friends to show up for that movie room as possible, haha. It's a good one!

New Crystal Visions Dream Catchers

New Crystal Visions Dream Catchers have been added to the shop.

1 Year of Glitter!

After the Holidays

 

The holidays really flew by this year. The first week afterward is always so odd. It's sort of like swinging from a trapeze to another swinging trapeze? Because it's not like you ever really slowed down.. 

So far this year, winter at times has felt almost spring-like! I'm sure it can't last, though I've started a running joke at home with "The Winter That Never Came". It's 40 degrees and sunny today. No matter if it lasts or not, it's giving me a jump start and optimistic vibes towards wintertime. Which is my least favorite time. I've grown to appreciate the sort of down-time it allows, but the downtime only comes from just not going out as much and not going out as much really is a bummer. So how do you avoid the bummer all together in winter? Sun lamps? I've seriously considered. I'm trying to stay super focused on new projects and be prepared. Things haven't really slowed down, so I need to keep the momentum! Pretty things are in the works. 

Renegade Craft Fairs 2011

 

Hey! I've finally uploaded photos of ALL of the summer Renegade Fairs! San Francisco and Los Angeles from July, and of course Chicago from just the other weekend. To view all of the photos, have a look at Flickr or at the Nice page, won't you?

Summer Sale

Huge sale! Includes new items just listed to the shop yesterday!
See the BARGAINS section of the shop.

Sparkle Shimmer Shine and Glitter

The other day while packing up so many Love Always banners the sun was shining brightly in...

And a shot of the pretty things I use to pack orders.

Pretty Places

photos by Anabela / Fieldguided

Today the Etsy blog is featuring Anabela + Geoff's home! Head over to the feature to be inspired and find lots of nice things to add to your own home. I have been trying to spring clean when I have a free moment, and so this post serves as some more motivation. Sigh. I have too many treasures. Too much stuff. And not enough time to keep it all organized properly. I digress.
I'm so excited to see my Shoegaze Light Shade, as well as a shot of my one of a kind Happy Cloud Light Shade which Anabela purchased from me a while back. I am flattered that she has chosen to hang it in her sewing room, a place where she creates lovely things.

My Eskell Window

I wanted to pop in quickly to (finally) share with you some photos for the window display that I did for Eskell! I mentioned it was inspired by the opening for Picnic at Hanging Rock, so here is that..

The song always gives me chills! So yes.. Doing a window near Valentine's Day, how could I resist drawing inspiration from a favorite movie that is involved around Valentine's Day. Lace, candles surrounded by glittering rocks, roses floating in a basin, feathers, Victorian Valentine cards, vintage lockets..

The In God We Trust engraving event with Eskell was a lot of fun, especially since some great pals came out! We all got a lil something engraved..here is what I got:

It says 'girlfriend', cos James and I are silly in love and way back when we started addressing each other as such (as in, "Oh hey, Boyfriend!" or "Girlfriend, do you want to go get something to eat?") because we were/are so happy to be that special kinda friend. awww, I know.

So that's that! It was a lot of fun and I just may do a few more windows for them in the near future! 

But in the nearer future I will be finishing up fringe banner orders (I've got to take the time to think of a better name for them)..hold tight! I swear they are comin soon to your mailbox! I've got a lot of Love Always to make... 

xo

Just 'Cos

Hello! Just popping in to say hello!
Super busy over here keeping up with the fringe banner orders! I am so excited that they have had such a tremendous debut. It's been a lot to handle and I'm a little behind, though I'm really enjoying the process and can't wait for them to reach their owners.

I thought today I'd share with you something a little silly..perhaps you'll enjoy it. It's a mix that I made for myself and friends in the early spring of '09. It's meant for those nights when you swear warmer weather can't be too far off, though it's still quite chilly and the winter blues are tough. It also reminds me of weird proms..but I think that may be a description that only my mind can see..hear..
Anyway, high fives if you finish it all..it's pretty long, i guess. It's just how I do it. If you need to stop half way, the Ashra song is a good middle. Props if you make it to the Rich Boy loop near the end. yup.

for my friends. April 2009.
Track list image: www.last.fm/music/Dark+Moon+Mix
here are a bunch of songs that i wanted to hear together. the transitions are really, really horrible.. but the songs are good! i wasn't sure how to use the computer dj mixer program (did you know i use to for-real dj?), specifically how to use "two hands"..all i had was the mouse. and i didn't want to plug in my headphones for fear of my sound card getting loose again...
but i hope you like the songs. it's kind of a prom freakout maybe.. and your date's convertible stalled so you had to walk to the dance on that long winding road with all the trees and the moon was full at first but became darker and darker as you continued down the road..

Dark Moon Mix by nice-etc

You can listen to it here or download it by clicking the down arrow on the right of the bar. You can see the track listing on the last.fm page ;)

My Window for Eskell

So the window that I did for Eskell is up! I was very excited to have been asked..nervous..but mostly excited. There was limited time so I kept it pretty simple, though installation took longer than I thought it would. My mom actually came down to the city to help me put it up! I knew she'd really like the store and it was really nice having her help. Anyway, it's up! And I hope people will enjoy it.

I don't have any photos yet, but I'll tell you that I was inspired by Picnic at Hanging Rock, specifically the opening sequence.

I hope you can all swing by Eskell today from 4pm - 8pm or so for the custom engraving event with In God We Trust! I'm really looking forward to it....although strangely I am having troubles thinking of sayings or words I'd like to have engraved on something...I've been so busy I haven't been able to give it much thought. Hopefully I'll come up with something good!

Cool Happenings

Nice was featured on Refinery29 and Nylon Daily! Pretty, pretty cool!

 

http://warp.net/records/broadcast/a-statement

Christmas Time

 

I hope you all are having a wonderful holiday season! These photos were taken out apartment on Christmas Eve. We had a very pretty snowfall that night. This is our first Christmas at this place and it was pretty nice. We have lots of trees in this neighborhood and it was very pretty to watch the snow collect on branches outside our window.

James and I had a very nice holiday this year. Christmas eve was spent with most of James' family and that was very nice and relaxing, as always. Christmas day was spent at my family's and in the evening we had a fun time with my parents going for a drive to see extravagant holiday lights and staying up very late playing games and laughing.

In shop news, another custom Hooray Banner has had the honor of being a part of a beautiful wedding! Click on over to the Style Me Pretty blog to see the rest of Colleen's wedding, photographed by Jonathan Hoffner.

Also, one of my Hooray banners made it into the Green Wedding Shoe's top 10 Favorite Wedding Fashion Moments of 2010!!