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Oh me, oh my. SXSW is this week and I'm sad & envious of all those that get to bathe in the glory of great music. XMU is rubbing it in our faces by showcasing all the bands that will be there. Austin is only about 8 hours away! We can't afford a wristband or a hotel room. We would probably sleep in my CRV. Do you have to have a wristband? Can I volunteer to pick up trash and get a free one? I need answers and I can't find them. I'm bummed. The action starts Wednesday.
If I were able to go this is who I'd like to see:
Port O'Brien, M Ward, St. Vincent, Camera Obscura, Winter Gloves, Dosh, Human Highway, The Decemberists, Grizzly Bear, Passion Pit, Castledoor, Tori Amos, Matt & Kim, Thao with the Get Down Stay Down, Handsome Furs, Blitzen Trapper, The Thermals, Horse Feathers, Beach House, The Bird and the Bee, Au Revoir Simone, Okkervil River, Marnie Stern, and Titus Andronicus. That's only who I would want to see for sure. There will be tons of new bands I haven't discovered!! Grr!
So since it's Monday and I usually do the song on repeat this week I will list a few that will be at SXSW.

If you are going to SXSW please check these 2 bands (our friends): Other Lives & Colourmusic.

Black Tables by Other Lives


motherfather by Colourmusic (you can catch Riley at the beginning of the video)


If Looks Could Kill by Camera Obscura

Daylight by Matt & Kim


The Rake's Song by The Decemberists


Gila by Beach House


Violet by Thao with the Get Down Stay Down


And today I am sporting my lovely hedgie brooch from paperlotus.etsy.com as well as one of my favorite rings from felixandjayne.etsy.com


I got to get out of my house now because it's Spring Break and the neighborhood kids are outside being kids. This is why I shouldn't have kids. They are driving me crazy.

so very yes

When a look starts to get popular, do you shy away from it? I hate to admit this, but I sure do!
For example, the feather headband. I had my first encounter with the feather headband this summer on etsy. I was searching for feathers: earrings, necklaces, whatever and I came across one from Charm School Design. I fell in love and immediately purchased one. A month later Nylon featured a feather headband. As months past, and I saw a few in Stillwater, Ok it kinda lost its luster. You can find them on any accessory website. Now when you search feathers on etsy its pages and pages beyond pages of feather headbands. Don't get me wrong, I still love my headbands but you can guess my excitement when my friend Cristi, from Felix and Jayne released some headbands of her own!


(I'd like to stop and mention that I ran errands and when I came home I put back on my pj pants! I They are much warmer. It's super cold out)


What I love about her work is that she uses all her fabric scraps from her bags! So this headband is pretty much recycle wear! So fun and unique. And I love that it has a single feather, gives it a delicate touch.
Here are two headbands available now in her shop.



She also has vintage button rings


awesome cuffs


and one of a kind clutches!!


This chick rocks! Visit her at felixandjayne.etsy.com

I'm trying to stay warm on this gloomy, cold, rainy Tuesday. What better to keep me warm than hot tea! In my college mug! I'M GRADUATING IN 4 DAYS!!!! AH! I'll be attending the ceremony. I wonder how long it will be since it will be smaller since it's in December. Hmmm.


Anyways, I've been tagged by the ever so awesome Renee from GreenerMe.
Here are the rules. And I'm going to break the rules #4&5. If you can't decide what to blog about than just do this!
1. Link to the person that tagged you
2. Post the rules on your blog
3. Share six non-important things/habits/quirks about yourself
4. Tag six random people at the end of your post by linking to their blogs
5. Let each random person know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their website.

Ok, on to ME!

1. Since I'm graduating this Saturday the big follow up question is: What are you going to do now? Answer: Stelabird until I move to Tulsa in 4 months. What am I going to do in Tulsa? I don't know quite yet.
2. Now that I'm only doing Stelabird, I'm brainstorming on new products and how to improve Stelabird.
3. I can't wait to move out of Stillwater, Ok.
4. My new accessory obsession: Brooches. I'll blog about that later.
5. When I get excited, I tend to talk really loud where I'm almost yelling.
6. My new word: Yikes.

It's 28 degrees here in Oklahoma, so I'm staying indoors and making snugglies!
Stay warm everyone.

so this is what it comes to

My week has been hectic. Aside from working on a project for class and giving a presentation I was also preparing for a craft show. The craft show, Deluxe, was yesterday in Oklahoma City. We were there from 9:30am-7p. It was fun and exhausting. I had plans to take pictures of booths and people but it didn't work out that way!! It never does! So I only have a few of us that we took.


My sister cristina & rashun!






After Deluxe our friends from Felix & Jayne, Cristi and Issac, came with us back to Stillwater since Riley's band had a show. I was meaning to take pictures of that but I was too tired to think about it. I only had this taken at the beginning of the night.


I have officially failed you at taking pictures this weekend. Sorry!

So, today, Riley and I couldn't decide what to have for lunch (no surprise). Barbecue sounded good but so did Thai food. We couldn't make up our minds so Riley had an idea.
Meet Thai and Barbecue.

Here's Thai.


Here's Barbecue.


We found this was the perfect way to decide what to have for lunch. Whoever was closest to the basket, wins and we go there.


First up, Team Bigfoot for Barbecue

pretty close.
Next, Team Yeti for Thai.


Closer!
Thai wins! We'll have Thai for lunch!


So we are excited about the win and drive to the cafe to find out they are closed on Sundays. Of course they are. So Barbecue it is.

Yeti winner announced TOMORROW! Be sure to enter the giveaway in the post below for a chance to have your very own yeti!

Any big plans this week?
I do, I'm graduating.

Indie Emporium weekend

Friday:
So after I blogged on Friday I gathered everything and started loading up my car.



We got to Tulsa around 4pm and started setting up. It took us until 5:30, which I was surprised by. The event started at 7pm and I still had to get ready and have dinner. After set up we went to our friends Cristi and Issac's house of Felix and Jayne to get ready and then headed to dinner around 6 or so. We didn't get our food until 6:40 so I'm sure you can imagine our anxiety. We got to the event at 7:00pm. We ran inside from the parking lot and had to run past the line of people waiting to get in. Nice. I didn't price my items beforehand so I was rushing to price everything. One of the first people to come by my booth was a woman and her grandchild. The little girl picked up an owl buddy and was excited about it. Her grandma replied, "If you had the patience, we can go home and figure that out". I just stared at her. That day finally came. I've heard stories from crafters of people saying "I can make that" around their booths. I know it wasn't a personal attack but it hurt my feelings. So I started my Friday night flustered. Within 30 minutes I was feeling better and enjoying the night. I'm sad to say I didn't get any pictures of Friday at Indie Emporium!!

Saturday:
Riley had to go home Friday after the event since he had to go to Lawrence, Kansas the next day. So taking his spot was my sister, Cristina!

We had lunch and headed to the venue early because I didn't feel like rushing again.
I decided now was the best time to take pictures of the booth!!
There's Cristina conducting business.



















Saturday was such a fun day! Cristina was an amazing helper and kept me laughing.



We came across one punk posy's booth and she had these rockin' mustaches on a stick! We became obsessed!
Cristina got into it


Claudia from Claudia's Burning Ink got into it!


The owl snuggly got into it!


Even the ghost!


Tini even got double into it!


It was great to see everyone again and meet new friends!


Renee from GreenerMe Casuals and Amby from The Knit Owl.


Cristi from Felix & Jayne and Issac!


The rockin' artist/photographer/designer Tony Li.


I have two more shows this year in Oklahoma. One in November and one in December! I'll let you know more about it later.
All in all it was a great weekend!
Thank you to those that were able to come to Indie Emporium!