when you wish...

"All I ask is that you treat me no different than you would the Queen!"

This is my new art piece I did for my mother for Mommy's Day! Paint on canvas, with glitter, magazine collage on the sides, and tissue paper. I'm pretty happy with it, despite it not being completely finished.

In other news, my college decision has changed! Unfortunately no more New York City. But I got into my #1 choice, Villanova University! I am officially a Villanova Wildcat! I'm quite excited to start up in August.



Also, I am officially a Fashion Expert on WISHPOT.COM so check out my Wishlist (on the website or in my sidebar), and make your own!!


hey now, wishes do come true!

stay classy,
madeleine

for all you NCAA basketball fans

I know there's some of you out there watching. You secretly like Dick Vitale's raspy voice, I know it. I do.... Wait, what??

Anyways, in light of March Madness and the Final Four, and college decisions (yay!), I wanted to post this cute little college mascot awards list from Steve Popp's blog. The Mascots are truly the source of Madness!

Most Impressive Array of Mascots by a State University System: The University of California. The UC Santa Barbara Gauchos, the UC Irvine Anteaters and the UC San Francisco Dons, all wonderfully complement the UC Santa Cruz Banana Slugs.

Way to represent California, you Banana Slug, you.

Mascot Most Likely to Scare Small Children: The Purdue Boilmaker.

Oh, you're definitely scary alright.

Most Outdated Mascot: The Manhattan Jaspers. The Jaspers were named after Brother Jasper, a Christian clergyman from the 1880s who brought sports to the college.

Most Creative Name for Having a Chicken as a Mascot: Trinity College (Connecticut) Bantams.

Most Oxymoronic Mascot: The University of Pennsylvania Fighting Quakers. My personal favorite!

Most Likely to Confound a Meteorologist Mascot: The Tulsa Golden Hurricane. According to the University of Tulsa, when in 1922 the team looked for a new name, the more apropos “Tornadoes” was already taken.

Best Alternative Mascot to Official School Mascot: The Long Beach State “Dirtbags.” All Long Beach State teams officially are the 49ers, but the baseball team goes by the “Dirtbags.” The Wichita State Shockers, who have a doozy of a mascot themselves, lost to Long Beach State this month producing one of the best sports headlines of the year, “ Shocks fall to Dirtbags 7-4.”

My personal favorite mascots?

The Stanford Tree: This guy is amazing. Every Stanford basketball game I go to, the tree seems to always be different. Little secret? I dream of being the person who gets to dance and twirl around in this tree. The Stanford tree is. bad. ass. end of story. It's just an added bonus he gets to dance around to the music the crazy infamous Stanford Band plays.

University of California's Oskie the Bear: Just look at this guy! He reminds me of my grandpa. It's just slightly ironic my dad went there. Check out his old school Varsity Cardigan, I want! He's got those classy white gloves on, and crew socks going on. Everytime I go to a Cal game, he's roaming the court like it's nobody's business. Oskie the Bear is a true class act.

What's your favorite/craziest/weirdest college mascot?

stay classy,
madeleine

hot mess

hello lovelies,
I'm a terrible mess currently... it's a bit ridiculous (as you can see above)!! Ahhh! Well I'm picking back up with school so I've been quite busy this week with meetings, blah, blah, blah, and my BIRTHDAY on THURSDAY! YAY! I will officially be legal! Ohhh boyy. Its an absolute travesty, however, because I have nothing to wear to school for my birthday, nor do I have a fabulous outfit yet for my tea party on Saturday. Ohhh joyy. Anywho, yesterday I had a pleasant visit with a friend who had been away in Madrid all semester... it was nice to see him and chit-chat and hear about all of his amazing travel experiences. EEEK! I'm so ready for college next year! In fact, I'm visiting Fordham, NY and Northeastern in Boston in February... exciting much? I think so.
Besides all of the exciting things happening, I've currently run into one minor dilemma. My ex. We had a pretty terrible break up more than 6 months ago, and after he has gone MIA, not responding to any of my texts/calls/ emails/facebooks/etc. hes deciding to contact me now... and I'm not sure WHAT to think about it! Luckily I don't have that "ohhh lets get back together" feeling... thank god. But this person is a completely different person than the one I knew many months ago. He's basically gone through a 360 degree change, for the worse... its unhealthy, and I don't think he's happy. I definitely don't want to be with him ever again, and I want to make him feel how terrible I felt when he left me without a word for MONTHS, but at the same time I want to be there for him... no matter how distant and different he is. He forgot how we used to be, and has forgotten so much about me, and our past relationship... and I must admit, it hurts. But I'm glad this has been made clear to me that I shouldn't be missing him and don't want to be with him, but I dont know if I should stick around and help him with his "problems" and "issues". Its bad. I'm conflicted, confused, but ontop of it, and selfishly... relieved that I no longer have feelings for him. Ohhh dear...

...Wow. That was an unattractively long post. WOOO I apologize! I feel like it all had to get off my chest!

stay classy,


listening to: black the colour of my heart - monarchy
thinking about: posting new art stuff!

delightful day.

Today was such an exciting day. I started the day off booking/planning my 18th birthday get together. I booked reservations for a tea party at Crown & Crumpet, in Ghirardelli Square in San Francisco! I am beyond excited! To be quite honest I haven't heard of the place, and have never seen it when I've been by Ghirardelli. However after visiting their website, I instantaneously fell in love! If you are interested in the tea room scene etc, even remotely, I urge you to check out this website (this means you, CafeFashionista! if you havent already, that is) Its absolutely adorable.
See for yourself, the decor is just so ridiculously adorable it makes me want to cry!
absolutely too cute to boot, right? ohhh I can't wait to rant and rave about it when I actually visit Crown & Crumpet for my tea party January 16th! Oh joy!

Enough about my soon-to-be tea party. After excitingly planning my event for my birthday the fam bam and I went out to go see Sherlock Homes, a movie I really wanted to see! I knew it got good reviews, but I cannot say how fabulous I thought this movie was. Fabulous, well written script, great casting (alright so I'm a Robert Downey Jr. fan, so I may be a little bit biased), so witty, so captivating, so aesthetically pleasing, soooo fabulous. 5 stars! 2 thumbs up! Sherlock Homes was an amazing movie. We were walking out of the theater and the man next to me said to his wife "I would give it two and a half stars, maybe", I'm almost positive he had to be crazy.

After my movie I went home, worked on my last college essay which was actually quite fun to write! It was for George Washington University, and as a propsoed Journalism major I had to write an article about myself, as if I had interviewed myself... I will have to post what I have, after I finish editing and all else. After working on this essay for a few hours, a few friends met at my house and we went downtown Palo Alto for dinner at Buca diBeppo. I ate enough to last me about a year, indefinitely. It was a fabulous night for friends, food, and laughter.

Upon arriving back home, I downloaded the January 2010 Blalock's Indie Playlist, and came across perhaps the most delightful song I have heard in awhile. Granted, it's a bit like a revenge at an ex-lover song, but its just so cheery and fun when you actually listen to it!

bad day : darwin deez
i hope that the last the page of your 800 page novel is missing
and i hope that it rains if you leave the window down on your red mustang
cause everyday ought to be a bad day for you
and if you drop your keys i hope there's a sewer somewhere very nearby
i hope that your team lost;
and if you're out of clean sheets i hope your new girl takes off and it's clear why
cause everyday ought to be a bad day for you
and i would like to be your girlfriend so i could dump you
and i would like to be your garbage man so i would never have to pick up your trash again
maybe you should wonder why your apartment is always so empty
well i hope you get locked out of that apartment and have to call jenny
cause everyday ought to be a bad day for you
but i'm sorry if it ever is

listen to the song and tell me it doesn't make you want to smile and dance.

delightful day. hope your sunday was as pleasant as mine.

stay classy,

cheers to you, 2010

What's my new years resolution? Well, I dont have one. I don't believe in new years resolutions because typically I will forget whatever I resolved to do/not to do after the month. Surely, I believe in goal setting, however, why not change yourself /do something different December 31st, rather than January 2nd? It makes no difference to me. Call me a pessimist, but new years isn't a day to "hit the reset button", but rather a marking point we use to reflect upon and see what we can change. So with that, I've come up with a couple of goals to keep in mind for as long as I remember, lol.

stop being such a pessimist
I find myself more and more irritated by optimism and hate myself for it. Though it doesn't make me an extremely negative person, I don't like the negative aura I give out... no bueno. smile, jesus loves you ;]

pump it up
strengthen myself physically (and mentally) to go strong 365 days and beyond. now that i'm a second semester senior I have more time to go to the gym, workout, go to classes, etc.

chillax
i'm finally a second semester senior and accepted into college. need I say more?
WARNING: Do not confuse this with "slack off"

make more time for art
self explanatory, yeah?

what are your new years resolutions/future goals?

stay classy,




currently listening to: ready, able - grizzly bear
^^currently my favorite song, it's probably on play count 3976491236408321659716235
currently reading/residing on my nightstand: "nine and counting: the women of the senate"

oh december.

Ah! December is absolute craziness, thus far. Everyone's getting sick, so I'm avoiding sickness at all costs. I've been so busy the past few weeks, hence I haven't been blogging as often, sadface. I have finals next week, so that probably means even less blogging too! the travesty! Funny though, I'm not stressing out, or nervous about finals, at all... I'm almost waiting for my hysteria to kick in. Whatever. In the next couple of weeks I'll be hearing from a bunch of colleges I've applied to, so I shouldn't be anxious at all, right? Ha. One thing I can't complain about is the weather. I'm pretty sure it's the coldest it's ever been over here, but I love it... it's an excuse for cute coats, jackets, hats, and boots! I love the cold weather... That's why I can't wait to hear from my east coast colleges in the next few weeks... it's where I belong! Today it started raining, which makes this whole weather situation basically 10times better! I love the rain! AND, news reports have said that snow is very possible in the next week. Snow?! In the SanFrancisco/BayArea?! yes! I love december... except the finals part. And another thing I can't complain about? The male faculty member, under the age of 30, at my all girls high school. He's essentially walked into a lions den of hungry girls, and has yet to notice. Let's just say I have an affinity towards older men. ;] oh boy. Ah! I'm feeling really good right now, it's probably the rain... is that weird? Oh well, my ridiculously hyper mood will probably wear off in a couple of days, after all, being bipolar does that to you. Hope you're all enjoying DECEMBER!

15 days till LADY GAGA!

listening to: horchata - vampire weekend
^check this song out! its essentially adorableness in a box with a little bow. kinda. well, it basically explains my mood!
thinking about: my mommy who's in new york! I'm so jealous.


stay classy,