Nicole Ioma

Moving!

2009-04-01T19:10:00.003-04:00

I am very happy to announce that I now have my very own domain =) come see me at:

www.nicoleiom a.com

Cassette Tape Art

2009-03-31T12:00:00.004-04:00

(via craftzine)

So clever... and so tedious, I don't know if I would have had the patience. There are more too!

Last College Spring Break

2009-03-29T14:03:00.003-04:00

Actually, it was more like my first college spring break. Every other year I've spent at home, bitter and sad about the cold weather, jealous of everyone else's exotic vacations. Not this year.

This year I went on a cruise-that's me with the Carnival Cruise mascot guy. It was a 5 day cruise to Key West and the Bahamas and it was incredible.

And there I am standing on the beach at the Bahamas, pina colada in hand. I've never been on any sort of tropical island or anywhere where the water looks like that so it was a really good experience.

Except I don't think people realize just how sketchy the Bahamas are.. we only made it to that beach after a ride on a very small, very scary boat operated by men who seemed to think it could tip over at any second. Then we couldn't find the beach, and a random local decided he was going to be our tour guide. We followed him for a good 20 minutes, thinking the entire time that he was probably leading us somewhere to kill us or take our money. Once we finally found the crystal clear water and white sand and were bombarded with drunk American spring breakers (whoa party) we noticed lots of people drinking out of coconuts. Of course I wanted to drink out of a coconut! Turns out they were being sold by a couple men with coolers, and they were filling them up with unlabeled milk jugs. "Rum!" "Pina colada mix!" My friends drank it, I did not. Turns out the rum was watered down and the pina colada mix was... milk? Maybe? Oh, and they ran out of coconuts.
It was about 2:30 when we got there and the only reason my friends decided to drink the mystery drinks instead of the drinks at a real bar was cause they kept yelling "$20! Drink all day!" Considering the amount of money we'd been spending on the boat, and the amount of money college kids can spend on booze during spring break, that's a hell of a deal. I went and paid $6 for a strawberry daiquiri, where I could see what they were pouring into my drink and it seemed like a legitimate business. By the time I got back to my friends around 3pm, the guys with the coolers were gone-so much for drinking all day.

Seven Swordfish

2009-03-02T12:43:00.004-05:00

For one of the graphic design classes I am taking, we had to design a floor number for a museum and integrate the number with the type of animal found on that particular floor. I chose floor number seven: ocean life.

It's a swordfish! Or a marlin. Does anyone really know the difference? Swordfish just sounds cooler.

Mini Me

2009-02-25T08:03:00.003-05:00

So apparently the people who work for LEGO are getting these as business cards:

I kind of just want to work for them long enough to get one of these. (noquedanblogs)

Mona Lisa Chair

2009-02-18T11:30:00.003-05:00

(noquedanblogs.com)

Word.

Valentine's Day

2009-02-16T17:08:00.002-05:00

Moldy Sandwiches

2009-01-30T15:00:00.003-05:00

I just saw this post on Design*Sponge about anti-theft lunchbags. I think this is so clever and funny.

haha!

Nineteen Things

2009-01-20T21:34:00.007-05:00

I am taking a bookmaking class this semester and today we were supposed to bring in 20 things. They had to be identical and they could not cost more than a dollar each-other than that, my teacher told us nothing. Today in class we passed them around until each person had one of each object and it turned out that each person got 19 things.

It was exciting in a childish way to get all these fun little treasures as they were passed around the table. We had no idea what they were for but it was funny to see who brought in what and to watch as people sorted and looked through their personal stash.

My nineteen things: a dixie cup, a plastic spoon, a yellow foam guitar sticker, a pink round push pin, a strange brown seed/bean, a clear push pin, a plastic googly eye, a wooden star, a ladybug button, a purple golf tee, a stick of gum in a blue wapper, a life savers mint, a Q-tip, two pennies, a nail, a silver paper clamp, a bobby pin, and a guitar pick. So random!

Our assignment is to make a book using all of these objects.

I have no idea what direction I am going to go in, but I'm excited! I'll post my progress =)

"It's not where you take things from-it's where you take them to."

2009-01-19T10:28:00.002-05:00

(from swissmiss)

Dreaming and Driving

2009-01-07T19:22:00.005-05:00

Taking long car rides by myself has always been very therapeutic for me. I can blast music, sing at the top of my lungs, think through issues, or not think at all. Whenever I can't seem to work through an emotion I always find myself in my car on my way to someplace far away, and by the time I get there I feel a million times better.

My mind does a lot of wandering on these car trips and I usually come up with crazy, interesting, or absolutely irrational ideas. Because of this, I decided to create a series called "Dreaming&Driving" dedicated to the things I come up with in the car. Hope you enjoy it! =)

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2009-01-05T22:35:00.002-05:00

Just Jump

2008-12-25T22:03:00.007-05:00

Looking ahead and planning for the future are all important for a person's well-being. Thinking ahead stops people from making decisions that could come back to haunt them years down the road.

But sometimes?

Sometimes you just have to jump.