HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!

HELLO 2011!

From me and mine to you and yours!

Failed Expedition

Originally uploaded by Zanalee

We got as far as the park across the street before turning back again. It was bitterly and we we surrounded by a solid snow wall. I hope it's less windy this week. I love snow pics but I wasn't ready for this at all.

Shelf's Up!

Shelf's Up!
Originally uploaded by Zanalee

We finally put the shelf up this morning for the girls. My sweety is very proud of the job he's done and I am so happy to have them all together and out of the way. This is a shelf just for them, so that they're no longer on top of boxes of their own clothes. It's really important for me to have these things separate so that I can focus better.

I love looking up and seeing them all together above me, looking like they're chatting or gazing out towards the window or at nothing. I think they're happy. I know I am. Now I can start looking for that sweater of theirs that seems to be missing, not to mention straightening up my own stuff. Oh the holidays! Bring it on!

Happy Holidays from my girls in Harlem!

Happy Holidays from my girls in Harlem!
Originally uploaded by Zanalee

Happy Holidays Blythe Lovers and Doll lovers in general and to your loved ones!
May your Holidays be blessed and may you be surrounded with love, warmth and imagination!

Picture Show! Welcome to my life!!!

 Jewels Blueberry is one of my all time fave Blythe photographers. She was one the first people whose unique, vintage and retro technique I poured over whenever she would post new photos and I would just wonder, how in the heck did she do that? How does she just create this ancient, worn, faded, genuinely vintage look? And it's more than just a look. It's a feeling. And that's hard to accomplish by just pointing a camera at something. That is something inside the photographer which cannot be duplicated, only imitated.

I swear I thought that maybe she was still using film or something! I was so in awe. Finally, I just said, fuck it! I'm going to just ask her. To my great pleasure, she was super nice and always has been. She was kind enough to let me in on some of the filter software she was using. Yesterday she told me about the Picture Show app on iPhone and I just knew that if she was swearing by it, I had to have it. I checked out some of the pictures she had uploaded using it and I was sold!

Among the seven photo apps  have on my iPhone, Picture Show maybe the only one to rival Hipstamatic. Yes, I said it! I installed it yesterday at work and when I got home I spent the rest of the evening snapping away and exclaiming to myself out loud! I just am blown away by how good the filters look and by the combo of frames, vignetting and color adjustments available. It is incredible. I can see that in quality, it is not as subtle as Hipstamatic. In that department, Hipstamatic really does have it all over the other picture apps but it also depends I imagine on how you use it. I have only taken pictures with it using florescent light sources so far. God, only knows what it can do in natural light! I can't wait to see!

A great new photo app is like a new door for me! I swear, it's like everything else that sucks just disappears and all I can see are possibilities! *Aaaaahhh*

2608 (for zenzile)

2608 (for zenzile)
Originally uploaded by valentine westphal

I don't mind telling you that Christmas for my Blythes is going be amazing this year!!! No, I mean really! There maybe a recession but they sure as hell don't know anything about it.
HAHAHA!!!

YEA!!!!! I'm so excited about this HOP baby doll dress!! Julie just cranks out the most amazing dresses and I'm like an addict! I consider it to be fate whenever I happen to be on flickr as she posts up new stuff. My fiancee who was sitting next to me at the time just didn't understand all the noises I was making while I was clicking like crazy to get this into my paypal cart. I had my fingers in my mouth! LOL!!

Frankie Stein Monster Rock

Frankie Stein Monster Rock
Originally uploaded by Zanalee

So I went to a Prince Concert in Jersey this passed Friday with my bff who lives in Philly and I have really been devoured by a storm of revived love that I have always had for that man. As you can see I'm still on a Prince high and so was Frankie Stein this morning when I took these pics of her rocking out on Hamsa's punkaholic guitar. She could totally play with Prince right? I'm in bed now while i write this, listening to a Prince Mix CD I made years ago. I am pretty much in heaven and can't wait to see him again. Yes, I will be seeing him again. He makes me happy as a kid!