miss me yet?

I miss mixtapes. I still have a few I listen to from time to time in my car. I remember how much time and energy it would take to make one. Something really special about giving one to someone and also receiving one as well.  good times. I wish the art of mixtapes would come back. Who's with me on this one??? bring it back? HECK YES!!

I am pretty sure tapes miss us too. <3

my mix tape for you today would consist of these songs.....

1. All My Life- Aruthur
2. Sundress- Ben Kweller
3. First Day Of My Life- Bright Eyes
4. We Laugh Indoors- Death Cab For Cutie
5. There Goes The Fear- Doves
6. New Years Project- Further Seems Forever
7. Out Of Reach- The Get Up Kids
8. Futures- Jimmy Eat World
9. We'll Be Fine- Matthew Pryor
10. The City That Day- Matt Skiba
11. January 1979- Mewithoutyou
12. Livin' Small- Onelinedrawing
13. One Ray Of Sunlight- Phantom Planet
14. Love Of My Dreams- The Rentals
15. Wall- The Rocket Summer
16. Come Pick Me Up- Ryan Adams
17. New Again- Taking Back Sunday
18. Saturday Night- Quiet, Lovely
19. Anywhere But Here- MXPX
20. Not Sure- Fiction Family

XOXO

a fuzzy art project.

it is called "Unwanted Phone Call" 

XOXO

A week in review

Hello there.  If you don't know yet....I took a week away from facebook and twitter to attempt to focus on something creative. Facebook & Twitter seem to be quite the time suck. haha! I did a ton of research and found a fun project that I will be working on. I kinda don't want to say what it is quite yet, because it seems that everything I seem to talk about never ever gets done and that just becomes kinda lame to the MAX! Soooo....for now it's gonna be a little hush hush. ;)

In other news....I am officially a red-head again! I have a problem. Luckily Jennie was there to trim the dead ends off my hair do I don't look like a total frizzball. <3

On monday I went to see The Rocket Summer play! It was A M A Z I N G !

I know that some folks find his music a lil "cheesy" but Bryce Avary is pretty much a rockstar. 

I had such a great time!! 

What was also really amazing is that Bryce took a non profit organization called 

HELLO SOMEBODY 

on tour with him and they are wonderful. 

Their mission is this:

Hello Somebody is a non profit brand that exists to bring positive world-wide change through the love, passion and creativity of common people. Initially, the goal of HS is to provide food for 1 million starving people in a calendar year.

Our goals also include drilling water wells for those who are prone to water born disease, launching rescue efforts to young people trapped in human slavery and to bring hope through the kindness and action of young passionate people. In our first attempt at ending hunger, we were able to provide 50,000 meals to homeless and desperate Haitians.

This has provided a platform to feed the masses world-wide. If you will join us in our fight, together we could save lives and positively impact this amazing world. The call of the hopeless and hungry is out there. Will you help us answer it? Hello Somebody… Are you out there?

amazing. 

please please please check it out! also.... do yourself a favor and listen to The Rocket Summer sometime today. <3

The Rocket Summer - Do You Feel

i have a hair color addiction.

just thought you should know.....

XOXO

Donald Miller was writing to me today....

One of my favorite authors goes by the name of Donald Miller. (his blog :]) Today he posted a great post about THE FEAR OF DOING.  It's like he was writing about me. EEK! it went a little something like this......

Today I read an article on a blog about a creative project, and how some people liked it and some people didn’t, and I kept wondering, when I was reading the comments from people who didn’t like it, why their response was to comment about not liking it rather than to create something better. Nobody stands around a negative comment and talks about how great it is, or how well it’s written, or how it’s going to change the world.

But then I also understand why people do and say such things. It’s hard to create things. It takes confidence and resources, two things that don’t come easily or naturally. And also, there is an appropriate season for finding our identities, for trying on movies and bands like clothes in an attempt to figure out who we are.

Perhaps we should not put our energy into criticism, we should accept the challenge to squash what we do not like by creating something better. And when we have done so, we will realize how hard it was to create the thing we dismissed so easily.

Sooner or later, though, we have to create. We have to go and make something with the collected likes and dislikes we’ve assembled, we have to turn them into stories and songs, into families and gardens, into companies and churches.

These things start small, though, just a kid rolling a tiny pile of snow into a ball until it gets so big somebody gets interested and wants to help him, after which the ball gets larger and larger, and then others get motivated by what they are seeing and bring out sticks and lumps of coal and a tophat and a scarf.

But then again, snowmen are stupid. They just melt. Why try.

so Mr. Miller.....you have a point. SO.....if you are one of my few readers so far....KICK MY BUTT if you don't see me DOING!

thanks!

This weekend was Halloween and we had some fun!!! 

We started the weekend off with a

DEXTER

themed Party!!!

[ I dressed as someone Dexter killed and stuffed in a plastic bag ]

[ matt and me ]

[josh, chris, matt, me and lisa]

[lisa and me]

[me laying with a chalk outline of a victim]

[poor guy...never saw it coming]

[teased messy hair]

[matt and beans]

[josh as DEXTER]

[walter, richard, lisa and frankie]

Saturday night was a party at our friend's Walter place! They have these amazing themed parties every year. This year is was country western themed.....

[lisa, me and adam]

[lisa and i with our serious faces]

[matt, me and lisa]

[me and lisa]

[lisa, me, adam and matteo]

[peter "the bull" and me]

[me and adam]

We ended the weekend with taking Zooey Beans to a doggie parade on 2nd street here in Long Beach!! So Many Adorable doggies!!!

[zooey in her pumpkin shirt]

[matt and beans]

[zooey met lots of new friends]

[hot dog]

[zooey and a princess]

[pirate doggies]

[adorable]

[hello there]

[lion doggie]

[woof gang puck]

[me and my beans]

[doggie under the table]

[Hey guys! check me out!]

[only Lakers fan that i think is adorable....haha]

[so tiny]

[hey mon]

[80's workout pup]

[day of the dead doggie]

[adorable little "cows"]

[skeleton]

[zooey's tall friend....]

[Hey up there!!]

It was a great weekend!! <3