rented paper heart last night and it was super good!

it's about the actress/comedian charlyne yi doing a documentary on believing in love. she doesn't believe in love, and interviews other people about their thoughts on love. then michael cera enters the picture and they're pretty cute together.

my favorite parts are her interviewing some kids on a playground about love, the cute song she writes for michael cera, and all of the puppet segments (she uses puppets to act out the stories of couples she interviews.) it's like a when harry met sally mockumentary/documentary, because there's real interviews but i'm pretty sure all the stuff between charlene and michael cera is planned...because i think they were actually dating at the time the movie was made.

anyways, it INTERESTING and FUNNY. YEP, you should RENT IT!

you've GOT to be kidding me!

these are the coolest things i've ever seen!

i found this girl's shop and was blown away. her attention to detail is astounding. i can't even draw a normal, proportionate person let alone make one in felt! and the houses, oh the houses. they're my favorite for sure.

LOVE this one.

ugh, i'm disgusted by the superb cuteness of these felt appliques. and they're decently priced too! no, i'm not a paid advertisement...i just really really really appreciate amazing felt things.

LOVE this girl.

holy schnikees, it takes guts to sing that song. you go girl!

i like this girl, too.

4 new pocket mirrors for jellabee

as with most of my other pocket mirrors, these feature paper clippings from thrifted children's books. second life, right? :)

available now in the jellabee shop for $5.00 each! (includes little muslin bag)

trees as furniture.

the farmer's market season is coming up and i'm itchin' for a new way to display headbands. i would love to get some kind of white tree-looking thing with lots of little branches to hang things on.

something like this, but sturdier.

other decorative tree things in homes that i like:

i don't know about the bird houses for a kid's room...they look amazing but i'd be afraid they'd fall off and whack 'em in the face while they're asleep. but i'm for sure drooling over this painted tree.

i WILL do this on a wall of my future house. i love the different shades of wood. what a lovely thing to have near your front door.
i really think i'll just find a sturdy tree branch (i'm sure i could find one in the ginourmous mountains 10 minutes from our home...) and then just spray paint it white, and cement it into a tin bucket or something. it's practically free and easier than trying to construct a tree.

glitty

(sorry, no sources...i forgot to grab them as i went along...)

rented "the september issue" last night...and it was kind of fascinating!

it's a documentary about how vogue constructs its most important issue of the year, the september issue. i think it was meant to revolve around anna wintour, the editor in cheif of vogue:

but grace coddington, the creative director of vogue, really stole the show:

she constructs all the stories behind the gorgeous photoshoots...they show a photoshoot where they're shooting models in fabulous, intricate dresses in the actual versailles palace! i wish there was a documentary on just the beautiful photoshoots that grace puts together.

she actually used to be a model:

and then worked for years at british vogue as a junior editor before coming to american vogue as the creative director.

and she's so funny the whole time, totally making fun of anna wintour behind her back (they've worked together for 20 years) and you just feel for her because she'll construct a gorgeous photoshoot that cost $50,000 and anna will come along and just scrap all the pictures because she doesn't want it anymore. how exasperating!

and you see a bit of anna's daughter, who is really beautiful, and who says that fashion is a weird world and that she wants to be a lawyer. ha!

the strangest of all, is that it really feels like "the devil wears prada" movie wasn't far off the mark at all. anna is pretty cold and distant to her employees and it shows clips where she meets with fashion designers (yves saint laurent, to name one) and they just shake in their boots around her! they'll have a model come out in a dress to show her but it won't be finished yet or something and she'll be silent and roll her eyes and the fashion designer starts to stutter and promise it'll be ready soon and it's kind of sad to watch. you just feel bad for them! for pete's sake, they're artists not factories.

anyways, it was pretty entertaining and i would say rent it! :)