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New Year's Resolutions.

It's always fun to make a list of resolutions and goals that you wish to accomplish at the start of every new year. That way at the end of the year you have something to look back on and see how much you actually accomplished. We didn't do too bad at knocking a bunch of things off our 2012 goal list though, so here's hoping we get a lot of these things accomplished this year!

Sew more. We have definitely put our sewing machines to better use over the past year but we would still like to make regular habit of it.

Blog makeover. This is long overdue and we have been meaning so this will be one of our top priorieties this year!

Take Olive out more. Last summer we were busy with weddings and family commitments almost every weekend so we had very little time leftover for trailer events. This summer is going to be different though! We can't wait for this snow to melt and to hit the road with our little Olive again!

Share more DIY posts. This is something we have been starting to get into more and more on our blog and we have really been enjoying. Keep your eyes peeled for a lot more DIY's in 2013!

Experiment in the kitchen. We have both had a lot of fun trying out new recipes this past year and this is definitely a habit we wish to keep up in the new year (especially since we both got so many amazing new cookbooks for Christmas!)

Make more time for family and friends. Now that our store has been in business for a year and we are getting more comfortable with our new routine, we want to make an effort to spend less time working and more quality time with our loved ones.

Learn some Thai. This is something that we both really want to learn more of since we travel to Thailand at least twice a year for business. It would feel so amazing to be able to learn a new language and be able to efficiently communicate in another country.

Get more tattoos. We have been brainstorming ideas together for the last few months and can't wait to put our ideas into action soon!

Trim the fat. Simplify. It is so easy to get carried away and buy a bunch of stuff that you dont really need, so this is something that we definitely want to get control of this year. We want to make an effort to only buy things that we really need and purge anything in excess.

Spend less, save more. Yes yes yes! I'm sure we aren't alone on this resolution.

Be more organized. This is a major goal for us especially when it comes to organizing our business paperwork. Life is just so much easier when things are properly organized.

Design something exclusively for our online shop. This is a repeat goal from last year because we never got around to it but is still a big dream of ours!!


What about you, what are your goals and resolutions for 2013?
XO

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Welcome to L.A. (1976)

          After making a pair of schlocky horror flicks, writer-director Alan Rudolph finally got to make a proper film with the help of A-list auteur Robert Altman, who served as Rudolph’s producer for Welcome to L.A.Given the “Robert Altman presents” imprimatur, however, it’s hard not to perceive Welcome to L.A. as Altman Lite, especially since Rudolph emulates his producer’s filmmaking style by presenting a loosely intertwined mosaic of cynical stories. Yet while Altman’s best ensemble movies sparkle with idiosyncratic humor, Welcome to L.A. is monotonous, a downbeat slog comprising vapid Los Angelenos doing rotten things for unknowable reasons.

          The character holding everything together is Carroll Barber (Keith Carradine), a self-absorbed rich kid who fancies himself a songwriter and who spends the movie accruing sexual conquests. Some of the uninteresting people orbiting Carroll are Ann (Sally Kellerman), a pathetic real-estate agent given to humiliating displays of unrequited affection; Karen (Geraldine Chaplin), a spacey housewife who spends her days riding around the city in taxis; Linda (Sissy Spacek), a ditzy housekeeper who works topless; Nona (Lauren Hutton), a kept woman who takes arty photographs; and Susan (Viveca Lindfors), an insufferably pretentious talent representative in love with a much-younger man. Harvey Keitel and Denver Pyle appear as well, though Rudolph is clearly much more interested in the feminine mystique than the inner lives of men.

          Rudolph structures the film like a concept album, using music to bridge vignettes, and this arty contrivance doesn’t work. Part of the problem is that singer-songwriter Richard Baskin, who provides the song score and also performs several numbers onscreen, prefers the song form of the shapeless dirge. Which, come to think of it, is not a bad way to describe Welcome to L.A. While Rudolph obviously envisioned some sort of Grand Statement about the ennui of modern city dwellers, he instead crafted an interminable recitation of trite themes. Worse, Rudolph employs juvenile flourishes such as having characters stare at the camera, as if viewers will somehow see into the characters’ souls. Sorry, but isn’t providing insight the filmmaker’s job? (Available as part of the MGM Limited Collection on Amazon.com)

Welcome to L.A.: LAME

Anything for Height

Anything for Height from Herminio Cordido on Vimeo.

Double rainbow.

Happy January 1st lovelies!!! Hope you all had a fabulous New Year's Eve last night! Seeing as how today is the first day of a new year we figured that we better choose an extra special color this Hues-day to celebrate! Well... we couldn't decide on just one so we decided to do a post on all of them! Besides, what is prettier than a rainbow?!

Our New Year's Eve didn't look quite as glamourous as this beautiful confetti photo 

but we can just pretend. 

A cute modern take on a classic.

I really love how all of the colors pop against the white walls in this retro kitchen.

Must get this beautiful set of cards from Anthropologie!

Rainbow bottle collection.

The prettiest mess we ever did see.

Happy 2013! We have a feeling that this is gonna be a good year. :)

XO

Bananas (1971) & Sleeper (1973) & Love and Death (1975)

          Comedian-turned-filmmaker Woody Allen’s first full-fledged directorial effort was the lighthearted crime satire Take the Money and Run (1969), which underwent massive surgery during postproduction but ended up being brisk, charming, and funny—a learning experience for Allen, an enjoyable viewing experience for everyone else. Entering the ’70s, Allen demonstrated smoother filmmaking skills with Bananas, a farce set amid civil unrest in Latin America. Allen plays the wonderfully named Fielding Mellish, a New York City putz desperate to get political activist Nancy (Louise Lasser) into bed. Trying to impress her, Fielding travels to the fictional country of San Marcos and inadvertently joins a band of local revolutionaries. (The sequence of Fielding training to become a machine-gun-toting guerilla is a high point of early Allen slapstick.) Eventually, through farcical circumstances, Fielding becomes the Castro-like leader of the revolutionaries—resulting in the hilarious sight of Allen sporting a giant, Castro-esque beard tinted to match Allen’s red hair. Bananas climaxes with a riotous courtroom scene in which Fielding is tried for his un-American activities. (As one borough-bred accuser says, “He’s a bad apple! A commie! A New York, Jewish, intellectual, communist crackpot! I mean, I don’t wanna cast no aspersions.”) Lasser makes a terrific foil for Allen, and the movie benefits greatly from brevity, since it’s only 82 minutes—so, while Bananas is very silly, it’s also very amusing. And with the success of Bananas, the cycle of what later came to be termed Allen’s “early, funny ones” (the goofy comedies he made before tackling serious subject matter at the end of the ’70s) was underway.

          After a busy 1972, during which Allen starred in but did not direct the adaptation of his stage play Play It Again, Sam, which was his first movie with Diane Keaton—and made his only sketch movie, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask), which was adapted from a popular nonfiction book—Allen returned to Bananasmode with the sci-fi comedy Sleeper. Once again placing a comically exaggerated version of his neurotic self into an outrageous circumstance, Allen plays Miles Monroe, the proprietor of a New York City health-food store. Accidentally thrown into suspended animation for 200 years, Miles awakes in a future America controlled by an Orwellian government. Quickly realizing he’s a target in this strange world, Miles disguises himself as a servant robot and hides in the household of Luna Schlosser (Keaton), thus commencing a gleefully convoluted plot involving conspiracies, spies, and, of course, the Orgasmatron. Allen pushes his slapstick almost to the breaking point here; at one point, he dons a giant, inflatable suit that carries him off into the sky. Yet some of the movie’s verbal interplay is memorably deft, and the chemistry between Allen and Keaton is fantastic—she probably his best-ever scene partner for pure comedy. As with Bananas, however, Sleeper suffers for a lack of substance, even though the jokes are solid. In fact, for some fans, Sleeper represents the apex of Allen’s breakthrough period.

          The last of Allen’s “early, funny ones” was the offbeat Love and Death, which mined humor from the unlikely source of classic Russian literature. Riffing on the novels of Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, and others—the definition of dense, depressing fiction—Allen puts his patented New York schmuck character into the most outrageous setting yet. Wearing his signature horn-rimmed glasses, a running anachronistic joke since the movie takes place in the early 19th century, Allen plays Boris Grushenko, a coward (of course) who half-heartedly joins the Russian Army during the battle against Napoleon, and then becomes an unlikely hero. While the fish-out-of-water formula was getting a little thin by this point, Love and Death boasts Allen’s most sophisticated writing to date—how could it not, given the lofty subject matter?—and another winning collaboration with Keaton. Furthermore, Love and Deathprovides hints of the serious-minded artistry Allen would soon explore. The movie is laced with shout-outs to Bergman movies and silent Russian cinema, which are juxtaposed with cheerfully dumb sight gags. Clearly, Allen was itching to make something more meaningful than another pure joke machine, and with his next movie, 1977’s Annie Hall, he transformed the whole notion of a “Woody Allen film” into something complex, daring, and exciting.

Bananas: GROOVY

Sleeper: GROOVY

Love and Death: GROOVY

Last Skyline of 2012 + Latest Personal Websites

Ellen has a great trip report on Skyline with pictures from Sally
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