lorissa's peru party

OK.  I know you are on the edge of your seat, just dying to see what will be next on my top ten list.  But we've got something more important to attend to today. 
My good friend Lorissa is going on a fabulous volunteer trip to Peru this summer, and has a blog to tell all about it.  Here's a picture of her getting into the spirit at Whole Foods!

She's also fundraising for her trip, and lucky me gets to be an "artist" at her fundraising party on April 16th.  A piece of my work will be auctioned off to raise money.  I'm so psyched!! 
Check out her blog here for more info, and to see all the embarrasingly kind things she said about me! 

top ten all time sweetest thrift store finds: 9

Number Nine: This Funky Pot Thing, $3.99

I'm not usually into pottery, but I dig this piece. I think the design looks like grass growing up from the ground. Love it! BTW, check out my current fave blog, The Brick House, where you can always peek in on what its charming writer buys each weekend during her thrifting adventures. She always shows the dramatic/heartbreaking/hilarious sides of thrifting.

top ten all time sweetest thrift store finds: 10

Thrifting used to be a HUGE part of my world.  I haven't been as much recently, but I still love all my quirky little finds.  So now you have to care about them too. 

Number 10:  Vintage Orange Bowls, 40 cents each

Yeah. I love orange.

it's all springy outside.

ikea update!

The other day, I received unconfirmed reports via text and email from my mom and best friend that Ikea will be in Colorado by Fall 2011.  They were all abuzz.  But it seemed to good to be true.  My sources stated that they had received the information from some newspaper called the "Denver Post", but what kind of source is a newspaper?  I mean, my favorite newspaper is The Onion, but I'd never consider it a reputable source.  Half the time I think they're just making that stuff up!
So I went to my source for all things Ikea, coloradoikeafans.com.  Surely, people as serious as these would know the truth. 
And they confirmed it!
IKEA, Centennial, Colorado, Fall 2011.  They even showed me how to put in an Ikea employment application.  Now that's a source with inside information!
Soon, we'll all be buying these:

i'm a little bit....

...conflicted about the topic of this post.  Here's why:  I have spent my share of miserable hours meticulously scraping horrible wallpaper off of a wall.  My garage contains a huge pile of scrapers, mysteriously powerful fluids and other tools from the last time I went through this ordeal.  But.
Check out these photos of wallpaper.  I don't think I can resist them!

Man, I love a graphic print.  On the left, stem wall paper by Orly Keily available at Anthropologie.  On the right, a variety of designs by Mod Green Pod.  Now these are pretty cool, but wait till you see these:

All available from Studio Nommo.  Are you drooling too?

more etsy joy: treasuries!

I've recently discovered the joy of making treasuries on etsy.  Addiction has set it.  You should definetely try it. For the non-etsyers, a treasury is just a combination of 12 items composed together in an artistic manner.  This is my most recent creation. The sellers included in order are: thisyellowsummer, sweetheartsinner, hillyhill, JadedWolfStudios, petitetrendsetters, kitschinsink, individJuli, shellieartist, Raceytay, BitsOHoneydesigns, KnitLush, and KittyBCreative. 
Like I said, I'm addicted, so you may be looking at more of these in the days to come!