The pretty part of pretty stuff (sorteo blog Holamama)

There I was, lazy afternoon, bank holiday in Madrid and I had no plans cause someone had to work, much to my dismay.

I was lucky all my washi tape arrived yesterday, filling my head with decorating ideas for my little new place, also know as "el pisito".

Ahí estaba yo, tarde vaga, día festivo en Madrid y yo sin planes porque alguien tiene que trabajar, para mi desgracia.

I started to surf my lately discovered new favourite websites (which are putting me in some serious economic problem... yeah, my ugly part of pretty stuff ended bad, or well, depends on how you look at it) and there I saw it, the way to brighten up my not so happy afternoon:

Empecé a navegar por mis recientemente descubiertas nuevas páginas favoritas (que me están poniendo en algún que otro aprieto... si, mi ugly part of pretty stuff terminó mal, bueno, o bien, según como se mire) y ahí estaba, la forma de alegrarme la tarde:

Oh Joy!!! A giveaway! And such nice stuff involved I had to give it a try, right? Hope floats, and I may get some very very nice things for writing this post! Also it is helping me to post more regularly, which is always good, and makes me learn some blogger discipline. I read the instructions eagerly, and first person I thought of was my friend Agnes, so I sent her a message and here we are, newly made fans of Blog Holamama of Facebook, and now writing this post! They have the loveliest stuff in their online shop, I may have fallen for their party straws (I may be or may be not planning a brunch to use them) and of course their washi tapes!!! I ordered them last week and they arrived yesterday and I have gone totally crazy with it, just have a look.

 
Oh felicidad! Un sorteo! Y con cosas tan bonitas que tenía que intentarlo no? La esperanza es lo último que se pierde, y en el intento puede que consiga unas cosas muy muy monas por escribir este post! Además, me viene bien para postear más a menudo, que siempre es bueno y me enseña un poco de disciplina bloggera. Lei las instrucciones con avidez, y la primera persona en la que pensé fue mi amiga Agnes, así que le mande un mensajito y aqui estamos, nuevas fans de Blog Holamama en Facebook y ahora escribiendo este post! Tienen unas cosas ideales en su tienda online, yo ya he sucumbido a sus pajitas para eventos (puede que haya un brunch rondandome la cabeza para usarlas) y porsupuesto sus washi tapes!!! Hice un pedido la semana pasada y llegaron ayer, por supuesto me he vuelto completamente loca con ellas, mirad.

 I know this is not the usual Such is Life post, but I hope you like it too. Iwill go back to my washi tapes now, this is madness!

Ya se que esto no es lo habitual de Such is Life, pero espero que también os guste. Yo me vuelvo a mis washi tapes, esto es una locura!

Such is Life.

The ugly part of pretty stuff

I paid the first installment of my mortgage yesterday.

Ouch.

I had declared myself broke a month and a half ago, but it didn't hit me until yesterday.

What pains me most about this is... being unable to buy washi tape.

Dreadful thing to admit, but the truth after all. I could do so many things with washi tape.

I could decorate photo frames, bottles, notebooks, gifts, boxes, tins, my iPad. I could have a room decorated with washi tape.

Washi tape is pretty. And I hate pretty things when I can't buy them.

Only a couple minutes ago I visited three different online stores, filled three different shopping carts with crafting stuff and left all three websites before checking out because stupid Jiminy cricket keeps telling me I shouldn't because I need to save.

I don't like Jiminy criket, well, maybe if it looks this cute I like him a little bit.

Why have I become so twee?

These last few days have been a nightmare, I hadn't seen so many pretty things online ever, mugs, gift wrap, tags, kraft paper, boxes, baskets, ribbons... crafting is a big issue online, and there are millions, thousands of websites insisting on showing and selling us pretty things for... no purpose actually. I got ribbon, kraft paper tags, a blackboard and grey and white paper straws for I don't know which party... And I need more!

Crafting is totally unnecessary but totally addictive, and of course I have fallen in the twee trap of crafting. Huh, I may go see if I can do some DIY stuff and get rid of this need for pretty things. I may even show you. If it is worth it, of course.

It doesn't help that my sister is an origami genius and has filled our house with beautiful origami flowers.

I need to find my something to best her at. And I think washi tape will do the trick. Soon enough I'll have a washi taped fan. Even if I don't need one...

If anyone cares, I would be totally happy if I got a few rolls of washi tape for my birthday, which is coming yet too quickly.

I may have a few ideas on where you can get me my present this year ;P

Care to have a look?

http://mrwonderfulshop.bigcartel.com/

http://shop.holamama.es/

http://allwashitapeshop.bigcartel.com/

Please. Click. Buy. Send to M.

Such is Life.

Tweenagers, inbetweeners and twenty somethings

Yay! I am back from the posting desert! I've been unable to find inspiration lately, maybe because all I do is talk about lighting, plumbing, painting, decorating, paying bills ugh, I feel old. Even though according to this blog I have been a pre-adolescent for the last three years. Great.

I have been mistaken for the last three years and no-one has been kind enough to tell me!
Actually that's not true, a few weeks ago a friend told me but I thought he was wrong and not me. I am never wrong. Except this once maybe.


Someone should have told me that a "tweenager" is not the equivalent of "teenager" to refer someone in their twenties (which actually makes some sense, doesn't it?).

Someone should have told me (sooner) that according to the Urban Dictionary a Tweenager is this:

My "favourite" no doubt is meaning number 2. 

So this blog has been displaying my ignorance for the last three years, and that means either:


1) people consider me rather stupid and therefore likely to say I am a tweenager myself, even if I double the age of a tweenager.

2) people think I really am a tweenager (maybe the only tweenager in the world who has a mortgage). Maybe they even think I dress like a little ***** because I like pop tarts (for a second I thought it referred to

(Yes, I chose this Darth Vader Pop Tarts on purpose)

and not the other "pop tarts"

(I had to dig in google images to find this, the rest were either fat Britney, shaved-head Britney, or I-am-kissing-Madonna Britney...). Or

3) people read my blog and think: "ya think that u are cool, but ya arent."

Either way I didn't like it, so I have declared myself a twenty-something instead and have thus changed the line that appears below the Blog title.

Soon enough I'll have to change it again, let's hope that this Blog is still active by then.


Thanks Jon.

Such is Life

Till EURIBOR do us part.

"I will" he said, and my head started spinning.

"He said yes?" I had to ask to make sure I was not dreaming. I still couldn't believe my fortune, my future hapiness depended greatly on those words, and he had accepted my proposal!!!

Tears of joy filled my eyes, I started calling friends and family to make the anouncement.

"When?" was the most common question.

"In approximately a month" was my reply.

"So soon? You will have very little time to make all the arrangements. All the paperwork it requires... Are you sure you will be ready by then?"

I hope so... And then the spiral phonecalls, emails, documents, more documents, numbers and more numbers started.

It's been a very short engagement, only three weeks approximately, and now I am more than happy to anounce to all of you that next Wednesday 21st of March 2012 I am marrying...

MY BANK.

Happy mortgage to me.

STAR BLOGS EPISODE I: The shame menace

Turmoil has engulfed the Galactic Republic. The taxation of trade routes to outlying origami systems is in dispute. 

Hoping to resolve the matter with a blockade of deadly battleships, the greedy Trade Federation has stopped all shipping to the small planet of Naboo. 

While the Congress (*ehem!*) of the Republic endlessly debates this alarming chain of events, the Supreme Chancellor has secretly dispatched two Jedi Knights, the guardians of peace and justice in the galaxy, to settle the conflict... 

I skipped a week of posting because it was the turn of the Phantom Menace and I wanted to post on the same week of its 3D relaunch.

I thought I would be super excited about it, but I am not! And I know the reason:

Who did this horrid thing? Horrid! I see this and instead of wanting to watch the movie on theatres I want to pop my eyes out of my face.

Come on, Star Wars already has kitsch posters, with a seventies look that made them somewhat nice, and all fans were used to them and kind of understood that tatty aura of B series movie that encircled the posters.

But the new poster? That is like glueing together bits and pieces giving no sense of what the film is about! Fortunately they have been at least king enough not to include Jar-jar Binks in the poster. So the new trilogy may not be the best trilogy ever, even though Episode III has some interesting stuff going on, but if the content is not good, at least the package should be inviting!


Fans have had to defend the Phantom Menace yet too often, sure it is not like the original trilogy, sure the story itself is somewhat lacking and childish, but it is Star Wars come on! Don't make it look like a Leslie Nielsen (RIP) movie! Please. I'll have to defend it is superawesome even if the poster says the contrary and I don't like that.

May the Force be with you.

Such is Life

STAR BLOGS EPISODE VI: The return of Lego (R)

Thanks to my sister I have discovered the prints that are going to cover the walls of (let's hope so) my future place.


And also I have discovered a great artist of small things, mostly Lego (R)!! Please check his website, because its totally cool: Mike Stimpson. 

He not only fotographs Star Wars stuff but also recreates famous photos and pictures with Lego (he even made a recreation of Goya's "Los fusilamientos del 2 de mayo" commissioned by the Spanish government) or Steve McCurry`s Afghan Girl.


Through his work I also rediscovered Stormtroopers, which may be one of the most world wide known Star Wars icons of all time but that may not have gotten the recognition they deserve.

Stormtroopers have been on both sides, and I am convinced that after the fall of the Empire they went back to the good graces of people, they may have even gotten married and have kids (it already happened during the Clone Wars, so hopefully they get the peace they deserve after more than 30 years fighting).

Little did I know at age 8, when I first saw Star Wars that over the years, I would want my walls filled with Stormtroopers, who for me were simple idiotic men who had enrolled in the Empire's troops in their fight against the Rebellion.

Bad nasty people these Stormtroopers hummmmm.

And now? Now thanks to the Clone Wars (you may object but it is an awesome show!) and these pictures I pity Stormtroopers so much I would like to adopt a squadron and invite them over for tea every week. Even more so if they cook! and knit, and eat pancakes.


So next time you wonder what do I get M as a present? please please please please get me one of these, any of these, all of them, but do it!!!

May the force be with you.

Such is Life

STAR BLOGS EPISODE V: The Calories strike fat

EPISODE V: The Calories strike fat

It is a dark time for the Diet. Although the Death Watermelon has been destroyed, Carbohidrate troops have driven the rebel froces from their hidden base and pursued them across the fridge.

Evading the dreaded Carbohidrate Dishes, a group of calory fighters led by Luke Spicewalker has established a new secret base on the remote icing world of Hoth .

The evil lord Darth Transfat, obsessed with finding young Spicewalker, has dispatched thousands of remote probes into the far reaches of the fridge...

 In the icing planet of Hoth, the Carbohidrate forces, push our favourite calory fighters out of their hiding and destroy the rebel base, forcing Princess Leia, Chewbacca and Ham Solo to flee on board the Millenium Salad Bowl in search of the diet republic's meeting point. Their journey won't be uneventful, constantly chased by enemy ships and on the verge of being eaten by gigantic fridge worms, our heroes escape to the so-thought friendly cloud city, where they are trapped and held hostage awaiting for Luke Spicewalker to come in his friends' rescue.

Luke, who has been training with old weightwatcher master Yolkda leaves his training unfinished and meets his fate in the confines of cloud city, only to learn Darth Transfat is...

you all know who he is!

May the Force be with you.

Such is Life.

Impotant note: None of this pictures are mine, all obtained from google images. All awesome, thanks to the cooks!