Favorite Artists: Alex Pardee

If you don't know who Alex Pardee is, you should. He's probably most famous for doing The Used's album Art for their album "In Love and Death". You know, the tree with the hanging heart?

Recently I'm loving his set called "Icans". It's a bunch of recognizable cartoons or comic book heroes and they are AWESOME. These are some of my favorites!

Bat Merle

Daffy Dirk

Fred Flinstern

Gerfield

Supermarn

The Flarsh

The Hurlk

He's probably my favorite artist, hands down. We have one of his paintings hanging in our living room. His wrinkle work is so spectacular. The guy's super talented! And they're always just so disgusting and weird, which is always a good combo. His other series "Letters From Digested Children" is another one of my favorites of his. Check it out, here.

I'm thinking of making this a permanent series on my blog. I don't know if you guys would be into it though. What do you think? Also, I didn't post Tattuesday yesterday because I don't get a lot of response from it. Are you done with it or should I keep it going? Leave comments and let me know!

Tattuesday

Some tattoos I came across this week that I thought were awesome.

Done by Nikko Hurtado

Done by Christian Lanouette

Done by Nathan at Hold Fast Tattoo

Buddah, narwhals and Star Wars? Yeah, I'd say it was a pretty good week for tattoos.
All tattoos were linked to their respective artists.

Things I Love Thursday

A lot of the blogs I follow, make a Things I Love Thursday post every week and I always have so much fun seeing things other people have found or experienced that week, so I decided I would share some of the things I found this week!
First and foremost, this ring. It's October, October is Breast Cancer Awareness month, so it fits. Also, Breast Cancer Awareness is very personal to me, given my grandma had it when I was younger. (I also have a pink ribbon tattooed behind my ear.)

The Betsey Johnson Pink Ribbon Ring

Isn't this clock the cutest?!

This clock from WallClocksbyImagine on Etsy

This is the sweetest print! (I'm a Taurus. What're you?)

This astrological print by ParadaCreations on Etsy

This dress is like a disco ball and I'm in love with it. Wouldn't it be perfect for New Year's Eve? I'm on the hunt for the perfect dress for that night. (Too bad this is sold out..)

This sequin skater dress from Topshop

The lotus flower! GUYS! Seriously! (I love it in brown the most but they're all fabulous.)

The gigi skinny minnie from moss mills

These two dreamed up the funniest, most awesome costume I've ever seen. Flo the Progressive girl and Mayhem from the AllState Commercials. HILARIOUS. The headband on him and he's in a pink suv! Best two commericals, hands down.

Check out the rest of the pictures.

What're you gonna dress up like?

Wouldn't this dress be the BEST Christmas party dress? Its like you're a present! (I'd style it differently though.)

Black gift dress by Vivetta

Originally I found this on Emerging Thoughts shop

 Henry and I downloaded Alex Pardee's app! (Alex Pardee is my favorite!)

Henry made this one. Do you like the friend on my head?

Isn't this beautiful?

Originially from flowerchilddwelling.com

And finally, this new (to me) artist. Richard Pellegrino.

Marty McFly

Zelda & Link

Those are my two favorites! (Willy Wonka's good too!)

Those are some of my favorite things this week, ladies and gents. What're you loving!?

Tattuesday

The past couple of days I've come across a few pretty awesome pieces of work.

This is from Tumblr but by John Chamberlin. They are vintage illustrations by John Willie for Bizarre Magazine.

By Amanda Wachob

By French artist, Xoil

I don't know about you, but I'm DYING for new ink. What would you get tattooed next?
(All pictures link back to the artists.)

Festivals in the Fall (And Football!)

Today was absolutely fantastic in all the fun, fall-y ways!

Henry and I drove an hour and a half North (into Ohio!) to go to a street fair. I know.. it sounds absolutely ridiculous now that I've said it out loud to myself, but you could only truly understand if you've been to this place. It was in Yellow Springs, Ohio and if you've never been I suggest you take a trip immediately.

This is one of the gorgeous buildings in town.

This place is like walking back in time. On any normal day, you can expect to see a number of people walking in the middle of the tiny town, with no shoes. Hardly anyone drives through that part of town. There's yarn bombs on all of the trees. Just in case you feel inspired, there's sidewalk chalk on the benches, outside the cutest little shops. And those shops?! They seriously have most interesting little knick-knacks and handmade goodies inside, like jewelry, hats and mittens, candles, soaps, etc. It is really just the coolest place in the world. Not to mention the most delicious vegan ice cream shop and a bike rental right next to it!

So, if you can imagine all that on a normal day.. imagine everyone who loves those things, plus peace-lovers, street musicians, hippies, crafters, and artists gathering and setting up over 250 little tents set up with tons of fun stuff to do and see and buy. Can you now see why we drove so far for a street fair? It was the most fun thing we've done in so long. Not to mention the weather was GORGEOUS! I love fall more than any other season. Mainly because of the fashion but also because the leaves on the trees are so beautiful. Too bad it doesn't last very long anymore.

This is one of the trees we walked by on our way into the middle of town.

 Beautiful, right!?

One of the booths we stopped at had the coolest prints drawn by an artist named Tony Lewis. His grandma was selling them and for a small illustration? $5! We couldn't pass them up! I wanted to buy all of them but this is the one we decided to get.

We also stopped by a cute little toy store. Its Henry's nephew's birthday tomorrow so we decided to kill two birds with one stone. (Isn't that the most awful saying?) This is his first birthday (!) so we just got him these little foam cars and trucks to play with in the bath. Hopefully he doesn't chew them to bits. The best parts about the toy store were this awesome coloring book we found:

Ha!
And the bag they put the gift in!

Isn't that the cutest, handmade shopping bag?! I'm tellin' you. This place is seriously eco-friendly and it makes my heart warm.

It took about two hours to go through everything in Yellow Springs. We shopped, pet alpacas(!)...

then waited in line for ice cream, until we got bored & decided against it, and finally walked the mile it took us to get to our car. (We were shoulder to shoulder the entire time we were there, guys. That's how many people were there!) When we got home, we went straight to Bdub's. (Buffalo Wild Wings?) Game day, baby! My beloved, Florida Gators beat Vanderbilt, 31-17! They're on a freakin' role. 6-0!! I love me some college football.

And that's how I'm ending my night. On a fall festival loving, game day winning, high.