Animal Collective

Strange title? Well, you should here their music. It is one of Ryan's favorite bands so I bought us tickets to a concert for his birthday (back in June). It was actually an awesome show. I'm still getting use to the electronic music that he likes. I don't think I could listen to them other than at a live show, but their stage (super artistic with lots of lighted crystals and stuff) and performance was far better than I'd imagined.

A Beautiful Year...

My friend Mikaela Fuchs is an artist. Both with a pencil and a oven. I wanted to share her awesome calendar with you. She draws each picture and then screen prints it. I have no idea how all that works but the end product is amazing. I know its halfway through 2011, but she's in the works of a 2012 one so here's a peak at her beautiful year....

April (our wedding month!)
May
June (one of my favorite pictures)August

and on the back of each screen print are her sketches. The sketch for October.

I displayed them in our living room because I wanted to see all of the at once. They're too pretty to only enjoy for one month! Plus, I am planning on keeping the ones with special meaning such as our wedding month!

Check out more of her amazing goods:
The Fox Fix (blog)
The Hungry Fox (bakeshop and paper goods)