Gossip Girl Party

was kind of a bust. i don't host parties as well as i used to. it was funnish anyway.


our cupcake tree. how fucking cute is this. we didn't eat the big one.



my freaking awesome party fountain. sutter home fountain holla.



Gossip Girls



Quiche balls and more



Brie and Nuts



Lil J



Lil J and Lizzie



Ashley and Shaughn totally posing



Cheers!

Tonight is our 2nd TWIN party ever! I'm stoked. I'm promising myself to take lots of good pictures of twin outfits before I get drunk this time.




Twin Party 2005

Taurus The Bull: (April 20 -- May 19)
This is a time that will test the solidity of your relationships. Dormant or hidden tensions that are gnawing at the edges of any relationship are likely to become apparent now. Make an effort to recognize the difference between ego conflicts and genuine issues.

It's my birthday. I'm turning twenty-six and it's the first time I feel old.

It kind of sucks. I just feel fat and saggy (ew) and not young anymore. I'm going to start using that phrase that old peeps use a lot "I'm no spring chicken" haha. This Saturday is mine and Irene's twin party (only the second one, but probably the last!). I have a lot of goals for this year but I'm going to keep them secret because I'm not sure what they are yet. I definitely know for sure that I don't need some DUDE ruining my life or taking up all my time so I'm trying not to care about being single for now. I think we all go through a mid-mid-life crisis when you turn 26ish. My late twenty-something friends are all going through it except for jenny cuz she never cares about anything like that. I'm gonna keep my actual birthday (May 1st) on the DL this year and maybe just get dinner with a couple people at ru san's and go out like normal that night, nothing special, I'm sure I'll still be recovering from alcohol poisoning from my birthday party.


We got our outfits for the twin party. Haven't seen Reenie's yet shes still at mama's house. I'm sure it looks amazing.

Basically Black-and-White black tie/ tuxedo look. This with heels. Of course I don't look good like these skanks but it's still a cute concept.

Animal Show at Black Sheep

dolls by sophie
Originally uploaded by babojeen

A cart of my stuffies!

Dragon

dragon
Originally uploaded by babojeen

in my studio room. photo by jenny.

my kitchen

kitchen
Originally uploaded by babojeen

photo by jenny

sloths <3 by irene

sloths
Originally uploaded by babojeen

i love this, she's giving it to me for my new apartment whenever we move out.

kiwi bird by sophie

kiwi bird by sophie
Originally uploaded by babojeen

i really wanted to use this frame. it is absolutely gorgeous. forget the drawing.

"kiwi bird" ink and colored pencil

anteater by irene

anteater by irene
Originally uploaded by babojeen

she's always been so talented with clay! ever since we were little.

paper owls by irene

paper owls by irene
Originally uploaded by babojeen

Love these! Irene stabbed herself in the toenail with her exacto knife while making these.

animal Show at Black Sheep

art
Originally uploaded by babojeen

Left top: "Anteater and Baby" acrylic and ink on wood

Right: "Forest King" ink and mixed media

Bottom: "Beetlemania" acrylic

Bottom right framed: "A tiny Hedgehog" ink and watercolor

animal Show at Black Sheep

baby beluga by irene & narwhale and beluga by sophie(right)
Originally uploaded by babojeen

Our belugas

Left: Irene's beluga in a shadow box!

Right: Beluga and Narwhal by sophie
ink and gouache on wood

Animal Show at Black Sheep

squid by irene seahorse by sophie
Originally uploaded by babojeen

Top: Irene's Sea Creature, an Octopus

Bottom: Seahorse, watercolor and ink by sophie

Animal Show at Black Sheep

alpaca by sophie
Originally uploaded by babojeen

"Alpaca"

watercolor, ink, mixed media on wood

this one was still dripping wet when i hung it.

Animal Show at Black Sheep

sloth by sophie
Originally uploaded by babojeen

"Yes sloths are Ugly"

acrylic, watercolor, and mixed media

Black Sheep Art Show

elephants by sophie
Originally uploaded by babojeen

"Elephant Parade"

acrylic and mixed media. the elephants are sewn onto the canvas!

black socks

black socks
Originally uploaded by Sophiecakes

I love Matt and Eddie.

cartwheels

cartwheels
Originally uploaded by Sophiecakes

Matt, Mahly, and Andy trying to do cartwheels/roundoffs. I can't do anything. Not even a somersault! They wouldn't stop hitting on random girls. I hate boys.



boo

Sunday

a nice sunday
Originally uploaded by Sophiecakes

We went to the park it was a gorgeous day! I got a semi-tan.

Flickr

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

Eek our art show!

Our art show is on Friday!! I still have THREE PAINTINGS to make. At least I have a day off tomorrow. I need a distraction anyway from personal stuff going on....I hope it's fun.

Yellow.

So thing's are going well right now. I am pretty much content with everything, except for the fact that my old apartment complex is hounding me for money that I don't owe them and it's slightly stressing me out. Andy moved out and I have been really productive with my artwork and creativity as of late. I think I just needed some time (instead of working so much) to breathe in order to be creative again. I have done more than 10 pieces already, and I'm almost done with everything for our upcoming art show. I think everything's going to look fabulous. I'll try to take lots of pictures! I wrote the artist statement last night, and Irene and I have to make some prints to sell at the show. I have two more pieces that I need to make and I want to work on some Stuffies, but other than that I am basically done. PLUS I did some major cleaning and everything in the house is clean and organized again. I've peeped a couple of Irene's pieces and they look AMAZING. I'm really excited to see everything up. I'm driving my car fine every day now, still not awesome at it, but greatly improved for sure. It's still really cold out so I haven't really exercised yet...I'm ready for some of this winter weight to come off dammit. I even got a sports bra today! (but I also got a bunch of sale easter chocolate, tsk tsk).


I got a new dress in my favorite color. I might wear it to the art show.

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I love this vase. I use it for pens.


These are on a table in my bedroom. The little figurine is a vintage piece, the guy said that people are really into collecting figurines with polka dot bowties and that it's highly collectible or something. Whatever I love it. And the creepy thing next to it is an awesome vase that Corey (from Dish) made with a doll face on it. We traded. She wanted one of my stuffed things. It's filled with fake yellow flowers.


My little kitty hook. HOlding my infamous "S" necklace. Bling


Loooove this switchplate that I got from Amy Kay.


Mufficakes doing what she does best. Lounging on my bed. ALL DAY AND NIGHT LONG.

Boring Update.

Ugh I've been trying to be good about spending money but when you work somewhere like anthropologie it's really hard! I see something I want (that I probably don't need) everyday. Anyways I've got a couple of spring things this week, but I'll be done for awhile....my financial situation is a little shaky lately. I haven't really made any money off my Etsy yet, it's kinda hard to find customers I think. Hopefully I'll make some money at the art show. I finally bought something from
Deadworry, an etsy shoppe i really like. It should be here soon.



Just finished a collage-style piece with owls in it that I'm really happy with. I'm pretty content right now. Now I feel like I'm in a place where I can start doing shit I want to do again.

Spring!

So I guess Spring is finally here! I've dragged down my summer clothes from the attic but I can't find my box of sundresses! Thank God too, I always feel so fat and gross and unproductive in the cold weather. I've kicked everything up a notch the past couple weeks: got my new car (check), learned to drive stick shift (check!), scheduled our art show (check!), got work stuff situated (check!). Now I'm just working on the art show and hopefully will have time to work on the cookbook as well in between enjoying the nice weather. I've started joggin again too. So far this week for the art show I have the following (the ones with the asterisks are new pieces i have made this week)
"Baby Alpaca" watercolor/mixed media*
"Wombat Hill" watercolor/ink
"Red Panda" watercolor/ink
"Hedgehog" watercolor/ink*
"Bunny Eats Banana" watercolor/ink
"Girl with Tapir" watercolor/ink/mixed media*
"Forest King" watercolor/ink/mixed media*
"Beetlemania" acrylic on canvas*
"Lone Penguin" acrylic on canvas*

Everything will be from $25 to $100 so I'm hoping I will sell a lot! This is really exciting!


Sushi enjoying the sun.


Andy being a creepmonster.


Our house!

ARt Show!

So we finally booked our art show. It will officially be on Friday April 4th, the night of the Gallery Crawl. We are both starting from scratch and have a lot of work to do! I worked ALLLLLLLLL DAY and night today on my day off and got a lot done. My acrylic painting has improved a great deal since I first started and I am going to try to throw in a couple at least for some variety.

Here's the flier so far.

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


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.

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


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!

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.



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!


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.


It was a white cake with raspberry filling.


It was as good as it looked!


He looks just like his mom!


Deep birthday wishes.


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.


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.