pocket crafts

pocketsbuttons @ 2007-08-26T21:15:00

2007-08-27T04:21:46Z

ok. today couldn't have been better. i feel like posting just because i feel like today was the last official day of summer, and it needs to be on the record. woke up, listened to car talk as i made banana walnut cinnamon heart sparkle cupcakes. jen vaf came to my house, we went to the lake, had a picnic, drank fizzy lemonades, ate lots of veggie tomato dishes, flew kites, lost the kites in power lines, ran after the kites, tangled up all the strings, came to my house, jen found free white boots in my size, got weird 60s crap for rothsd1, jen talked to my sister about brown and we all drank jasmine tea, watched deuce bigelow with my mom, and then i found my favourite jeans from freshman year of high school and they fit again! yes! someone please tell me when light wash flared jeans with unicorn embroidered pockets are in again...or if they were ever in.

on that note, i went through all my party clothes from high school. up for grabs if anyone wants: lots of sequined shrugs, lots of mini skirts, lots of charlotte russe sundresses. most things were probably worn once or twice in sleazy european discos. this may make them more or less useful to you. let me know. xooxoxxo

pocketsbuttons @ 2007-08-22T09:41:00

2007-08-22T16:42:36Z

lot of love to everyone who gets this.
it's been more than a year, i've got a lot more good feelings to share.

passport holder

2006-07-01T06:33:41Z

my latest project...for all my globetrotting needs.

pocketsbuttons @ 2006-06-03T22:17:00

2006-06-04T05:22:38Z

it's a wonder what you can do with couture knock-offs.

this used to be an icky louis vuitton knock off-bag with the rainbow lv print. now it's a pocketsbuttons original:

hunk!

one side.

the other side

more hunks!

pocketsbuttons @ 2006-05-31T21:26:00

2006-06-01T04:26:44Z

what they said was true.

it DOES feel styling to sport an l.l. bean turtleneck under your favorite sundress.

pocketsbuttons @ 2006-05-26T23:39:00

2006-05-27T06:40:03Z

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d164/pocketsbuttons/IMG_1217.jpg
casimir pulaski

pocketsbuttons @ 2006-05-22T23:45:00

2006-05-23T07:04:27Z

i keep everything. i make lists and then i list them. tonight i went through a lot of mementos from my awkward years. ok, my years that were a little bit more awkward when i was 15 than they are now.

there are a few highlights: i kept a list of every movie i went to and who i went to the movie with. a secret admirer note in spanish. poems from a real estate heir: "as i sit here, in ms. schiffman's class, i think of you, as i ponder through the glass." photos of my football boyfriend. me posing with a guy in a ski jacket who looks like snoop dog. a picture of my friends and me napping in the quad during lunch. oh! i forgot i did a little printmaking. also, a card with a happy frog on the front with nasty talk inside. there's a poem from the same heir about his thoughts on our homeroom losing the canned food drive: "i bought in 650 pounds of rice, surely i was to win. i brought it into room p-8 and placed it in the bin. we should have gotten 1st, but we came in 2nd place, depression made me cry all night and feel sad in this place." oh, my mother sent me letters from my goldfish when i was at camp. i had much longer hair and a much bigger ass. me in my lucky dress that i gave away yesterday. i didn't even keep a fabric scrap. i even had a separate journal to document every moment of puppy love.

box after box after letters, receipts, photos of every boy i ever liked (umpteen boxes of photos). i wish there was a consumer market for this stuff. it just makes me miss everyone all over again.

pocketsbuttons @ 2006-05-21T19:32:00

2006-05-22T02:34:16Z

we went to temple yesterday. there was a band with a drum, guitar, and saxophone. very hippie dippy.
and i say to my dad, "the saxaphone player is very good."
and he replies, "phone sax in synagogue? it's true. all jews really ARE perverts."

home

2006-05-17T21:58:49Z

oh, but california.

my little house, complete with a white picket fence my father built.

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d164/pocketsbuttons/IMG_1942.jpg
my paintings from high school

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d164/pocketsbuttons/IMG_1940.jpg
and lots of records to dance to!

pocketsbuttons @ 2006-05-11T20:41:00

2006-05-12T00:46:43Z

phew.
i just clean clean cleaned for seven hours. getting everything ready, like a criminal lineup of objects to say "goodbye" to. tapping folders sadly and saying "see you in a year. please don't go anywhere". scrubbing the unscrubbable, folding pieces of tissue into drinknig glasses, placing "see you later" ceder blocks on top of my blankets (go away moths!).

this is sad. i can't believe the year is over. i feel like nobody told me. like i've been walking around with toilet paper stuck to my shoe. and when you listen to the same songs, time doesn't move right.

goodbye singing squirrel lamp! goodbye latin dictionary! goodbye gold russian camera! please, do not get moths. please, do not meet a cute boy and leave your boxes. please, do not become stinky. please, pens: do not leak. and paddington bear, it is your job to make sure the paperclips behave themselves (you know what they can do without supervision!).

pocketsbuttons @ 2006-05-10T00:37:00

2006-05-10T05:02:38Z

i've been thinking about summer. this means i've been thinking about three months starting tuesday.
summer is a good time to study. to teach yourself what you always wanted to learn but never found time or context for.

this is the list so far of what i hope to learn and do this summer:

1. my list of patron saints (for living in italy)
2. how to paint glassware
3. how to make pretty fabric boxes
4. how to install cabinets
5. how to drive on the freeway
6. at cambridge i am going to study modern women artists, dutch coloring techniques, and spanish masters. so, i hope i learn this.
7. how to punt alone
8. cross-stich
9. finally make my comic book
10.how to sew darts in dresses.

i can't believe i will have time to do arts and crafts. BUT! the trade-off is that i am going to be painfully, incredibly lonely.
i miss you all already.

pocketsbuttons @ 2006-05-07T23:34:00

2006-05-08T03:38:10Z

mayfair was amazing. after months of work and a near-total mental breakdown, everything ended up making it one of the best successes i've had at sarah lawrence so far. thank you thank you for help, Saint Julian the Hospitaller, patron saint of carnivals. (my dad's name is julian, too).

ps. now i am allowed to have fun again! i am going to LOVE this last week of school like it's my job.
pps. once i get home, it's arts and crafts an music-making MANIA until i go to cambridge in july.

pocketsbuttons @ 2006-05-06T07:53:00

2006-05-06T11:54:10Z

pocketsbuttons @ 2006-04-30T10:23:00

2006-04-30T14:22:39Z

BEER PROM.

pocketsbuttons @ 2006-04-27T17:23:00

2006-04-27T21:25:29Z

almost! almost! there.

i got my packet from cambridge university. i got into all the courses i wanted for this summer, and this is becoming a better idea by the minute. also, yesterday my mother and i agreed that if i were to put a basket on my vintage french touring bicycle, then i would be "a badass motherfucker." so, that's what the summer is looking like.

pocketsbuttons @ 2006-04-19T00:46:00

2006-04-19T04:46:13Z

me in my mary janes.
you in your skinny jeans.

pocketsbuttons @ 2006-04-17T00:23:00

2006-04-17T04:35:03Z

oh! yesterday! was perfect. i will make a little list of only a few reasons why:

1. i went to see puppies and kittens.
2. i went to central park to see the easter party and petting zoo.
3. i bumped into tim in a tie. he walked me a couple blocks. all the way uptown i went!
4. i have a new favorite museum. very favorite! and i DO make faces at museums even when i'm alone.
5. walked through harlem and i wished i had my own stoop. and lots of tacos.
6. played a trick on dan from a tall window in union square.
7. dan and i saw michael showalter and went through a farmers market (zucchini bread!)
8. we ate pizza by the pound! the owner gave us life advice (and advice on how to buy art?)!
9. we found a super used book shop. i sat next to a mushy newborn baby on the subway.
10.found mary poppins shoes, i called ben and he heard taxis honking over the phone.

but there was so much more. i got a funny letter from my pops, who has great faith in my ability to charm people at dinner parties. oh! and i saw god.

pocketsbuttons @ 2006-04-15T00:29:00

2006-04-15T00:44:08Z

after a string of loser boyfriends in high school, i thought i would try something new. when i was seventeen, i thought perhaps i would only date boys i met in bookshops and galleries. i also thought freckles were a real mark of character, that janis ian was the greatest lyricist of our time. i would not eat walnuts because of union issues. i rode on the train for a half hour to go to my favorite burrito restaurant. my favorite book was "poems of jerusalem" by yehuda amichai. i cut off all my hair for yom kippur. i loved going to protests and wearing overalls.

what were you like when you were seventeen?

pocketsbuttons @ 2006-04-09T18:50:00

2006-04-09T18:51:32Z

if i had my own little vegetarian restaurant, we would be closed today. i am sick. i would call annette, who bakes the zucchini cakes, and i would say, "i'm sorry annette. we ought to close today. i am sick, and the place just isn't the same when i'm not around." annette would sadly nod and flip the sign in the shop window. "closed." the boy in the striped sweater who comes for brunch every sunday would be very upset to find our little restaurant with its curtains drawn. he will have to go to denny's for hash browns and coffee, all while pining for our tofu breakfast burritos and english breakfast tea.

i hate being sick. i am always sick. currently writing a pop song about always feeling under the weather.

pocketsbuttons @ 2006-04-06T04:52:00

2006-04-06T04:55:23Z

i recently found out just how short i am. this pleases me.
i recently found out how my voice sounds. this displeases me.

(i also have the worst case of spring fever, best summer plans)

p.s. my new favorite mix tape is a treatise on mix tapes.

pocketsbuttons @ 2006-04-01T11:57:00

2006-04-01T16:57:45Z

Well, it seems like the funky days, they’re back again. And we’re en vogue again. The party’s got a double ‘ee’ at ‘thee’ end again. We’ll be armed in dungaree chords again (happy days are here again). But once again, the name of the game is funky and it’s funky again. Funky with a “y” and it’s back again and back again. We’ll be wearing dungaree cords again walking down that road, with a smile on our faces, holing only embraces, embraces to hold us cos we’re getting funky again. When we say party we mean it to end on the double ‘ee’. Other things that are back again: funky roads, funky drinks, zip-zap guns, big shoes, the middle eight, funky feet, tax in the post. And no matter what, we’ll be doing the airplane wheel (dancing).

-t.singh

“Boy, you just show them how funky it can get when funky days are back en vogue again.”

pocketsbuttons @ 2006-03-30T20:41:00

2006-03-31T01:47:00Z

an acrostic. for spring. for sitting on the lawn with my head on emily's lap.

So! Who says you have the right to
Pop! out of nowhere
Right! after the long winter
In tight! tight pants and glasses?
Now you damn! well know i'm just the type to
Go absolute mad for any half-smile, let alone a swagger step.
Tell! me the truth.
Is it my sundresses?
Maybe you don't know, but they just as easily come off!
Ergh. ok. see you at the sno-cone stand in may.

it's true it's true

2006-03-30T03:49:59Z

argh. always a sucker for boys with beards.

with a slight accent

2006-03-29T02:22:27Z

there's nothing like getting a phone call from your long lost croatian ex-boyfriend. accent thick like peanut butter, we didn't go to prom together. sounds like he still loves the united states. wow wow.

robo bug: activate!

2006-03-25T21:52:39Z

oh! back at home, road trip = finished. we drove from connecticut to florida and back again. well, sarah masterfully drove, i had a mental breakdown, emily played dj, and leah laughed. but it was good! good break. past two weeks: went to rhode island, brown, brandeis, st. patrick's day parade, connecticut, numik's room at uconn. we drove and drove. we saw backroads, peanut stands. i smoked a lot of cheap fruity cigars. we sunbathed. i was the only one to catch a fish. we ate more then possible. disney world, historic savannah, georgia. oyster shots and being sick in bed.

the highlight of all: we were walking down the street in charleston, south carolina. i walked past a boy who told me he liked the pockets on my dress. for someone who falls in love everyday, charleston is a very good place.

selma, north carolina is a good place to sleep. savannah, georgia is a nice place to drink lemonade and listen to guided historical audio tours. cocoa beach, florida has wonderful fishing. dillon, north carolina has a holiday inn with a very outgoing staff. avon, connecticut is a great place for a home-cooked meal. newport, rhode island knows how to throw a parade. also, you can get a mean biscuit just about anywhere on the interstate. it's good to be back.