Midweek Mix: Springtime Art Projects

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Posted on 04/17/2013

I always feel more creative in the spring and I’ve been creating up a storm these past few weeks! Here are some of the projects I’ve completed so far:

I’ve had this white jar around forever (I think at one point I had a peppermint plant in it). I figured it could use a makeover so I used my Sharpie paint pens to draw some 1970s inspired flowers and cheer it up a little! The bottom two pictures in the image above show the before (left) and after (right) of two of the flowers.

I recently bought a mirror from Goodwill with a white plastic frame that was in serious need of rehabilitation. I had a lot of fun with this project and the blue and white really cheered up our bathroom when I hung the mirror there:

The most recent thing I’ve been doing is drawing again. I used to draw every day but I’d sort of gotten out of habit. Then I started watching Murder, She Wrote, which is set in the fictional town of Cabbot Cove, Maine. I decided it would be fun to draw a map of my homestate that included some real towns and all the fictional murder/horror related ones I could think of. Here’s the result! Pretty cool, huh?:

I think I might do this idea with some other states too. What state do you think I should do next?

And the song of the moment is…

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Posted on 04/13/2013

Walking on Broken Glass by Annie Lennox

How can you not love this video? The editing is superb, it costars Hugh Laurie and John Malkovich, and revolves around someone causing a scene at a wedding reception. Perfect!

The song Walking on Broken Glass is from Annie Lennox’s album “Diva,” which came out in 1992. The video, as you may have suspected from the plot and appearance of John Malkovich, is inspired by the 1988 movie Dangerous Liasons. In this video, Hugh Laurie plays a character very similar to his role as Prince George in Blackadder the Third, which (if you want to assume he’s meant to be Prince George in the video) would mean Annie Lennox is playing a part based looslely on the real life Prince George’s wife Caroline of Brunswick (whose supposed temperament and exploits make for some of the more interesting stories of that era). I say loosely partly for a pun but also because I’m sure you couldn’t have gotten George and Caroline in the same room together let alone seen them being as close as Annie Lennox and Hugh Laurie are in this video.

Where’d that cat come from?

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Posted on 04/12/2013

Hey, where’d this cat come from?

If you follow me on Instagram you’ll know that about 45% of the pictures I post are photos of my cat doing something cute. I figured it would be nice to introduce you to her formally so indulge my Cat Lady in training tendencies for a moment while I tell you about her.

Tigerlily and Rex in June, 2012. This is a rare picture of them in close proximity.

Last summer I agreed to foster two cats for someone who was going to be living in New York for six months. Joel and I had been talking about getting a cat but were a bit hesitant to jump into adoption right away so it seemed like a great idea to foster the cats and see how we interacted with them. The cats were called Rex and Tigerlily and after they’d settled in it was Rex who was the more outgoing one while Tiger mostly liked to hide in our closet. Within a month or two of living with us it became apparent that Rex had some medical problems (including agressive gingivitis that resulted in one of her teeth needing to be extracted) and as Rex withdrew Tigerlily became more friendly. When it was nearing the time to give the cats back I got an email from their owner asking me if I’d just like to keep them instead. I knew I wasn’t patient enough or had enough money to keep Rex and take care of her health issues but I’d grown to be pals with Tiger so I opted to keep her.

Snibber with her toy pet mice

When we moved into our new apartment I was unpacking some old photographs and found one of me with the first ginger cat I’d ever known, my great grandparents’ cat Snibber. Tigerlily had never really responded to her name when I called her or addressed her with it so I decided we would both get a fresh start: me with my new apartment and her with a new name. Tiger became Snibber (after I googled it to make sure the name didn’t have any embarrassing meanings. Except for some questionable ones on Urban Dictionary it seems okay/not offensive). The name seems to fit her better and she is a lot more chirpy and bouncy since we moved into our new place, which may be due in part to there being lots of birds for her to watch.

As a bonus, here’s the photo of 3 year old me with the original Snibber!

Blog Hoppin’

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Posted on 04/08/2013

You may have noticed a new banner on the side of my blog that says I’m part of the Totally Awesome Blog Hop. If you’re wondering what that is, here’s the scoop!

The blog hop is hosted by a handful of excellent blogs like Chantilly Songs, The Curious Pug, Charlie Foxtrot, Tigerlily Quinn, Everyday is a Holiday, Pulp Sushi, The Shades of Monet Chronicles, Rachel the Hat, Gentri Lee, and friend of Saturday’s Child Kitty and Buck! Each of these sites have a list of everyone participating in the blog hop and as I’m writing this there are 203 people listed on the blog hop roster– isn’t that amazing?

Click the blog hop image above to be taken to the post about it on Chantilly Songs where you can explore other blogs and list your own.

And, to keep things on an awesome note, here’s a gif of Paul and Trudy from Mad Men doing the Charleston

(I can’t for the life of me remember where I got this gif. If you know who made it tell me in the comments, please!)

How to Do Mad Men Women’s Hair and Makeup

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Posted on 04/06/2013

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The new season of Mad Men is premiering this weekend (hooray!!!) and whether you’re going to a viewing party or just want to dress the part at home here are some tutorials to help you do your hair and makeup for this Sunday! P.S.– this post is for the ladies, but if you’re looking to get your Don Draper style on check out this guide from ManMade.

The Hair

If you’re going for Joan’s bouffant style here’s an easy to follow tutorial: