mellowbeing - crafty, geeky and a new yorker.
Considering I'd be at work a lot this week (read: about 10 hours every day.) I figured with all that typing, my nails should look ready to do the job. I'm not a huge fan of red nail polish on myself although a nice subdued shade on others looks great. I'm more of a dark fuchsia girl myself. So I ventured out to Ricky's and Duane Reade searching for Essie nail polish in that shade and although I had my pedicure in the color, it wasn't possible to find it in regular commercial stores. I was getting a bit antsy and settled on a Maybelline shade which surprisingly enough was only $3 a bottle!
Anywho, here's an upclose. The dark brown really makes the color pop, eh? Now I have pretty typing fingertips.
And before he bites my head off, I'd like to officially thank Boris for inspiring this post :)
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of the Mellowbeing Emergency broadcast/rss system.
Something's up with my blog ever since I reverted it to classic template and now have it land on http://mellowbeing.com/blog. Technorati doesn't update as well and the RSS feed didn't seem to pick up my last post. Anyone experienced this?
So this is just a test.
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instead of "When in Rome..."
If you'll be in the Philadelphia area this Saturday, make a stop by the 40th Street Summer Series' Alternative Craft & Art Fair! This will be the BIG finale to the summer series so expect lots of good things such as food, poetry readings, face painting and more.
Yours truly will be showing off her latest wristwarmers, pins, cozies, notecards and maybe even brooches.. sharing a booth with
Haasome and her adorable pouches, aprons, wallets and I've heard - wristlets! So stop by and say hello :) If you mention that you read this blog entry, then maybe you'll get a little freebie ;)
I think there are still openings for artists - it's a bit last minute but totally worth it. We were at the
Brooklyn one a few months ago and it was a good time for all.
Stay mellow,
Jen
Labels: crafty, shows, travel
A few weeks ago while browsing the Etsy forums, I found a "Geeks, Nerds, etc" post where it was just a place for any geek/nerd/dork/whatever-you-want-to-call-yourself could hang out. I jumped in and mentioned my "Uber Geeky Pin" which has 42 printed in binary. You already have a Douglas Adams reference but to have it written in 0s and 1s? Well, that's just l33t. ;)
I had the pleasure of making the aquaintances of
Whamodyne and
NorthStarJewelry on the thread. They are some pretty cool geeks. Whamodyne ended up purchasing two pins from me, the "In Soviet Russia, Pin Reads You" pin and the Moo pin. Some pics Ray (aka Whamodyne) sent me:
and:
As Ray wrote me:
This is my "guy purse" - my beat up, used, stained, torn, repaired but very loved old map bag. It's where I keep my sketchbook and inspiration notes and pens and a tape measure and my wallet and camera when I'm out hunting the next cool idea.
And Beth (NorthStarJewelry), was inspired by my 101010 pin and made herself a stamped pendant:
(kinda hard to tell from the pic but at least you get to see one of my favorite
ThinkGeek tshirts). Lastly, I want to do some promoting for their shops and show you my favorite items!
You can find this
Lightbulb Stand at Ray's shop. And the following Celtic Knot pendant from Beth's shop.
You will find such neat treasures in their stores that you'll find it a hard time choosing just one thing :)
Labels: appreciation, crafty, geekery
