way out in the water, see it swimmin' ?

So I'm back to California after 20 days of being in Hawaii and let me say it was one of my best trips home so far since living in LA for 3 1/2 years now. I did a lot of relaxing on my mother's floral couch, a lot of family related stress due to a few hospital trips and a secret engagement, as well as dealt with "drama" from friends from highschool (that was actually the low point from the whole trip) but despite the downs I got to spent quality time with close friends as well as with the many dvd's I zoned out to. My FAVORITE thing experienced all break was the aquarium. A friend of ours works there (name will be protected due to the circumstances) on the night shift and therefore, we get to hang there at night. He turns all the tank lights on and we get to hang out with the fishes (seriously, I dreamt about being a mermaid, so this is amazingly fun to me). There's also a room with a projection screen where we play Rockband and then we go on the roof, enjoy some beers and watch the city lights. What more could I ask for?

I claim it as my own, my nest, my cave, mine.

skeletons.

well, RECAP of 2008.

Paris.
Found love.
Lost love.
Spring Break road trip to Portland.
Summer in Hawaii.
Shot my first wedding in July.
Aeva came to town.
Back to school in August.
Labor Day in Arkansas.
New Roommate Kathy, BFF.
A heavy addiction to cheese began ala Kathy.
Lots of Green Tea Lattes & CoffeeBean trips.
Turned 21 October 3rd.
Thanksgiving with highschool friends.
Christmas in Hawaii.
Still miss love.
And it all ended with a totaled car on New Year's Eve.
It was a good one, it was a bad one, not so much my year, 2009, treat me right (please).

LUSH

I'm addicted to these products... (www.lush.com)

Buffy Body Bar: life-changing.



loving on my body, one dead skin cell at a time.

Letterpress

I love love love letterpress. One day I hope to either work at a letterpress studio/order my own personalized stationary/at least take a tour of one and see how it's all done in person.

http://paperedtogether.com/





beautiful work.

on holidays

Holidays are very interesting because they either are A) great or B) become almost burdensome and bring out the worst. They are either WONDERFUL because all of your relationships are good and in the right places, and if they're not, well it sucks because they REMIND you of how awful things are because problems are always magnified during the holidays. I'm reading Holidays on Ice by Sedaris, one of my favs, it's making me smile during these days. Thank God for dark humor and quick sarcastic wit.

homeward bound

so, heading to hawaii tomorrow, for a couple weeks, gonna see the ohana and spend time with the friends, other than that...

I think somethings wrong with me. my stomach, always hurts, whenever i eat, i get really nauseated and since i never sleep full nights im getting a little crazy and jittery. Self-diagnosis is still unavailable, ive wikipedia-d ulcer, acid reflux, mono, thyroid dysfunction. I'm just dysfunctional.

anyways, enough about health, im 21...

www.lehuanoelle.com

finally finished it. lots of kinks, probably will take way too long to load, but hey, it's done at least layout wise and I finally got a new internship in the Spring with Ira Lippke which is exciting since he's pretty well-known and knows his stuff. And my show is on May 18th, mark your calendars and there's painting show I'm in Bell all throughout January check it out too if you have the time,

back to packing.. my least favorite thing to do after going to the dentist.

first hearts

I can recall my earliest drawing experience. We were in a hotel room, I'm not sure where, but my parents were sitting on a bed watching tv and I had paper and a pencil and I began to draw. I held the pencil with a tight fist and drew. I got so excited because I was drawing hearts and I never had done that before. I did the same shape over and over and filled the page. I remember my parents' faces as they watched me, and I remember my heart-filled page of recycled paper.