Star Crafty

Oh, I'm sorry dear blog, I hadn't mentioned that I started a new job only three weeks ago. I am now a server at a restaurant inside a golf club. It's got a nice view of ducks and mountains and the City and it's a whole lot more rad than that horrible place I worked at before. Ugh.

Anyways, I began designing the website for Star Magnolia. It's still very work in progress, but what do y'all think so far?

Man, I do need to plunge into my bed. so.sleepy.

:P

Regardless, I love love my puffy, hideously beautiful 80's prom dress.

This is me fake-sewing. It's very much like sewing. Except when it's not (notice the price tag still on the dress).

I love backlit photographs, so I took advantage of the glow of my dress. I look mysterious and dangerous and slightly hungry. mmm ice cream. Oh also, my necklace!!

Steve Nick's Gypsy comes to mind when I look at this photograph below (I love my Stevie).

From listening to Feist I earned a little bonus in the form of another great musical act: Broken Social Scene. Now, I know I am way late in the game, most of y'all are already in love with them. But I just recently found out (few months ago). And honestly, honestly, honestly, this video below is one of the most beautiful, endearingly dizzying imagery I've ever seen.

Feist guest sang for Broken Social Scene a few short years ago, her voice adds an exciting layer to the ambient rock the band members produce. When I listen to their music, for some odd reason, I feel like driving up to the Ocean just before sunrise, when the darkness sadly whispers her last words of Victorian elegance and the waves welcome a new era of light and life.*

But by then I'll be gone.

More videos with Feist and bandmember Kevin Drew dueling so fantastically:

Oh and this is Feist singing Lover's Spit live with Kevin on the piano. MESMERIZING.

I can't wait to have a little bit more cash so I can purchase their records. Fantastic fantastic.

Reading Allyson's (a most amazing blogger, please pay her a visit!) 100 snippets of herself reminded me of the last time I compiled a list like this. 2002, I believe. I sailed (okay, flew) to America (United States) on this year, September 15th, to be exact. I have never looked back, never regretted it.

So here it is, A 100 Wildflowers of 2007:
100) I just baked cupcakes for the very first time yesterday
099) I am huge huge huge Star Wars fan. BY huge, I mean obsessive huge.
098) I have been a music video director in my mind when I close my eyes for the past 14 years.
097) Am looking forward to the Fall season
096) I sleep in my undies
095) Love it when i see people dancing or singing at the top of their lungs during rush hour in their car. I do the same.
094) Between 1993 and 1996 I used to compile a weekly top 10 countdown of my favorite songs for that specific week. If I remember correctly, Sheryl Crow's All I wanna do held the #1 spot the longest.
093) Guns 'N' Roses changed my life in 1992
092) I peel off the skin on my fingers, gross, I know
091) I love cats
090) I've never owned a pet
089) I DESPISE small, hairy dogs. Like the Yorkies, or Maltese. They gross me out.
088) I've always wished I was 5'7' tall. I Stand 5'5'.
087) For my 6th birthday I got my California Dreams Barbie
086) I stopped playing with Barbies on May of 1993.
085) A month later I read my very first novel in the English language, it was Star Wars: Heir to the Empire
084) Hate the feeling of long nails.
083) I have my wedding day planned out (beach wedding!!!)
082) Janice and I have been bestest friends since September/October 1997.
081) I hate pooping. I really do. lol
080) I pray at night. Never in the morning. I think God understands my fantastic lovely mood when I wake up.
079) If you give me some sort of number along with your name, I will remember you. Otherwise, I'll never remember your name. I'm good with numbers like that.
078) I rode a jet-ski for the first (and only) time when I was 9 years old. It was meh.
077) My awesome father abandoned us on my first day of kindergarten, 20 years ago.
076) Often wonder if this has in any way created some sort of trauma that has affected the way I interact with men. But then I get sidetracked with blogging or cupcakes so I forget all abou---OOOH BALLOONS!!!!
075) The smell of lilies is an aphrodisiac for me. It's one of the most amazing smells.
074) I was a CK1 girl for almost 10 years.
073) I love a good, even shower head. Uneven streaks of water DRIVE ME INSANE.
072) My body is very flexible. Amazingly, not even this will get me dates.
071) My cousin Agmar is like the most awesome person to ever have lived. Like ever. She's a year older than me and used to defend me after both getting in trouble when we were little girls.
070) When we're sleepy we laugh like absolute retards.
069) For almost 15 years I have secretly wanted to be an actress. But I rather let Agmar do the acting and I'll do the directing.
068) I am extremely talented.
067) But also horribly insecure.
066) I cannot roll the Rs in my Spanish Language.
065) I was born and raised in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico.
064) There is nothing I hate the most than when it's cold and you have to pee. It intensifies the pain.
063) Am trying to be more green. Recycling is a bit hard, though. When you have the attention spa---OOOH CUPCAKES!!
062) Love the way watercolor drawings look. Sometimes I think those blotches that form on the paper are the most beautiful things you'll ever see.
061) I used to play Sonic the Hedgehog on my brother's Sega Genesis like a maniac back in 1992
060) Morning lighting is heavenly
059) I love having Sundays off. Doesn't happen often as I work in the restaurant industry.
058) Which I'm getting sick of.
057) I hate going to clubs. Mostly because there will always be some idiot who will want to dance with me no matter how many times i punch him in the face.
056) Bars are my crowd. Especially ones with a jukebox and peanuts.
055) I love drinking alcohol. love love love beer
054) I still think about him every single day, every single minute, every second.
053) I have a very deep voice.
052) Also have far too much facial hair than I'd like to have.
051) I swear I'm a girl, dear blog readers.
050) Michael J Fox was my first celebrity crush back in 89.
049) Remember the scene when the DeLorean first flies off towards the end of the first Back to the Future? My brother would rewind that part and watch it over and over and over.... and over and over and over again.
048) My brother is the sole reason why I am such a damn geek. Thanks a bunch, dork.
047) I used to go through bouts of social anxiety.
046) Even though I am a quiet person, I laugh REALLY loud.
045) I dislike roses. Especially red roses. They don't do it for me. Lilies, daisies, tulips, pretty little flowers...and this flower here...and this beauty here do it for me.
044) I cannot sing for the life of me after drinking coke.
043) I have a fear of singing in public.
042) A few beers and a slammin' kareoke machine usually fixes that problem.
041) I love flowing sheer fabrics.
040) John Galliano is my love affair.
039) I say AWESOME like it's going to run out soon.
038) This list is AWESOME.
037) The Atlantic Ocean is the blood that runs through my veins
036) I am wanderlust
035) When I was 5 years old I had a bizarre fascination with Australia. I would point out to my mother that if we moved to the northernmost tip of the island-continent we would be as warm as Puerto Rico because it is as far from the Ecuator. I had it all planned out. We would herd sheep and... and do other Australian-y things.
034) I was a very weird child.
033) My brother had a world globe and God knows how I loved that thing. I would run my little fingers across the Alps, feel Mount Everest and ponder where could Atlantis have been in ancient times.
032) Again, I was a weird child.
031) Mayaguez is about two hours West of San Juan (our capital). Some of the greatest moments of my life have happened while entering the great city of San Juan. The same happiness I would feel spinning the globe, I'd feel it looking at all these tall, tall buildings for miles and miles till we reached Grandpa's fantastic penthouse apartment just 3 minutes away from the Atlantic. And from the porch by his bedroom, I could see the entire skyline. Time seemed to stop. And I'd imagine myself skipping over the buildings and wondering how people in the Big City lived and were they different from me, small town girl? To this very day, 20-odd years later, I am still fascinated with skylines and I still skip over them, hoping to ask people inhabiting them, how does it feel?
030) Tangents are like, my BFF.
029) I sometimes truly despise cellphones.
028) Stand up comedy makes my day. Any day.
027) I love tape.
026) but not the red kind.
025) Xfiles is my favorite show of all bloody time.
024) This is probably the best scene ever caught on film. EVER.
023) If I weren't an artist, I'd be an anthropologist. Or an astrophysicist.
022) Astronomy is AWESOME.
021) I believe in life outside this planet.
020) I went to Catholic K-12 school.
019) I hate religions, I like to worship God/Cosmic Spirit without the need of a third party thankyouverymuch. Truly dislike people who believe more in the Bible than they do in the Message (big difference in both, trust me).
018) I have chronic arachnophobia.
017) I have been dumped by the only two boyfriends I've ever had, respectively. Neither lasted more than 9 months. I rock at relationships.
016) Been using the web since 1994. I cannot remember life prior to that. Do you?
015) I absolutely love Kate Winslet.
014) I want her to marry Ewan McGregor.
013) Vintage buttons make my day.
012) So do good tips.
011) I read way too many blogs and constantly am trying to catch up (I'm looking at you Design Sponge and Decor8).
010) I have never dressed up for Halloween. Was never into the whole thing.
009) I have an obsession with Asian women. oh and Asian babies, awww.
008) I suck at calling people over the phone. Sorry guys.
007) I've been sloooooooowly learning French over the past year. Not working so hot.
006) i love ny.
005) Octopi (and jellyfish and squids) are the most awesome creatures in the whole world.
004) I love going to the hardware store. Bolts and screws and paint chips and all sorts of dangerous tools excite me!
003) I love using tabs on my internet browser.
002) cupcakes are my life
001) YOU PEOPLE ROCK!!!!!!!!!! (but y'all already knew this)

Want to share some more pictures with y'all lovely peeps. You know, I've never liked peeps. Too marshmallowy for me (and I hate marshmallows). I also hate wine and Journey and football. Maybe I hate America? Nahh.

Anyways, amy, focus. Okay pictures of other crafty things and of how I am slowly taking over my brother's storage room.

Very pretty earrings. I need to start taking more elaborate pictures for my products. giddy giddy with excitement.

love love love love love endless love

I made this fabric illustration for one of my friends with a sweet sweet family of her own.

This is my desk. It's awesome. And so is wonder woman. That calendar up there has pictures of delicious chocolate desserts. Yum. My desk is protected by the most inefficient soldier this Universe has seen, a stormtrooper. Also, by an armless Darth TATER. Optimash Prime is lying somewhere in here. But I honestly don't want to display him on my desk. This ridiculousness must stop at some time.

This room was deemed the storage room because it is where my brother stored all 30-something bins full of unopened Star Wars action figures, ships, old game consoles and general geekness. I hid most of them in two closets...but the TIE fighter and X-wing (honestly, the best spaceship built in the last 60 years... of the Star Wars universe) found their way to my bookshelf. Fourth shelf stores all my remaining Star Wars novels. Facing the camera is Sacrifice, wherein my favorite literary character of all time, Mara Jade, was brutally murdered by her own nephew AND THAT MADE ME REALLY UPSET. REALLY REALLY REALLY UPSET.