Tuesday Tabs #7

Lucky number seven! Blogging from a different place today and without my laptop, but I've tried my best to remember everything. Mainly so once I get home I can tidy up my computer, but also because I enjoy making this visual scrapbooks, even if I'm the only person watching.

I'm currently down in Dorking staying with my Gran as the journey from here is much quicker to Didcot and cheaper, than from New Malden. It's only until tomorrow morning but quite nice because I get tea cooked for me :)

I've not spent that much time at the computer recently, apart from to upload my own images. I don't want to be tempted by too many things online that I can't afford. I've also tried to steer clear for the last few days due to Oscars spoilers, call me a geek if you will, but I kind of love the whole ceremony - the news already informed me about The Artist winning best film and Christopher Plummer winning for best supporting actor, which I'm so happy about as 'Beginners' is probably my favourite film I've seen this year.

Today was the big Alamy interview, and I think it went well. It was super easy to get to, which considering I had to rely on public transport, was a mega plus - not that I plan to commute from New Malden/Dorking for long. The job sounds smashing-great and I'd just really love to be given a break soon. Things do kind of feel like they'll be on the up soon though.

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Let The Be Flight Hanging Lamp, $97.99, Modcloth
How amazing is his lampshade? I think it would work best on a standing lamp rather than on the ceiling, so you could enjoy the detail. It's so overly whimsical, I love it.


Bear Bottle Opener, $13.99, Modcloth
I'm so into this bear bottle opener, so here's hoping that it will be back in stock soon. Since seeing the Funkytime Ikea Kitchen Cart Makeover, I'm totally inspired to make my own version once I'm moved out. I'm actually not into the cart as such but this would look good anywhere, at the side of a kitchen counter, on a table, watch this space.


No idea how this escaped me previously, I've loved New Girl from the beginning. This is Zooey Deschanel's version of the interactive video on the official New Girl website, but you can make you own here.


Burger & Chips Salt and Pepper Shaker Set, £9, Urban Outfitters


Persian Cat Salt and Pepper Shakers, £9, Urban Outfitters


Tee-shirt Frames, £20, Urban Outfitters
For someone who says they don't really like Urban Outfitters I do seem to be spending an awful lot of time browsing there. I'm totally promising myself that it's just for inspiration rather than intent. I did think that these were a nifty idea anyway. Frames for t-shirts would be great for someone like Moon, who has so many t-shirts with pretty designs that he's either worn out or doesn't get around to wearing. With shops like Boy Parker and sites like Threadless as well as many independent illustrators going for more design-orientated t-shirts, I can totally buy framing a t-shirt as a piece of artwork, but that might be just because I really love frames and framing things...

(via Some Notes on Napkins)

I watched this the other day and I firmly related to it, perhaps wouldn't recommend it to anyone who's feeling super down about finishing Uni but it was pretty funny and had that pretty, hazy indie film feel about it. I already had it to watch but my current read, 'Geek Girls Unite' bumped it to the top of my 'must-watch' list and I'm glad that it didn't disappoint.


Generally I hate this meme, but overall it's kind of true... sadface.

(via HelloYou Creatives)

Link love: ♥

DIY Shadowbox with Modcloth - I must start checking out the Modcloth blog more regularly as on a quick browse, it features so many things that I'm interested in and like to look at.

9-Eyes - I came across this a while ago, but it's such a unique take on Photography's function in the digital age. It showcases the weird and wonderful of Google Street View, some of the images are stunning, others are odd, but it's definitely worth a look.

Ryan Gosling Pancake - So, it was Shrove Tuesday last week, and I thought this was a particularly good pancake, bringing together my love of two particularly attractive things, may give this a go next year.

We All Scream Shaker Set - Too many nice salt and pepper shakers around at the moment, may have to resort to having several sets.

5 Overlooked Muppets - Can't believe it's taken so long for me to find Boyparker's new and improved blog, but it's amazing. This is my favourite so far, in case your Muppets trivia wasn't up to scratch.

Attempted Illustration - The Royal Tenebaums - Take a look at my friend Izzy's Royal Tenenbaum series, it's very good.

Drive Neon Sign

Casey Weldon - A great artist for lovers of pop culture, I particularly enjoy this scary Steve Zissou print.

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I hope that your week is going well so far, would love hear what you think about these posts. Personally, I know I've said this before but I'm kind of using it as a scrap book, so I can keep track of things rather than clog everthing up. I can tend to change my mind quite quickly so I feel like it's also a good way to help me make choices, I think these kinds of posts are especially going to come in useful as visual reference points when I move out, a likely win for structured fun.

Tuesday Tabs. #5

Wow, we're five weeks in already!

Just putting this out there as a quick warning, with exactly a week to go until Valentine's Day, this post might creep in a few heart-shaped things. When it really boils down to it, I'm in the crowd that believes that if you love someone, you should celebrate it everyday, not just because a date dictates as such. However, until the day comes when it's acceptable to put lovehearts on everything and the colour scheme of life is red, white and pink (not that I wish it to come to this either), I'll be enjoying Valentine's day with a heart-shaped box of chocolates, a mushy card and a mandatory evening meal out, sorry.

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(via WeHeartIt)

Oh what a great life it is that I can rekindle my love for older episodes of New Girl now showing on Channel 4, while enjoying the even funnier second half of the first series. Zooey Deschanel has well and truly established herself as a legitimate girl-crush, despite the fact that I still don't get the appeal of 500 Days of Summer.

(via The Dainty Squid)

365 Lucky Days is a 365 blog with a twist. Lucky Jackson has set herself the challenge to make a piece of art every day for a whole year. She's currently channelled this task into these cute embroideries, which are taking a film-theme at the moment. Definitely on my 'want' list. You can buy some of these unique pieces over at Lucky's BigCartel

Big Breakfast tray, £20, Urban Outfitters

So, maybe this isn't quite '£20 cute', but trays can be useful and although it doesn't go with my future kitchen's imaginary decor, I'm finding myself trying to find a place for it...

Altru Walking Leopards Tee, £30, Urban Outfitters

Forget the price and just look at it for what it is, a really cute t-shirt... *sigh*

(via The Dainty Squid)

Audiowood Chipmunk Turntable, £551.27, Audiowood

What hipster home wouldn't be complete without a record player? I'm definitely resigned to the fact that I'm well and truly dating a hipster and he's almost getting worse, but with this is my home, why would something like that even matter? It is a bit pricey but it's great inspiration for what we might want to be on the look out for in the future.

High-waisted knickers with a teal heart, £19.48, Knicker Rocker

Handmade knickers aren't something that have ever crossed my mind before, it sounds pretty silly actually, but some of these designs are super cute. I'm trying my hardest to resist the unnecessary spends.

Underground Wulfrun Green Suede Creepers, £85, ASOS

Creepers are hard to get away from right now, were these ones not so out-of-this-world-out-of-my-price-range, I'd be on them so fast. They're near enough my favourite colour, and what I am I to do now that the BRONX Dalmation brogues on the New Look website seem to be permanently out of stock?

(via Urhajos)

(via Minimal Movie Posters)

Everyone, ever needs to see this.

I found this photo while researching Charlie Chaplin at Shortlist last week. It's Drew Barrymore as the man himself, such a cutie.

(via Pintrest)

(via HelloYou Creatives)

(via The Maccabees)

Some cutie down at Rounder Records in Brighton has done this wicked street art to mark the release of The Maccabees' latest album, 'Given to the Wild'. I certainly hope it was the same genius back in 2009 when 'Wall of Arms' was released.

(via Toothpaste for Dinner)

(via HelloYou Creatives)

Cute short film about a grumpy girl who finds her match in a equally downtrodden balloon.

Vintage 80s Heart-Shaped Telephone, £25.32, North Star Vintage

Link Love: ♥

Tatty Devine's Valentine's jewellery

Alternative 'Drive' Posters

'The Avengers' Superbowl Commercial

2012 Superbowl Adverts — It's Nice That's compilation of some of the best Superbowl adverts this year.

14 Most Jaw-Dropping Opening Film Sequences

IKEA Kitchen Cart Makeover — Sibylle over at Funkytime has posted this cute craft/upcycle tutorial on how to revamp a kitchen cart, there's even a bottle opener involved. When I have the chance got get my hands on my own furniture I can wait to try and get crafty.

Funkytime Magazine, Valentines Issue — The first Funkytime magazine, full of neat recipes and lots of crafty Valentines tips to impress the one you love, including heart-shaped teabags

DIY Rhinestone Shoes — A lot easier than you think and amazing!

700.

Wow, this is a bit awkward, I appear to have reached my 700th post, and apparently this is my fourth year of blogging here, wow. I guess I'll just share some pretty internet things with you because my tabs bar is pretty full.

Today was very uneventful, other than applying for four picture editing jobs today and getting no response as of yet. I also hung out with my kitten, she's pretty neat but quite dumb. She kept going downstairs and forgetting I was still here so she would call out, then I would shout down to her and she would come running up chirping at me, adorable but a bit stupid.

(via The Black Apple)

These have been floating around Tumblr and all kind of other blogs, they're so cute, if only they weren't so much and so far away.

Both: Me & Zena
'Bobby Dazzler' Pill Box Ring, £29
'Write On' Pencil Bangle, £44

Me & Zena have been posting the best jewellery on their Facebook this week, these are definitely the two that I'm most tempted by for when I have a few more pennies, and they have the cutest names too!

(via HellYeahTheMaccabees)

I'm so super-psyched that The Maccabees' new album is dropping on Monday, there are far too many 'Given to the Wild' teasers around. I just want the thrill of listening to all-new songs on an all-new album. If you happen to be a Maccabees fan, they'll be doing Channel 4's 360 Sessions on Thursday 12th January at 12:50am.

(via Hannah Curson)

This week, you should totally check out Hannah Curson's blog about the 'Frame Wall' she's currently working on , she's posted some neat craft ideas and has even given me inspiration to start my own similar collection. Who knew that a bunch of mismatched frames could still look so stylish?

(via FuckYeahNailArt)

I suppose that now I'm living with a cat fulltime again I have a right to go a bit 'cat lady'. This looks like so much fun and could be a great way to put my nail art pens to use
A tutorial for this manicure can be found on Polish You Pretty.

(via The Daily What)

Artist, Yayoi Kasuma let a whole bunch of kids loose with coloured stickers on her 'domestic installation' at the Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane.

Link Love:

The Dainty Squid's Friday Favourites — This is my favourite feature on this blog and she's posted the most awesome things this week, even though I have enough mugs, I think I need the one featured in this post. And that noticeboard has provided so many possibilities for my someday home.

My CreativePool profile — So, I did a bit on this today, I do feel a bit like the website is a bit beyond my reach but I'm sure it won't hurt to have it properly there and maybe something will come from it.

Erin Hanson's latest Want/Need Image — So true.

In Order — Great Etsy shop featured in the latest Dainty Squid Friday Favourite, it sells awesome chalk boards with storage. God I love storage, perhaps one of the main thing I'm looking forward to when I finally move out is the shelves I'm going to get myself.

100 Greatest Simpsons Movie References

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I think I'm going to start this 30 Day Challenge from Monday, I love doing these, they can be quite fun and this is a bit different from ones I've seen/done before. ♥.
Day 01 - A picture of yourself with ten facts
Day 02 - A picture of you and the person you have been closest with the longest
Day 03 - A picture of the cast from your favourite show
Day 04 - A picture of one of your favourite memories from 2011
Day 05 - A picture of your favourite memory of all time
Day 06 - A person who always cheers you up
Day 07 - A person you would trade places with for the day
Day 08 - A picture of you and one of your best friends
Day 09 - A picture of you and the person who has gotten you through the most
Day 10 - A picture of you and the person you do the most silly things with
Day 11 - A picture of something you hate
Day 12 - A picture of something you love
Day 13 - A picture of your favourite band or artist
Day 14 - A picture of you and someone you could never imagine your life without
Day 15 - A picture of something you want to do before you die
Day 16 - A picture of someone who inspires you
Day 17 - A picture of something that has made a huge impact on your life recently
Day 18 - A picture of your biggest insecurity
Day 19 - A picture of your guilty pleasure
Day 20 - A picture of somewhere you'd love to travel
Day 21 - A picture of you and someone who ALWAYS makes you laugh
Day 22 - A picture of you and someone who you could talk for hours with
Day 23 - A picture of your favourite book
Day 24 - A picture of the funnest thing you've ever done :)
Day 25 - A picture of you when you were little
Day 26 - A picture of your all time favourite food
Day 27 - A picture of yourself and a family member
Day 28 - A picture of something you're afraid of
Day 29 - A picture that can always make you smile
Day 30 - A picture of someone you miss

NYEE2K11!

I guess that this will probably be my last post of 2012, so I thought that I would make it a big one.

(via HelloGiggles)

I don't think I'm really doing anything for New Year's Eve, as per usual, but I'm saving my energy for the whole year so it's irrelevant that I happen to be spending New Year's Eve just like most Saturday nights rather than with my spread-out friends as I would want to...

I suppose I should finish off this year the way that I would plan to start any new year, with my resolutions. I dislike the assumption that people who make resolutions end up breaking them (and therefore become depressed about it) within the first few weeks. Maybe I will break them or fail in the first few weeks, but it might be spectacular, and I have a whole year to come back to it and achieve it if I want to. So here are my goals for this time next year.

1. Get a job.
This one is a pretty big deal and integral to doing what I want ever, I don't want to be on JSA any longer than I have to. I hope that the New Year brings more prospects and the chance for both further work experience and the chance to earn some cash.
2. Make it so my someday home is just my home, i.e. move out.
Both this and the first are linked, as fine as I am with living at home, I would be happier with my own space, my own kitchen, my own lounge, it will be great and it will be mine with my things. Probably the worst thing about 2011 was moving home and back to just having a bedroom, which is fine for the holidays but not great for any longer than that.
3. Spend less, way less.
I'm coming to terms, hard and fast, with how important it is to save money and how I need to not live so hand-to-mouth. It's lame not having any money for big fun things like trips and holidays but more dresses that I will ever wear in a year, I don't even have anywhere to go because I spend all my money.
4. Do at least one creative thing every week.
I had wondered whether it would be a good idea to begin a '52 Week Project', but that feels a bit too forced and camera-centric. Additionally, I also think that I do need to keep myself creative in other areas, start drawing more, making things and even watching more films, plus if unemployment continues, at least it will keep me active.
5. Pass my driving tests.
With my theory test looming, I'm keeping my fingers and toes crossed that I'll be able to pass and have a car by Easter, I'm still a bit wary of it but not nearly as scared as I was before I started driving. I need to do it and most importantly, I want to, it will be fun.

Other than the standard 'drop a dress size' that comes with the calorific season that was Christmas, I don't think I'm asking myself to do anything particularly unachievable. This is going to be the year that I turn into an adult, probably.

(via The Dainty Squid)

Awesome time-lapse/stopframe video of the view from Eirik Solheim's window. Captured in 2007/8 but still a pretty nice way to see away 40 seconds, and people are still reflective in 2011/2 are they not?

(via The Dainty Squid)

All the Buzz Satchel, Modcloth, $79.99


Bronx Lace Dalmation Brogues, New Look, £69.99
V. high on my wish list, other than those (now discontinued) Minnie Mouse creepers from Lazy Oaf, these are the most awesome shoes of this kind that I have seen. I think I need them and it's important that I have them.

This is probably the last 'new to me' film of the year that I will see and man, did I make it a good one.
I picked up on it thanks to Verbal Vomit's 'How to Be A Hipster' post. I figured that, apart from Garden State and Donnie Darko, that I liked all the other films mentioned so I may as well give this one a go too. URGH, it's too perfect, I've already downloaded the soundtrack and am keeping some serious tabs on Glen Hansard. Who knows? Maybe I am a hipster... #fangirlend

I think I'll round up this post with a final Verbal Vomit related recommendation. 'The Internet Owns Me' is v. relatable both to how I feel after using the Internet for extended periods of time and in relation to my 13-14 year old self, who totally 'had a website' which is definitely probably still discoverable in the deepest, darkest depths of the internet, not to mention the Myspace days; guess who always unnecessarily had the best one? Yep.
If you're willing to check out the above post you should definitely look at the rest of her blog, it's awesome and she posts some of the best links to things through the medium of her neat drawings. Run by Hannah Hillam, an American illustrator, it's probably one of my favourite illustration/lifestyley blogs at the moment.

Verbal Vomit.

Well, I suppose that's it. Finito, done and dusted.
Tomorrow I think Moon is making Mexican food and I'm going to be forced into watching Black Dynamite, something I probably wouldn't have any scruples about if it hadn't be quoted to death at me despite the fact I have never seen it. #goodjob
If I'm not going out, just as long as I get to watch the fireworks, I don't mind.

I hope that you have a very happy new year, and would like to thank you very much for reading. ♥

Eat it.

© Ruth Johnston 2010.

I think I'm having one of those 'everyone is better at everything than me' days. It's a little bit annoying.
This blog isn't helping, she's like 10, and she's brilliant.. ☹

Peanut Butter Diary.

I wish I was inventive and persistent enough to think of an idea as good as this one. I love it, I'd be happy to have the full set displayed in my future dream kitchen. I think I need to pick up a journal and start one, properly, I used to be so good at journalling, then I can write out potential ideas and follow them through, especially if I put them up here as well.

See the full set here: peanut-butter-diary.html, © Erin @ Recovering Lazyholic (probably my favourite blog to read).