Etsy purchase for the win!

I was at work today doing 20 things at once, including tracking an Etsy package I was expecting any day now. Dude. Love the feeling of clicking on that tracking number and seeing "Delivered" pop up. Hells yessss!!!

If my blog title hadn't already given it away, lemme just say that I LOVE, with large capital letters, sugar skulls.  

I majored in Chicana/o Studies in college, and even though I'm Mexican-American, I didn't know a lot about my culture before college. So what better way to learn than by majoring in the dang thing?! :-)

So I learned about the history of Mexican people in the United States, 

Chicana/os, Xicana@s, and the like. 

I really developed an interest in the tradition of Dia de los Muertos, and all that the holiday/day of celebration/remembrance involves. Including sugar skulls! Our kitchen is adorned with sugar skull decor and I always have an eye out for sweet sugar skull accessories, decorations, and well, pretty much anything!

If you've never checked out Etsy (how could that be possible?!?! lol) I would most def recommend you check out this dude- Jose Pulido. His shop's name is Mis Nopales Art, and if you like sugar skulls or Chicano pop art, you should take a look at his stuff! (Check out my Paul Frank Macbook cover in the background. Hehehe)

My Day with Frida at LACMA

My first post! Yay! So I thought I would start by sharing a trip I took our international students on for work. We went to Los Angeles for the day this last Saturday, and spent time exploring museums, The Grove shopping center, and nearby Farmers Market. Lots of inspiration for craftiness all over the place!

So I knew Saturday would be a good day with a lot of great things to check out, but I didn't realize just how awesome of a day it would be.

"Las Dos Fridas," by Frida Kahlo 

 LACMA has an AMAZING exhibit right now called "In Wonderland," that features some wonderful Surrealist female artists from the easy to mid 1900's. and Frida was one of them! I was so ridiculously excited to see Friday artworks in real life. I stared at this painting for so long, I think the guard that was keeping watch over it was started to get suspicious I was going to go grab it, or at least hug it. Ha.As you can see, I LOVE Frida, and she is the background of my blog here. The crazy awesome painting of her with the Daft Punk shirt was done by an artist named Fab Ciraolo, a Chilean artist. He is for sure worth checking out.