Garden Gnome

Garden Gnome by cheeriolink2 featuring floral dresses

made this set off the shirt which reminded me of a garden

New Soul

New Soul by cheeriolink2 featuring proenza schouler bags

inspired by Yael Naim's "New Soul"

Julie & Julia

Julie & Julia (2009)

          Just a few hours ago I watched the movie Julie & Julia starring Meryl Streep and Amy Adams with my dad. Meryl Streep plays Julia Child, the famous chef, author, TV personality, and wife of Paul Child. Amy Adams plays Julie Powell, an unpublished writer with a passion for cooking. 


          The movie flips back and forth between the two main characters' storylines. One story is about Julia Child and how she became a chef and published the book Mastering the Art of French Cooking. Her story begins in Paris, France in the early 1950s. The second story is Julie Powell's and is set 2002. It's about her experiences in writing a blog while cooking all the recipes in Julia Child's recipe book. Julie sets out to make all 524 recipes in 365 days. I found the movie *quite* entertaining, and after watching it, I felt compelled to reevaluate what I wanted to do with my blog.

          I’m a dreamer, and I usually don’t follow through with all my ideas. I don’t have much discipline, so I procrastinate quite a lot. I come up with fantastic ideas, but I just don’t make the effort to carry them out. In these ways, I am like Julie Powell. Julie wants to accomplish a task, so she sets a deadline to make sure she follows through. I plan to experiment with this method to see if it works for me.

          Over time, unfinished projects have accumulated in the corners of my room. I have so much more free time now that I’m not doing theatre, so I have decided to be more productive and finish them all. If all goes according to plan, I can finally be done with all my projects and have a clean room. Talk about killing two birds with one stone. 


          I have a totally rad idea for my first project, so I can't wait to get started. I want to make personalized bookmarks to give as gifts. I've set the deadline as exactly 7 days from tomorrow, so I should be finished by New Year's Day. I’ll post more about the project tomorrow because, right now, I’m bushed.

[I don’t think I’ve ever put so much thought into a post before. I'll try and make all my posts more thoughtful from now on. :)]