Pictures, finally. {♥}

remember our 80's party? Farewell Power House!

No man loves his dog more than Bert. Doesn't Rockie look just like him? We will miss you Rockie. A large sacrifice to make to move into the lovely house in Downtown Mesa that doesn't allow pets :[

Me and Jonny, my dance partner for the night. We groove to 80's quite well.

My mom's wedding! I made her a little "forever" banner at her request which is unfortunately MUCH cuter in person. I swear.

Our photographer for the evening.

Step Brothers? So weird! But a lovely family nonetheless. My mom was such a princess on her big day! I love her. And if you don't know, the other chikas are my 2 sisters.

Brittany!

the girlie girls.

me and lovely sarah. You should check her blog for real, this girl is only a sophomore and she's already a pro blogger/crafter/photographer. I aspire to be like her when I grow up!

I also decided to make a jar where family and friends could offer words of wisdom for the newlyweds.

My mom is lucky she has an aesthetician and cosmetologist for daughters. We love to beautify. We are a little harsh though... "MOM, FEATHERED HAIR IS IN AND BACK-COMBING IS NOT NECESSARY!" We nearly made the poor woman cry. Truth is she is beautiful with whatever hair she wants.

-tomorrow I intend to go to New Moon at 10 am, get breakfast in Downtown Mesa, and paint away at the boys new home! Lovely day ahead, need sleep.

whimsywireandwool

umm yes please?

FEATURED! {♥}

Featured on a wedding website on the day of my mothers wedding?! Ironic? I sure think so. What a lovely piece on our photo shoot. I am so happy someone recognized our hard work :]

rocknrollbride.com

^my mother! The cutest bride to be!

may I be wind in your hair {♥}

^grandma Maxwell

How fun are butterflies? I have sweet memories of my Grandma Maxwell. I remember her bathroom having butterflies everywhere. She also sewed our swimsuits when we were little. And I always remember her with a bowl of cookie dough in her hand that she was mixing. So butterflies and sunsets remind me of that sweet woman. Maybe I'll have a little daughter someday to name "nellie" after her.

-hopefully soon I can post pictures of my mom's bachelorette party tonight. It was so fun. Her wedding will be adorable, and boy is she giddy :]

sweet william calendar via {daydream lily}

with a calendar like this how can "oh-10" suck??

Today I managed to bust my blackberry. EFF.

I'll leave the dying young stuff up to you.

I am so happy today. See that CELEBRATE banner above? I intend to make one like that for my mothers wedding which is Thursday. I cannot belive the day is here. It's so fun to wedding dress shop with my mom and plan her Bachelorette party. Everyone assumes I'm the bride, and I just point to her and smile.

I am also making favors for the guests, (individual bags of hot chocolate), and possibly a table with photos of relatives.

Today I am happy because it contained a photo shoot with Kate Lines. I got to wear several different colorful outfits, I fro'd out my hair, and wore fun china doll makeup. She used a 35mm film camera so we didn't get to see how ANY of the shots turned out! I guess we'll get to see them Saturday. I had such a blast running barefoot through a field laughing. Kate just snapped away.

I'm also happy because Bon Iver is constantly playing in my car and home.

and because I cleaned ALL day. 3:03 am? What do you know. I just cleaned the kitchen.

Farewell "chill" house. Sorry you have to move. Although I love the idea of you boys moving to downtown mesa historic district. Coffee talk, the Temple, citrus trees, mmhmm.

my life is ridiculously simple and lovely.

makeshift apparel

clothes I wore into the shoot, a shot just for fun.

This is Amanda Wesselman. The genious behind Makeshift Apparel! Seriously, her clothes are amazing. Betsey Johnson meets Betty Page with a circus twist. Her clothes are really inventive. She made a dress out of little boy dinosaur fabric! She is probably 5 feet tall and the tiniest little thing you've ever seen. We go back to elementary school. Her tattoos will be featured in several tattoo magezines in December. I'm so proud of her. And better yet I got to model in her clothes today! She told me that models often steal her clothes. I can't blame them!! She had to pry a little mini dress off of me. The photographer is Tate and he is really talented. My first shoot in a studio! He just shot Fall Out Boy pretty recently. Amanda is selling her clothes on ETSY and is based out of California now. I will post my shoot asap!

{amelia southworth}

gosh Millie is so talented. I love the way she edited these shots. I am horrified of heights but I insisted on climbing that tree. You don't understand how high up I was.

hurray, i'm your silver lining.

random shots from the bloggers I love. consider me inspired!

we are all as numerous as leaves on trees.

I have several reasons why East Coast is on my mind. Planning this trip to New York has me so excited about going there for the first time and all the wonderful things we will get to do. It also makes me very nostalgic about my home in New Castle Pennsylvania. I remember the countless acres of land we lived on full of deer. we had a pond full of fish that would freeze over for ice skating in the winter. I remember sledding in the winter and in summer picking fresh blackberries for dinner and watering flowers. Our house was extremely old and we didn't even have a dishwasher. There was a post where people used to tie their horses. It was the most lovely quaint house on a hill. So excluded from the world. I was such an ignorant little 10 year old that I envied the "rich" kids in their tract homes. I didn't understand what a lovely home we had. But I do have very fond memories.

today I'm thankful for:

• rain
• rilo kiley
• good friends
• hope

put on your red shoes and dance the blues

tonight's 80's party was so ridiculously fun. I spent most of the night sitting on the counter in my hot pink tights and platform shoes just amazed at the dance moves I saw amidst several strobe lights. My favorite songs played:

• pump up the games



• under pressure by Bowie



• let's dance by Bowie
  
  
• heaven is a place on earth
  

I went and changed into pajamas and once I heard The Faint: Hospital I couldn't help but bust out some ridiculous dance moves. My afro was everywhere. I looked insane.

It was so high school movie when the cops literally came and broke it up. No alchohol at this party, just cars parked incorrectly and music that was too loud.

{poetry} ?

I've always had secrets. But now I'm starting to release them one by one. Last night I revealed my ability to crump. I also finally confessed to the world that someday by some miracle I'd love to be a print model. My best friends were stunned. Today I confess that I write songs. this morning at 4am I couldn't sleep, okay I just didn't want to sleep. And I wrote a poem. I've never written a poem before. I don't know the rules. I'd never post it on here, or let anyone see it. But I'll post a little snippet for fun. Have you ever loved and lost? Isn't it better than never loving at all?

You are lovely! You really are

but if my skin isn't soft enough

or you don't love the way my nose crinkles when I laugh

you must go, so fly away blackbird

find your bluejay

don't look back on the photos we took

or the smell of the pages in the book

or smile and wave when the encounters occur

ignore the butterflies your stomach will stir

♥

{more secrets to be revealed, stay tuned}

my reading corner

• pillow ross sale bin
• chair goodwill
• scriptures
• vintage mailbox
• books goodwill
• table antique mall of america
• vase ross
• feaux flowers, micheals
• tea cups antique shop in hunnington
• mirror, goodwill, spray painted

Kevin Bingham's first shoot with a person!

This is a shoot for Millie Southworths bridal portfolio. Kevin came along to try out his new camera. I just wanted an excuse to wear my grandmas fur coat. I love that thing so much. You can imagine the reaction when the homeowner came home and there were 2 photographers, props everywhere, and a girl in a fur coat on his porch. AWWKWARD. nadia: "err uhh your house is s-s-s-pectacular"

(I never say spectacular).

This house really is.

wrap around porch

secret garden

bookshelves

mona lisa painting in the den

antlers

hardwood

AHHHHH.

• Hair: babysit for hair curls. It's called trade people.
  

• Lipstick and lashes: walgreens
  

• dress: sale rack at urban outfitters $30 bucks
• shoes: gifted two Christmases ago

• hat, suitcase, books: vintage, borrowed from my sister

I always knew the woman I wanted to be- Diane Von Furstenberg

happy veteran's day pop. I love that when I called you today you were at "the ditch" aka the bar you've gone to your entire life. The bar where on veterans day you don't pay for a single drink because everyone knows who you are and how you served in the Korean War. Love you sweet grandpa.

this is the weird stuff that happens when I put on Ingrid Michealson and rinse off the make-up and have hours to spend alone in my room and go creative! please excuse the blackberry camera phone which is ancient and awful. This wall has everything from new years resolutions, thank you notes, ancient love poems, an entire Teen Vogue, stickers, photos from my old bird watching book, quotes from designers, a kiss from my red lipstick, and more! I love it because it inspires me. Do you guys have cute inspiration boards in your room? I wanted one that was huge and chalkboard so I could write directly on it and use magnets. But thumbtacks will do for tonight.

look up, maybe you just missed the sun.

really, how hard could it be to build a swing like this? Strong rope, a piece of sanded painted wood, drill two holes, flowers from micheals? This is really starting to seem feasible in my mind. I just need a backyard, grass, and a house that isn't rented. Shoot. Can I borrow your backyard?

why I'm broke.

Tomorrow I get to pretend to be a bride in this little beauty. I love photo shoots!

80's party friday at Kevin's? You're telling me I FINALLY have an excuse to dress like Bowie?

My entire life I have had a love/hate with walmart. I spend so much money there. With their convenient location and self-checkout it is worse than ever. I am convinced their conspiracy theory is this.... load the place up with carnie looking meth-heads like the Odoylles and McPoylles and scare the crap out of the normal locals so they'll load their carts up fast and spend more than they anticipated. Then as I was disgusted with myself for being so judgemental I realized what makes me so different? I show up to Wal-Mart, technically unemployed and dizzily wander into the scrapbook section and buy the items listed above on my credit card. Like really? I'm a wal-mart carnie freak. Be afraid normal mormon moms.


Don't get me started on Forever 21. You know the girl that pays with cash and splits the remaining balance on 2 cards? I'm that girl. I'm sorry. I'm the girl that wanders in there just to try things on and marvel at the cheap items that I STILL cannot afford. I once shamefully cleaned a friends house for 20 bucks so I could go to forever. Eeesh confessions of a shop-a-holic P2. But THEIR conspiracy theory is this. Fast, loud, techno music so that you cannot hear yourself think or budget or have any sort of logic. Pile it up, throw it in the evil yellow bag. I'm a dirtbag.



Scottsdale. I hate you. With your bleach blonde bimbos with greasy extensions I think YOU look poor. I hope your fake tan melts away. I have been guilty of fake extensions and fake tans and all of those superficial things in the industry, I admit. But I don't have that stuck up attitude and beer bitter face to accompany it. Okay I'm just ridiculously jealous of your black Mercedes SUV that your 80 year old husband bought you that I probably deserve more than you. Jussayin.





ANYWHO I DIGRESS





The photo above is part of a display at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art. This particular piece is part of the display done by local elementary school students. I believe this display is free as well. So tight!




TEAM TAMRAN!!! (A girls night to cheer up the girl who deserves the world, karaoke, pictures to come).

if only it were that simple...

we'll all be portions for foxes.

This morning I woke up feeling nauseated and confused and depressed that I may be getting sick all over again. A few text messages later I was watching Bored to Death and sipping pedialight laughing and enjoying the beautiful day ahead of me. How much happiness is one girl allowed before everything comes crashing down? I shouldn't worry...

Ya, that's Zak Galifanakis (sp?) from The Hangover. Yes he is as funny in this show as he was in that movie.

Then I taught my friends how to play Shanghai

competitiveness is U-G-L-Y!

and "baked" cookies. (pre-made dough, I didn't even purchase them). Fail.

learned how to Orogami thanks to YouTube and Brittany T

add these photos together and you see the joy in me. Joy despite opposition.

HAPPY THOUGHTS:

• My vintage crochet book will come in handy this thursday as we make scarves for Christmas presents
• I also found a perfect wreath project
• and silhouette christmas ornaments [simple and cheap]
• I want to rent West Side Story for 2 bucks at Blockbuster
• feeling better as the day went on
• photo shoots in the works, portfolio being constructed [bites nails]
• make up artistry work this month (can you say Christmas Photos anyone?)
• sewing pillows with madre.

name that tune:

time can take it's toll on the best of us

look at you! You're growing old so young.

traffic lights blink at you in the evening

turn your head and turn into the sun

sometimes the tv is like a lover

singing softly as you fall asleep

you wake up in the morning and it's still there

adding up the things you'll never be

alright, I can say what you want me to

alright, I can do all the things YOU do

alright, I'll make it all up for you

I'm still in love with you,

I'm still in love with you.

p 3 stacie lang! [sick of me yet?]

^ I must caption. This was when stacie told me a funny story about an ex bf because I am a vampire and that's the only way to get a genuine laugh out of me.

^ ^stacie: "give me the best mean smirk a Nadia can give"

^no editing, I'm that pale.

Stacie is so talented. Really, this was all her. Do you ever wonder what my ACUAL credentials are? Because in my head and in my dreams I am a lot of things. Technically though I am an aesthetician, laser technician, makeup artist, and uhh I have a background in reception work and dabbled in real estate with my father.

If you are looking for a good make up artist call me :] I'm fair with prices and I do a fun practice session before the event. And I'm known to include diet coke and paradise chippers with my services.