Thursday, February 21, 2008

Dunzo.

Sorry I've been MIA ignoring all of my blogging duties. I have been feverishly looking to get a car because I really need one! I finally found my car, my dream car! And it was a STICK SHIFT. Of course I have never driven a manual but I bought it anyway because it was perfect. So I guess I have to learn how to drive it now. Haha. I love doing things backwards. I think it'll take me a month (hopefully just a month!) to get good at it. I just need to be pretty good at driving it because I live in Charlotte where traffic is sucky and people drive sucky so I don't really have room for fuck-ups. And I'm scared of burning out the clutch! But other than that I love the car. Haha. It's even this pretty green color. Working so hard on my credit finally paid off! I got an awesome interest rate (especially for it being a used car). 5.99% Kaching. At least now I know how awesome I am at playing hardball with slimy salesman. Afterwards Jenny and I went to Michael's house. He made us maynaissey pasta salad and chocolate milkshakes in his fancy KitchenAid blender.

2004 Hyundai Sonata
My first big girl purchase
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Other than that, I have been working a lot. I am only going to be working one day a week at the restaurant and (hopefully) going full-time at Anthropologie. That way I'll actually have two days off a week so I have time to work on things I want to work on! And play outside when it's gorgeous. I've been wasting all these months working and working and working. I'm so over it! That's it for now.

Sunday, February 10, 2008

This Spring.

I looooooooooooove Spring and Summer. It's going to be awesome. We already have tons of exciting things planned and it's not even warm yet. Hehe. Irene is working on her clothing line with our mama. Their line is called "Recycle I.T." I'm so proud of them, everything is so high fashion and gorgeous. I'm always bragging to everyone about how good of a seamstress my mama is. Now I just need to lose all this winter weight so I can wear some of their designs! Eep. I just need to lose like 20 lbs. hopefully won't be that hard since I love playing outside and jogging when it's nice out. I just checked weather.com. This month will be pretty mild as well as March, then it's SPRING!! wwwwweeeeeeeeeeeee.

Irene and I are working on a joint art show...it's going to be a themed show where we both do the same illustrations in our individual style. They will be all animal drawings. Neither of us have anything yet; we'll have a month and a half to finish, but we're both really good at working on things when there's a deadline. Here's our animal list so far, let me know if you have an idea for a certain animal that would be neat.

eurasian badger, alpaca, red river hog, wombat, red panda, hedgehog, owl, elephant, beluga, hummingbird, wooly mammoth, duckbill platypus, tapir, bee or leafbug, some kind of reptile, penguin, okapi, anteater, jackalope, unicorn, caribou or moose, faun, and borrow bunny eats banana from jenny

a toucan painting
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Then we're going to design Twin Costumes for our annual Twin Birthday Party. It'll probably be at our new house on April 25th. We might get someone to DJ. I don't know, I'm kinda possesively psycho over dance mixes, but I'll consider it. Here is a clip that Deuce took at our last Twin Party that was at Liz's house:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCjNp7gMVyM

Also hopefully we'll do more craft bazaars at Snug Harbor once it gets warm? I'll take pictures next time. It's always so much fun!

Friday, February 8, 2008

Watermelon chair

Yesterday I bought the watermelon chair from work. If you can believe it the original price on the chair was $498 plus tax. I got it for $30! Hooray. It'll look cute in our house. I'm going to put it in the studio.

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Today is Andy's 25th Birthday! Last night his mother, Barbara, who is the sweetest mama ever, took us out to Ru San's. Andy wouldn't let me tell them it was his birthday because they like making a ruckus banging on pots and pans--but you get free ice cream dessert! It's totally worth it! And they take a picture and put it up next to the bathroom. But whatever we still had a nice dinner. Sorry if the pictures are blurry, Andy's on a "no flash" kick, he says it makes the pictures look indie. Haha.

His mama brought a delicious cake!
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I loved this cake it was like a fanciful Funfetti cake. There's all kinds of random stuff on it: chocolate shavings, sprinkles, and gummies.
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It was a white cake with raspberry filling.
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It was as good as it looked!
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He looks just like his mom!
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Deep birthday wishes.
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I got him some random, weird ass books I thought he would like, a reggae cd, a print of Native American art from a local artist, and I paid for his hostel in California.
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He'll be at this conference until Tuesday morning. Damn, Anthropologie just called and asked me to come in early. I'm working all doubles the rest of the weekend so I'm sure I won't have time to do any fun crafting. *SigH*....I gotta figure something out. I have this nice studio and no time to do anything.

Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Wow!

I'm getting better at computer shit everyday. This thing is called a Widget? Cool.

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I jogged!

Today was a gorgeous day. Andy is still sick as hell and asleep all the time. Irene and I went on a jog tonight after I got home from work. It was a nice jog. It's cool having a jogging partner. So I decided that I have to get a car on my own....I haven't had a car in years! Weird*....anyways I guess I'm going to take a loan out from my bank and look for a car on my own. I have a strong idea of what I want. I'm sure that I can get it paid off relatively quickly..

Today's Etsy Shoppe item update:
Record Player Pin $6
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I am working TWO jobs right now...part time at anthropologie and also part time at 300 East. I'm not doing too well money wise which is why I'm trying to sell my stuff. I'm going to try to set up an art show with Irene at Black Sheep. Jenny just had hers and did really well! But if i HAVE to spend money I either spend it at work (booo!) or on Etsy (yay!).

I can't post the item I just purchased because it's a gift for a certain someone who reads my blog occasionally but I'll post it after Valentine's day!

I'm getting myself this, I think. I love it. It's from Deadworry.
http://www.deadworry.etsy.com

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Monday, February 4, 2008

Munchkins

Munchkins have always been a personal favorite of all the stuffies I make. They're just so simple and adorable. And they're small and affordable ($10-13). So I decided that I would make it a shoppe staple and start making lots of them in different colors. I don't have any Munchkins left from the Craft Bazaar, so I have to make a little Munchkin army from scratch. I made only one tonight. This little lavender fella. I'm going to upload him to Etsy tonight if my computer would stop being so sllllooooooowwwww...

Munchkin, $10 posted in my Etsy shoppe

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Here are some of my previous Munchkins that I love.
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I'm not sure why they're all sad faced.
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I normally just cut random shapes and start stitching away but I think the best way to go about it is to stick to my best designs and have stories behind them and just make those to keep things more consistent. So far I know I will make my Munchkins, Kitties, Dotties, and Teddys. I also have tons of little drawings that I need to paint. I wish spring would get here so I can get remotivated, I just feel so lethargic in the winter time.

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In other news, Andy is sick 4 days before he leaves for Los Angeles. I'm pretty sure he has what I had.....oops! He has all the same horrible symtoms. I just drugged him with Nyquil so he's knocked out at the moment. *sigh* I had two whole days off and got nothing done! DAMN. Back to work tomorrow.

Sunday, February 3, 2008

Yardwork show last night!

So I guess Andy is "in" Yardwork now? He played tambourine (hardcore tambourine) and bass on one song. It was a great show! They're playing another house show on Thursday.

Hear them at http://www.myspace.com/wetdigitalredstorm
*This band was from Athens. They were HILARIOUS. Their songs were so funny. They had a song called DEEPDICKING.
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*Eddie (Yardwork)
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*Thomas (Yardwork) blowin' it up on his accordian
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*Yardwork
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*Matt Nelson (Yardwork) on his ukelele
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*Andy played his tambourine so hard that it busted all over the place. Disks went flying everywhere. It was a Christmas present I got him from Egypt!! *sniff* We're going to remake the pieces into a windchime.
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This was an awesome weekend!

Etsy Update and Show Pictures

I updated my blog today. I decided that I will try and sell some of my paintings on canvas on Etsy (the smaller ones at least)...

"Valentine Owl" $26
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"Spring Bird Green" $50 original painting, acrylic on canvas
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http://www.stuffbysophie.etsy.com

Saturday, February 2, 2008

Andy's Birthday Party!

So last night was Andy's birthday party. It was themed, "Be Free in the Trees with your Friends.." dress up as your favorite tree dwelling animal. We played Planet Earth in the background, had green balloons and a green light, it was pretty awesome. Dank ass dance mix, and none of the neighbors called the police. I didn't get any good pictures because I always get drunk and forget to.

Here is the only picture of me and you can't even see my costume! I'll try to post pictures of the costume another time. I used a red sweatshirt and made ears, mittens, a big ass tail with black stripes and a vest with a heart on the front. Irene made hers too. She's a black widow spider.
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Andy worked his ass off making his costume which turned out awesome as well. He was an owl! I don't know what Matt Nelson's supposed to be.
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Gave was a koala bear
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We danced hard as hell. I had dance cramps!
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