I want to get inside your head

Trying to decide on which Jessica Sea piece I want as my next tattoo.

It's so hard to choose!!! I love them all!!!

These are my top choices right now:

I would want both of these at the same time. One on the outside of each arm.

Or one of her bats (I am in love with her bats)

I would get just one bat (not the inverted one) on my chest opposite my Yoshitomo Nara tattoo.




Hmmmm....I also love this skeleton girl (I just added her to the list)

Family Time in Texas

Spent this past week visiting family in Texas.
While I was there I picked up this adorable telephone bag by Kate Spade.

I finally got to meet my baby nephews

Ethan

Nathan

and Nati my niece.

They love looking at pictures of themselves lol

We spent 90% of the time eating. Here's a sample:

Pizza and Panna Cotta at Dough! Pizza


Mexican breakfast at Thousand Oaks Cafe
Tortilla soup and Chilequiles Verde


Dinner at my Aunt's house

Vietnamese salad (w/ shrimp and daikon) and bun rieu (stew)


One of my favorite snacks - lemonade and soft pretzels

Mexican at Rosario's

Chips, salsa, ceviche (pictured), cilantro chicken, enchiladas, fijitas, mexican flan and bread pudding (pictured)


BBQ at Bun N' Barrel

Brisket, ribs, sausage, bloomin onion, potato salad and coleslaw



Last dinner at my Aunt's house: Vietnamese pork chops

Jeffrey Campbell: Tardy

I've wanted these Jeffrey Campbell Tardy shoes ever since they were released (after the Chloe for Dr. Martens boots)

I almost forgot about them until last week when I was in Boston visiting my friend and we were walking down Newbury St. and there they were! $200

I did not have room in my carry-on to bring them home with me so I decided to see if I could find them for sale online for Black Friday.

Thank goodness for patience. Karmaloop is having a 25% off Black Friday special! (Use code: KLBLKOUT) and they were recently marked down so I ended getting them for a grand total of $85!

This is my present to me for working on Thanksgiving and Black Friday.

fuck yes, and yes again

love

I love Halloween

I love Halloween. I especially love the day after Halloween when all the Holiday stuff is on sale :]
I usually go through and buy stuff that I would use around my house year-round, like stuff with skulls, skeletons, spiders, spider webs and bats on 'em.

Winter Jacket

Kinda diggin' this long contrast jacket from Gap. Retails at $168 and is an online exclusive item.

In addition to the many many many coats and jackets I already own, I just bought a new jacket for this year ... Do I really need another jacket?

Current Obsession

I am currently addicted to dips!

My favorite for the time being is Trader Joe's Spinach Sour Cream Dip (the one on the right)

photo: runeatrepeat.com

With Trader Joe's Raisin Rosemary Crisps (alternating with baby carrots)

photo: collegecooker.wordpress.com

NC Hot Air Balloon Festival

A couple of weeks ago I took Jenny and Jason to the NC Hot Air Balloon Festival in Statesville
Everything was so beautiful! I have never seen so many hot air balloons in one place.

I overheard some people saying they sent up over 40 balloons

We even met a Ghostbuster

The is the view of the field from the top of the hill

Up close and personal ...

with the Lake Norman Monster.

Happy Halloween

Cheese Balls, Renaissance lady, Alphabet

Halloween Movie Night

Sophie & Matt had a Halloween Movie night at their place last night. Everyone was required to bring goodies. Everything was soooo yummy. I have a happy belly-ache :)

Sophie's snack table - How festive!!!

Jenny's skull punch

Sophie made green cupcakes with Halloween sprinkles

There were so many yummy snacks - deviled egg eyeballs, brain jello, skull punch, cupcakes, google-eyed cheese ball, hummus dip, lots of cheese dishes(!) and more.

I made witches fingers - chocolate covered pretzel rods

and Red velvet cake pops covered in white chocolate

I also made Halloween cupcakes - devil food cake with chocolate frosting, oreo dirt and gummy worms and body parts.

The cake pops were surprisingly simple to make. The most time consuming part was covering the pops and decorating.

First you bake a cake (any flavor) as directed. After the cake is cooled you crumble the cake into a large bowl then add 1/2 tub (or a full tub) of your choice of frosting into crumbled cake.
I used red velvet cake and cream cheese frosting.

Roll pieces of the cake mixture into balls and place on a tray lined with wax paper.
Place tray in the freezer for about 15 mins to firm up.

Next you'll want to melt down your white chocolate.
Take your lollipop sticks and dip it in a little melted chocolate then immediately stick it into your cake balls (about half way through).
Then take your cake stick and coat it in the melted chocolate.
Shake off any excess chocolate then place on a sheet of wax paper to harden.

After your cake pops have set you can paint on the red veins in the eyes.
Melt down some green chocolate and squeeze them in the center of the eye, after the chocolate has dried you can paint the center black for the pupil.

NOW YOU HAVE YOUR OWN SCARY EYEBALLS!