Soles with Souls

Day 15. My shoes.

Halfway through the photo challenge and the month of September!  I can't believe how quickly time passes.

I love these shoes.  I have literally loved them to bits.  These are the Vans Prison Issue #23 in black.  Almost 4 years, every day, I've been wearing these shoes.  I like to think that even though holes are starting to wear into my soles, the velcro is not very velcro-y anymore, and the rubber is coming apart from the canvas, these shoes have character and tell of adventures.

Fortunately for me, I bought a new pair of these exact shoes.  Now I can love my Vans for the next 4+ years.  I will be so sad if Vans ever decides to stop carrying this style.

I guess girls in skate shoes is a SoCal thing?

What's in a name? that which we call a rose/ By any other name would smell as sweet

I've collected a massive amount of tutorials on making fabric flowers (of all different kinds), and I'm pretty sure I've made a very small fraction of these.  They're overwhelming my bookmarks!

 

via Filth Wizardry

How to make roses from crepe paper.  I've also seen this done with paper straw wrappers and the rose is left on top of the straw, super cute!

 

Burdastyle via etsy

Same idea as above but with nice ribbon and requiring a tiny bit of sewing.

 

via Martha Stewart Weddings 

This particular tutorial provides a nice template so you're not just cutting out wonky shapes and hoping it ends up looking like flowers when you sew it all together.

 

via Project Wedding

Fantastic step by step pictures and a template to work from.

via Project Wedding

A fairly simple step by step tutorial for making the round circle flowers that seem to have sprung up in every clothing store this season.

via Adventures in Dressmaking

Suzannah made her own wedding dress, isn't that amazing?!  And she made all the pretty flowers that decorated her dress.

Words, food, and music. (One of these things is not like the others.)

A few cool things for today.


First, this wall painted with the entire chapter of The Tale of the Three Brothers from HP & the Deathly Hallows.  How awesome!  This appeals to the HP fan in me and also the fan of the written word.

The Tale of the Three Brothers via when boredom strikes

Second, from the food section of the SD Union Tribune of today's paper.  The Meandering Eats blog.  Ok, so I'm not exactly the best cook, and I almost never talk about food here, but I have to give a special mention to this particular blog.  I was casually browsing the newspaper today, and I saw the food blogger section and saw Marie's blog on there.  Can I just say that I actually know Marie IRL?  I think her blog is awesome, and she's an awesome person.  Awesome.

Third, an open letter from me to that guy on the bus today.  Seriously, heard of common courtesy?

We want.... a shrubbery!

Day 14. Flowers.

These are flowers that grow on very common shrubberies that are used for hedges around many of the houses.  I love how the petals are very full and not simple and flat like daisies.

Incidentally, the title of this post comes courtesy of Monty Python and the Holy Grail.  You have not earned your nerd card until you've at least seen this movie.

NI!

The Only One

Day 13. From a distance.

I always walk past this little park on my way home, and I've noticed that this is the only bench in the entire area.  There are usually people playing with their dogs or sitting on the grass and reading; it's a very quaint neighborly sort of park.

Hundreds-and-thousands

Day 12. Close up.

I love shaped sprinkles!  Unfortunately, I don't really like the taste of sprinkles, so I'll have to settle for decorating things pretty and then making other people eat them :] 

By the way, I just Wikipedia'd "sprinkles."  I didn't know they are sometimes called hundreds-and-thousands, that's so cute!

10 years