fond of

an actress & young woman i truly admire and respect

i like you...

blog face?

this is what i must look like when i blog

k o o d e l a h : ellibel custom design{s}

k o o d e l a h recently had the pleasure of custom designing a few pieces for a lovely friend, Miss Ellen Hollman. She's an up and coming actress {from good 'ol Michigan} and founder of Visual Impact Now. Ellen will be on the red carpet this week @ the Sundance Film Festival for the Skateland premiere.

Here are just a few shots of the custom beauties:

Ellibell:Flapper Feminique Earring

Ellibell:Flapper Feminique Bracelet

Vintage "Mod" Gold Necklace

k o o d e l a h : creationista (me) @ work

{beautiful product photography by Miss Lauren Ward}

This entire experience was simply AMAZING!

Thank you Ellen and thank you Lauren!

for many:

I lost myself inside someone else
I couldn't see the lines between her and me
On a darker road, the fear I've shown
With eyes of stone, he walks alone

What are you afraid of?
All the years fade away
What are you made of?
From the ties that hold us down
What are you fighting for?
To feel them all
What are you dying for?
To be free

Who tonight will change your life
To jump on a plane and land a
Thousand miles away
Just to see what we came to be

Inside my eyes

There's no chance of losing
When there's no chance at all
As time goes by, I forget why
From a distant view it might still be true
There's a part of me that lives for you

rain drops keep fallin' on my head...

Rain
I opened my eyes And looked up at the rain, And it dripped in my head And flowed into my brain, And all that I hear as I lie in my bed Is the slishity-slosh of the rain in my head. I step very softly, I walk very slow, I can't do a handstand-- I might overflow, So pardon the wild crazy thing I just said-- I'm just not the same since there's rain in my head.

puts a smile on my face

Anna Atkins

b. 1799 Tonbridge, Great Britain, d. 1871

photographer

British

Trained as a botanist, Anna Atkins developed an interest in photography as a means of recording botanical specimens for a scientific reference book, British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions.This publication was one of the first uses of light-sensitive materials to illustrate a book. Instead of traditional letterpress printing, the book's handwritten text and illustrations were created by the cyanotype method. Atkins printed and published Part I ofBritish Algae in 1843 and in doing so established photography as an accurate medium for scientific illustration.

Atkins learned directly about the invention of photography through her correspondence with its inventor, William Henry Fox Talbot. Although she owned a camera, she used only the cameraless photogenic drawing technique to produce all of her botanical images. With the assistance of Anne Dixon, Atkins created albums of cyanotype photogenic drawings of her botanical specimens. She learned the cyanotype printing method through its inventor, the astronomer and scientist Sir John Herschel, a family friend.

hmm...

coast 2 coast

from the great lakes...

to the west coast...

i am surrounded by amazing people-full of compassion and love-

and for that i am grateful, most!

instant gratification

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{photo courtesy of amy tangerine}

rock:a:bye baby

may you sleep soundly and dream pleasantly...

five.four.3.2.1

HERE'S TO ENDING ANOTHER YEAR AND LEAPING INTO A NEW ONE WITH NO RESERVATIONS...