wednesday crafternoons with el are BACK!

hello my dear friends,

first let me apologize on part of my complete lack of dedication and creativity for this blog. i feel horribly awful (especially to my dear jenna) and i know that it shows major lack of commitment. and while the phase is over, i have yet, another craft for you all. it is a simple one, but it adds just a little bit of sparkle and cuteness to my day with its easy preparation. 

"cute-ified" make-up brushes:

I decided to take some of jace and mine's make-up brushes and cover them with cute fabric.

1. Just cut out a piece of fabric that fits around the bottom of the brush

2. Cover the area with modge podge and cover with fabric and you're done! Voila! 

keep it classy and simple

el

Tunes Thursdays

Jace: Cat Powers- The Greatest 

It's heartbreakingly beautiful.

El: Sarah Blasko- Down on Love

Sometimes its just what we need to hear, ya know? And she sings beautifully.

Jen: Matt Pond PA- Specks

Oh Matt Pond, I believe in it too. 

Kodak Moment

Always have your camera. There are moments worth capturing.

Smile my friends. The world is beautiful.

Jen

Happiness

Make your photography speak.

tunes thursday

jace: norah jones-come away with me

norah jones always brings out the best of things...which includes hot chocolate. 

thats all. 

el: the middle east-blood

possibly the most beautiful song i have ever heard. 

i'm not lying when i say that it's my favorite song and i never get sick of it. 

jen: o.a.r.-irish rose

This song never gets old. It's to lovely for that. 

go out there and do it

i thrive on creative outlets in my life to keep me sane in between the jam packed moments of my schooling. and occasionally, i feel as if my world has gone black and white and i have lost all my creativity (hence the possible reason that i don't have a craft for today....that's embarrassing). 

i found something to get me out of my creative lull. and i am going to try each and every one of these suggestions. i hope you do too. because isn't it fun to feel artsy?

Clue: Colonel Mustard..in the ballroom..with a knife!

Model Mondays

Oh hey there friends.

Let's play a game called "Guess the Color!"

It's the color of my favorite scarf that I grab when I find out it's snowing outside.

It's the color of El's pants that she wears effortlessly.

It's the long sleeve cardi that I often stole from Jen to pair with my grays/blues.

IT is the color that adds the boldness to a outfit without making it overbearing.

Look through your closet..

Look at all those dark pieces of clothing JUST waiting to share

 a beautiful love with the lovely color of..

Mustard.

xoxo,

Jace 

The Old Couple

Beautiful.

So many things about this photo are working.

It's closely cropped. And follows the rule of thirds to a T. Lets look at it a little bit closer...

Her body is on the third line on the left and his is on the third line on the right. Their faces occupy the third on the top and bleed down into the third in the middle. This is the same with the hands, they start in the middle third and bleed to the bottom. The kiss is located in the top middle box. Its central and important.

The first thing I see when I look at this picture is his kiss.

Then my eyes travel down the slant of her face to her eyes and that adorable smile. From there I see her hands holding his wrist. My eyes follow his wrist up to his hand tenderly holding her face. (Notice that wedding band? Because it's important for the story that this picture tells.) And finally I go back to the kiss. Round and round my eyes go.

But the best part about this photograph is what it says: LOVE. His kiss, her smile, the hands, the ring. This my friends, is true and pure love. This photograph tells their story, and I think gives hopes to all of us that we too can love someone forever. The photographer captured this emotion so perfectly that the fact that you don't see the mans face makes it 10x better. His kiss and her joy are enough. I believe including his whole face would take away from the meaning of the image. The point was not to take a portrait. It was to capture this love and infect the rest of us with it.

Lovely, absolutely lovely.

Smile my friends. The world is beautiful.

Jen

Photo take from www.pinterest.com. Author and origin unknown. (AKA. I did not take this and do not own it.)

tunes thursday

jace: rivers and roads-the head and the heart

The acoustics in this song is just lovely. 

I have recently been in love with this band, I just can't stop listening to them. 

I hope you enjoy their breathtaking voices as much as I do.

el: fire-ingrid michaelson

i am nuts over her new album. seriously.

but this one...i just love me a song with some good strings. 

jen: love and some verses-iron and wine

for the boy who loves me only. 

city of lights

i adore traveling. what i love most of all about traveling,

is finding pretty cities with beautiful night lights. 

everything is better with a light incandescent warm glow casting shadows 

and lighting up the more magnificent parts. 

i saw an idea similar to this on pinterest (the drug and inspiration to my creative world), 

and decided to give it a whirl over the weekend. 

and it was a success! little paris cityscapes (jace's choice). 

and while i didn't have enough working tealights (which is what i imagined in my head), 

the big christmas lights hanging in my room worked out just perfectly. 

(they're super easy and i figured, self-explanatory)