It's Time to Start WRECKING again...

I'm just about finished preparing for an unexpected but exciting deadline that I hope to be able to share with you very soon. No, it's not my blog graphics, but I am working on those as well :) 

One of the things I've sort of neglected in 2010 is finishing my "Wreck This Journal". 

Starting tomorrow, I will be posting a new page every Wednesday until the journal is complete. 

Here are a few of my recent "Wreck This Journal" favorites:

by thekathrynwheel

 by annie.benham 

by pansinsaul

Happy Wrecking :)

Kristin

Macaroni and Cheese Crayola Crayons???

As I mentioned before, I have been incredibly inspired by the the flickr group, sixty-four colors. 

Each week a new Crayola® Crayon is introduced and members are encouraged to go out into the world and photograph something with that color. Okay, great.

So far, I've done silver, magenta, sea green, sepia, yellow, pacific blue, and blue violet. But, today when they announced the new color it was MACARONI and CHEESE! Huh? I was meeting a friend just after I read this but I kept thinking about macaroni and cheese being a color for the rest of the afternoon. I stopped at a grocery store tonight to check out their mac and cheese assortment:

Hmmm... not that interesting. In the Kosher section, I found this, which was slightly better:

Stouffer's Macaroni and Cheese was on sale (you may very well be seeing that as my 64 colors photo this week :)  I did  pick up a few items at thrift stores today that happened to have this "color". Yet, I was still left wondering, when did macaroni and cheese become a color? 

According to factmonster.com, Crayola introduced the following 16 colors in 1993: 

asparagus, granny smith apple, pacific blue, robin's egg blue, timber wolf, wisteria, cerise,

purple mountain's majesty, shamrock, tropical rain forest, denim, mauvelous, razzmatazz, tickle me pink, tumbleweed and macaroni and cheese!

Dilemma solved, but I need to pick up a few new boxes of crayons. Lizzi, I'll grab one for you as well :)

xoxo Kristin

Chinese New Year & Stalker Shrines, I never said I was normal :)

Last night I shared some of my favorite Chinese New Year flickr photos .
But, there was one more that I kept thinking about today while I was shoveling snow.

I have ALWAYS been inspired by altars, shrines and what I refer to as "stalker art".
You know, when someone gets obsessed with someone and hangs their pictures
all over their walls or builds them an altar.

Alicia Silverstone made one in the movie The Crush

and there was a creepy cool stalker art wall on the eighties tv show, Paper Dolls as well. If you don't think I've completely lost my mind, keep reading.

One of my monthly creative outlets is changing the look of our bed, inspired by jek and her "Making the Bed" flickr group.

 Last February, I did this...

which I really loved, but change keeps life interesting

which is where last night's inspiration comes in.
The February Bed for 2010:

Sweet Dreams :)
Kristin