welcome to fall

And so we meet again.  I'm slowly but surely giving the old blog a bit of a facelift (just a few little tweaks) so please bear with me if things look a little upside down over the next week or so.  But enough about that...I hope you all had a lovely weekend?  "The Brit" and I spent most of ours doing some decorating and organizing of our little bungalow in the hills.  His parents are coming to the States to spend Christmas with us and that includes coming to our place for a couple of days.  Seeing as though that is about a month away we thought we had better get on top of those projects we'd been putting off. Hang a few pieces of art, buy a rug, and do some painting. Not in this outfit though, I wore this to work on Friday, pre-home improvements...

May I express briefly how ridiculously thrilled I was to finally be able to pull out the knitwear and my over the knee socks, you guys? I almost shed a tear!

Still working my way toward finishing my forthcoming EP in time for January which is when I think it will be ready to share with the world. The songs are basically finished - just some photos, artwork and mastering left to do. I am exceptionally excited to share it with you. 

artist spotlight :: mercedes helnwein

If you've seen the most current Lula Magazine (#9) then you undoubtedly came across the Austrian-born Ireland/LA inhabiting artist, Mercedes Helnwein. But if for some reason you missed it OR you saw it but want to see more I thought I'd post this beautiful video from Lula * *update**uh-oh it's been taken down (it's still on Lula's site under "dark star") for the time being there's this one:

and few of my favorites from her portfolio...

It was so hard to pick just a few! more here

**If you are in the LA area be sure to catch her upcoming show East of Eden at the Merry Karnowsky Gallery on La Brea Ave, opening reception Saturday November 14, 8-11pm.

Happy Friday, everyone! xxDJRD