Do you believe

this was meant to be or just coincidence? Recently I've been challenging my beliefs on just about everything. But I think that's a good thing. We do maintenance and renewals on our homes, cars, licenses, why not then our beliefs? I'm changing perspective and embracing the possibilities. It also helps when you've got friends that motivate those sometimes sluggish wheels in your brain to turn a little faster.


and while I'm on the subject of beliefs, here's a film I can't wait to see

It Is Happening Again

It's raining, it's pouring and I've got to retreat to my Beach House to surrender this Silver Soul to the sun. How long until I dissipate? The mist is coming and its' haunting warmth. I've got that lump in my throat, goosebumps and I just want to drown in this song over and over.

We gather medicine for heartache
So we can act a fool
It's incomplete without you
The silver soul is running through
It's a vision, complete illusion, yeahhh
The needle along the spinning wheel
Collecting silver coil
It gathers heat without you,
Whether or not you're turned from it
It's a quick turn
To let it figure out
It is happening again (x4)
The bodies lying in the sand,
They're moving in the dark
It is so quick to let us,
We feel it move through our skin
It's a sickness, a manic weakness, yeahh
It is happening again...

Oh, How the Days Will Rain On You

With all this rolling thunder and desperate rain, I can't help myself.

And it feels like it should today
Falling back on a better place
You wouldn't hide awhile
If you knew it for two more days
I wont shovel through
All the shame that led me too
You wouldn't pass it off

Woods at Kraak Gallery from Sebastian Matthes on Vimeo.
mp3 courtesy of RCRDLBL: Woods- Rain On

I think I may have been adopted

My first halloween with my mother and brother, dressed as a Buddhist monk? or pumpkin?

Shall We, Charlotte?

Charlotte Gainsbourg's "IRM" is fast becoming one of my winter favorites. Here's a wonderful fan-made video of Charlotte Gainsbourg's "IRM" title track.

charlotte gainsbourg IRM stop motion from mimms cross on Vimeo.

well, look on the bright side...

I want to live in Julianna Bright's world. The vivid colors, patterns, oh the fantasy!. This is going on my 2010 inspiration board! Just one look at them and I'm overcome with the desire to sew, write, draw, have chai tea, photograph, listen to Fleet Foxes, Cocteau Twins, Taken by Trees, oh you get the picture...

It's the dream you've always wished you've had

“The pictures I make have became for me a way to circle back to that wonder I felt as a child,” says Julianna, “that time before I was even able to read when I could fashion a whole universe in my mind around an illustration.”
She's a Los Angeles native, studied at Berkeley and now lives in Portland, Oregon. She's also a musician. You can buy her prints etsy , including a 210 calendar for just $15 !
You can check out her website here

Since I'm obsessed with mustaches

So cool, Etsy has a youtube channel that profiles different artists, and has how-to videos. Since I am pretty much obsessed with mustaches, this video stuck out to me. So after your picnic of red wine, cheese and strawberries, you can use the strawberry container to make your own miniature plastic mustache. Put holes in it and make it a necklace, or if you have mustache envy you can wear it loud and proud right under your nose. It's all a part of "upcycling"...it's like a makeover. Basically you take something that maybe you'd only use once and throw away, but you re-work and give it another purpose.
Under the comments on youtube someone wrote that you can also use a microwave to shrink it - put in under low for 15 seconds. What I love about this project is that it seems simple and you don't need any fancy equipment.


here's another project I'd like to try:
Knitting Postcards