Life Lessons

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving! Growing up I used to L.O.V.E Calvin & Hobbes - the humor was always on point and so real. I found this one the other day when searching online. Enjoy.

you've got to pod it and blog it ~ yeah

The Young Punx ~ Love them

I'm restless, can't you see I try my bestest

It was a weekend of discovering Disneyland/Vegas in NYC aka the Marriott Marquis, Planet Hollywood, Mean Fiddler, Shopping in the Bronx, pizza, Makeup and Photography, sleeping in and remembering we actually had a decent year of music.

Saturday night we got the girls together for a friend to practice her makeup and to get some new shots to add to her port (this of course helps me out too!). Her are a couple photos that I took but I still need to finish uploading the rest – more to come soon…

Makeup By: Nina Torres

awarded... one lovely blog

I've been tagged by Stephanie from PinkAppleCore for "One Lovely Blog"... Thanks S! And now I'm supposed to list 7 things that I'm loving right now... I'm also supposed to tag 7 lovely bloggers but I just can't bring myself to do that right now because I'm feeling oh so lazy after a loooong week :::sigh:::::::::: so I say if anyone reads this and feels so inclined to gain a little inspiration then by all means please know that I award you! But let me know so I can come check out your post...

rightnow I'm Totally Lovin'

1 - new work clothes

2 - remembering how much Gwen Stefani rocks

3 - Diet Sunkist

4 - being on time for work (for a change)

5 - the new 110 looking video camera from Urban Outfitters that shoots silent video in a dreamy-like haze (a la Sophia's The Virgin Suicides is kinda how I'd picture it)

6 - over the knee boots

7 - solo time

"Orange"-you all about me?

Being obsessed with my new orange nailpolish - while drinking a Newcastle I was inspired and added a layer of gold glitter. Named it "Orange-you all about me" a la O.P.I. and I will be wearing it all weekend. Just a little fun with some fabulous fall colors!

~ Hope everyone has an amazing weekend ~

you and me could write a bad romance

Lady Gaga is so strange and a little off her rocker, it seems, at times but she is bringing back the theatrical aspect to music so much and it just works. Check out her newest song. I cannot stop singing it. Love it.

Tuesday Tea Party ~ wisdom becomes knowledge when it is personal experience

Lately I’ve started thinking about how my style of photography has changed over the years and I’m trying to figure out who I am growing into as a photographer. I was looking through some old photos last night and came across these couple that I took in college of my dear friend, Jill. I cannot believe how young we were here – 20 I believe and we thought we were very Fiona Apple influenced at the time. I did the makeup as well and it seemed so out there for us! Got to love looking back!

"Heaven help me for the way I am

Save me from these evil deeds

Before I get them done

I know tomorrow brings

The consequence at hand

But I keep livin' this day

Like the next will never come"

~ Fiona Apple, criminal

orange crush weekend

The weekend was full of wine, cheese, rain on the rooftop, warm(er than it should be) days and nights, playing with my new camera, (jimmy choo) shopping and my new orange nail polish. Change is coming soon… I can feel it.

“High on the roof,
Thin the blood,
Another one on the waves tonight,
Comin' in, you're home”
~ R.E.M, orange crush

~ Weekend Musical Influences~

Matt Nathanson

Gwen Stefani

Jake Owen

Kid n Play themed dancin

Living Room Salsa Lessons

there's nothing to explain - It's hard to stay the same

Tuesday Tea Party ~ without realizing who you are, happiness cannot come to you

One of my favorite places in NYC is the Met (referring to the art museum). And it always makes me happy when I walk around in that huge building staring at all the amazing art. Here are some pics that I randomly took last year of a few of my favorite things from inside.

"Gift Wrapped Dolls" by James Rosenquist

A little close up of Jackson Pollock

Jeff Koons on the Met Rooftop

"Did the tea-time of your soul/Make you long for wilder days/Did you never let Jack Kerouac/Wash over you in waves?"

~ Richard Thompson

Random Night of Blurriness

"Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights."

~ Kahlil Gibran

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my brain did a cartwheel

I have been a little off lately - I skipped my Tuesday Tea Party & Musical Wednesday this week! I hope to be back together next week. Until then here are a couple photos I had saved in my new inspiration folder and they felt fitting...

images {both from flicker via ffffound}