the november bed {finally!}

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Breaking it down because oh golly I love this one! Amazing garland made by the ever-so-lovely Meghan aka blufairy19 of coloriffic lore. Little yellow doll from France that I picked up at the now defunt Uncle Jer's in Silverlake. Headboard made by my brother. Top pillowcase made by me from some of my most favorite fabric ever...I cannot recall who made it but it's fairly recent (2011?). The yellow pillowcase is a recent Target find (I wish I bought an orange set as well) and the orange polka dot is a one time purchase from Delia's because orange and polka dots! The red and pink pillowcase  (and the awesome orange quilt) from my favorite partner in coffee and the green was a thrift score. The fun pink and orange patchwork dealio was made by me sometime in 2008 or 2009 with some new, vintage, and repurposed fabrics in what we like to call jek colors. This whole get-up is chockfull of jek colors and makes me stupid happy. And if yer peeking at other parts of the (so very tiny) bedroom the domo was a Target valentine special, the paper flowers were a gift from Susan of West Coast Crafty. The salmon pink shelf was a thrift find that I asked the mister to paint for me. The inside of the shelf has been papered with green scrapbook and origami paper by me. The W was a gift from a student and the blue buddha was a thrift score at fifty-cents. The mister made the bedside house shaped shelves and yes, there are three books on my currently reading spot. They are this, this, and this. I am also reading this but it is in my purse.

the october bed {better late than never}

 

 

 

 

 

 

Planning the december bed made me realize i never posted the october or november beds. yikes! i cannot seem to find my blogging mojo.

we went on a wee road trip

up the coast

coffee in carmel

a little bit of wandering as well

a most amazing torta lunch in seaside

another wander around monterey bay

in the late afternoon

that magic light

looking for color to photograph

checking out the nooks and crannies

the touristy parts

then time for tv and arm knitting

     

lovely mail at the best of times

I had been feeling all sorts of uber icky and she knew like she always does. Not pictured was the immediately devoured bag of poppycock that spun me into an obsessive week of poppycock because it is that good..We're gonna be awesome old ladies together.

hipstergram dilly dilly {i've never been good at being hip}

I've always been behind when it come to change and technology. I swear I must have used dial-up for years after wifi made an appearance and back in the 80s when cds began popping up I may even had sneered a little. My vinyl was good enough for me. My KROQ filled cassette tapes were right dandy. I did not need no stinking cd player.

When it comes to phones, I use a tracphone with no plan when I have to but mostly I use my google phone at home in the comfort of my faded teapot pajamas (yay headphones). Now that my new tracphone has a teeny tiny keypad on it I have entered the world of texting only it takes me forever to type out a reply and I'm still trying to figure out how to use punctuation on the darn thing. It has a camera on it but I have no idea how to get the photos of it. So no photos yet.

I'm an old school social media photographer aka a flickr 365-er. When this whole selfie business began popping up I was confused. Didn't hundreds of us flickr users do this six years ago? Instagram posts kept invading the blogs I was reading and I loved the retro feel to the pics and wanted to play too but was totally bummed to find you couldn't play unless you owned a smartphone and well...I suppose a tracphone just ain't smart enough. Back in January I bought the mama a-go-go's Iphone 3 off of her to use as an mp3 player and a camera for the classroom. I'm a broke preschool teacher and a phone plan is too much so I make do with my tiny tracphone, my canon rebel, and the iphone 3...there's a little bit of juggling going around but I am really good at it and I figured out this whole app business (sort of) and got myself a shiny new instagram account and was a happy little clam.

For awhile.

Then I met up with an old flickr friend whose camera phone photos were super happy and she introduced me to hipstagram and I purchased my very first app. Purchased it and am happily addicted to it even though it is probably so 2012 or whatever. So there ya go. I'm new to the old scene and scraping pennies away for a galaxy note or tablet and not even sure how to go about it. The mister knows but he gets so darn cranky with technology I feel like Lucy in trouble with Ricky when I ask. I have to make a decision. Do I upgrade my rebel next year or get a Galaxy? I hear the cameras on the new phones are remarkable and it might be nice to take a selfie that shows more than just my  blurry chin(s).

pretties from the swap

I really, really think I got the better package and now I'm thinking of what else I can send the lovely Meghan. I mean the awesome crocheted garland all on it's own has me over the moon! But then she had to go and add all sorts of other happy bits....swoon!

Thank you, Meghan! The garland will be making an appearance in the november bed! I really need to take photos...