Paperbags of Love

As usual, I'm late to the party. The paperbag party.

First up, I came across Tellkiddo, an online shop based in Sweden, selling large paperbags with cute-as-heck designs on it. I wish I could have at least 5 of those! What a bloody clever idea. They've just begun producing fabric bags now (be still, heart).

Photo by Only Deco Love

^last 3 photos taken from Tellkiddo

And then, I came across another paperbag. It shouldn't be so enticing, but it just is!

Le sac en papier. French. Ah. That explains it.

All photos taken from Le sac en papier.

So.. I didn't know you could use these paper bags so many ways.

x,

D.

hung up

{19 Jan 2011}

I am so hung up on this.

in other news: I'm seeing a little progress in one-third of my piece. And I have 3 to 4 more pieces to work on. Which I haven't started. And haven't found. Then again, it's still January..for another week..hmm.

peace+love

Obsessing over... [Vol. 2]

{random: cool photo of John Lennon back in the day courtesy of Sense & Sensibility, via Daydream Lily}

Books! Not something new, but I've suddenly bought 4 books and a magazine in 2 days *gasp*. Spent about 90 bucks altogether. I'm so excited, I've never done something like this before, and I feel really free and more in control, more confident and I can't wait to do more new things. I don't know what came over me, really. I just felt like buying a book. It's been a year since my last bought book, if I'm not mistaken. Yes, I'm one of those people who whine and groan about the prices of books being too high, because really, they just are.

Anyway, here's my bought list:

1. Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk (awesome edition, cheap, 29.90)
2. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte (steal - 9.90)
3. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde (quite a steal, 20.90)
4. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky (super steal! 8.50!)
5. frankie Magazine (!) (killer ex cos it's Oz-imported: 29.50)

And here's my to-read-more-when-I-can list (mostly just the authors):

• another Dostoevsky book
• Haruki Murakami's works
• To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
• Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude
• F. Scott Fitzgerald's books
• Capote's books
• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
• Ian McEwan's books
• Nick Cave's 2 books so far.. (yes, the Nick Cave!)
• Flaubert's Madame Bovary
• Anaïs Nin's Delta of Venus
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
• many more Classics, as much as I am able to handle :)

Yup I've suddenly gotten into classics. Notice also that I do still consider the price of the books I buy, only because I would do anything to save just a little bit more money. But I feel lucky that I could actually find these awesome books with my budget :)

Even so, this made me think of buying e-books instead, but then again, the feel of paper and a good cover doesn't come close to reading a book from a screen (ugh). I know, I know, e-books are more environment-friendly but c'mon, the books are already printed, I might as well get them, right?

At the moment, I'm supposed to be reading my Tolstoy (Anna Karenin) and Ian McEwan's Amsterdam, but I've gone and started reading Fight Club. Oh dear..I think it's possible to read 2 books at once, but three? I think I have to decide to let one book go for now.. Thank God for the holidays.

p.s: Photos will come later! (cos I'm that excited that I actually wanna take photos of my new babies, hah.)

peace+love

boot up

So the other day I was ranting to my bud Daphne about not having gotten a pair of Converse ankle-highs and then she tells me of her choice of a better footwear: Doc Martens. And it pains me to say this, but I'm all up in its business too! This site (thanks to Daph) gives a few tips on how to rock 'em good. And I am definitely thankful cos I'm gonna need it when I get me a pair. Oh, and I found another place for more Doc Martens inspiration here.

Who wouldn't want them?

{photo from here}

The '90s is just where I was destined to belong all this while. I love the songs, and now the shoes. Such is life, eh?

Now I feel like I'm getting older without even so much as batting an eyelid. *poof* you're 30! I'm really terrified.

Before turning 21, I almost got a panic attack. oh yes.

Come to think of it, I might just get a pair like this too: converse.com: All Star Washed Denim

peace+love

Obsessing over...

3 words: Joseph. Gordon. Levitt. 3 letters. O. M. G.

I'm really not a fan of having videos in posts much, because I myself am just too lazy to wait for them to load. Yes, impatience, I know. But I'm gonna be a bit of a hypocrite and go on to put another one here.

Oh OK, last one. I promise.

There. Much better.

peace+love

p.s. There's really not much to say about this actor. It's all there. Inception. Oh yeah. Plus, he's nice to look at. ;)