Sep 16, 2010 | Life, Score!
The Judges have judged, the votes have been tallied, the Favoriting has been ranked…and at long last here are our 4 Winners!
Fan Favorite Winner
(Most Hearts + Likes during Competition Period)
Congratulations – your projects were all fantastic!
With over 150 entries this Competition was a smashing success! Thank you so much to everyone who entered, blogged, tweeted, added buttons, and promoted it – we couldn’t have done it without all of you! 😀
Even if you didn’t win something this time around, please keep crafting and DIY’ing and sharing your projects – so the spirit of doing-it-yourself spreads unbounded and teaches us all to
Don’t Buy…D.I.Y!!
xoxox
Carly
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Sep 14, 2010 | DIY, Life, Score!
Wow, I’m still coming off the high from the first Create Couture Challenge New York Design Shop sponsored back in August!
Well, NYDS has done it again and put together another challenge for DIY and crafty bloggers out there:
The 2nd Create Couture Contest officially begins! Today marks the first day of the nomination process. Nominate your favorite blogger or DIY enthusiast by any of the following:
1. sending a tweet to @nydesignshop
2. writing on their facebook wall
3. by leaving a comment on THIS blog post, [clicky-click cuz that’s a link!] OR
4. by e-mailing them at info@newyorkdesignshop.com
You have until Monday, September 20 so think hard about who you think will make the best DIY Halloween costume. You may nominate more than one person. 15 contestants will be chosen from the nominees. All nominees will be announced on the NYDS blog. Contestants will be notified by NYDS on Tuesday, September 21, and must decide if they want to participate by Friday, September 24. Rules and Regulations will be distributed via e-mail by Monday, September 27.
Know anyone crafty or uber-talented? Dying to see what your favorite DIY blogger could come up with? Nominate someone via the methods above – and cross your fingers to see if they’ll step up to the challenge!! (And it seems there’s nothing against nominating yourself, either;-)
xoxox
Carly
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Sep 13, 2010 | Life
Alpacas are soooo adorable. Apparently they’re very intelligent, gentle, quiet creatures. They don’t fight, don’t spit, don’t stink, don’t eat a lot or over-graze, and are smart enough to poop only in one corner of their field, instead of all over the place like other farm animals.
There are a couple alpaca farms near where we live. We pass one large one on the way home most days, slowing down to see if we can see the alpacas milling about. They’re so fluffy and adorable.
Now that Lil Tot is almost 5, he is talking quite a lot. He often says things I find amusing, or mentions something adults wouldn’t ever think of. This is a conversation we had in the car passing the alpaca farm the other day:
Lil Tot: Mama, what are alpacas?
Me: (pauses.) Um…airplanes?
Lil Tot: ???? No they’re not! What are they???
Me: No…caramels!
Lil Tot: *giggling and shouting* No, Mama, they’re not caramels!!! What ARE they???
Hub: Race cars.
Lil Tot: NO! They’re NOT race cars!!!
Hub: Fish.
Me: Cucumbers.
Hub: Worms.
Me: Tax forms.
Lil Tot: (shrieks) NO!! That has nothing to do with ANYTHING!! WHAT! ARE! THEY!!???!!
Me: They’re animals, sweetie. Animals.
Lil Tot: Ah. Animals.
Me:………. Well, what did you think they were???
Lil Tot: Horses.
!!!!
xoxox
Carly
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Sep 13, 2010 | Life
Never, ever, ever mention the movie Showgirls in a positive context during a job interview. Unless you ARE auditioning to be a showgirl. Otherwise, DON’T. And don’t ever say it’s your favorite film, especially when it isn’t. IN FRONT OF THE OWNER OF THE COMPANY. Not ever, ever, ever.
(And to think I was repeating this mantra to myself in the car on the way there [to my second interview with a company I’m super-excited about] and yet I still managed to squeeze it into the conversation. Un.be.liev.able.)
Not ever.
AIIYYEEEEEEEE! ARRRRGHHHHHH! GAH!
*hides under the desk in shame*
xoxox
Carly
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Sep 11, 2010 | Life, Media
So a reader asked me on Formspring.me if I could make a video of me speaking Japanese. So here it is! (I made the video in like 30 minutes, so please excuse the low production values:-)
Just a little something to find amusing…;-)
xoxox
Carly
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Sep 9, 2010 | Life
So as many of you probably know already, I was in Tokyo for two weeks in early July to visit my in-laws. Hub and Lil Tot went two weeks ahead of me while I stayed behind to look for our runaway cat; sadly, I didn’t find her so went to join my family for the last little bit of our vacation.
So here are some of the photos we took while there… (this is super-long, just to warn you! And totally ignore the commentary if my dry sense of humor grates on ya.)
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