Holiday Greetings

So, I've posted a mini-version on Flickr, linked that photo on Facebook, attempted a comment on MySpace (but I don't think the picture is showing up...) and here I am putting the full size beauty on my blog. In short, I wanted to let everyone know I'm thinking of them and hope they have some happy holidays.

Blogging Machine - Etsy

I'm a blogging machine lately, and I plan to do more. Today I put together a new banner and avatar for my Etsy shop vegcraft.etsy.com, so please go see what it looks like on the site and let me know what you think. I've used a similar color palette as my blog, which you are now reading, and my homepage, which has past projects. I might change out the items in the banner later as I photograph more projects. Yes, I still don't have anything for sale in my shop, but they will come. I want it to look great first!

I'm also working on some Christmas gifts that I will make more of to sell on etsy, which I plan to take photographs of as I put them together to show the process. And I have ideas coming out of my ears of other items I will put in my shop. Right now I need to get back to finishing Christmas gifts and wrapping, eat something, and continue packing for my move. Unfortunately half the things I already had packed I pulled out for some craft time...

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Now playing: Björk - Who Is It (Carry My Joy On The Left, Carry My Pain On The Right)
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Latino Film Festival!

I was just Googling my name because I was looking for this random ancestry website that had listed ancestors going back to Norway - I wanted to enter it into a family tree I was throwing together for fun at MyHeritage.com - and I found articles about the Latino Film Festival with pictures of me! They're in Spanish, but still awesome. They both use the same image, of me with the actress Ximena Ayala and director Sebastian Silva, but go here and here.

I was waiting to get the high resolution pictures sent to me, but now I just had to post. I will add more details later, but for now there is one picture on the Festival's Flickr account, here, with the Prescriptives makeup artist and Gaby from Macy's after I had my makeup done at the after party at the W hotel. And above, a low-res image of myself and Diego Luna on the red carpet :)

Awesome!

I love my friends sooooo much. With all the things that have been going on in my life, they have been super awesome. I keep hearing from them that they're selfishly excited that I'm coming home and we can hang out, which makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside, but also turns out to be the least selfish thing, because I need to hang out with them.

Edit! Menomena with Craig Thompson

menomena with craig thompson drawing live!
Originally uploaded by elchicodelaleche

I realized that legally I wasn't supposed to have an image of the Menomena/Craig Thompson e-card linked on my blog, because at least as far as I know it's a copyrighted image. So, I went to Flickr and searched for Creative Commons licensed images and found these great ones of the live shows they had in Europe with Thompson painting live at the back of the stage.

Also, you know what I dislike? When you learn about a band right after they've toured through your city. I find that happens all too often.

P.S. The text with info about the photographer isn't showing up for some reason... click on the top image to go to his Flickr account. He has a lot of great band photos.



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Now playing: Coheed & Cambria - The Hound (Of Blood And Rank)
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Travel

Art-Noveau - "La Vague" - Saintenoy
Originally uploaded by GeS

If I get a chance to travel any time soon, I think my first choice of places to go would be Brussels, Belgium. Number one, obviously, is for the architecture - especially the amazing art nouveau work. Most people my age have probably seen the movie Casper - I guess it came out when I was 12 - and my favorite part of that movie was always the house. That's even more based on Gaudi's work in Barcelona, so I guess I'll have to go there as well :)
I'm not really well versed in nouveau architecture - I know the names Horta and Saintenoy - so if I do get the chance to visit Brussels I'll make this my favorite new website.

There are also other things pulling me to Brussels - many museums, beer and french fries followed by chocolate, and the rather nerdy Brussels Comic Strips Center. We have a Cartoon Art Museum here in San Francisco that I've visited - they were having a large R. Crumb exhibit which was cool. So, now that I've officially applied for my US Passport (finally) I can start looking forward to this. Someday.

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Now playing: Lo Down - Mad Fright Night
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