hey all!

our wedding is being featured on With This Ring Weddings!!

not going to lie, we feel pretty cool :)

check it out!

http://with--this--ring.blogspot.com/2010/10/real-wedding-santa-monica-california.html

:) L

i'll spare you my usual word count on this one, so get ready for some photes!

i've had a couple requests to see our lovely home, and we've finally [almost] finished decorating, save for a few finishing touches. we love our home, and are always so happy and peaceful to be here--just the two of us, or entertaining our wonderful friends. we're very blessed indeed by our own little 700 square foot slice of space.

p.s. i hope you get some sort of curiosity craving satisfied through this...i'm officially obsessed with HGTV, so i know how it feels...

:) L

living room...



kitchen table...



view...



bathroom...



bedroom...



photos of each of our shoes, from our wedding :)



and now the piece de resistance...our office!









and lastly, this was our honeymoon souvenir for ourselves, a vintage map of kauai, where we went. tres chic, no?



what does your home look like? i love to chat decor if you're up for it!!

ok ok, enough IS enough!

after 4 delightful months of wedded bliss (no throat clears here, i'm not exaggerating!) i'd say it's about time for me to write a blog entry. apparently i do go on these few-month hiatuses, but even though i may not think my life is the most exciting sometimes doesn't give me an excuse not to keep you guys updated!

so...let's have a whirlwind update from the past 4 months [wow!].

1. marriage is so amazing :) i'll spare you all the mushy-gushy details by saying that all is well, parker is the best husband, and i've never felt so loved. it's so fun to live with your best friend, too! (parker is working on a honeymoon compilation video, so hopefully i'll get to post that sometime soon).



2. on the job front. things have been continuing on the same path as they have been going for the past three years, which is the jagged path of career randomness, sprinkled with acting, voiceover work, hand modeling, personal assistance, and writing. i'm definitely getting itchy though now for a more steady gig, i think. i'm just having trouble making up my mind which direction to choose! any suggestions?

one fun foray i recently made into a side job is through...

3. Etsy. Etsy is like ebay, an online marketplace, only etsy has to be vintage or handmade. i love garage saling and thrifting, so i decided to turn that into a little moneymaker and find things to sell online. it's been great to unload some left over wedding items, too. i've only posted and sold a few things so far, but it's really fun. check out my store (it's a little bit bare right now) here: http://www.etsy.com/shop/missellepea

4. DQ. after connecting with a couple of producers through friends, i got in as a project coordinator (producer's helper) on a shoot for a dairy queen spec commercial. it was a great two weeks. i had the pleasure of working with a few wonderful people, from whom i learned a ton about producing. i like to think of it as a crash course. i'll post the final product, or a link to it, as soon as it's finished, hopefully in a couple of weeks! but i'm very proud of the finished product, and hoping to pursue more work in producing.

5. during those two weeks, my brother, cody and his friend were in town. we had so much fun spending time together and doing lots of LA activities. here were are hiking at solstice canyon in malibu!



6. my hubby has a new website and blog. at least check out his reel on the main page. he's very talented, and that's actually unbiased. www.parkerwilson.com

7. we fostered a dog for a week recently. his name was huck, and he was the perfect dog for us, but it just wasn't the right time, unfortunately. so, we gave him a great home for a week and then he got adopted by a lovely family!! isn't he adorable though?



8. backtracking a bit...for 4th of july weekend, we decided to rent a house in palm springs with some friends. because the desert is super hot (we're talkin' 110 degrees!) in the summer, that's their off season, so you can get really good deals. anyway, we got a killer 4 bedroom house with salt water pool and tons of other amenities. it was a perfect mini-vacation, and made summer feel more legitimate, since LA has been sort of chilly this year. we already can't wait to plan another trip! if you're ever going, let me know, and i'll give you the info for this particular house since it was such a good deal.




9. also while in palm springs, and to make use of our sleek, modern abode...parker and i shot another commercial for the next MOFILM competition. it's for dove, and i'll definitely post it when the competition rules allow. we're hoping to enter a few videos by the september deadline, so wish us luck!



10. i just returned from a quick missouri/indiana/kentucky trip where i got to spend time with my sweet family and have a mini-reunion with some college besties at our friend, jaclyn's wedding. it was so much fun! but after all the humidity and missing parker, i was ready to come home to LA!



11. i have a sort of top secret project in the works. i hope that something comes of it, so that i have exciting news to broadcast! if nothing else, i've spent my free time being very productive, so i'm happy with that! stay tuned...

and lastly...12. i've been getting requests for a home decor post (especially since parker and my latest project is decorating our office!), so hopefully that will be the next one coming soon.

love from the west coast!

L

well, it's been awhile!! please forgive me, as a couple important things have happened in the past two months of my blogging hiatus: parker and i got married, went on our honeymoon, and are now roomies in our lovely new apartment! needless to say, but i've been just a little busy...

more photos from those events later, but for now...let's talk more about YOPLAIT!

after winning third place in the MOFilm contest to create an ad for yoplait, parks and i were awarded a budget for film equipment, which we used to buy a camera (that's called reinvesting in our careers, folks). MOFilm and the yoplait team also personally extended us the offer of flying us to NYC for the MOFilm awards events and partnered events with the TriBeCa film festival. So, after a restful 48 hours at home in LA after getting back from hawaii...we flew off to the east coast for 3 days in the big apple...



as soon as we landed, we were rushed to our hotel (the tribeca grand), where we did a quick wardrobe change into "smart casual" and popped down to a MOFilm mixer. let me tell you: for those three days they treated us right! wined and dined, meet and greets with MOFilm/Yoplait/major brand's marketing chiefs, and even a Q&A session with susan sarandon (who was there to encourage brand partnerships with important social causes.




we screened the very creative winning commercials from the NY MOFilm competition (ours was actually entered into the previous Barcelona contest, so it wasn't shown here), and we even voted on the grand prize winner out of the first places from each brand. we had a great time networking with all the marketing people and befriending the MOFilm executives (who are all super personable), and the fellow young filmmakers, who we look forward to keeping in touch with!

see the top tribeca videos here (lamasil was the overall winner):
http://www.mofilm.com/competitions/tribeca2010


the next day, we met with the yoplait marketing team, a couple of their agency's creatives, and the other 2 teams who made the 1st and 2nd place yoplait commercials. the yoplait team was so complimentary of our spot, and immediately recognized us as "jane" and "fiance," which was fun! they were so interested in hearing the back story of how we came up with the ad, our real-life relationship, the film's tiny budget, etc. they also talked about how to use all these viral ads and fresh ideas in the future for this brand and others. we feel like there's definitely a new wave of advertising/creative filmmaking/young filmmakers beginning, and this experience made us really a part of it.

that evening, MOFilm sent us to the premiere at TriBeCa of a film called "Beware the Gonzo." not my favorite new movie, but it was fun to see, and the acting was actually pretty good. the most fun part for us was the whole experience, though, because we actually walked the real red carpet, spent time in the green room, and attended the after party with the cast and MOFilm people!!! check out all the photos!!! we just ate it all up!

new york newlyweds

morgan and pia: 1st place yoplait team from australia


the paps loved us! haha:





we mingled with some of the actors at the after party...

i told jesse mccartney how i still unashamedly listen to his pop hit "beautiful soul:"


judah friendlander from 30 rock:


we're both very excited about the prospects of working with MOFilm and it's amazing brands in the near future, and are already brainstorming some new commercial ideas! so look out for those hopefully soon. it's great to have an outlet for our creativity and a product to show for it in the end!

in case you haven't yet heard, we finally have the results in from our yoplait project and...WE WON 3RD PLACE!!!!!!! not too shabby out of several hundred entries!! parker and i are so stoked, and can't wait to get more details about what'll come next. details to follow, i'm sure!

here's the video if you'd like to watch it:

Yoplait: Meet Jane

hope you enjoy it! let me know what you think! maybe we'll start pushing out more of these puppies soon!

lp

even though the wilsons aren't official until april, we decided to go ahead and find a place so parker could begin settling into our future home. that way, the stress of moving wouldn't occur at the same time as the wedding.

aaaand, i'm happy to report--we found our first place, and are already in the process of nesting! i can't wait to move in (but don't worry, i am waiting)! and parker's loving it already. anyway, here's a preview of our colorful little Californian apartment! isn't it adorable in all its salmon-pink glory?! love love love it!

any suggestions on what we should call it?

a lot of major companies are getting smart. they are realizing that instead of spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to make one commercial, they can hold an online video submission contest and enlist consumers/amateur filmmakers to create hundreds of commercials for prize money (which to them is chump change, relatively).

enter yoplait.



a few creative friends of ours had recently entered an online video contest and actually won! not to mention, they had a great time making a short commercial. so...parker perused the contest circuit, and came up with a site asking for submissions for companies including at&t and yoplait. it's not like we have anything else we're really working on right now (ahem. yeah right!!), so we both decided to write a couple scripts. a couple of scripts turned in to...writing, producing, directing, acting in, voicing, editing, and submitting two whole commercials--(with the help of a few friends) start to finish--in less than two weeks. phew!!!





we had so much fun working together as a creative team!! i wish i could show you our final videos, but due to contest rules, we're not posting them for the public yet. as soon as we can, you'll be the first to know, of course! even if we don't win anything for either contest, we loved the experience and already can't wait to do it again sometime...i already tried to get parks to brainstorm another video concept, when he lovingly reminded me that we're also in the midst of planning this little event in april, so we may not want to get too ahead of ourselves ;)