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February 4, 2016 by Mellie Dee 2 Comments

Bob Marley Coffee Art | Maria Aristidou

Maria A. Aristidou

I’m not a hardcore lover of coffee though many will say I’m lying since I like to try new coffee shops. I go to coffee shops are more for the environment than for the coffee. I usually only order coffee when I’m blogging at a coffee shop or back when I wanted to see this boy at work and the only way was to ask him to walk downstairs with me to get coffee.

But other then that, I wouldn’t say coffee feeds my body. If anything, coffee destroys my body … if you know what I mean. TMI? ha

It would have never crossed my mind to take coffee and turn it into art. If anything, coffee stains always made me feel uneasy because it reminded me of dirtiness. But these are far from dirty. They are so pretty and I’m jealous I wasn’t the one who came up with it. Why am I not as talented as these people?!

https://youtu.be/krLYJGRTFIw?t=10s

Giulia Bernardelli uses coffee tables as a canvas and makes a spilled coffee type art.
Go to her Instagram: @bernulia for more!

Maria Aristidou paints with coffee. Watch her paint Yoda!
Check out her Instagram: @ma_aris and her YouTube: @arista1717 for more!

Red Hong Yi makes art using coffee cup stains!
She makes other portraits out of candles, chopsticks, tea, etc.
Check out her Youtube: @ohiseeRED for those!

Skyline Coffee Art | Giulia Bernardelli

Giulia Bernardelli

I wonder if these mold. If not, that’ll be something cool to experiment with. What other drink items can we use? …. Oooo how about sauces? Man, I’m sure those would mold though.

Friday is just around the corner! We can do it! Stay positive and think good thoughts! <3

Filed Under: Miscellaneous Tagged With: Art

Studios, Scripts, and Auditions … I’m Gonna Be Famous!

February 3, 2016 by Mellie Dee Leave a Comment

I finally went to the studio Monday night after being gone for so long. They were surprised when I showed up. It’s still a big sausage fest with a sprinkle of girls added to the mix. I’m glad they’re getting noticed and people are putting in time and energy just for the joy of being a part of something.

Other than the surprised looks on the boys’ faces, upon arriving through the doors, one of the employees that work at the studio asked if I ever did any acting or crew in the past. I laughed awkwardly and replied “a long, long time ago … very little”. He started to talk about how he is in the casting process of a short film. He’s wanting to submit various short films he and others have made hoping it’ll get picked up and grow into something more.

It quickly went to him asking if I was interested because there’s a part he can see me play. He wants a whole lot of diversity so I guess being Asian helped. haha I think he can sense my nervousness so he asked me to just read the script and see how I like it before deciding. And if I really was interested, he wanted me to read for two different parts.

Y’all … I’m going to be FAMOUS! hahaha Just kidding.

I haven’t been in front of an audience in a long while now so I’m not sure if I will end up reading the for the parts. I didn’t like the attention and the judging. Ever since then I’ve switched to the behind-the-scenes type of person but I agreed I’d read the script first and go from there. He added that he’d love my help with the crew if I didn’t want to go forward with it and I told him that that sounded lovely. I didn’t know what else to say. Plus maybe it will be lovely. Getting to do things you wouldn’t normally do and have more experiences do sound pretty fun. If I didn’t go to the studio Monday night, i wouldn’t have been given an opportunity to decide, given, I might not take it. But being asked is something to celebrate about. Always celebrate the little things.

The week is almost over. Can y’all believe it? Happy Humps Day!

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Grease Live!

February 2, 2016 by Mellie Dee Leave a Comment

Grease Live!

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Did anyone tune in Sunday night? I totally forgot since I was busy with some personal things. And I only remembered because Jose mentioned it on his Facebook and it popped up on my news feed! Grease is one of my favourite movies so you can assume I was bummed I missed it!

Grease Live!

After a little research, I found out you can stream on platforms like Hulu and On Demand! Lucky me for I was already planning to go to Sissy’s after work yesterday and they have On Demand! So it was a Grease + Chinese delivery kind of dinner night.

Grease Live!

Not many people know I named my puppy Rizzo after the movie’s character, Betty Rizzo. I get my puppy is a boy and the character is a girl but I just really liked the name and she was my favourite character in the movie. If I get to adopt another, hopefully a girl, I’ll name her Zuko and possibly change the spelling to Zucco but who knows.

Grease Live!

Speaking of Rizzo, Vanessa Hudgens’ did a great job in portraying her when it came to singing. By now, everyone’s heard about her dad passing away recently before. She was such a professional and was very strong to follow throughout. I was actually a little afraid of hating this remake because if she failed as Rizzo, it would of ruined it. I will say her acting is still … meh.

Grease Live!

Julianne Hough (Sandy Olsson) did great. She had the innocent voice down pat. I secretly have a girl crush on her. She seems to be able to do it all, sing, act, dance …. As for Aaron Tveit (Danny Zuko), I would say they could of cast a better Zuko. It took me a long time to figure out he was in Les Miserables which fit him better. The cast was a pretty good pick of well known people and I love seeing them all together.

Grease Live!

I was not a big fan of all the changes they made. The moved songs around and added songs. Just ugh, no. I wouldn’t say I hate it, but I didn’t love it as much as I’d hoped.

Maybe they’ll make more Live! musicals but don’t change up so much. I remember watching Sound of Music with Carrie Underwood which I actually loved. But then again i never watched that movie before so I didn’t have much to say about the differences.

What’s next? I’m ready.

Filed Under: Music Tagged With: Musicals

List of Creative Hobbies

February 1, 2016 by Mellie Dee Leave a Comment

Happy February, Bubbies! Valentine’s Day month! But most importantly, Chinese New Year month because, well, single life, yo! But also because red envelopes, yo! Oh and let’s not forget, Deadpool month! Too freaking excited for that.

January treated me fairly well. A lot of things have changed for me and I’ve grown a lot in just one month. Not sure how many people can say that but I truly believe I’m a different person than I was last year. I use to be more positive and upbeat and I want to go back to that. I just have to keep reminding myself that things happen for a reason. Nothing is bad because it’ll take you to the good, to where you need to be. 

I decided to pick up the things I love but haven’t done in a while. #littlethings Here’s an update on all I’ve completed this past month:

CROCHET | It’s been a while so I’m training my fingers again. Back to the basics. I’ve finished a single crochet scarf and currently on a double crochet baby blanket. It helps keep my mind off of things as I “watch” telly.

WRITE | Surprised I’ve blogged every day this past month. I didn’t plan it that way, but it just happened. I have nothing interesting to say so I’m not sure what I really posted.

READ | I’ve finished two books and currently reading one digital and one physical, and listening to an audio. I love being lost in the characters. Feeling their feelings feels much better than feeling my own feelings. Plus it gives you a whole new perspective on things that go on in your own life.

DRAW | I was cleaning and found my old drawings which almost always had words with it. They make me laugh. I’ve finished two drawings this past month. I still have issues with making realistic human drawings but practice makes somewhat perfect …

As you can see, I’m doing quite well in keeping my creative side of the brain going and I hope to add more lovely things going forward:

PAINT | I’m wanting to throw some down for some sky paintings. I miss those and they were always easy for me to conjure up even though the last one I ever did took me over three hours.

GUITAR | I’ve failed at putting in new strings. I still haven’t figured out which ones to buy since I want better quality than what I currently have. Plus last time I restrung my guitar, it snapped my face and I’m not sure I got over that fear yet.

SONGWRITE | I’m not good at this. I wish I was. But I still try. It’s easy for me to put words to paper but putting instrumentals to it is pretty tough for me. Maybe I’ll just do a cappella instead …

VIOLIN | Sissy and I dabbled on the only violin that was left standing in December. We bought new strings for the others but I haven’t put them on. It’s been a long time and I’m afraid I’m going to break them. Any volunteers to help a girl out?

KNIT | Fairly similar to crocheting but not. I use to knit more than I crochet so getting into it will probably be a bit easier for me than crocheting. Might be best to knit giant blankets in the future.

FITNESS | I miss having a scheduled workout plan. There are reasons for not starting but that’s a post for another day.

I hope I can continue through the year. Maybe I won’t complete as much as I did this past month, but it’ll still be something to celebrate.

If anyone is interested in doing any of the above with me, I’ll gladly accept the company. Maybe you can teach me a thing or two.

Until next time, 

Filed Under: Miscellaneous

Music | Say You Love Me by Jessie Ware

January 31, 2016 by Mellie Dee Leave a Comment

A friend of mine did a duet cover of this song and I fell in love. I’m 99% certain their cover is better than Jessie Ware’s but then again I’m biased when it comes to a male and female duet.

Happy last day of January 2016!

Filed Under: Music Tagged With: YouTube

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