My 1st internet crush

Since Jelsen and I were lucky enough to be featured on Brooklyn Bride's blog, we've been getting a lot of love on various other blogs from around the world. One of the sweet comments led me through another blog onto this fabulous blog by a lady in Scotland (dreamy!) who is planning her own nuptials and introduced me to the coolest DIY project ever. I wish I was brave enough to take on this task! As soon as we are settled in the new apartment, I am following her guidelines and making these gorgeous candles. They'll make a great xmas/hannukah/kwanza gift!


First of all, let me tell you how the first thing that drew me her way was the name of her blog, Peonies and Polaroids. Two of my favorite things in the world! (I think we are destined!)
Besides making these gorgeous jars, she diy'ed these pretty shoes that I wanted a while back-but turned out to be a bit out of my pre-wedding budget! I definitely have a crush on her craftiness and put her blog on my "daily blog list" for more ideas and inspiration.

Today, as I was scrolling through her blog and nodding my head to her comments on the "deposit effect" and perplexed that she made me actually love roses (I thought I hated roses!), I see that she did an entire post about OUR wedding. And she writes just the sweetest things about us!

I think this is the start of a beautiful internet-friendship.

-bahareh

Walrus Turns 3!

H'ok. We're just gonna start from the top: i LOVE process!

This year WALRUS is turning 3 years old and they're celebrating by throwing a bash at The New York Aquarium - yep, in Coney Island USA.

Genius, indeed.

Here's the 'making-of' the invite.







These ink cartridges cost more than my printer at home.
Jeannie laid the mathematics down. Decimals are annoying as shit.
Stay tuned for the party pics.

Hint: Party. Bus.
- jelsen

Jelsen, my hero.

Yesterday I tagged along with Jelsen to The Stoop, where he was fortunate enough to talk to young adults about his work and the process of making it happen.
I loved seeing him in action, but I'll let him tell you more about it in a later post.

Friday Night Lights

Truly my favorite friday night variation: being home alone with a batch of new music and a whole lotta prioritizing to do. The weekend might just be my most productive time of the week. And when i take a break from work i watch shows about how other people get their work done. "rad!"

DVR just makes sense.Playtime carried over (gracefully) to the next morning.
....then there's saturday night.....friday night......saturday night......friday night.

getterdone
- jelsen

Toot! Toot!

Top-O-Mornin! This is how it all began; we met at 9:30 at a bushwick walgreens to pick up some b&w film. we then jumped on the J Train to JFK.

that in our hands = breakfast. onward ho.
Oooops: "where are we? where's the A Train? oh, down there." fantastic.

We were also hungry again so, since in the neighborhood, we opted on enjoying lunch at the world renowned JFK Food Court. hard palates everywhere envied ours.

.....you're reading it right: Wok&Roll. it's definitely riding that thin line of clever and shut the fuck up. we ultimately decided on McD's cause its always smarter to stick with domestic violence rather than venture abroad for it.

After being spotted by airport security for picture-taking on the premises, the man (who shaves his sideburns up to the very top of his ear) took the polaroid and tore it apart practically inches from steph's face while saying, "sorry guys, 19 idiots had to go ahead and ruin it for everyone else". these 'idiots' he's referring to are the 9/11 plane hijackers....yeah, well put.

Oh - that's a bird IN the airport.Finally getting off the airtran & an A Train transfer to far rockaway, we took the predictable post-lunch bathroom break at a local hospital's gift shop/cafeteria.

We strut into the lobby and the security stops us and asks, "hello, how can i help you?", and i - having experienced "no, bathroom. only for customers" (yes, even at hospitals)lied to him saying, "...yes, my family told me to meet them in the cafeteria"...his reply, "great, you're standing in it"

indeed i was.

Steph threw in a swift, "where are your restrooms?". he then pointed, we then peed. bladder saved x2.
Relieved, we treaded to the grim, seashell sanded northern strip of the atlantic shoreline some people blindly refer to as 'the beach'. after 5hrs....we were finally at the the starting point of our A Train Project.

Inwood, here we come:
Stay tuned.
- jelsen

(A) TRAIN Project

Im excited to announce that early tomorrow morning begins Steph's and i's a-train project. "what is it?", you ask...well, we dont exactly know yet.
We'll be armed with a b&w camera, two cabezas full of imagination, and the longest one-seat ride in the subway system (over 31 miles) we romantically refer to as "The Mutherfucking A Train". we'll be riding it from start to finish.

Cant wait to see what we come up with. Stay tuned!

- jelsen