lazy cats.

apparently mine is not the only one.

a lazy cougar
a lazy cheetah
a lazy lion
a lazy tiger

my lazy kitty comes from a long line of lazy ancestors. our trip to six flags discovery kingdom last sunday was so much fun, but we couldn't help but notice all the sleepy kitties around. not that we were expecting them to do back flips or anything :]

there's a new challenge over at scrap outside the box.
this time it's shaina's pick, and she decided on coffee filters. you know you want to scrapbook your favorite caffeinated beverage and submit it to sotb this month :]

i was inspired by jamie's blog the other day to make a sort of fun to-do list. i really like how she chose a color and then photographed everything she could find that was that color. her pictures are so great :] so i didn't make a page or anything, but i thought that listing them out would be just as good. here's my to-do this week:
*finish reading pygmy
*take a photo of a sunset on the beach
*dress fancy for dinner friday night
*paint my toenails
*wear tiny braids in my hair

i also created my very first travel journal. taking kim's class was sooo helpful, i now feel prepared to take my craft on the road! next weekend i will be road-tripping to L.A. to see the premier of my friend's new movie! he's been working on it for two years and it's finally ready for the big screen. we are all so excited :] if you're into psychadelic thrillers, check it out :] here's the journal i'll be taking with me to document this amazing weekend.
oh, i did some new 52Qs! finally, right?
and now i'm off to the farmer's market (far-mar for short), have a lovely wednesday :]

scratch and sniff stickers

make the best tattoos :]

what a wild fourth of july weekend. i had sooo much fun back at home with my friends, it was a much needed break from the daily grind. but it's a new week, and there are lots of new things going on in my life...

i have a new roommate!
when school was over my two roommates that roomed together moved out - adee went back to L.A. and chelsea is traveling south america (lucky girl). so they've been desperately trying to find a sublease. after many many attempts, we decided on an awesome guy named glen. so far so good, we're housing some of his friends as well for a few nights before they head back out on their road trip across america. it's been so refreshing to have some east-coasters over, they've been wonderful.

i finally finished my IDSS pages! it's very very exciting :]
excuse miss "can't be bothered to move." her tail makes a cameo in the corner of each picture.
i added some doodles to this one and i think i like it better now.
the stitching on this one took forever, but i love the way it turned out.
this is an old picture of me and my (very tan) dad, i have to ask my mom what year this was. i'm sure it's circa 1988.
i re-discovered color pencils doing these pages. i've fallen in love all over again.
these are the grand plans, with blank spaces to add things later.
i did this page about my roommate, monica. this is our last summer as roomies and we are taking every opportunity to make it the best it can be.
this will be my 23rd summer. i kept this page simple because i looove this photo (trying to not sound narcissistic), the color of my hair looks really vibrant here. i'm so happy with the finished product, the class was amazing and i'm so happy i got to be apart of it :]

also, i'm taking an amazing travel journal class with kim right now, she is brilliant. i've been so inspired lately, i wish there were more hours in the day to be able to catch up on the bazillion scrapbook projects i want to do.

i'm trying to catch up on my 52Qs (i was doing so good in the beginning, what happened?!), writing down my answers each week and hoping to put together my pages at some point. perhaps later on this week? there's just so much to do.

i finished reading catcher in the rye last week.
i liked it a lot more the second time around. i think i was just in a weird place in high school or something, because i had absolutely no interest in reading that book. maybe it was the language that turned me off. i don't know, but i ended up relating to it a lot more than i thought i would. that's two down, eight to go!

also, i'm working on a little something something for my upcoming anniversary! in less than two weeks daniel and i will be celebrating our one year anniversary. i can't believe how fast time has flown by. putting together this *thing* has been so great, and if i say too much more i will spoil it :]

pride.

so this last weekend was the pride parade in san francisco. it was sooo beautiful. everywhere you turned there were vibrant colors and gorgeous people. the atmosphere was so open and welcoming, the city is unlike any other place for that exact reason. i love it. here's a little documentation of our day:
monica and i arrived around 11am just in time to see the start of the parade.
there were rainbow flags everywhere that made us smile.
there were the most beautiful floats i have ever seen.
colors colors everywhere!
after the parade we went to the civic center and hung out on the grass with all of these lovely people.
i love my friends, they are so so silly :]
we got these awesome rainbow wrist bands too!
we ended the day with dancing to wonderful techno music. it was such a great day in the city, i will never ever forget it.

silly weekend.

this is my roommates and i, being escorted off one of the stages at the lgbt pride parade in san francisco. more pictures to come! it was so fun and beautiful and full of color and music! we got some amazing shots on monica's new camera, i can't wait to get copies of them.

how was your weekend?

IDSS

i do solemnly swear to finish this journal!

i got a slow start, but i've spent the last few nights going through my stash and finally starting rachel denbow's IDSS journal. i have all the written bits down, i just need to compose my pages. here are the first two. they still need some doodling, but for the most part they're finished.
i'm debating whether or not i want to use polaroids for the other pages. my wonderful man got me a new polaroid camera as a graduation present, and i loooove it, but the film is so expensive! but i might just have to suck it up because i love the look of them.

decisions, decisions.