animalette

I've had the most terrible migraine the last 2 days. I'm feeling much, much better today but still not quite up to speed. I've been playing around on photoshop all morning working on my 'animalette' series. So darling. A lot is happening today, I'll update more later.

twenty things

Twenty things i'd like to do in the near future...

1. Digital illustrations on my Wacom Tablet

2. Go to a drive-in movie

3. Re-decorate our kitchen

4. Update my iPod

5. Take a bubble bath

6. Have a picnic on our front lawn

7. Explore the tide pools

8. Run around Disneyland for a day

9. Organize my fabric collection

10. Take a vacation to New Orleans or Nashville or both

11. Build a fort in my living room with pillows and sheets and a sign that says "no boys"

12. Have a Bella Lugosi movie night

13. Sew up some aprons

14. Detox- no drinking, smoking for a long time

15. Make homemade bread

16. Have a slumber party with an Ouija board and pillow fights

17. Have whole wheat pancakes for dinner

18. Finish my 'animalette' painting series

19. Take photos at the botanical gardens.

20. Design new business cards.

Legitamacy

So, we're going legit. I'm giving my months notice for my studio in the Life Arts building. So sad, I know. I'm closing up shop there BUT I will continue to collect vintage and will soon be revealing www.douxvintage.com like you've never seen it before. I'll be leaving etsy and selling on my very own, fully interactive website for shopping whimsical, feminine, wearable vintage. Our web design business, Rivera Design and Marketing, is taking off. And I'll be putting a lot more of my time into that side of things. Like I said though, I will continue to sell vintage, blog and find the cutest stuff in the world for you.

More on the doux website later. For now, Jeremy and I are looking to get our business license for Rivera Design and Marketing and my re-seller's license for Doux Vintage. Time to join the human race I suppose.

Okay, in other amazing news. Plus size girls have the most ridiculous time trying to shop for anything but polyester paper sacks. I am not a fan of torrid, the clothing is overpriced and very low quality. I can find things from Lane Bryant once in a while- but nothing stunning or unforgettable. This morning I stumbled across B and Lu, and fell in love. I ordered the Callie dress and some sultry skinny jeans. I cannot wait until they get here. I am totally impressed by this site, if you're a curvy femme, go check it out.

Happy Sunday, friends!

garfunkel and oates

went out to the 'upright citizens brigade theater' last night. finally saw Garfunkel and Oates in person. whoah man, they're in even more rad than I thought they would be. We went out there with the stunning Cathryn of Whales and Dan from Silverlake. I met up with my fellow former beachwood princess, Marisa. Whom I was simply delighted to catch up with a bit.

Today I'm finally going shopping for the store. Doux vintage will have some new items up soon. Get excited, get, get excited.

i knit

guess who learned how to knit? oh yeah, that's me. now taking scarf requests for christmas 2009.

the life hysteric

Having a mini Wes Anderson film festival at home today. My partner in crime is off to Irvine to discuss SEO tactics with a gentleman we met lastnight at Memphis Cafe. My dear, dear friend Cathryn turned 27 yesterday and she decided to be awesome and lovely and invite us to Indian food and drinks. I'll be doing a photo shoot with her tomorrow morning, and I'm terribly excited to use the power shot on her. Jeremy changed his hair- it looks so handsome- it's dark brown and comes down into his face a bit. It's not sticking up straight which is a HUGE change for him. Have lovely weeks, oui?

plans

Hello. Jeremy and I have decided to save up money and move to Charles Village, Baltimore, MD. Jeremy wants to eventually start an SEO consulting firm on the east coast and I hope to continue to sell vintage and take photos. We're hoping to move in with our dear friends in January of 2010 so we can really put things back together financially and then head out in Spring of 2013. I thought i'd put that idea out into the universe and see what comes back.

thug life

veronikavsyou


late night vacuuming. our neighbors must hate us. although we still think that they are running a seniors luche libre fighting ring in their living room. we've never heard so many banging noises come from the home of a little old couple.

g'night friends.

myself

i'm growing my hair out again. don't laugh.
i re-did my myspace- go look and add me. let's be friends.

saturday night dim lights

new photoshoot in my flickr. saturday night we found a laundromat.

anniversary plans

for our one year anniversary we're going to vegas to renew our vows {with elvis}. don't be jealous. we'll be gone september 11-14.

in the works

a little bird told me...

star pedro thrifting

So what a delightful day. Found some wonderful vintage goodies for the shop! i heart downtown san pedro? what? got to hang out with my dearest friend, miss caitlin marcus and her darling husband {jeremy's husband}, david. we finally saw star trek and i have to admit i was blown away. i'm thorougly impressed with the vintage series turned blockbuster hit. not easily done. and right now david and jeremy are playing metal slug and we'll be staying the evening in san pedro. goodnight all you lovely people out there in cyber space. live long and prosper.

magical magic

plans for today include un packing certain brown boxes, making pretty and strolling around at Disneyland.
photo credit: melancholywings

ukulele

yeah. you know what's on my mind.

credit: dashka

archive

goals for summer
{gym membership} {look into medications to aid with flow to my cerebral cortex} {workin' hard over at doux studios} {come up with neat ideas and take pictures of it and get really inspired}




goals for fall
{illustration and college english} {more eventually}

saturday mornings

yoshiko314

on saturday's we have pudding and watch cartoons. i just realized it's not the morning anymore.

summer sweets

There is nothing sweeter to me than lounging around in my lingerie during the summer. It's so hot- and the only thing redeeming about the desert that is our little candy cane cottage right now- is the incredibly cool air coming from our wall unit conditioner. I've been going through etsy and and there is so much cute stuff available for my lounging pleasures right now. Plus, if you're like me- sleeping in the heat is next to impossible. A skimpy slip that just came out of the freezer is one of my favorite things on summer nights. ooh la la!


sweet dreams by a touch of vintage on etsy

peach pink nightgown by Its Bella on etsy



cream cami and panty set by vintage bette on etsy

omg

I present to you the tackiest, most wonderful, stupidest purchase of the week. I love ebay so much it hurts.

cute as a button

Wow. So odd how these little series of events lead to bigger things. I spent three hours today with three of the loveliest femme's in Riverside. We're trying to put together a plan to promote the artists/crafters/sellers in the Life Arts Building in Riverside. Me with my vintage and art, Kim with her vintage and art and all around cleverness, Panda with her crafty cute stuff and Kendra who does furniture restoration with a crafty flair!

We came up with plenty of ideas and now I have plenty of research to do. I'm really looking forward to an event we have in the works. I can't talk about too much. I can only say that I haven't felt this inspired or motivated in such a long time. My schedule this week includes lots of the time at the studio, vintage shopping and some decoration. Also, Kim gave me an excellent selection of clothing this afternoon. I went through it and some of it is perfect for the shop, some stuff needs some personal touches and some of it is going to make for beautiful pillows.

I also wanted to mention miss Amanda's etsy shop, Pandaloo. So effin' cute my darlings! Today she gave me a wonderful sample of her button earrings- which are exactly what they sound like. She'll be putting up much, much more items soon. Add her to your faves on etsy.

Happy Week Dears!