Friday, June 27, 2008

favorite fortune



Yesterday, I had a fortune cookie that read "You will step on the soil of many countries."

By far my favorite fortune I've ever gotten, especially the timing- considering all I have been talking about for the last week is how I NEED to leave the country as soon as possible!

Anyone have a favorite fortune of their own?

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Stockholm Metro Art



Today, I caught a snippet of the tv show Samantha Brown Passport to Europe and she was in Stockholm, Sweden. She was using their metro, called the T-bana, and they were showing off all the lovely art in the stations. Stockholm's metro stations are beautifully decorated/painted and also apparently very clean and efficient! I might have to add Stockholm as a stop for eurotrip summer 2009.

I looked on the internet to see if I could find more images of the stations and came across this cool article Metro Arts and Architecture. The site has the 50 most beautiful subway systems in the world, with a 3 star ranking system (3 stars meaning "worth a journey", 2 stars means "worth a detour", and 1 star is for "interesting"). The article rates Stockholm with 3 stars and says that artwork can be found at 90 of the 100 stations, with 140 artists contributing so far.

Here are some stations from the list that I thought looked worth checking out...

Shanghai


Moscow


Munich

Monday, June 2, 2008

new purchase: greenroom eco



I just bought this set of journals at Target today. They are made by a company called greenroom eco, who create environmentally friendly paper products made from recycled paper and non-toxic soy ink. They are well designed and affordable, which makes me a fan!

Then again... not much of a surprise because I love pretty much anything from Target.

a fresh start



...I hope!

I am hoping that this new "toy" will help me get back into blogging more often. I just got this camera today as a graduation present!! And I am oh, so very excited about it!! I never had a small digital camera in college because I was always scared that I would lose/break it if I took it out to parties with me (and of course financial reasons always came into play). I'm looking forward to being able to carry it around with me and capture moments (esp bloggable moments)!

(Thanks Mom and Dad)

The fresh start also comes with the new and improved white blog background. Very fresh.