My Big Adventure for the Summer!

My adventure starts the day after tomorrow! I am traveling to the beautiful woodsy Punxsatawney, Pensylvania! Oh, how I love it there. Its gorgeously green, and filled with trees, creeks, and (my absolute favorite thing) blueberry bushes! Lucky for me, I have family there to stay with! My aunt lives in such a charming house in the woods. I just have such wonderful memories of her big windows (letting in either sun, or allowing a joyous pit-pat-pattering of rain), and I remember her enchanting rows of tall tall blueberry bushes! Everywhere! So I cannot wait to get there, and I will take millions of photos, of course! But first I must deal with the long plane ride from California to Pensylvania. Plane rides can either be adventures, or treacherous things! Lets hope its a fun adventure!

Now, my biggest worry about going on this trip, is how much I will miss my animals! Especially my kitties! Here's two of em! Cuddlin on the chair ;)

Now I will be back on Tuesday of next week, where I will fill you in with dozens of photos! Have a wonderful week!

Banner Time

Sooo I'm not quite sure what I'm going to do with this, but I made myself a little banner. Haha I hope you like =)


While I'm at it, I feel I must mention to you how great Straylight Run is. I've said many times before how much I love them, and how great all their albums are, but really and truly listen to their self-titled album. That album and "The Needles The Space" are definitely my faves =) Listening to the self-titled right now. . .

A Day at the Fair. .

Hello all!
Normally, I am not much of a fair person. Well, not an Orange County Fair anyway. Too many crowds, overpriced food, etc.

BUT this year it changed. They came up with this new thing called "Horse Week". So of course I was all over it! I took sooo many photos!

Please enjoy ;)

The Ortega Equestrian Drill Team:

The UCI Equestrian Team show jumpers:

Tyler the Mustang:

Miniature mare and foal:

Have a good weekend!

An Antique Morning!

Hello!
Today I spent the morning doing one of my favorite things: browsing antique shops. . .hoping for something to stick out to me!

Two things did =)

First was this lovely original photo from the 1906 book "The Christy Girl", by Howard Chandler Christy. I fell in love with it immediately. When I brought it home I noticed that it had a back side! What a nice surprise!

Front side

Back side

I also bought this Twilight Zone pin to add to my collection of pins! Cool, right?

I don't know about you, but I think it looks quite nice on my pin-filled bag!

Now I just need to get a frame for my new Christy print. . .Speaking of frames, yesterday I got a couple for my lovely things I got at the Sawdust festival! I think they look great on my wall ;)

I also matted and hung three of my own photos =)

Top left-Ryan of We Are the Arsenal; Top right-Ian of Dear and the Headlights; Bottom-George of Alexisonfire

And last but not least, funny picture of the day! Isn't she adorable?

Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland!

As many of you know, Tim Burton is doing an Alice in Wonderland film starring Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter! So, it's from the point of view of the Mad Hatter, and I'm sure its going to be very dark, a bit humerous, and amazing!

I am unbelievably excited for this movie. Alice in Wonderland is one of my favorite books (stories in general) ever, Tim Burton is one of my favorite directors/producers, and I love Johnny Depp as well! He is a total genius. Oddly enough, I am fine with the fact that obviously this film is not going to be like the book.

Not to mention the incredible art that Disney has come out with for this film. WOW. Just looking at the photos is like stepping into another world. Imagine how the movie will be!!

All photos from http://www.slashfilm.com/

A Ranch Wedding!

Yesterday I went to the most beautiful wedding at a place called Star Ranch! Of course that was extemely enjoyable for me (being a horse lover). The bride even rode in on horseback!

The scenery was absolutely beautiful, and the sunset was breathtaking!

In the reception area, it was all set up as the Wild West, and it was quite funny! There was even an old "hotel" where I took some interesting photos.

They also had this cool old truck, and I quite like the photo I took!

And a sweet old donkey!

It was a very charming wedding! I always like when people step out of the box, and have a wedding with horses instead of hotel managers!

Kitties

I don't know about you, but I love cats. Especially mine! I have three wonderful kitties, Mickey, Toby, and Ellie (who I just called Kitten most of the time).

Now Kitten always seems to be around. Which is why I have a heap of pictures of her, all of the time!

Please tell me you're enjoying this foot as much as I am.

New favorite picture of her.

Enjoy your day!

Oh Geez

Oh where have I been lately? It seems I have completely set this blog to rest. . .But I would very much like to pick it up again! My last post was about my desire for summer, and now summer is halfway gone!

Lately I have been trying very hard to get my ideas onto paper. Whether it be the lined paper of a notebook, or the wonderful texture of a canvas.

My inspiration was even furthered by the fact that yesterday I spent the day in Laguna Beach with my mother at the amazing Sawdust Festival, and Festival of the Arts! Take a gander: http://www.sawdustartfestival.org/ and http://www.foapom.com/.

It was such a wonderful day. We first visited the Sawdust Festival which is so great because it is all local Laguna Beach artists and they set up little areas where they sell their very diverse art! I met some pretty amazing artists, talked to many about their techniques, and bought some beautiful things. Before I show you my beautiful things I bought, I must tell you my technique to buying art. When you are not looking to buy something to blow your budget, but you are in love with in image, look to see if the artist is selling it in either greeting card or postcard form! Then instead of spending a lot on a print, you are spending 3-7 dollars on the same great image, just smaller! And if you mount it and frame it, then voila! Beautiful art!

Now, I found two artists that I really adored.

The first is a wonderful collage artist, Suzette Rosenthal. You can view her work here: http://suzetterosenthal.com/. I talked a lot to her about her technique of collage, and I was really inspired! I bought (big shocker) a greeting card of one of my favorite works of hers! Here it is:

I then found an artist whose work inspired me at such a level that immediately when I came home I began writing a story based off of one of her works. The one I bought, of course. Her name is Sue Winner, and unfortunately she does not have a website. But if you live in the Laguna Beach area then I highly suggest you get over there and check her out! Her work was amazing, whimsical and old fairy-tale-esque. The majority of her paintings contain strange gremlin "fallen angel" demon type things. But it is interesting because none of them look scary. They all remind me of the old fairy tales about selling your soul to the devil, and then outsmarting him and getting it back!

The one I bought from her is called The Lost Fairy and here it is:

After my mother and I had our share of fun at the Sawdust Festival, we walked over to the Festival of the Arts. At this festival, it is much quieter, relaxing, and it features more distinguished art. A little less crafty, and still beautiful! We bought some lunch and ate under a tree on a charming little table in the middle of the area, where we just had beautiful art to look at!

Once we ate, we looked through the art, and found a printmaking table where we got to try it out and take home our own art! I came up with this little thing:

Now I hope you are all having a wonderful summer! Let your creativity flow!