A Rare Sighting!

The other day, my friend Jessica and I were walking near her house and we saw a real-life unicorn! I just had to take some pictures.

 Thanks so much to Jessica and Brass for modeling (and an extra thank you to Jessica for letting me use her camera) !! All clothes are thrifted, dreadfalls are handmade

Montana Folk Festival 2013

This past weekend marked the annual Montana Folk Festival, a 3 day festival with tons of live performers on 5 stages. I might venture to say that this year has been the best Folk Fest so far! All of the performers were lovely and the weather was perfect, not to mention all of the delicious food vendors! I got to meet some of the bands and performers when I volunteered at artist check-in, and they were all very very nice. Possibly my favorite group of performers was Mythili Prakash, a traditional Bharata Natayam music and dance group. The dancer was so graceful. Every part of her body was perfectly choreographed, down to her hands, eyes, and eyebrows. And her outfit was absolutely stunning!! I don't have pictures, but I have hyperlinked their name above to the website. Among my other favorites were Fendika, Debo Band, and Karan Casey. Check them out!

Due to the current camera situation, I only have a few photos to post, but here they are!

 At the "Original Stage". This headframe was converted into a stage that is now used for the folk fest, along with other summer events.

Fendika performing on the Broadway stage

Jessica, Me, and Maggie enjoying the music!

The Original Stage lit up at night-so pretty!

So all in all, this was a wonderful Folk Fest. I hope it will be just as good next year!

Broken Cameras and (thankfully) Not-Broken Scanner!

So I haven't posted in a few days... heh heh... but I have (kind of) an excuse! As I may have mentioned, my camera broke before we left for Greece and I have been borrowing Maggie's since. But guess what? Maggie's camera just broke too, leaving me unable to take more photos to post! Fortunately Maggie and I were able to get a few photos from the Montana Folk Festival that happened this weekend, amd those will go up tomorrow night!

Anyways, for today I decided to show you some drawings that I have done recently. thank goodness my scanner still works (fingers crossed)!

 A super fancy letter R I copied from a picture I found online

 

I sketched this from a picture in June's issue of Teen Vogue... I tend to draw from pictures a lot. But I guess that's the way you learn!

These are a few doodles I did that became the "Coolest Kids on the Block" photos!

 Kitties!

 A slightly lopsided person wearing Indian wedding jewelry

 Some flowers... Right now I would say my favorite flower is a toss-up between daisies and Queen Anne's lace

I drew these at the Acropolis Museum in Athens. Even with limbs and stuff missing, the statues were incredible! These are of the goddess Nike

I drew this at our villa on Alonnosis. My swimsuit and sarong hanging to dry

And a skull

So hopefully I will have access to a camera soon and more photos will be coming. Folk Fest pictures tomorrow!

Greece: Part 4

Double Cool With Knobs!
Vissis Street in Athens

Okay, this set is a little weird, but I had to put it in. Athens has an entire street dedicated to doorknobs! I read about it online before we left (the article said "every doorknob known to mankind can be seen here") and I knew we had to go there. I NEEDED a new (Greek) doorknob for my room, I tell you! So on our last day in Athens, I dragged part of our group with me to go see what was sure to be the most doorknobs anyone would ever see in the same place at the same time ever. And it was! There must have been 20 different doorknob stores with every imaginable shape, size, and style. It was magnificent. Unfortunately, we were there on a Sunday and all of the shops were closed, so I didn't get my Greek doorknob after all. But I feel honored just to have seen such a collection of doorknobs.

Also, here is a super cool doorknob we found on the island. The Greeks really know their doorknobs!

Okay, so that was me geeking out about doorknobs. I don't even know. But to redeem myself, I would like to close by showing you a lovely compilation of graffiti in Athens and cute kitties on Alonnisos:

When I saw this parking job, the first thing I thought was. "Who let Maggie park their car??"

There were so many cats on the island!

Honorable mention to these dogs who, despite not being cats, were very cute.

Thank you for looking at my pictures from Greece! More non-Greece stuff coming