money hungry

why does money affect us in such negative ways?
it turns us into corporate zombies (bad or good thing?),
makes us buy lottery tickets with dreams of
being the lucky soul (out of millions),
makes us completely disregard others' lives (steal, extort & kill),
and invest in the sticky webs of get rich quick schemes
that make us do crazy things like sell the house
that we have made our home to invest.

its actually sounds a bit like we can't do without it.
for some people, keeping up with joneses is the bane
of their existence.
some people work to make life better for those who come after them.
some people just want to go through life without having to worry
about not having the basics.

of course its never as black and white as that.
i'd just say i'm not money hungry.

pat⋅tern

pat⋅tern –noun

1.	a decorative design, as for wallpaper, china, or textile fabrics, etc.

2.	decoration or ornament having such a design.

3.	a natural or chance marking, configuration, or design: patterns of frost on the window.

4.	a distinctive style, model, or form: a new pattern of army helmet.

5. a combination of qualities, acts, tendencies, etc., forming a consistent or characteristic arrangement: the behaviour patterns of teenagers.

i love patterns just as much as i love a nice solid colour.
often made through repeating one or more single aspects,
or sometimes many unique aspects that complement each other.
sometimes it just requires taking a step back to see the pattern
of the bigger picture.
sometimes a step forward so we can see what we are missing.

you can find a pattern in almost anything,
and the same is true for our lives.

brites

i'm a sucker for bright colours.


from gucci

i especially love to see neutral colours
with bright, fun colour playing peek-a-boo
as the mastermind designers at gucci did
with this ensemble.

2 months...

time really does fly when you're caught up with other things.

a lot has happened in the past two months such as:
-birthdays (mr., his bro, my sis)
-cam moved her blog to tumblr
-death of my laptop (basically)

time to get the ball rolling again!


taken by mr.

the Sitooterie

no words.
i would love to see this in person.
heatherwick studio are the engineers behind this masterpiece,
located at barnards farm, essex, uk.
each one of the tubes have a orange tinted transparent end
that produces the glow when the light is on in the middle of the cube.
heatherwick studio has some amazing pictures
of their projects on their website.

(first picture from tall engineers, second and third pictures from heatherwick studio)

coffee?

{mine is the one on the right}

i love this giant teacup!
i felt very much like a lilliputian
or alice in wonderland holding this.
it is a plant pot that i bought as birthday gift,
and i've been thinking to get some smaller ones for myself
and planting some white or lavender azaleas.

paper butterflies

my current desktop is so dreamy.

oh, these rainy days...

i love a rainy day.

maybe the only occasion that i don't fully appreciate

a rainy day is when i'm wearing one of my bridget's sandals.
{leather, mind you}
i'm not a terribly big fan of water in my shoes.

rainy days while at work aren't so great either.
that sleeeeepy feeling is automatic when i hear rain.
one minute you're looking at the screen, the next...

i find rainy days enhances the following {for me}:
comforters
coffee/hot chocolate
snuggling
movie marathons
painting
kalooki
napping

what do you like to do on a rainy day?

the rebirth of polaroid film

finding polaroid film has become really difficult but fortunately there's hope!

the unknown

another t-shirt design.

things of the 'unknown' *read as freakish|bizarre|screamyourlungsout* realm have been taking over my subconscious of late. the last being a nightmare dream where tiny spiky creatures dig their way into your body and eat your insides leaving skin. every time they ate, they grew, but they feared direct exposure to sun a la non-humans in i am legend.

i really don't know where i get these things from. perhaps i should give stephen king a call.

summer breeze

i'm wishing for some summer breeze right now,
the heat is brutal! we're at 90°f, feeling like 93°f
today according to weather.com and i'm feeling
very grateful for air conditioning, otherwise i'd
be sticking my head in the fridge.

a day like today calls for some ben and jerry's
chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream.

love defined

"Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an
earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides
you have to make a decision. You have to work out
whether your roots have become so entwined together
that it is inconceivable that you should ever part.
Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness,
it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises
of eternal passion. That is just being "in love" which any
of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what
is left over when being in love has burned away,
and this is both an art and a fortunate accident."
-St. Augustine (the movie Captain Corelli's Mandolin)

quote from here

the dutch master

when was the last time you were on a bicycle?

cycling used to be something i'd do after
school, round and round the crescent i
used to live on. it was fantastic exercise.

if jamaica were like the netherlands or sweden
where cycling is a very popular mode of
transportation, perhaps i'd be cycling to and from
work too.

to be more precise, these are my top reasons
for not making it my regular transportation.

1. heat. its simply too hot to ride to work. i heart
the a/c in my car so much esp this summer.

2. baggage. i can't imagine myself, my laptop,
handbag and occasional gymbag working out so
well on a bicycle.

3. safety. i'll just leave that there.

that being said, if i go do my M.A. in sweden or
feel the need to step up the exercising, i'd get one
of these below.


presenting the dutch master by core77

check it out.

ABCDNA

i've been putting my designs on t-shirts
last couple of days, and i'm liking the results.

i call this one... ABCDNA.
because it sorta looks like a DNA strand.

just smile

ever found that someone's pleasant
demeanour just made your day that
much better?

i designed this using a quote by janet lane.
'of all the things you wear, your expression
is the most important.'

keeping a positive attitude makes the day
so much easier and not just for others either.


quote by janet lane



one of my fav happy quotes is
'A laugh is a smile that bursts'
~Mary H. Waldrip

zombies

gents, please pay attention!

the mr. recently got this advice from
a married friend who told him to make
this his mantra {for the future}.

apparently repeating this mantra makes
married {cohabitual} life easy.

i found the thought of men hypnotising
themselves quite funny so i made a lil
design for the future and present
zombie husbands {life partners}.

chant it loud and chant it proud!

sleepwalking

i'm a sleepwalker.
or i used to be.

amen to growing out of things.

i started locking my door every night
because i'd wake up in odd places &
positions.

it was also kinda scary when you have
stairs right outside the bedroom door.

oddee posted an article on unbelievable
sleepwalking stories



this by far was the most unbelievable.
gave me a good laugh after a long day
of work.

i really wonder what bizkit was
dreaming about.

would you live here?

source

this is the waldspirale in darmstadt, germany,
and i am officially in love.

actually i can't make up my mind.

this place looks like something out of tim
burton's mind, something i could see in
one of his movies.


source
no two windows are the same, and
painting on the outside makes me think
of the un-birthday cakes in alice in wonderland.

i love the whimsical feeling.
i wonder what the interior looks like?

m/f

i got this pic from here

i looove these signs!

oddee made a post on creative and funny
toilet signs, the above being my fav.

*atchoo*

discovered this here today.
i would love one of these!