A film about Marie-Antoinette... Let them eat cake!
I'm so excited about this, If anyone in the world could pull off such a feast for the eyes with a cutting edge soundtrack for a film, it's Sophia Coppola. The teaser trailer alone is so fantastically dreamy. (It's scored to New Order's song Age of Consent... somehow it works!)
I also re-discovered this old adidas commercial today called "hello tomorrow", it resembles a sort of urban Wonderland... and the Karen O song (same title "hello tomorrow"), really intensifies that dreamy haunting feeling. oooh!
I found this book title for Rosemary Verey's Good Planting Plans (bottom/left) on Amazon a few years ago, and had saved a photo of the cover on my computer. I found it while rummaging through my files the other day. Time to order, I can't wait to see the goodness that lies inside this book.
An important part of the essence that drives people to create is the process. Seeing this photo of this carved block, reminded me of the passion I once had for designing textiles. I absolutely loved taking fiber arts classes... oh, the things we made! These Handblocked textiles by Galbraith & Paul almost make me want to enroll again. There are so many luscious things you can do with material.
**** Music swap!
Lately I've been feeling the urge for a mixed CD trade coming on... Anyone interested in swapping with me (this May), please leave a comment here to let me know! Everyone involved with this swap will receive an email from me this weekend with full details. Thanks again!
I've been tagged by Yvonne... today it's all about the number five.
Five minutes to yourself: My favorite time of day is early in the morning, just after we've woken up... I drink my coffee here, watch our dogs run around and chat with my husband Shawn. For about five minutes the world is pure bliss... until I realize I have to get dressed, work, and do other chores.
Five bucks to spend right now: how would you spend it? I'd splurge for a pack of Chinese papercuts on ebay... aren't they the loveliest things?
Five items in your house you could part with, right now, that you hadn't thought of already? Oh, our garage absolutely intimidates me! It's rafters are filled with all sorts of odd objects that I couldn't find space for in the house, and below is Shawn's workshop. He who is my dear beloved packrat... is far worse about collecting scraps of wood than I am about paper. So you know that's trouble!
Five items you absolutely, positively could never part with in your house? I guess I'd just have to unplug my computer and run if a fire ever broke out. My whole life is on here... music, pictures, work, address book, my creative beautiful online pals... whoa, I'd feel a bit empty without all of your daily inspiration!
Five words you love? Lovely genius nutter (been reading too many Harry Potter books obviously) You-go-glen-coco (although that's a phrase technically, from the film mean girls... it's a great one to use when someone boasts incessantly. I say it to Shawn from time to time and he cocks his head unknowingly with a big questionmark and says "wha--?")
I guess I've watched that one late-night a few too many times. I also picked up saying that's so fetch from there too. I don't know... Should I be ashamed to admit that here publicly?! Oh these memes get me to say all sorts of silly things!
Adding more photos in my Creative Gardening flickr album has become entirely addictive for me. Especially since it's the time of year when the orange blossom petals fall scenting the yard, our neighbors wisteria that crept over the back fence explodes with even more purple fragrant blossoms. Nastursciums spill from pots and find a way to grow in other surprising places. When all of the excessive planting of gladiolus bulbs have sprung up through the dirt and are almost ready to burst with color, and everything around looks so incredibly green and lush despite the fact that we live smack in the middle of the earth's uttmost suburban concrete jungle.... I find it impossible to resist nature's siren call.
I'm really enjoying the unpretentious garden flickr pool too... such a garden junkie!
