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Christine M. Ernest
Handmade enthusiast, maker and
Communications Director of Hello Craft
Contact me at magandadesign[at]gmail[dot]com
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- Inventory Analyst at GannettMarketing and Advertising | Washington D.C. Metro Area, USSummary
Specialties: DoubleClick for Publishers (DFP) • DoubleClick for Advertisers (DFA) • AdTech Helios IQ • AdMarvel • Google Analytics • Omniture
Experience- Jun 2012 - PresentInventory Analyst / Gannett
- May 2011 - Jun 2012Advertising Campaign Specialist / Gannett
- Assisted in deployment of DoubleClick for Publishers (DFP) as lead trafficker for first broadcast site to migrate to the new ad server
- Oversaw daily management of digital ad campaigns including campaign trafficking, targeting, pacing and optimization using DoubleClick for Publishers (DFP), AdTech Helios IQ, AdMarvel and Yahoo! APT
- Sept 2010 - May 2011Digital Advertising Operations Specialist / Creative Loafing
- Created and enforced workflow process for sales staff of Washington City Paper, Chicago Reader, Creative Loafing Atlanta, Creative Loafing Charlotte, Creative Loafing Sarasota and Creative Loafing Tampa to ensure accurate and timely execution of campaigns using DoubleClick for Advertisers (DFA)
- Revamped weekly campaign progress reports by implementing an automated reporting system streamlining client communication efforts along with increasing campaign profitability
- Apr 2009 - Aug 2010Advertising Coordinator / Washington City Paper / Creative Loafing
- Managed, scheduled and trafficked media placements for both online and print advertising schedule for Washington City Paper sales and marketing team using DoubleClick for Publishers (DFP)
- Oversaw creation of marketing materials from planning stages to final product including print and online advertisements, event signage, and newspaper streetbox signs in greater Washington DC area
- Jan 2007 - Feb 2009Senior Publicist / The Planetary Group
- Promoted to position of Senior Publicist after 20 months
- Managed deadline-driven publicity campaigns for approximately 60 independent artist clients
- Media secured in publications such as SPIN, Fader Magazine, Alternative Press and Boston Globe
- Aug 2006 - Dec 2006Editorial Intern / The Philadelphia Business Journal
- Responsible for editing, writing and reporting stories as assigned using Associated Press Style for a circulation of approximately 12,500
- Bylined column on philanthropic business initiatives and created profile on business leaders weekly
- May 2006 - Sept 2006Editorial Intern / Press of Atlantic City
- Wrote a total of 28 articles for entertainment, dining and news sections according to Associated Press Style for a circulation of approximately 70,000
- Designed page layouts weekly using QuarkXPress
- Aug 2005 - May 2006Research Assistant / FMQB
- Hired as a research assistant after 6 month internship
- Responsible for researching, writing and editing online content for music industry website
Education-
2003 - 2006Cabrini CollegeBA in English and communication
Activities: The Loquitur (A&E editor), WYBF (music directior)
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Recent Tracks
- Buck Hill by The Replacements
- I Will Dare by The Replacements
- Can't Hardly Wait by The Replacements
- Bastards of Young by The Replacements
- Alex Chilton by The Replacements
- Left of the Dial by The Replacements
- Yawn, Yawn, Yawn by Les Savy Fav
- Tragic Monsters by Les Savy Fav
- The Sweat Descends by Les Savy Fav
- Titan by Les Savy Fav
The ShiversThe WrensThe Long WintersThe Appleseed CastLuceroIdlewildRegina SpektorRilo KileyCat PowerDeath Cab for CutieThe WalkmenmcluskySufjan StevensPretty Girls Make GravesFleetwood MacCasiotone for the Painfully AloneFrightened RabbitLittle WingsMates of StatePedro the Lionof MontrealMetricThe DecemberistsSpoonDepartment of EaglesSt. VincentCloud CultThe ReplacementsSleeping in the AviaryBilly BraggTed Leo and the PharmacistsBroken Social SceneAndrew W.K.Tegan and SaraThe Blood BrothersThao with The Get Down Stay DownYeah Yeah YeahsKings of LeonJay ReatardFour TetThe New PornographersThe BlowBrand NewNada SurfCursiveAgainst Me!WilcoThe Black KeysThe Get Up KidsPavement -
Mixes
- 20 plays / Created Feb 09, 11Twelve tracks including music by Pavement, The Shivers and Mazzy Star.
- 23 plays / Created Jan 03, 11Thirteen tracks from my favorite ladies singing my favorite songs. Including tracks by St. Vincent, Rilo Kiley and Laura Veirs.
- 10 plays / Created Feb 11, 13I think of you less. But sometimes I wonder if you really were meant for me... And I just wasn't meant for you. I'm just sorry. 8 tracks including Bon Iver, Calvin Harris and Bedouin Soundclash.
- 173 plays / Created Feb 26, 12Sometimes it feels good to indulge in sadness - to let yourself fall into the deep, beautiful melancholy of all that has happened. Feel it; this sadness is yours.
- 147 plays / Created Feb 26, 12These are songs to dance to...alone, because she has left. So you stand in your underwear or in the shower and you laugh because life is still beautiful. You dance, even though you are a terrible dancer. Life goes on and rhythm is found in the pulsing of your broken heart.
- 57 plays / Created Oct 31, 11I wish you would invite me in and shut the door. Eight tracks including music by Astro Nautico, The Peekers, and Black Moth Super Rainbow.
- 24 plays / Created Oct 01, 11Ennnnnnd. Eleven tracks including Bon Iver, Ivana XL and Bright Eyes.
- 27 plays / Created Sep 11, 11For Fall and this guy. Nine tracks including music by Harvey Danger, The Tallest Man on Earth, and Modest Mouse.
- 45 plays / Created Jul 05, 11Summer has finally arrived in the great northwest. Eight tracks including music by Dr. Dog, Green Day, and Sublime.
- 9 plays / Created Jun 27, 11Up early for work. Gotta get excited. Eight tracks including music by Billy Bragg & Wilco, New Young Pony Club, and Rancid.
- 24 plays / Created Jun 15, 11I've got a big crush on a boy. Nine tracks including music by Cinnamon Chasers, Dr. Dog, and Lupe Fiasco.
- 237 plays / Created Jun 04, 11a version of a mix I made for a friend that includes music by neutral milk hotel, margot & the nuclear so and sos, and peter broderick. to make you happy when skies are grey.
- 13 plays / Created May 30, 11The chaos of my life. The good and the bad. Nine tracks including music by Animal Collective, Voodoo, and Cactus.
- 22 plays / Created Mar 23, 11The other side of everything. 13 tracks including songs from The Tallest Man on Earth, Sigur Ros and Ramona Cordova.
- 85 plays / Created Feb 09, 11Sixteen tracks that makes me feel badass.
- 33 plays / Created Feb 08, 11Seventeen tracks including music by Bowerbirds, The National and Radical Face.
- 69 plays / Created Feb 08, 11Thirteen tracks including music by The Smiths, Bob Dylan, and Fleet Foxes.
- 12 plays / Created Jan 23, 11Big soul from all walks of life for when I'm in the big sky state.
- 47 plays / Created Jan 17, 11Traveling music for my Washington to Connecticut trip. This is Idaho's section. Good music for a distant land.
- 498 plays / Created Jan 15, 11a mix for breathing. lay on your floor and listen to music by the cinematic orchestra and peter broderick, plus others. originally made for http://www.8tracks.com/helloworld.
- 33 plays / Created Jan 09, 11I'm (hopefully!!) moving from beautiful Washington to Connecticut this summer, so I'm preparing my road music now. State by state, I'll have a preplanned set of tunes to groove and drive along with.
- 24 plays / Created Jan 05, 11Eight tracks including music by Animal Collective, Freedom Or Death and Fever Ray.
- 72 plays / Created Jan 04, 11Adorable and sweet tracks with female vocals including music by Architecture in Helsinki, Best Coast and Cake on Cake.
- 19 plays / Created Jan 03, 11Eight sweet tracks including music by Alcoholic Faith Mission, Beach House and Braids.
- 32 plays / Created Jan 02, 11Eight tracks including music by Alcoholic Faith Mission, Dad Rocks! and Frederik Teige.
- 24 plays / Created Jan 02, 11Let down, letting go, looking up, missing everyone. Twenty-three tracks including music by The Peekers, Modest Mouse and Arcade Fire.
- 15 plays / Created Dec 16, 10For the one who left by way of math equations.
- 22 plays / Created Dec 06, 10Memories of who I was. Late nights, summer days, sad times and good love. Twenty-two tracks including music by Harvey Danger, Animal Collective and Modest Mouse.
- 119 plays / Created Dec 06, 10Songs that powerfully remind me of specific moments and people. Twenty-two tracks including music by Sufjan Stevens, Wilco and The Kooks.
- 51 plays / Created Dec 05, 10Wishing. Twenty tracks including music by Astro Nautico, Beirut and Nina Simone.
- 173 plays / Created Dec 05, 10songs from you, for you, about you. here's hoping Bon Iver, The Velvet Underground, and http://www.rainymood.com/ help you get through whatever you need to cry about. (picture of my gorgeous friend Kelly,)
- 56 plays / Created Dec 03, 10For when you're angry at someone, something or the world in general. Twenty tracks that let you be angry including music by Built to Spill, Modest Mouse and Florance and the Machine.
- 40863 plays / Created Nov 02, 10Music you've already heard by Ben Gibbard, Blind Pilot and Bright Eyes, because home and happy music tend to make everything better. Listen with http://www.rainymood.com/ and a cup of tea, and feel better!
- 445 plays / Created Oct 31, 10Bon Iver, Anathallo, and Radical Face, and some pent-up feelings. (picture of Kelly by me, because a. it just fits and b. she's absolutely gorgeous.)
- 27 plays / Created Oct 27, 10Songs that remind me of Fall and make me feel cozy.
- 2227 plays / Created Oct 24, 10but it's okay, 'cos it's autumn and everything is beautiful. a few tracks of good warm music (Jaymay, Iron and Wine, Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova) that I've been listening to. ideally mixed with http://www.rainymood.com/
- 95 plays / Created Oct 17, 10Nineteen tracks including music by An Horse, Ice Cube and Old Crow Medicine Show
- 56 plays / Created Jul 08, 10Eight tracks including music by Blue Foundation, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros and Faded Paper Figures.
- 763 plays / Created Apr 02, 09Sixteen tracks including music by Aggrolites, Sufjan Stevens and Black Moth Super Rainbow.
- 74 plays / Created Mar 31, 09Fourteen tracks including music by Ghostface Killah, Incubus and Ivana XL. Good for the singin'.
- 136 plays / Created Mar 31, 09Fifteen tracks including music by Bedouin Soundclash, Gogol Bordello and Kaki King.
- 9 plays / Created Mar 31, 09Good music to play in the background at work. Fourteen tracks including music by Big D & The Kids Table, Bright Eyes and Dr. Dog.
- 69 plays / Created Mar 30, 09Fourteen tracks including music by Built to Spill, Modest Mouse and Ivana XL.
- 55 plays / Created Mar 01, 1211 tracks of female fronted punk / grrrl / indie - past, present, and future PLAY LOUD!
- 2207 plays / Created Oct 01, 12The metal and hard rock mix to get you going in the gym. Get shredded brohemias. Blast those guns. Unload those cannons. Get the girl. Includes Tracks by Limp Bizkit, Disturbed, Scars of Life and more..
- 540 plays / Created Sep 04, 12"The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass." WARNING! The shit fueling Usain Bolt and Tyson Gay! (maybe) Don't forget about worming up and cooling down.
- 7689 plays / Created Aug 20, 12Not the typical workout mix - These make me wanna move, dance, shake my ass = makes me wanna keep working til the last song plays
- 603 plays / Created Apr 20, 1227 tracks including Adele, Tegan and Sara, and Laura Marling -
- 4613 plays / Created Jul 31, 12My fave playlist I made up so far. The best indie remixes, a mix of oldies and brand new remixes. From dubstep to house and from artists like Foster The People to Sia & The xx. 30+ songs. **Check out the INDIE REMIXES II
- 13463 plays / Created Jun 16, 12Feel that pumping adrenaline pulse through your arms, legs, & abs. Feel that satisfaction and pain of success. Taste the salty drops of your sweat as they drip down; the taste of success and hard work. Ordered to perfection. Starts medium pace for a warm up, becomes faster paced for a hard core workout, and then slows down again for a warm down. NOTE: I'm probably going to add more songs over time.
- 992 plays / Created Apr 16, 12Been feelin' a little nostalgic, ya!
- 963 plays / Created Jun 20, 12my 25 favorite tracks so far in 2012. features songs from Damien Jurado, Alabama Shakes and Japandroids
- 13118 plays / Created May 21, 12It is the summer of 1965 on the Island of New Penzance. Music Supervisor Randall Poster has curated a selection of some of the favorite songs of the denizens of the island, all characters in Wes Anderson's new film, Moonrise Kingdom – in select theatres May 25th.
- 113 plays / Created Apr 13, 12
- 52 plays / Created Apr 07, 1214 tracks including The Shins, Spoon, Sparklehorse and others..
- 901 plays / Created Apr 04, 12An "alternative" workout mix, I guess. All the other one's I've found are dubstep or r'n'b. This is what I listen to when running. Features The Black Keys, Pendulum, TV On The Radio.
- 7117 plays / Created Mar 20, 12Inspired by the movie and sounds of Project X. Have a dance party or just do your homework. Hip hop, rap, electronic, remix, dub and pop all in the shweet mix. Don't worry about this playlist ending for a while cuz there's... wait for it... 69 songs! I find a lot of remixes on YouTube and 8tracks, so just look up the songs if you like. A good range music; come one come all.
- 1962 plays / Created Jan 30, 12
- 26874 plays / Created Nov 16, 11More than one hundred tracks including music by Andrew Bird, Dirty Gold, and Fleet Foxes
- 58 plays / Created Dec 29, 11Eight tracks including music by Lykke Li, Bon Iver, and Destroyer.
- 76 plays / Created Oct 24, 11It's Monday. Eleven tracks to start your day, including music by Beach House, Big Troubles, and Blind Pilot.
- 9389 plays / Created Oct 18, 1187 tracks of pure perfection. The best of everything. Literally. Push play, and smile.
- 28 plays / Created Oct 15, 11Ten fuzzy songs including music by The Joy Formidable, Giant Drag, and Say Hi to Your Mum.
- 99 plays / Created Oct 03, 11The total cliche of being in love in twenty personally-relevant songs, including The Notwist, The National, and Voxtrot. (I can be emo too!)
- 18461 plays / Created Sep 18, 1196th Mix. We're about to press that replay button baby, why don't you just sit back, have a smoke, have a drink, and relax. Trust me.
- 109 plays / Created Jul 27, 10It's late. I should be asleep. Twenty tracks including music by Beirut, Casiotone For The Painfully Alone and The Tallest Man On Earth. This mix is dedicated to Maren.
- 132 plays / Created Aug 25, 1125 tracks of (mostly) indie pop. Featuring 25 bands including The Blow, Saturday Looks Good To Me, His Name Is Alive & more! [TRT: 1:19:09] Artwork by Tim Frame: http://dribbble.com/shots/153693-Indie-Pop-Red
- 90 plays / Created Aug 29, 11Eight tracks including music by Baths, Bugskull, and Casiotone For The Painfully Alone.
- 42 plays / Created Aug 22, 11Fifteen tracks including music by Beach House, Xiu Xiu, and The Dismemberment Plan.
- 6 plays / Created Aug 24, 11Eight tracks including music by Ennio Morricone, Ganglians, and Kurt Vile.
- 68 plays / Created Aug 03, 11By Sonam Parikh It's a hot, hot summer. There are some moments when the warmth turns to something else; a sort of venemous and hallucinogenic glaze that dulls your senses and renders you sedentary, laying in bed, sweat pooling along the sticky crevices of your body. This is the kind of playlist you want to listen to in the doldrums of this particularly sort of heat. http://letsgetbent.tumblr.com/post/8432346308/mix-hot-hot-summer-mix
- 56 plays / Created Jul 29, 11Eighteen tracks including music by Beirut, The Men, and Damp Hay.
- 41 plays / Created Jul 28, 11Eight tracks including music by Beth Ditto, Hyphen Hyphen, and Lilofee.
- 102 plays / Created Jul 24, 11Twenty tracks including music by Arab Strap, Best Coast, and Bishop Allen. Songs mostly pertaining to love and the loss of.
- 130 plays / Created Jul 24, 11Fourteen tracks including music by Walk the Moon, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, and Foster the People.
- 400 plays / Created Jul 18, 11Catchy little tunes that will have you singing along warm days by the pool side! <3
- 281 plays / Created Jul 18, 11Twenty-three tracks including music by Be Your Own Pet, Best Coast, and Fleetwood Mac.
- 28 plays / Created Jul 09, 11For smashing shit and drinking whiskey to.
- 602 plays / Created Nov 04, 10A playlist of some of my favorite cover songs. Thirty-four tracks including music by Cat Power, Rilo Kiley, Bat For Lashes and Broken Social Scene.
- 73 plays / Created Jun 22, 11eight tracks including music by xiu xiu, nite jewel, & tune-yards.
- 42 plays / Created Jun 19, 11Lo-fi queer soul. Ten tracks from the likes of Grizzly Bear, Casiotone For The Painfully Alone, and The Magnetic Fields.
- 125 plays / Created May 25, 11Twelve tracks I cannot get get out of my head. So catchy. Includes Alex Winston, Kids of 88, and Fire is motion.
- 24 plays / Created Jun 03, 11Eleven tracks including music by Breathe Owl Breathe, Cast, and Elvis Costello.
- 11 plays / Created Jun 06, 11An 8tracks compilation including music by TV on The Radio, Erlend Øye, and Her Space Holiday.
- 7293 plays / Created Dec 08, 10Eighty tracks from eighty of the best indie artists including music by of Montreal, Andrew Bird and MGMT. This is an epic collection of all ten of my Indie as Fuck mixes.
- 2581 plays / Created Mar 19, 11Seventy-five tracks including music by Admiral Fallow, Alexi Murdoch and Alpha Rev.
- 49 plays / Created Jun 07, 11Eight tracks including music by Cut Copy, Les Savy Fav, and Los Campesinos!.
- 195 plays / Created Aug 01, 10living just enough for the city august 2010 Fifteen tracks including music by Bon Iver, Eddie Floyd and Emiliana Torrini.
- 66 plays / Created May 26, 10Fourteen tracks including music by ...and you will know us by the trail of the dead, Aqueduct and Bishop Allen.
- 165 plays / Created Apr 17, 11Ten tracks including music by Bright Eyes, Andrew Bird and Damien Jurado.
- 38 plays / Created Apr 17, 11My humble take on some of the best songwriting out there. Thirteen tracks including music by Big Star, Carole King and Cat Power.
- 3182 plays / Created Mar 08, 11Thirteen tracks including music by Ben Folds, Bon Iver and Cat Power.
- 152 plays / Created Apr 11, 11Eight tracks including music by Banjo or Freakout, Brothertiger and Class Actress.
- 67 plays / Created Mar 15, 11Eleven stories including music by Bon Iver, The Decemberists and Iron & Wine.
- 500 plays / Created Feb 13, 11it's less that i want to be your valentine, and more that i want to smack you dizzy
- 50 plays / Created Feb 09, 11Eight tracks including music by Bishop Allen, Grouplove and Walk the Moon.
- 119 plays / Created Dec 06, 10Songs that powerfully remind me of specific moments and people. Twenty-two tracks including music by Sufjan Stevens, Wilco and The Kooks.
- 32 plays / Created Jan 02, 11Eight tracks including music by Alcoholic Faith Mission, Dad Rocks! and Frederik Teige.
- 100 plays / Created Jul 28, 10...and they got the fuck down by the light of the moon, the moon. Ten tracks including music by Shortstack, Dead Elvis and His One Man Grave and Elmore James. photo from http://www.flickr.com/photos/alespo/
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- Nov 03, 12
It has been precisely a week since I attended the funeral of my friend Becca Rosenthal. Eight days since a last-minute road trip that lasted 17 hours was taken so D.J. and I could say goodbye. Eleven days since I learned about Becca's death, leaving me feeling like someone has sucker punched me. I'm not going to lie. Over this week I've felt like I can't breathe. I can't get enough air to fill my lungs. I am not OK with this.
I was lucky enough to sit next to Becca at work for about two years. We were both lucky enough to have jobs where it was acceptable to obsess about music all day long. We were unlucky in often having to create ways to fake passion for a good deal of music we didn't believe in because that was our job at the time.
Before I met Becca I was so angry with her by no fault of her own. I remember my boss asking me to invite her in for an interview for an open position as a tour publicist. He told me of her impressive background. Her ongoing work with Amanda Palmer, and her work on the True Colors Tour with Cyndi Lauper was amazing. I remember carefully choosing my words. I knew we needed someone with her talent.
After proofreading the email I hit send. I immediately got an undeliverable message. A bounceback! How dare this happen after I spend time planning exactly what to say. I spent about five minutes thinking she was made up because how could a person with this much experience and so young really exist. About 10 minutes later I realized it was my mistake as I didn't spell the 'artificially' in her email correct. After the email successfully went through I silently vowed to be angry with this Becca Rosenthal person.
My anger quickly subsided.
We quickly grew into this little, at times inseparable, unit of the publicity department. One that had a language I'm pretty sure no one else could decipher. I still forward D.J. some of our old emails and have to explain who or what was in the conversation.
Here's an example of us discussing Metric, apparently before they really utilized Twitter:
We had nicknames, secret code names for pretty much everyone around us. We had our inanimate friends brought to life in our fantasies. We had ISBF — my industrial sized baby fan. We'd feed paper into ISBF and talk about how we'd record it and publicize it to be a huge hit. We had trolle — a little troll with pink hair one of our co-workers had discarded. We'd throw trolle against the wall every time something didn't go our way. Like when an editor cut one of our artists, we lost a client or we sent out a press release with a typo. Then we'd go outside and hang out in one of the weird little stoops, our little grottos. Here's Becca taking shelter from the rain in one:
Pretty much every Friday we'd diligently work on our weekly reports to our clients and answer any outstanding questions. Then we'd walk to fetch a bottle of CDR (Côtes du Rhône) for a ritual I'm sure aggravated everyone else around us — Fleetwood Mac Power Hour. We'd finish our work early and listen to this out loud and forget all of our troubles. Forget we had these jobs we were supposed to love but at the same time dreaded.
I eventually quit that job after meeting D.J. and he made me realize the music industry was tanking and we might have better luck in Washington D.C. Becca left less than a year later. We still emailed at times, but it wasn't the same as having her sit right behind me.
What I'll miss most about Becca is her spirit. She inspired me to no end. She helped me realize I should continue helping artists. Instead of dealing with insane musicians I now help those in the DIY community succeed and help spread the message of buying handmade. When I told Becca I was scared I had forgotten to be a publicist, but in this case pitch something I really loved, she emailed me back in what I imagined to be in a Russian accent the words "is like riding bike."
I never got a chance to have her input on what pair of Frye boots to finally purchase. I never asked her if it's OK to wear Swedish Hasbeens to my wedding. And now she will not attend my wedding although Becca was the person who knew me the best in that tiny office when D.J. and I met for the very first time.
D.J. confided to me that when he started working with us he had a crush on Becca for about 24 hours. This was before D.J. and I started dating. While we were in Boston last week I told D.J. that his crush was perfectly OK. Everyone had a crush on Becca. - Jan 29, 11
I recently moved just across the D.C. border to the arts district of Hyattsville, Maryland. The new place is huge -- two bedrooms and more than enough space for all my clothes, typewriters, yarn and crafting supplies.
The one downside is that the walls are renters white and there's no option to paint. So I've been thinking of ways to brighten this place up so the walls aren't so bare.
So yesterday while unwinding from a busy week I decided to drink some champagne (don't judge!) and sew some garland from children's books my friend (who is a teacher in D.C.) donated to me. I used the 1-inch hole punch that I usually use with my button maker.
I'm loving the instant color it brings to a lonely closet door in one of the hallways. - Jan 12, 11
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I was lucky enough to score two whole binders of Golden Hands periodicals (for $2.50 each)! They are definitely an inspiration to flip through plus the projects go in-depth on explaining technique of various crafts. Some of the projects are a little too out there for me, but I'm keeping them all nonetheless.
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Print Is Not Dead from Anthology Magazine on Vimeo.
Beautiful video advertising the new Anthology Magazine. - Oct 22, 10
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Today I went to meet my old college roommate for brunch in Adams Morgan. From my underground lair I assumed it was a chilly fall day. But no, it was warm and wonderful. Thus the reason why I went to visit my friend Daisy after eating to find a suitable outfit to wear. I scooped up this gorgeous Betsey Johnson dress. Yes those are deer in the pattern. I love this dress. Also I apologize for somewhat crappy cell phone picture we took of it.
- Oct 08, 10Crafty Bastards was an absolute blast this year. I got to share a booth with my friends and fellow Hello Craft ladies Kim and Liz. We were right next to the Etsy booth and right by the spectacular Make Something Awesome Area at the Hello Craft booth.
Here are a few photos from the day I stole from flickr. My booth with lots of shoppers:
Me obviously thinking super hard as I explain something to a customer:
And here are my famous "explanin' hands" in action: - Sep 04, 10
I started my new job so I moved to a new desk at work. Before I was in a really large room without any private space. Now that I have a little cubicle I feel more apt to try and make the space my own.
Thus I've been stalking Ebay and Etsy for the perfect desk lamp for the past week. And I've finally found one. I can't wait until it arrives in the mail:
I also needed a new mousepad and found an Etsy seller that creates them with licensed images. This one with featuring a lovely panda from Berkley Illustration fit the bill perfectly for my new desk:
And if I had enough spare cash + wasn't worried my work neighbors would be bothered by the clanking sound I'd totally buy this USB typewriter:
Something else I am coveting and will probably end up purchasing since I need all the organization help I can get [from See Jane Work]:
Also behind me is a terrible blank white wall with the paint peeling. I've already decided the best way to cover this up without leaving any permanent marks in the walls is to go the embroidery hoop with pretty fabric way. I already do this in my apartment and it's great. Here's an example from Apartment Therapy of what I'm thinking: - Aug 29, 10
If I shelled out a bunch of money this fall for new clothes I would gladly choose solely from the Dear Creatures fall lookbook. And since I am getting a sweet raise due to my new job I think this will surely happen.
This really cracks me up, as we've all had conversations using the same type of babble:
http://whatthefuckismysocialmediastrategy.com/
Everytime I go to the farmers market I end up spending all my money on fresh produce. Fall is just around the corner and the fresh veggies I have been eating all summer will soon be no more. Thus it's on my list to plan a time for canning. This tutorial from Modish rules as does the book on canning my Hello Craft pals gifted to me for my birthday.
And delighting my ears recently has been the new EP from Sufjan Stevens. Titled "All Delighted People" it is streaming here. I've been listening obsessively to it. - Aug 22, 10
I've been working on an open lace pattern this weekend. Beautiful emerald merino wool gifted to me from a co-worker. She purchased it at the newly opened Looped Yarn Works.
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- Jun 07, 10
With my upcoming trip to Portland for the Summit of Awesome I'm taking a little break from here. I'll be with Hello Craft helping produce this amazing event as well as speaking on two panels and leading one workshop. I also plan on buying plenty of skeins of yarn and other amazing handcraft goodies at the Show of Awesome. I must remember to take plenty of pictures. This is my first trip to the West Coast and I'm super excited for this trip.
Before I go to straighten out last minute details before we leave next Monday, I want to share two very important pieces of information with one picture:
Yes I got a super cute haircut. And yes I finally found the perfect chambray shirt in my thrift travels. - Jun 01, 10
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There’s been a serious lack of biscuits in my life lately. @brookehatfield would be alarmed and bake me so many if she still lived in DC.
Excited to dig into this book “Making Patterns from Finished Clothes” from tonight’s thrift store stop #thrifting #sewing
Nothing better to chase away Monday blues than with a dress covered in tigers. 18 tigers to be exact. From my most recent #thrifting excursion
Pics of my sister @ember_e and I in varying degrees of weirdness brought on by too many hours spent in a hospital today.
Did I ever tell you about the time my parents made me do beauty pageants? My mom still has trophies on display.
One of my favorite thrift stores switched their store all up. They also made a terrifying pile of naked Barbie dolls. #thrifting
Award from work. Maybe I’ll give it to my mom and she can hang it on the wall next to my honor roll certificates.
A little morning #knitting before work. This is actually the beginning of a sleeve for the handmade portion of my wedding day outfit!
Little knit booties all ready to be gifted to two good friends and soon-to-be parents #knitting
