kiss me i'm irish?

Happy St. Patty's Day! (or as Pat would say, "Happy me day").

We are about to head over the pass for a well deserved long weekend (FINALLY!) I am so ready to just relax and spend time together. I am not sure we will really participate in too many St. Patty's celebrations tonight... but we are currently both wearing green, and will be having some Bangers and Mash for dinner later. I'm sure Pat will throw a bit of Guinness in there as well.

So, this (old) picture has a story...
This is from 2008, when I was a Junior in college studying Graphic Design. It was during finals week, and I had literally been up working on my projects all night for the entire week. And when I say all night, I mean it. I was not drinking a fancy beverage, but rather a Diet Rockstar to stay awake! (YUCK by the way)... I honestly got like an ulcer or something after that from how poor my diet was. My lovely headband says "Kiss me I'm Irish", which is a lie by the way, but festive all the same.

I hope you have a great weekend! I will be back on Monday.

midweek inspiration 7

I would be lying if I said that today did not pretty much kick my ass. Tomorrow is definitely going to be intense, I have so much to do! But, by 5 o'clock me and Pat will be on our way over the pass to Brasada Ranch! I can't wait, it will be JUST the two of us for once. It is keeping me motivated for sure.

I saw a nod to a printmaking artist named Sarah Abbott posted on Creature Comforts at the beginning of this week, liked what I saw, and thought I would check her out. As it turns out some of her pieces are hand drawn typography containing inspirational words, something I could use right now, how very relevant! The content aside, I am mostly drawn to her choice of text styles individually, and how they look all together as a whole. I used to do this all the time in little notebooks, I have several full of hand written lyrics in various styles, this makes me want to get into it again. I also really like her little drawings, "Wagtails" especially, because, well, I like birds... and not in a "Put a bird on it." kind of way.

[[ wagtails. route. best version. nice try. ]]

robot party !

Alright, this is a picture heavy post of Robot Costume Party awesomeness! These pictures are from my lovely friend Colleen's 25th birthday party last Saturday. We have had so many great costume parties with this group of friends, I love it. Take a look, they are pretty epic...

[[ kiss bots. colleen aka rosie. awesome hair. love bot. me & pat as bots. tiffany & jason's bot shirts. me/megan. me/tiff. favorite picture of megan maybe ever. amazing homemade robot cake. pat's costume shell. sam the mustache robot. mustache tiff. transformer john wayne. wall-e bot ashley. pat. megan. dancing bots. rosie. party people. ]]


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[[ final costume vs. my little sketches from last week. ]]

weekend adventures 22

Oh man, last weekend was epic... So much so that I am still trying to recover. I would love sweat pants and my couch right now, or bed for that matter!

friday night
Me and Pat kept it pretty simple Friday night and worked on our costumes, everything started really coming together finally, and I personally was very very very excited for Saturday night! Here are some inspiration pieces I found when "designing" my robot costume... I have sketches also to post tomorrow.

[[ dolce & gabanna. hussein chalayan. unknown. maria from metropolis.

saturday
We got up, made breakfast, and started working on our costumes some more. Everything was finally completed by around 3, just in time to head up to Portland. The drive there was pretty quick, we got to Colleen's house at exactly 6pm, ate some dinner, and started getting ready. Megan showed up and we went upstairs to share a tiny tiny mirror and put all of our sparkly makeup on. After a few costume malfunctions we were FINALLY ready to go downstairs and enjoy the party! It really took us a long time to get ready though, which, knowing us, is not very surprising. I was wearing some really epic fake eyelashes too and was super excited about it!

saturday night
The party got started and more and more people in epic robot costumes started showing up. Colleen was Rosie from The Jetsons and seriously looked awesome! Sam was a robot with changing mustaches (haha), Tiff and Jason came in painted robot T-shirts, Ashley and her boyfriend were characters from Wall-E, and Pat looked freaking sweet in his costume! Surprisingly there were no characters from Star Wars or anything, lots of tin foil though. It was a late night... The pictures below are a little bitty preview, though I plan to do a full party feature tomorrow!

[[ makeup. jello shots. basement. preview. ]]

sunday
Pat really wanted to go wine tasting, so we got up and headed to Carlton where we always go. It was so cold and blustery outside! I was thankful to be indoors and warm. The storm cleared a little bit, long enough for us to make our way to some of the other tasting rooms, and snap a few pictures. Unfortunately the restaurant we wanted to eat dinner at was closed for a private event, so we drove home and cooked some pasta instead.

[[ me. sparkles. can you find the rainbow? tasting. carlton. folin cellars. woodgrain. sunny sky. ]]

costume preview...

Special Saturday preview post

I don't want to give too much away..... but, here is a little bitty preview of some of our costume stuff for Colleen's Robot party tomorrow night! Excited.

We have had so many awesome costume parties over the past few years with this group, I think I may need to recap on some of them next week. Special feature?! I think so. 

[[ messy dinning area. bolt jewelry. pat in a box. goggles. plastic gun in the works. plate holder. boots w paint from super hero party. boots after. metal bracelet. cardboard strips. easter eggs. testing eye shadow. misc parts. clothes. leftover markings. spray paint. ]]

Our Robot Making Supplies:

- 3 rolls of duct tape (home depot)

- 3 cans of spray paint - silver, textured silver, candy apple red (home depot)

- flexible aluminum duct tubing (home depot)

- red rubber coated work gloves (home depot)

- black rubber cleaning gloves (dollar tree)

- 2 large cardboard boxes & 1 medium cardboard box (Pat's work)

- 1 pair of boots (misc. pair I have had for a long time)

- black ribbon (creative crafts)

- 1 package of easter eggs (dollar tree)

- 1 package of disco ball party favors (dollar tree)

- hex bolts & nuts (home depot)

- sequin tank top (target)

- geometric pattern leggings (modcloth)

- 4 paper plate holders (dollar tree)

- plastic toy gun (dollar tree)

- glow stick stars (dollar tree)

- safety goggles (dollar tree)

- glue gun/glue sticks (craft store - old)

- pen (random - old)

- misc glittery eyeshadow (fred meyer)

- dark purple lipstick (fred meyer)

- 4 pack of plastic headbands (dollar tree)

- fake glitter dipped eyelashes (fred meyer - purchased a few years ago)

- chunky metal bracelet (gift)

mother nature is a scary beast

I have been looking at the news feeds of Japans disaster all morning. They are completely terrifying. I cannot even imagine a natural disaster to that magnitude happening here, but it sort of seems more and more eminent, as I know there is an expected 9. something to hit California/Oregon's main fault line pretty much anytime.

I hope that people in Japan are cooping and that missing people start to turn up! I feel for everyone effected in one way or another by this event. To those in Hawaii as well, it looks like things were not an issue for the evacuated areas... but the threat is still nerve racking.

If you have not checked out any of the imagery or videos being published around the internet, take a look. There are several news sources that have put up amazing and horrific photo-reports about the tsunami/earthquake. Here are some links:

The Atlantic
Boston.com
Mail Online

urban update

I have a lot of work ahead of me tonight... robots robots robots. I have some pictures of the process so far, but I want to save those for tomorrow. I also scratched my eye earlier, and it is not being friends with the computer screen right now. So, for today, I am going to keep it extremely brief and show off some sweet alterations I made to the new Urban Outfiitters catalogue last night. (you should never leave sharpies, or any writing utensils laying about around me, I am bound to find some scrap paper and doodle all over it). I think it is much improved. What do you think?

[[ napoleon? i did not do a very good job with this one. tiger lilly. deer boy. princess. fez barring assassin? space explorer. ]]

I have more doodles to add to this post later.