diary of a manic obsessive.

12.28.2010

rock bottom.

can this just be rock bottom?

can we all just let this be the low point?


i'm so embarrassed...

my car was repossessed...

we got so behind a few months ago when bazinga got sick, then roomie was robbed & i had to cover his 'scripts & part of her rent & my bills got put to the back burner.
i couldn't make payments on time & they took my car.

i can't believe it.

sometimes i feel like i can barely breath.

i luv it here & i luv the possibilities that this home has, but what else can possibly happen?

i'm going home for 2 weeks. i leave Jan 3rd. I just hope, hope, hope that i can come back with a rejuvenated spirit & can pick myself up, brush myself off, & make this life work.

i don't need bright, shiny things, i just want a bright, shiny happiness to fill our little home.

just, please, let's just let this be rock bottom. my hope can't take much more.

silver lining: i can't wait to see my family, my friends &, maybe even most of all, that dog, little Holly GoLightly pup whom i've missed so much i can't take it.


luvs it*

12.09.2010

blogger book worm 'ganza [exchange]

I thought about doing this last year, but i just didn't get around to it....
as is life...

So, this year, even though it's a bit late, i decided to give it a whirl, even if we only get a few people, maybe we can try again next year, or make it a bi-tri-yearly thing!


I'm happy to announce that i reached my reading goal for the year [12 books] & once i'm done the one i'm on now, i'll have reached my "expert goal" of 15 books in a year!!!

My vision:

a "secret santa" of sorts, where everyone sends their favourite book to the person chosen for them.
i thought that this could be a great way to open someones mind to your literary "comfort food".

If you'd like to sign up, please follow THIS link by December 31st!

We'll all have a chance to read a new book & to broaden someone's mind to our favourite wordies!

the book that you send should be a gift, so it can adorn your giftie's bookshelf forever, so please make sure that you understand you will NOT be getting it back!
[aka, don't send your signed or first edition copy!]

i hope we get some good number!

please, also, feel free to re-post this on YOUR blog so we can REALLY expand!!!

 

luvs it*

12.03.2010

CSN obsession!

I've been looking at a bunch of places for furniture: desk, beds, tables, & home bar furniture.

then i got a chance & I'm totally stoked, to write a review for the site CSNstores.com!!!

It's going to be SO awesome to get a new piece for this silly empty apartment!!!

I've also been looking at a few other stores for other items i wish i could afford to have in my place. i love these blue stools, but we don't have a counter to put them up to!




Holsag Henry Custom Bar Stool
there's a ton of other awesome home bar ware at allbarstools.com!

I've been looking at all the things available on CSN & what i'd want from there if i had billions of dollars to furnish my entire dream house, then editing down to the things that i would want for this itty apartment, then, realizing that my butt is killing me from sitting on the floor & getting side tracked looking at bean bag chairs...



[which aren't too cute, but def look like a cozy place for my bottom!]

sofa's...


bedroom sets...


& of course a home bar...


but, i think the most practical thing for us right now is probably a bathroom organizer, for the teeny little closet of a bathroom we have!


the hard part will be getting Bazinga to help me make a choice. haha

wanna weigh in? leave a comment telling me what YOU think the most practical item would be.

look for my review, coming soon!

luvs it*

11.30.2010

giveaway on Novelista Barista!

yay yay yay!!!

My bestie bffer nugget fo' life, Jennifer at NovelistaBarista.com is hosting a Holiday Giveaway from my etsy shop.
[thank you luvr!]

[OLD photo! haha]

please make sure that you check out the giveaway & OBVI you should ALL be following her hott ass at NovelistaBarista.com!

what's she giving away? well...




'tis the season for giving!!!

JenBunny is being so super awesome by helping me out with this giveaway (although, it's a bit selfish, bc if i can make the money to go home, i'll get to see her FACE!)

please enter her giveaway & PLEASE check out my shop for all the BRAND NEW things i've been making the last week.

use the coupon code SPANKYLUVSME for 10% off any order!!!


luvs it*

11.27.2010

featured etsy luvs*

i was featured!!!

a little etsy love was sweet enough to feature my shop on the blog!!!

i sure hope that it drives some traffic to the shop.
make sure to check out the blog & see who else got a shout out!

i've been working on some really funky new things for the holiday season.

here are some of them:





i'm in LUV with gold for the holidays. everyone should take advantage of the sparkle of the holidays & glitz the hell out of EVERYTHING. (i may have taken it too far since my carpet is currently glamified with overflow glitter around my studio area... oops! guess even my vacuum will get a little holiday cheer!)

please visit the shop. i have SO many more things coming!

help!
do you think that i should change
anything on my shop? 
are my prices too high? 
too low? 
input is SOOO appreciated!
xox!

I'm so excited about being featured, & having new wonders on the shop that i'm going to give you all a present! 

coupon code!!!

enter 

SPANKYLUVSME

for 10% off any order from my shoppe!!!

yay! i hope i can make money so i can fly home for the holidays!!! [i miss my crazy family...]

luvs it*

11.25.2010

thank you mom.

we're all thinking about what we are thankful for.

i've become so thankful for my family, especially my mom. her & i have built up such a different, strong relationship since i moved here & i miss her so much.

i'm thankful that she wrote this blog post about me. heehee. she's cute.

i got sad tonight, watching It's Complicated because i saw it with her & my sister & bc Meryl REALLY reminds me of her, esp in this movie. ::tear:: i got a little choked up. no lie.

here's my pretty pretty mommy vintage style

.
&, even though it doesn't really tie into this post, like, at all, these photos just crack me up. (My mommy is the itty bitt!)

My Grandfather, the dapper gentleman in the back, is Paul McCobb, famous furniture designer from the 1950's (even though the Wiki has NOTHING about his wife & children... rude). The other doode is my mom's half brosi, Paul Jr. & the gorg-a-saurus is my Grandma, Molly. I, unfortunately, never got to meet Paul, since he passed when my mother was only 9, & I don't really remember Molly, since she passed when I was about 2.
but look at my itty bitt mommy pie!!!

eeeee, hahahahh!!!!!! She's sooooo cuteee!!!

I luv it when she tells me stories, like the time she wanted to watch The Wizard of Oz, even though she was realllly scared of the flying monkeys, & she'd run down the mirrored hallway from her parents room to the living room, basically just to tell her mom that she was scared, get in trouble, & RUN back to the room to keep watching, all to turn around & do it again. I don't know why, but i have a vivid idea, in my head, about what this whole saga looked like. i'm giggling just thinking about it.
I like the story about how she'd climb up the built in shelves to get things that she wasn't supposed to have & how 1/4 of her eye is green, while the other 3/4 is blue, because she sprayed some cleaner in her eye when she was little & didn't tell bc she didn't want to get yelled at.

Since i've been living in Cali, i've been talking to Ma basically every day, at least once. She has, on a few occasions, to her dismay sometimes, been my talking buddy while i wonder around the grocery store asking "what should i make for dinner" or "where are olives" (yes, i asked her where the olives were in the grocery store on the other side of the states, where she's never been, were). We've talked about how our lives have turned into a weird parallel of each other, both ending up as the "woman of the house" living with a [sometimes] "Grumpy Spouse" (moms words) & an "Irresponsible 19-year-old". it's def weird that we are both the one cleaning up around the house, cooking dinner, being housewives while looking for jobs, making art, blogging, & having our etsy shops.

i miss my mom so much. 
i hate that it took a 3,000 mile distance to make us closer, but i'm glad that we are.
i need to go home for a visit.
i need a mom hug.

everyone go & read my moms blog. she's just getting back into it. her & my sister & dad all moved about a month after i did (but they moved one town over, not three time zones..) & she's been trying to get their new apartment in order, so she, like me, is just getting back into the blog-o-sphere.

so, i'm hoping that my mom will be Skyping me in, so i can "pseudo"-sit at the Thanksgiving Dinner Table.

i hope that she's thankful that i wrote this.

this Thanksgiving, i'm thankful for my family, whom i love & miss & hope i can see for Christmas, & i'm so very thankful of the relationship that i have with my mommy. 

i can't even think about how much i am thankful for my puppy, Holly. Honestly, just thinking about her at all makes me burst into tears because i miss her so much.

[posted this pic & legit, started to cry... i knew it.. ]

who are you thankful for?


luvs it*

11.23.2010

got my hurrr did!

i've been going through [inevitable] long hair withdrawal ever since i cut my long locks off in exchange for a short "sassy" bob-like cut.
not to mention bazinga isn't a fan of my short hair :(


I've been trying to get extensions, but they are HELLA expensive, even though Roomies [ex] friend was going to hook me up for about 1/3 of the cost, but never did it & now she's out of our lives [hopefully for good].
doesn't it suck when you think someone is pretty kool, then you find out they are full of shit & really just a virus? ugh. i'm so sick of that.
So, knowing that it would be a loooong time before i'd ever be able to afford real extensions... so long that my hair would probably be super long before i had half the money, i tried to find a nice clip in pieces. Even those can run you like $100. So i started searching on etsy.

I was hoping that i'd be able to find someone who would be willing to exchange a hair piece for something from my shop. No one wanted to do that... :(

Then i found Dawn. She has an etsy shop & she makes clip in hair pieces. I messaged her & asked about an exchange. She said YES!

I made her a custom dream catcher & she made me a custom hair piece!!!


cute, eh?! 

now i just need to figure out a way to make it work in more than just this one hair style!

I'm SOOOO thankful to Dawn for trading with me. I am also very happy that i thought to put the idea out there!!!
Maybe i won't be able to sell as many things as i want to, but maybe, just maybe, i can trade some more things.

I'd also like to put the word out to anyone who would like to host a giveaway from my shop.
I'm happy to give away a bracelet:


I can do basically any colour that you'd like, with or without accent beads (which can be either teal, red, black, silver or gold) & middle beads of the same.

If you'd like to host a giveaway, please let me know.
If you'd like to make a trade of anything in my shop, let me know that too, i'm happy to hear any offers!
(especially if i can find things for X-mas gifties, since i'll be BROKE this holiday)

So, once again, i want to thank Dawn, SO much & i want to ask that everyone take a look at her shop. She's new, but she was very sweet, a great communicator, and a luvly chick.

luvs it*

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