philly adventures

I had a wonderful time exploring philly this weekend! 

adventures included: sitting outside as much as possible, Buddakan, hoegaarden, people watching, spruce street, the papery, spanish festival, apples & amish cheddar

design museum shop

Fun things at the Design Museum Shop in London.

(Items featured above: matchstick garden, jumper key ring, 100 years of fashion illustration, instant labeling tape, toilets of the world, and egg pants)

ikea trip

Today I went to ikea with my parents to get some finishing touches for my newly redecorated room. (pics coming soon)

on the list:
bedside table
shelves
large picture frame
hooks
a not so noisy computer chair

I would say, all in all, it was a very successful trip, the only thing on the list we didn't get was a new chair.

That place seriously makes me want to take up interior decorating as a career- or maybe I would be happy just to buy a boatload of houses and decorate them all completely with ikea furniture and their fabulous knicknacks with some sort of infinite money supply. Besides the fact that I wanted to buy everything in the store, there were these little vases that I thought were just wonderful. I love the different textures they come in, especially when they are all together! (Only $1.99 each)

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?

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

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.

ohhh typography

Found this on sfgirlbybay and it made me laugh.

sewing project: #1

Today, with a lot of help from my fabulous mother, I finished my first sewing project! The fabrics that I used are a black and white floral pattern with a solid beige and solid black cheesecloth type fabric. All purchased from the lovely JoAnn Fabrics. I proposed to my mom that we go into business together and start our own little shop on Etsy :)

my new hairdo

Just Kidding.

But I wanted to see what I might look like with bangs, so I did a little photoshopping with Reese Witherspoon's pic on the red carpet.