Do any of you save ticket stubs - movie, concert tickets, etc.? I've been saving them for as long as I can remember. I don't have it in me to toss them. I love having the reminder of what/who I saw and when. But if you don't have a way to organize them, the mess can get out of hand. I used to stuff them in a drawer and call it a day.
Not anymore!

One day while browsing through my hand-made books, I thought 'why don't I glue in my movie ticket stubs'? I picked a book at random and glued them in chronological order.

My brother liked what I did with my ticket stubs, so he gave me all of his and I glued them into another book for him. He had WAY too many stubs that I added a bunch more pages for him to fill in. I never realized how many movies he's been to over the years. Beats my number! That's for sure.

For Christmas, which was after I took action by gluing in my stubs, a friend bought me this ticket stub book. She gave it to me at a good time because I was so close to gluing in my concert stubs into another book. There would be no turning back from there! I filled it with my stubs from concerts and plays and such. It's such a nice little book, much neater than my movie stub books!

I love that these are all organized now, and looks nice stored on a bookshelf. No mess no more!
That's Organization 101 with Maria. Empty books and glue does the trick. Go organize your stubs now!

Oh, enjoy the new Silversun Pickups song! Two more months 'til their new album comes out!

I haven't posted much this week, I apologize. I honestly don't even know where the week went. It went by so fast!
It hasn't even hit me yet that it's Sunday.

But anyway, it IS Sunday. Here's my photo summary.

01. It has been a wonderfully warm week. I indulged in ice cream. I had no idea Ben & Jerry's made a red velvet ice cream, I HAD to buy it. It tasted delicious.
02. Then I poured cinnamon oat cluster cereal into it, and oh my, it tasted like heaven! I recommend oat clusters in ice cream. It's amazing.
03. I found time to do my nails this week! I haven't given myself a manicure in about three months. It was nice to find the time and just pamper myself.
04. My friend from Boston visited this weekend. Haven't seen him in about three years. We had so much to catch up on, but it felt like I saw him yesterday - our attitude and mindset reverted and it's as if we picked up right where we left off. We ended up staying over another friend's house after a long night. The next morning I took this snapshot. I loved how her rubber ducky was sitting in her window. Funny funny.

I'm excited for coming plans and events this week. And then next week is Spring break! Finally! I had such great plans for Spring break, but turns out I'll to put them on hold until the end of the semester. I'm kinda bummed but at the same time I'm really looking forward to sitting back and relaxing. I need it.

Here's my song choice of the moment. I was singing and dancing to Duran Duran with my mom today. She hates to admit it, but she loves non-Greek music. She's too full of Greek pride to admit it though.

Book number two! I named this one 002. Ursa Major Space Station after the Catherine Wheel song.

I'm a fan of how this book came out. The mix between leopard print and plaid was a good choice. It's funkayy.
This book has accordion styled pages.

I've always been decent at having a steady hand for drawing things out with my fabric paint, but I guess I've been getting rusty. I plan on going over it to make it neater.

This book will consist more of model figure drawings I did in school from old semesters. I put in drawings that were pretty decent and then fixed them up at home.
Here is page 01 and 02. The first page is a model we drew in my general illustration class second semester. The second page was a scrap page for tester paint strips, but I thought it looked nice. So I added it to my book.

Here's that Catherine Wheel song I named my book after.

Check out my new computer!

Took about a month for my friend to build, but it was so worth the wait.
The case is much larger than my last tower, but it still fits fine on my desk. He got me a tower with a window, which is pretty cool with the LED lights inside. The way he also organized everything inside is oh so wonderful - it looks so spacious!
My computer is running so fast and all problems I had before are fixed.
Life is wonderful.

And to celebrate, here's a new band I discovered the other day that I'm really diggin'.

I've had a pretty exciting week, which is nice for a change.
It was full of delicious foods and desserts. I need stop posting food pictures! Hah.

01. Carvel have new ice cream bonnet flavors! I usually get their cherry bonnets which are delicious, but my brother bought new flavors for me the other day - cake batter and cotton candy. I'm holding the cotton candy bonnet in this photo. SO good.
02. Went to Korea Town with friends, and we bought this box of mochi ice cream. I've never tried it before and they swore I would love it. I did! I love adding mochi to my frozen yogurt wherever I go - but this is all mochi with ice cream in the middle. I need more.
03. Another scrambled egg and leftovers combo here. I mixed leftover mac and cheese and french fries with my eggs. And to top it off, I mixed in ranch dressing. I was nervous it would taste a little funky with the mac and cheese, but it wasn't overwhelming. It worked. And it was delicious.
04. Here's my only non-food related photo. MY NEW COMPUTER. I got it back yesterday and it's amazing! I'll post about it tomorrow with more photos. It's running so smoothly, and it looks awesome. I'm in love with it.

Here's a band that I discovered recently - She's So Rad. They're from New Zealand. Seriously, New Zealand has the greatest music scene. I love all bands that come from there - I've never heard a band from New Zealand that I didn't like. Whatever they're all doing, it's working.

I'm so happy it's Friday. I've been waiting for this day to come - this week felt like it really dragged on. I think having family visiting can drag everything out. My dad's cousin from Greece has been visiting, but he will be leaving tomorrow. He stayed with us for two weeks; he was getting a feel for what it's like living in New York. He's looking into getting some kind of visa and moving in with us. So far the immigration process is keeping him from moving any time soon, but everyone's doing everything they can to get him to move to the U.S., legally that is!
It was nice having him around, but I really can't wait 'till things go back to normal. Makes me wonder what life would be like if he permanently moved in with us. I think I may go nuts. It'd be so cramped here - no privacy!

Anyway, I guess I'll share a little flashback.
A bunch of years ago, don't remember how long ago it was, my dad's birthday was rolling around and I didn't know what to get him/make him. Around that time, my friends and I weekly went to our usual paint-your-own-pottery place, and while I was there, I came up with a nice little idea for him. I've always painted their pottery, but I've never anything mosaic there. They had different shaped picture frames, so I decided to make him a cute little mosaic frame. I went with a circular one and picked out random colors. I ended up doing a sun frame.
After I finished it and it was in my possession, the question was what photo to put in the frame. I went through my photo album and found this cute photo of brothers and me when we were super young. I think I may have been around 3-4 in this photo.
He loved it. It currently sits in my parent's room.

I found out that Young Prisms will be releasing a new album soon. (I've been a bit out of the loop.) I'm pretty excited. Their new stuff really is sounding like My Bloody Valentine. No complaints there!

I know it's Thursday, and I should be posting up a page from my art journal. But unfortunately my second art journal doesn't have any finished pages; they're all half finished. So I plan on working on completing some pages to continue this starting next week. I'm so excited to move onto another journal of mine!
I also quickly have to say that I love that I started this specific weekly post. It forces me to stop and draw something in my free time, no matter how little and silly it may be. It helps me move from book to book giving me the chance to build a little collection, do art for myself in my spare time, use up books that I've made that are just sitting around, and grow as an artist!

Anyway, in the meantime I'll post about a new shirt I fixed up. It is actually a GAP shirt my mother gave me that she rarely wore. I really like how simplistic it is (I don't own any plain shirts) but being that I'm me, I needed to do something to it. I tried to hold myself back from going too crazy with sewing something on it, so I sewed on strips of this thin floral fabric. Forest green and floral is such a nice combination. I love it.

I have a movie to recommend to everyone. THE FALL. As everyone else explains it, it truly is a visually stunning film with a touching storyline. For some time, this movie has been on my list of films to watch, but I always brushed passed it. After watching all of Pushing Daisies, I saw Lee Pace was in this movie, so I decided to finally give it a watch. Lee Pace is a fantastic actor, and he does well in colorful fantasy-like films. I really enjoyed this movie, and I plan on buying it on DVD as soon as I can find it. Definitely a new favorite.