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Red Friday

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I know that March is all about St. Patrick’s day and spring, so I should be decked out in florals and greens.

But lately I have been so obsessed with red.

Like everything I usually choose yellow, or green, I have been make it red. Nail polish, accessories, lipstick (I don’t wear green lipstick) but seriously, I want it red and I would also like that red to be shiny.

Maybe it’s because it hasn’t stopped raining in California and I am jonesing for a color I can’t get right now, as every single thing in my day is coated in gray.

Or maybe it’s because I’m doing what I want to do and I feel powerful?

Or maybe it’s because I got a new coat that is the color of the most delicious strawberry?

Maybe it’s all those things.

So Friday seems like the day to celebrate it.

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And also a great time to celebrate my new markers and eraser.

 

It’s the little things that make the day fantastic!

 

♥Lauren

Measured in Melody

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Yeah… it’s been a long time.

I don’t know if anyone comes on here anymore.

But I still kinda exist in the world. And I’m always making art.

But I’m not always writing stories, which is kind of a bummer… and I’m wickedly out of practice.

For a quick countdown of updates of what’s happened in my life since my last post read below:

  1. I have have several new jobs- one of them is moderately successful freelancer of illustration
  2. I have helped several companies make graphics for marketing purposes
  3. I’m making a book
  4. I have gone from not visiting New York ever to visiting it 2 different season of the last year. I took a train between states in the United States and that was weird.
  5. I have seen seasons… and discovered there aren’t really any in California.
  6. I never grew taller
  7. I made a stunning mermaid Halloween costume
  8.  I learned about premiere league soccer
  9. I have an instagram where sometimes I even show my own face: viciouslysweet08
  10. I’m still obsessed with music and illustrating people who I see every day

just a song away

It’s good to be back,

♥Lauren

Incredibly Loud and very very close

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I was commenting at work how everyone is so loud.

And then I got told by my friend, I was also one of the loud people.

At first I felt a little shocked… me loud? And then I realized it’s because everyone in the company comes to visit me at my desk…. like everyone.

People from different floors come to see what I’m up to.

It isn’t too bad, especially if they come to visit me and bring me no additional work… if they have more work, they can find another friend.

♥lauren

Drawing Challenge day 23

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What inspires you? So many things actually, but today… 1980s movies.

The music, the costumes, the Molly Ringwald. It’s pretty much what every day with me is about.

I was so happy to draw this pretty in pink inspired doodle!

♡Lauren

Drawing Challenge day #8

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Today’s drawing challenge was to draw an unsual outfit you’d like to wear for everyday occasions.

I would be so honest to say that I love like 1980s/70s glam that I would love to be dressed like in glitter costumes all day… even if I was in the office.

And since I work in such a corporate environment… I think people would be very surprised.

 

♥Lauren

Drawing Challenge day #5

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Today’s drawing challenge was one of my own choices. I’ve always wanted to be a constellation. So, that’s what today’s drawing challenge is
Your canvas is the sky and just all the possibilities are just how you arrange them. It would be so delightful to see the galaxy from a different perspective.

Happy weekend,
Lauren

Ziggy Played Guitar

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I heard the news today, oh boy…

At 6 am my sister told me that one of my all time favorite people who have ever made a melody on this planet passed away.

My reaction was, as always is in this situation… “no.”

It was just his birthday.

He just released an album on Friday.

“No.”

But then I checked my phone and had like 6 different people telling that it was true… that David Bowie was gone.

Now, like many people I never met him in person. But I feel like I knew him on a different plane. He was such an inspiration to art (not just my own), to color, to vibrations. He was really something else. And I’m so glad the world got to experience the reaches of his imagination down to his last day.

Thanks David Bowie for all the magic, and all the inspiration,

Lauren

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The New Fashion

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I feel like since I have been working in retail design that now I have an official opinion about fashion.

And because I saw seasons of fashion just thrown into a junky room full of screens for like 9 hours a day for like… every weekday I can say things with an authority or something.

  1. I will never wear a see through skirt to work. I am not Bridget Jones. And I do not work with Hugh Grant. See through skirts = creepy notes on linkedin… from guys who don’t look like Hugh Grant… or Colin Firth for that matter.

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  2. And I don’t want to wear overalls. I get really bad flashbacks of all the clothes on “Full House” that DJ Tanner used to wear because I can’t chance my loose drapey overalls falling off showing that I own an embarrassing amount of polka dot underpants:

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  3. I don’t want to look like I mugged Indiana Jones on my way to spend a night out on the town
  4. And I definitely don’t want to look like a snake:

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Because then Indiana Jones will never ask me out to the Spring Fling Dance.

 

Happy 2016,

Lauren

Ready to Christmas

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Merry Christmas Internet!
I’m like up to my eyes in presents and glitter!
I hope everyone out there has a happy holiday and just feels so happy and lucky to be wherever they are right now!
Happy Holidays!
♡Lauren