for a dinner party for the season premiere of true blood last night, i baked up some truly bloody cupcakes. truly bloody cupcakes are red velvet cake with vanilla buttercream frosting and raspberry preserve filling and finished off with a sprinkling of red sugar and a splattering of corn syrup blood. oh yes and a frightening [...]
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truly bloody cupcakes
Posted in aesthetics, baking, home, noir, the apartment on June 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »
yet another couch post
Posted in aesthetics, home, jersey city, olde things, pretty things on November 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
i got a new (ofcourse, old) couch at salvation army this past weekend. it was raining bad outside and i broke the hinge on my front door trying to get it in but here it is in all its envious green velvet glory. it feels luxurious to have a couch that is not threadbare and full of holes. [...]
bone pickin’
Posted in aesthetics, art, home, noir, the apartment on November 6, 2008 | 3 Comments »
i’m a little bit behind on this, but it was so exciting at the time that i realized i must document it somewhere. a few weeks ago i found a life-size anatomical model of a human spine in a dumpster while taking a back route behind a grim shopping center to get a cup of coffee. at first, as [...]
rooms with a view
Posted in aesthetics, art, ephemera, home, love, new york, noir, people, photography, places, pretty things on September 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
meryl smith’s art is way cool. maybe even a little too cool.
but i really do love her “tea shirt”
and her flower deer
and whatever the hell this creepy amazingness is called:
ok, actually i love all of her stuff but none more than her living quarters which were photographed by Todd Selby for his website, www.theselby.com. Click the image [...]
happiness is a warm couch
Posted in aesthetics, home, new jersey, people, pretty things, victoriana on August 13, 2008 | 2 Comments »
i have been thinking lately about getting a new old couch. mine has never been that amazing and in the past year or so has turned an ugly shade of shabby. it has served me well considering i found in on the curb. i have used to to backdrops for photo projects, slept on it, [...]
rainy days and tuesdays always get me down
Posted in aesthetics, clothing, home, jersey city, photography, places on August 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
i have mondays off in the summer. this just means tuesday till friday i work extra long days and monday nights feel like sunday nights, only worse. my mondays off don’t last long enough to get used to and i end up wasting them doing mindless things like taking forever to get a shower, going [...]
