life in pictures.

"huh, hmmm. yeah."

"fly away with me, dear friend."

"i agree with this statement."

"i agree with this statement."

i spy ten: one of her performances.

AK modern: san jose state's dance troop/team/group..

ten's in it (melissaashlee). she works at a med clinic, goes to school full time (wants to be a pediatrician w/minor in sports medicine), gets amazing grades, practices with her dance team several nights a week - sometimes til 1am, performs often, still has time for social life (parties + bf). how does she do it!? ten's my cousinhero :) love u forever. <3

so, it's sometimes overwhelming to see (so many dancers on stage at once), but they do many transitions with the song mashups. melissa is in & out.

*spy her? 2:24 is the best song/dance transition (imo) & at 3:04, she's the one that walks from the back to front, with her red vans :D *

*happy thoughts*

this post is inspired by and dedicated to this post: "sometimes sad, sometimes glad"

tokidoki's messenger style bag reminded me of all the 80's cartoons i used to watch. sigh. i miss those simple, worry free days.

"The unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone. She was very old, though she did not know it, and she was no longer the careless color of sea foam but rather the color of snow falling on a moonlit night. But her eyes were still clear and unwearied, and she still moved like a shadow on the sea..."

-This is a book no fantasy reader should miss; Beagle argues brilliantly the need for magic in our lives and the folly of forgetting to dream. -- Nona Vero

she-ra, princess of power's horse has an alter ego too: spirit (horse)/ swiftwind (unicorn)!!

rainbow brite's flying horse, starlite!

*happy thoughts!!*

forget karaoke! try autotunes :D

*note: 0:46 will crack you up! it's the funniest part!!*

maskin stampin.

so the other day i'd gone to one of my favorite places: paper-source. as i walked around the crafting table, i'd noticed this really cool home made card featuring two stamps with the letter "K", and a pretty daisy. stamps were two colors, pink & blue. cardstock was a salmon pink. i was flabbergasted by how the stamps looked like they overlayed eachother. hey, it was new to me!! workers were busy, the place got too crowded, i started feeling completely overwhelmed so i left. didn't get to ask anyone how it was done. :(
a few days later, i decided i needed to know how it was done, and low and behold. i had no idea paper-source had a BLOG! how cool!! more creative inspiration :D
so here's what i found, yay!!

this is how it's done (pictures are not my images - but borrowed from paper-source site to provide quick visuals).

Materials Needed:
1. Stamp(s) of choice
2. Two or more Rubber Stamp Ink Colors
3. Tracing paper (you can get a bundle of 200 sheets at Target/Walmart/Michael's for $1.95)
4. Scissors

*Note* Image directly below is what it should look like (and please know these are NOT my own pics - they are from paper-source.com's blog of how to's):

Step 1: Stamp your first stamp with 1st ink color.

Step 2: Without restamping in ink (to save ink), restamp same stamp on overlay/tracing paper.

Step 3: Cut around the overlay/tracing paper as closely as you can possible to mimick the stamp image on paper. See pic below.

Step 4: Position overlay where you want. See pic below. And re-stamp using 2nd ink color.

Step 5: remove overlay.

And VOILA, see first image!!

(here's another stamp mask using different colors and a different stamp, also found on paper-source's brilliant site) :D i'd love to see how some of yours turned out! i'll post pics of the projects i complete in future, when my cam is replaced (hopefully SOON!)

*for more info, visit the paper-source blog THERE => Paper-Source Blog

hope this helps you as much as it helps me!! eeeeek, project :D

xoxo, nat

sour lemons.

well isn't it funny how one can go from one extreme to another, in thinking?
one day one feels happy go lucky, fortunate, and the next one can feel totally cursed.
today one feels cursed.

damn sour lemons!

feelings are just as visually sour and painful as knowing that this lemon is about to get grated..


and sometimes one feels total bliss - as if in lemon flavored cupcake heaven.
but really, with sour lemons, you can never tell which extreme of moods one will be in next.