‘Tis the Season – I am off to eat a lot of food, hang with my family, go hiking in Vermont, and generally schlep about. CMYKaboom shall return to it’s normal shenanigans on January 4.
Happy Holidays, Party People!
Archive for December, 2009
“The Deadliest place on Earth” by Paul Williams
1. The Deadliest place on Earth: Photographer Paul Williams offers his personal experiences shooting in one of the most beautiful and dangerous landscapes on the Earth – the Cueva de los Cristales of Mexico. (Via derrenbrown.co.uk)
2. Whip Your Workspace into Shape: Design Sponge offers these inspirational and brilliant assortment of organized office space to get our creative juices flowing.
3. Unearthen Watches: NOTCOT reviews this beautiful, mystical line of crystal-embellished vintage watches by Gia Bahm. Much swooning is had.
4. After Overplucking, It’s Time to Call the Professionals: New York Times looks into the results of over-eyebrow grooming, and the new options available for the terminally over-plucked.
5. Creative bus stop advertisements: Creative Criminals compiles some of the coolest, most creative bus stop advertisements ever conceived. These are totally brilliant, and would easily make anyone’s wait a bit more whimsical and enjoyable.
6. 60-Foot Peener Painted On Roof : Ok, it’s incredibly infantile and immature, but this aerial shot continually makes me giggle. I know someone in England who deserves a hi-five!
7. Bubble Hem Master Class: I was recently digging through the archives on Kingdom of Style, and came across this assortment of fantastic sewing tutorials. This is one of my personal faves!
Finally BUST Magazine: offers us this uncovered video of Stefani Germanotta, known more commonly as the phenomena that is Lady Gaga.
Clockwise from top left: Rudy Malmquist, Trev Stair, Don3rdSE, Queeny Ru
1. Reread your favorite holiday stories from childhood.
2. Cut out paper snowflakes.
3. Make a popcorn garland.
4. Enjoy mulled wine by a cracking fire, or a flickering candle.
5. Look up the underside of a Christmas tree.
6. Write your own holiday carol.
7. Buy a unique ornament to commemorate each year.
8. Read stories by O.Henry.
9. Hang mistletoe all over the place, and start smooching!
10. Remember the holidays is about spreading joy, not presents.
Top: C.H.Martin; Jeans: Zara; Boots: Joyce Leslie
I love finding things cheap. This sweater I scored at a C.H. Martin. For those of you unfamiliar with the shop, it’s a bottom-barrel discount store in the Northeast. Usually they are a place to score tube socks and cheap carpet-per-foot, but I am a firm believer in discovering the diamond in the rough. This sweater is ultra-comfy, and I love it’s dusted rose color.
The boots were also bargain-barrel. I got them at Joyce Leslie, and they are almost an exact duplicate of the knee-high Miss Sixties I own, except shorter. I wanted a lower version of the boot, and also I have a habit of collecting faux leather boots, as I find they are ideal for rainy days.
Here’s to a nice outfit, without spending a mint!
Top: C.H.Martin; Jeans: Zara; Boots: Joyce Leslie
Top: Mocuin; Cardigan: Express; Tights: H&M; Legwarmers: Japan; Skirt: Thrifted; Boots: Thrifted
TOO. BUSY. TO. WRITE.
Top: Mocuin; Cardigan: Express; Tights: H&M; Legwarmers: Japan; Skirt: Thrifted; Boots: Thrifted
Gary Baseman and Tatiana Arocha for JWT’s GAPA/BS World Aids Day Safe Sex Campaign
1. Gary Baseman and Tatiana Arocha for JWT’s GAPA/BS World Aids Day Safe Sex Campaign: I often am very jealous that other country’s have a more fun and whimsical view of taboo subjects, namely, sex. This advertisement from In Latin America is adorable, and sends a lovely message about personal safety in sexual situations.
2. 10 Stocking Stuffers for Traveling Technophiles: Life Scoop puts together a list of some of the coolest gifts for your travel-loving tech geek this holiday season.
3. Lona, A Fairy Tale: Now out of print, this fairy tale written, photographed and modeled by children’s book author Dare Wright is a surreal, haunting journey through fable and psyche.
4. Mick Jagger is the Best Client Ever: As a designer, you quickly learn that working with clients can be a study in misery and frustration, yielding small kernels of joy when you can get them to see your vision. This letter, written by Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger to their album designer, is the kind of client direction that would bring any of us in the creative arts to joyful tears.
5. 15 Best Places for Designers to Get Free Stock Photos Online: Let’s be honest – a lot of free stock photography just plain sucks. This handy resource of some of the best stock photo sites the web has to offer will make it just a little bit easier to discover that diamond in the rough.
6. Touch-Screen Gloves: I know your plight – now that it is could, how on earth will you control your iPhone, and maintain a reasonable core temperature in your fingers?? Fear not! Crafters to the rescue!
7. Crazy-Dangerous Animals Become Friends: It’s finally happened – the trimuvirate of the most deadly animals on the planet has finally formed. I am moving to Jupiter, because we are all fucked.
Finally, the Muppets doing “Bohemian Rhapsody” may just be the greatest thing to happen EVER.
Enjoy a chilly weekend, kids! BRRRRR.
Clockwise from top left: yyellowbird, [isabel], Hannah Mia, stefanmager.com photography
1. What would be your perfect present?
2. Go on a tour of your neighborhood.
3. Learn how to say “Hello” in one hundred languages.
4. Buy random gifts for children.
5. Offer a gift of kindness to yourself and someone else each day.
6. Play with toys.
7. Try to tie your shoes, upside-down.
8. Learn to read palms.
9. Dress up as a fortune teller.
10. Tell others philosophical prophecies of hope and healing.
Top: Joyce Leslie; Cardigan: Boltons; Jeans: Gadzooks; Tights: Target; Boots: Zara; Necklace: Kenneth Jay Lane
I like to wear shorts for as long as possible in the winter. Fortunately, leggings allow an extension of warm weather wear into the cooler season. Also, I like the sections that shorts and leggings and boots break the leg line into – as I said in my last post, I am always looking for ways to trick the eye into thinking I have leg, and this is one of my techniques.
Top: Joyce Leslie; Cardigan: Boltons; Jeans: Gadzooks; Tights: Target; Boots: Zara; Necklace: Kenneth Jay Lane
I’, also very pleased to have the weather allow me to break out my extremely draped cardigans again. Hello comfort…
Top: Calvin Klein; Cardigan: Marshalls; Jeans: Rerock; Boots: Zara; Necklace: Kenneth Jay Lane; Watch: Bulova
I picked up this blue top at a Calvin Klein outlet in Delaware this summer, during my post-wedding beach chill-out bonanza. I am quite smitten with it. It’s very high in the neck, and cut so it’s full of all sorts of wrinkles and crinkles, which I love. It’s also cozy as all get-out.
Top: Calvin Klein; Cardigan: Marshalls; Jeans: Rerock; Boots: Zara; Necklace: Kenneth Jay Lane; Watch: Bulova
Also, my sister introduced me to Marshalls recently, where I grabbed this wicked striped cardigan along with a new purse, and bunch of yoga clothes, and some other fresh new junk. My life may never be the same.
Where’s your favorite bargain shopping locale?
Dress: H&M; Vest: Joyce Leslie; Shrug: Punk Rock Flea Market; Leggings: Pixie Market; Boots: Thrifted
It’s absolutely frigid today, which is making me look at the time I could have worn an outfit like this with great longing. All I have to say is BRRR.
I am rather petite (5’4″) with a long torso, and I am often trying to find new and interesting ways of delineating my top and bottom portions, to make me look a little bit “leggier” – can you say 28″ inseam? I love the cropped vest, because it does just that. The funkadelic leggings also make the wee little bit of leg I have a little bit “more”.
Dress: H&M; Vest: Joyce Leslie; Shrug: Punk Rock Flea Market; Leggings: Pixie Market; Boots: Thrifted
Any other petite people out there? What are your tips and tricks for not looking like a munchkin?
