“Down in New Orleans
Where the blues was born
It takes a cool cat
To blow a horn
On LaSalle and Rampart Street
The combo’s there with a mambo beat” — The Hawketts, mardi gras mambo
Disclaimer: I tired to post this on Monday, March 07, 2011. WordPress was acting mad funky funky. So please excuse the tardiness of this post. Thank you, lovely & sweet readers.
Laissez Les Bon Temps Rouler! (to my non-new orleans/french readers this simply means, “Let the Good Times Roll”) Happy Mardi Gras, y’all!
I am in Los Angeles on Lundi Gras (the day before fat tuesday. lundi + monday in french) and for the past 6 years I have no been in NOLA for Mardi Gras and it always makes me more homesick than usual.
So, to make myself better I did some painting and created a new shotgun house to the collection of NOLA Shotguns at my shop.
SELF PROMOTION TIZZY
"Lundi Gras NOLA Shotgun (one of a kind painting)"
I’ve been working on a bunch of new things in my ETSY SHOP as well opening a new ETSY SHOP. I love creating new banners for my etsy shop and for blogs and what not so I decided to open a new shop. Check it out.
Ak.wohl Graphic Design Etsy Banner Boutique
50 States Etsy Banner Kit Line: I HEART NORTH CAROLINA
I’m making an individual design for each State in the Union. Right now I already have FOR SALE: Louisiana, New York, Massachusetts, Colorado, Montana, Minnesota, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Texas, Florida and South Carolina.
Besides 50 state line I have regular ETSY Banner & Avatar Kits. My most popular right now is:
"Mountains of Color"
DIE-HARD FAN PORTION: Where Y’all get to ask me questions!
You can e-mail me or leave questions for me to answer in the comment section. I love to answer questions- a favorite pass time for me.
1. Happy Mardi Gras! Hope you got some yummy king cake all the way out there in Los Angeles during this carnival season. – Julie (from Mobile, AL)
Happy Mardi Gras to you, too! I heard y’all got a great MG in Mobile. Need to check out sometime. I have had sum delicious king cake in LA but because I cheated and had it sent from NOLA Randazzos! check out this yummy piece!
Yummmmy New Orleans King Cake
2. Happy Mardi Gras. Hope all is well with you. I’ve seen that you talk a lot about Randall’s animal youtube videos on your twitter. Which is your favorite? I really like the Jesus Lizard, but the Honey Badger will always have a place in my heart! – Jacques (from Flint, MI)
It’s so hard to pick my favorite. I love all of his videos. He actually wrote to me on twitter! It made my saturday. For those who have no idea what Jacques and I are talking about check out the video that made our beloved Randall famous:
“Honey Badger don’t care!” <— this will stay with me for the rest of my life. So I’d say that Honey Badger is my favorite one, but I do love the Water Chevrotains as well!
For all those Honey Badger fans check out this awesome ETSY Mug from Corduroy:
"Honey Badger Don't Care - Honey Badger Series" by Corduroy
3. what’s up? found u an awesome chimp for the WIN (not #charliesheen #winning. what does u think? – Phil (from Quint, GA) (image below)
This is how I feel on a regular basis just not as chic
This is amazing. Thank you! And never ever write me a question/comment mentioning charlie sheen. thanks. No Sheen but yes to CHIMPS (i get where the confusion would lie but that’s insulting to chimps, ammirght?)
03.10.11 update: I feel like this post is getting long but I need to reward y’all sense wordpress made a huge mistake not posting this when it aught to have been posted. here’s a delicious chimp picture!
I'm not sure, but in the sitcom version of these Chimps' lives they'd be talking to each other on those phones. This is the 21st equivalent of talking on gchat/aim to your roommate as y'all put sit in the living room together
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Very cool blog!