Will Pinterest Kill The Photo Round-Up?

There are about 879 reasons that I am not the supreme ruler of the universe design blogger, but #1 with a bullet is this: I cannot STAND doing photo round-ups. Like, I FUCKING HATE THEM. 

I'm totally fine searching for one fab photo. Searching for two photos makes me angry. If I have to search for three or more photos, I wanna punch a baby directly in its face. So doing round-ups, mood boards, inspiration boards--whatever you wanna call them--that's pretty much my kryptonite.

Which isn't to say that I don't love looking at them, cause I totally do. These round-up boards have become celebrity superstars in the world of lifestyle blogging over the past few years. And some of you ppl are *seriously* good at putting those mofos together (Life's Little Jems, Mrs Lilien, and Mimi+Meg come to mind). If we're being honest, having the ability to do these round-ups, and do them well, pretty much puts you in a class above the rest in the world of blogging. It's kinda like learning to drive stick--you don't *have* to know how to do it in order to drive, but if you do, you have many more options available to you, and also you're just way the hell cooler.

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How Am I Supposed To Unsee This, Sarah Michelle Gellar?

Yes, in fact I do realize that the Golden Globes were almost a week ago. And that mostly everything that could possibly be said about the fashion misses and hits has already been said. 

But also, JESUS FUCKING CHRIST SARAH MICHELLE GELLAR!

I serioulsy cannot get this monstrosity out of my head. 

I decided that the only way to really cope, was to make up a list of things that I thnk are actually uglier and more vile than this "dress." Here's what I cam up with:

*Cancer

*Hitler

*My haircut from 10th grade (thankfully, there are no surviving photos...at least on the internet)

*Puli dogs

*Penn Station in NYC (and in case you didn't realize, this is how gorge that place USED to be before they wrecked it. Everytime I see those pictures I actually want to cry)

That was pretty much all I could come up. May we all never see this thing ever, ever, never again. Amen.

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10 THINGS PINTEREST SHOULD DO RIGHT NOW

You know how sometimes you have a friend that you really, really love and care about, but they keep doing stupid shit that's like an 11 on a scale of 1-10, and it kinda makes you wanna punch them in the face? But you can't cause you LOVE THEM, and they mean the world to you, and if they would just stop doing the stupid shit, you would forget about it forever and just go right back to being besties, and never, ever mention it again?

Right, well that's kinda how I'm feeling about Pinterest lately.

Truth time: there is literally not a single website, service, or platform that has EVER come along in the history of my internet browsing days that has excited me, and....well fine, fulfilled me as much as Pinterest.  I'm not being melodramatic here. I love the living shit out of it. 

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Anthropologie Bedding: Unicorns-n-Puppy Dogs

Ok, in terms of clothes and jewelry, I love me some Anthro just as much as the next girl. But can someone explain to me why the hell ALL of their bedding looks like it's made out of cream puffs, cotton candy and maxi-pads? 

It's just so goddamned ruffle-y and girly, it all kinda makes me want to barf. I mean, can you imagine a dude anywhere being ok with this in the bedroom? I mean don't get me wrong: they have pretty stuff. I just wish it wasn't allllllll dripping so hard with sugar and spice and everything nice. 

If only they'd come out with a dude's line...I'd be all over that like Adam Levine on a supermodel. 

Just me?

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Photography Tips for Non-Photographers

I read this post on photography tips on Justina Blakeney's blog, and I loved em all as they are mostly targeted toward those of us who take pics with our iphones. 

Like this one: 

1.2 Flash = no no
For whatever reason, the flash always makes my photos look cheesy-- so I don't use it.

Uhm, YES!? WTF, iPhone!? Except I would replace "cheesy" with deep down dirty horrendous, momentously awful or horrible times a billion. 

I have literally never seen a good iPhone picture taken with a flash. Do they exist? They're like unicorns.

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