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happy almost fourth!

there are good things and bad things about owning your own business. good b/c when you start a desk job and realize miscreants from h.s. are using it as a front for drug running, you can quit. you don't need that crazy talk. you are holdin it down all your own. and legally.

and another arguably good thing is when you have no reservations, you can just go to the damn beach. great for the tan, but not so great for the budget.

so i'm hanging out, waiting to find out if i'm working. or if j's coming home early and we're on the patron like woah. independence from financial security? independence from healthy livers?? who's to say? but happy independance day!!

lately i find myself getting into all sorts of new blogs. maybe not new to the world, but new to me. or old favorites i'm rediscovering. candimandi. sarahb. lifeLOVEpaper. anja. christina clouse. j.pebbles. [underconstruction]. you know the ones! thank you girls for making me love love love paper and glue and all things aesthetically pleasing. one thing though (and this is not directed at any of the above mentioned, although some may be culprits) enough w/ the damn playlists. i get it. you listen to awesome music. i like your music. i want to listen to your music. when i choose. not automatically. half the time i can't even get it to stop, and then it becomes terrifying, like "please jason mraz, just STOP IT! no! shush!!!" and then i just leave the damn blog, regardless of all the enlightenment that awaits. you have to realize, if i'm on the computer, i'm listening to my own soundtrack. and then i get this psychotic beat overlay trip hop thing going on. do you even understand what that shit does to my brain? it's like when i'm listening to cable radio and then j starts playing his guitar on the couch. Hello!!! i am about to short circuit. plus i'm also generally looking at blogs when i shouldn't be, so the music tends to get me into trouble...

but that's just me.

in other news, i'm thinking of opening an online shop. nothing big, just a fun little side project to share all my lovlies with you. if i opened said shop, what would you like to see there? specific companies? certain types of products?? i consider myself a general aesthetic archeologist, uncovering all that looks pretty, smells great and makes me laugh/create/think. so tell me! original art? books? expensive incense? dishtowels? dangly earrings? hot sauce!?

on that note, i'm out. wishing everyone a safe and joyous holiday weekend!!!

thanks people!

the kits are on the move and i am so glad you're into them!! thank you thank you thank you.

lately i've been feeling so grateful for my scrappy friends...the fact that i get little works of art in the mail from all over the world...emails that make you smile and laugh and feel like people get you...the fact that we all love to share our work and feel inspired and get excited and love to make stuff...it is SO good to feel connected through art. i know there are a bunch of bored, jealous people who want to tear that down for some (and we all know i've been there) but the thing is, they just can't. we may go on hiatus, we may feel blah, we may actually hate it for a bit. but inevitably, if art is truly in your soul, it will reemerge. and that is what i am MOST thankful for. when it's real, that shit just won't stop.

but anyway. morning coffee. fish's eddy mug. love that store to death.

i have big plans over here...i want to get some high waisted stuff. everyone's wearing skirts and jeans that come up almost to their chests and i for one am SO over the low rise muffintopbuttcrack and ready to try on some goods. any advice? particular brands? i typically go to forever 21 for trendy stuff, but i fear the quality of the jean will not perform the suctioning miracles i need it to. because we all know the right high waisted jean is almost as good as a tummy tuck! i know the cut will make my boobs look even bigger, but i'm ok with that. just not too much bigger, yet another reason why cut is key :) oh, and some belts too. nice thick belts. do you need to wear them with something that has loops, or can i just throw my belt on over anything long enough?? jessie fulkerson? jess mcdougall?? help!

speaking of clothing, i think i'm getting a sewing machine! not for crafty endeavors (yet!) but to alter my clothes. shorten the straps on my wife beaters, hem some dresses, you know. any advice on a good machine? i don't want it to be expensive, and i want it to be user friendly...although i doubt there is a variance there. i just want something better than the garbage i bought for 4.99 at michael's, lol.

i guess that's it around here. j's playing his guitar. cnn is on. chloe is very low on the sofa but her head is not actually resting on the cushion (odd lady). and i'm gonna finish my coffee and make some stuff. horray!

hello my friends.

woke up today feeling really pissy and unmotivated. this happens more often than not in my world, so i was about to chalk it up to yet another bad day. i wandered over to the fridge and realized there's no half and half. now i know as i get older i should begin to accept black coffee into my life, but i just can't. i'm not that cool. i even put cream in my espresso (thanks mrs. marshall!). so all this basically meant my day was ruined. to me at least. cause i'm muy dramatico. siempre.

but then i decided i could solve my depression by driving to dd and getting a medium hazelnut.

i came home, checked my emails, and realized i had a bit of work to do this morning. once again the feeling of melancholy began to encroach. so i put on some tunage. and the thing i discovered with much certainty is that radiohead is always the answer. be it pablo honey, in rainbows or any stop in between, i will always find the will to live somewhere in thom yorke's voice.

so. now that i'm marginally less blah:

i am eagerly anticipating this. it's the first thing that got me back into making things on a vaguely regular basis after that whole magazine nonsense. so these challenges, and holly (of course) hold a very special place in my creative heart.

there's another peek of the i heart pictures workshop available for your viewing pleasure here. kits are ready to ship!

i also got the zip drive out of hiding for some transferring of scrap pages...it made me feel so technologically amazing.

for those that have emailed about hair photos, they will be appearing shortly in the "self portrait" album to the right :)

today is wide open...maybe shopping with dawn in the city. maybe sushi with jonathan. maybe groceries and laundry. maybe bed bath and beyond if we have time...

i'll be the bella karoli to your mary lou

youtube isn't cooperating today so no video blog. i'm sure you're sick of my "coffee talk" accent anyways.

feeling much better this week. thanks for the well wishes!

listening to l.lo way too much. ever since she started "just friends-ing" with sam ronson i've been a bit of a fan. and i never like regular dancey pop stuff...but she's just so damn cute i can't help it.

i'd also like a song by khloe kardashian if she made one. just sayin.

guess what guys! i've been scrapping! i haven't shared pages in a million years, so i have a whole ac binder full of stuff to scan in. hopefully i can make that happen and get it up in my scrappies sidebar album. keep your eyes peeled! i'm so thrilled to feel the creative flow once again.

krystyn is working on her i love____________ mini kit and she asked me to put in a request to those of you who have completed that project...to upload your pictures to the team kc pool. she's looking for some fresh inspiration and i know you guys always rock the hell out of the kits ;)

and speaking of kits, my newest workshop is up on etsy. pre sale it here.

i am in the process of setting up some sponsors for the bloggity. if you're interested in more info, please email me at kristovym@optonline.net

one last thing...brandy alerted me to the fact that i lost a few of you in the atc swap when i moved. if you have a card you've been meaning to get to me, shoot me an email so i can give you my new address. you know i love all of your excellent creations!!

s to the p to the r to the out

you think you're the best but you know we're the bester

and sprout's on the stoli again again again

giving you my sassy face

still watching twin peaks over here.

way too much fun with the new technology. chloe is demanding to speak with hooper but nisa is still in moving madness. i wonder if they will start licking the screens???

trying to play with my scrapblog themes, but my touchpad is not my bff just yet. christina made some gorgeousness over there though. love them. check them.

today i'm working on mosaics, with a particularly smart customer who fancies marishka hargitay and mary louise parker (thank God she's in paper this month) pictures coupled with red and blue. i love the creativity involved when working with constraints. :)

my dream "job" has taken a detour into more of a dream "5 year plan", but i'm a big believer in the everything happens for a reason train of thought and it seems as though this little hiccup is going to make me even more intent on just doing the damn thing myself. if it could happen tomorrow that would be smashing, but alas, things take time and patience. can someone please tell me how to embrace those things?? haha.

looking forward to this weekend, and to "erik jackson's old school grade school birthday party." and that is getting very long to say. maybe it should be shortened to ejosgsbp for texting purposes. my favorite part is that j doesn't even need to plan an old school outfit b/c everything he wears looks like it's left over from 5th grade.

hope everyone has a marvelous holiday weekend. hopefully it will stop raining in my parts and let the flip flops come out again. i love my new cowboy boots but my toes need a little room to breathe.

pappy? pappy!?

finally got a computer over here. it was starting to get hectic not having imdb at my constant disposal. went back to blonde. did alot of shopping. rode a rickshaw with dawn. launched my themes at scrapblog. caught up on the tape dare with a playing card we found stuck under the radiator. checked out the stationary show. watched the royal tenanbaums three times. got really great mail. finally slept through the night. life is good.