The greatest thing about Austin, aside from the obvious food, music, and fashion, is the atmosphere. The people are so chill and inviting and will bend over backwards to help you.  Every corner is covered in beautiful art, interesting people, unique things to buy or fun things to do. Everyone we met and talked to was friendly and generally just great to be around. Anytime we needed directions or asked someone a place to eat or whatever, they'd look it up on their phone for us or print us out directions or even take us there.

My sister in law has a friend that manages a bar and she took us to a great little place to eat and a have a beer. It was a bar and behind it there was a courtyard with its own food trailer that served some food that I was a bit scared to try but I ended up with a Thai chicken meal that was AMAZING. The place  was like a little hidden secret in Austin.

its been a while since i've featured a fetish friday post, but it's a bit over due.


A lovely shop i came acorss called craftyFOLK. She has the most darling little pins and brooches as well as other cute items.



just a few pictures from my new favorite blog: Awesome People Hanging Out Together". It is what the title states, awesome people hanging out with eachother. =)

hammocks! especially hammocks indoors like all these lovely ones i found via apartment therapy.

almost finished packing for austin. =)
i believe this trip is going to be dreamy.

Here are a few images, inspiration boards, and collages... (okay let's face it, i made a bit of a design "look book") as proof that i'm accomplishing SOMETHING design wise. it's taken me MONTHS to feel like I've been making any progress because I haven't found anything that's FELT right yet. i've been aimlessly designing so to speak. I'll go further into detail about this particular design process in an upcoming "Letters to Art" post.



you can check out my new look for my web site to see a tad bit of my recent adventures in personal branding. Although I'm sure this isn't 100% my permanent place, I'm very comfortable with what has come and where it will lead.

and yes, that is a button that says "shop". i've been keeping the secret for a little while because i wasn't sure if it would happen or not. but i finally decidded to make the plunge into the etsy world. my shop isnt up yet, but it will be soon.

anyhoo its back to the day job part of my life. 1 more day until austin!

tata for now.

kat ann