(not so) random links

here's some more great stuff i've spotted here and there of late: -wanna do it yourself, make something out of nothing, and look au courrant to the utmost? check out this miu-miu-esque shoe re-do by morgan (of DC street fashion blog, pandahead, fame) featuring some fresh ruffles (on brightest young things), or this hooded tunic dress/sweatshirt redux by of-the-moment designers mike & chris, in the LA times.

-of all the european cities, amsterdam is the one that's most familiar to me. i've been there three times, and i'm probably going back for a forth visit this coming april. would live there if i could! i just found out this morning that there's an amsterdam street fashion blog, dam style, and it is good.

-fashion is spinach posted this exceedingly lovely and riotously colorful batch of photos from vogue girl (out of s. korea), and i am in adoration. so much better and more creative than the yawn-inducing blahness of any similar vogue from the west. someone was thinking outside of the box for sure. if i could, i hang those on my wall. *wishes she had a nice color printer in her possession*

-i love blogs that are very personal and design driven. ones wherein the author or creator is a creator of things and has a singular, idiosyncratic vision. examples of such would be: the brash bold graphic goodness that is the work of graphic designer nubby twiglet (whom i also interviewed earlier this year for the remix(ers)_revealed series) and the girly, often fashiony little drawer-ings of kate, the illustrator behind little doodles.

favorites...and stuff!

faver-ritz

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sorry so many non-photo or non-personal-ish posts lately...i miss making those! but...it's been a crazy-busy couple of weeks, with working, being sick (feeling much better now, thank you!) and moving and unpacking.
things are finally coming together around our house, after a week of hard work! just need to organize and put things away, unpack a few boxes, and then drop off a couple boxes of donations off at goodwill, and sell off some stuff that simply isn't going to work in the new place, probably on craigslist. still a lot to be done, but i'm pretty sure that by the end of *this* week, it will all be more settled.
my nikon is in the shop at the moment (*sniff*), and i haven't had too much time to thrift, or be very creative at all. i like taking my own photos and peppering my blog with them, as you know. and i miss sewing, and i'm actually feeling a strong urge to draw and paint! i feel don't feel very myself at the moment...it's odd. soon, soon, though. very soon! (i hope.)

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a few other things that i'm loving at the moment:
-the red beans and rice we made for dinner yesterday, from scratch (from my dad's recipe). it was delish! nice and spicy. -these supergraphic wall paintings by the ndebele women of south africa are absolutely stunning. (as is fly, the blog that posted about them!) -the light in my new apartment...it's big and it comes from the south. it calms me and makes me happy. i heart it! -the collage work of vir.gen, whom i found on flickr. (one of their pieces is favorited above, in the grid.)