Frederic St-Arnaud

Check out these badass scenery/landscape/architecture paintings by Frederic St-Arnaud! Super amazing!

(To see the images full-size, either right click and select Open Link in New Tab or just go to the artist's website and view them there. :D)

I absolutely loooove the ones of buildings with waterfalls, I wish they were real places! The first one reminds me of Hogwarts. *w*

via Frederic St-Arnaud's official website

I heart libraries.

ALLLLL DEMMMM BOOOOOOOOKS. ~(*3*)~

The Abbey Library of Saint Gall
St. Gallen, Switzerland

The Philological Library of the Free University of Berlin
Berlin, Germany

Library of Melk Abbey
Melk, Austria

The Library of Parliament
Ottawa, Canada

Livraria Lello
Porto, Portugal
(P.S. That staircase is ridonkulous.)

José Vasconcelos Library
Mexico City, Mexico

Klementinum National Library
Prague, Czech Republic

The Law Library of Munich
Munich, Germany

Now who's gonna go on a library vacation with me?!

via um....like.....tumblr or something.

L'Occitane is L'Awesome.

The trip Alan and I took to New York last weekend was very exciting and eventful! First we entered the rush lottery for Wicked (the theater for which was literally about a minute's walk from our hotel) and BOTH got our names drawn!! Alan's name was second and mine was around eighth out of about thirteen names that were drawn out of a pool of probably over a hundred entries. I was so excited when Alan's name got called that I was totally dumbstruck when MY name was called as well.... I just kind of stood there for a second, then awkwardly popped out of the lottery-entry group towards the lottery-winner line and yelled "I'm....with him....." while gesturing flailingly towards Alan, since each of us entered for two tickets and I therefore didn't need the ones I had just won. A bunch of people from the entry crowd yelled "TAKE THEM! TAKE THEM!!" but....I did not, lol. And the show was really fantastic! I heart Galinda (with a "GA") aka Glinda (the "Ga" is silent) so much, she made me cackle like a crazy person.

I also spent like a billion dollars at Kinokuniya and saw this badass building:

I also saw a rat in the subway and a dude peeing in broad daylight on the sidewalk of a busy street. Gross.

BUT! Getting back to the topic of this post, I also went to L'Occitane! I kept seeing them ERRYWHERE and then remembered this post on TheGloss and, being a lip balm addict, began bugging Alan to let us go to a L'Occitane store. Lo and behold, the nearest location to our hotel was in the exact same building as the jazz show we went to on Saturday, so I GOT ME SOME LIP BALLLLLLLM. And it is totally awesome. Sooo, naturally, I ordered more stuff from the L'Occitane website once I got home. Lol. They gave me a coupon to get a free Best of L'Occitane sampler pack with a $25 purchase, WHAT DO YOU EXPECT ME TO DOOOOOOO. Just NOT spend more money on expensive soap and lip balm!? That is crazy talk.

I got the Desert Rose balm in the store, but while I was there I also tried the Hibiscus Flower tester and........it smelled awesome. So I ordered it. Lawl.

And the free sampler pack included a bar of their Milk soap, yayyyyyyyy I was gonna order it anyway!! I am a sucker for milk-scented bath products. And honey-scented bath products. HOLY CRAP MILK AND HONEY IS EVEN BETTERRR omgeezie. Okay. That was an amazingly profound and sagacious blog post and I don't think anybody can handle any more of my mind-blowing insights so I am gonna go now.  (ノ￣ー￣)ノ

WE AT THE HOTEL, MOTEL, HOLIDAY INN.

Oh, you are going on a vacation and are looking for an interesting hotel to stay in? Hmmm, let me see if I can help find the perfect one for you.

How about a nice ocean-side hotel? Ocean-in, actually.

Or how about this one - it is REALLY ocean-in.

Don't like salt water, you say. How about a nice pool instead?

Or if that pool is too small, how about THIS pool?

Not a swimmer, eh? Perhaps you would just like a view of water.

Or maybe a view of a tank of water.

Water is too wet, huh? Then why not be surrounded by frozen water.

Or even just pretend that you are surrounded by water.

Are you digging that tropical-but-no-water jungle-y feeling?

Perhaps it's not the jungle itself you like, but just its color?

No ocean, no water, no jungle, not even jungle-green?
Well then...how about a cave? Close, you say?

Aha! I've got it! It is not a cave you want, but a hobbit hole!

I'm glad we found the perfect hobbit-y hotel for you! Have a fun trip, and say hi to the Middle-earth cows for me.

Pink houses pink houses piiiiiiink houses yes yessss

Delivering on the promise contained at the end of my last awesome houses post from exactly a month ago, here is a post full of AWESOME PINK HOUSES. Obviously, I want to live in ALL OF THEM.

First off, here are some Victorian-style houses in nice pastel shades of pink with white trim. Pretty tasteful, no?

Now for some pink houses with heart motifs going on! Somewhat less tasteful, lol.

Here's a weird hobbit-y pink house! It's pretty cool.

And lastly, here is a house that is not pink, but is still adorable.

Weren't all those houses super cute? Aren't you totally judging me now for wanting to live in them?? Yes and yes.

Mannnnng, I wanna live in dem houses.

As you may have discerned, I really like Victorian-style houses. Especially Queen Anne style!! My dream is to one day live in one. I especially like these home plans, omfg. OLD-FASHIONED ELEGANCE, INDEED. It even has three stories, hot damn! I love me some tall houses. And it has a music room and/or library, MY DREEEEEEAAAAAAAAM. And walk-in closetssss, and a lofffft, and I guess a spiral staircase?!?!? DAMN GURRRRL those are literally, like, ALLL of the things I want in a house. The only thing missing is a trampoline room. Hm....I think I thought up a use for that expandable area on the third floor, mehehehe.

And my bonus dream is for this house to be PINK! Pink Victorian-style houses are more common than you might think. I will be sure to make a post in the future full of nothing but PINK HOUSES, the majority of which will probably be Victorian-style.

STAY TUNED.