my burning house

my burning house

clockwise from top:: etta's baby quilt made by my mother-in-law, italy scrapbook, wooden elephant we found in the wall of our boston condo, cup + saucer from the espresso set i bought in sicily, hard drive with digital photos, binder of wedding negatives, doily crocheted by my great-grandmother, necklace jay gave me at our wedding, tape recordings of my grandparents teaching me to make meatballs and sauce, my grandfather's penguin ice bucket, and the eames chair i liberated from syracuse.

burning house

burning house

I came across this website via epicurious - strange. It's kind of fun but kind of sad at the same time.

Let's each do it! Humans and kitties excluded. By the weekend. 12-15 items, GO!

kids rooms

kids rooms

super custom and super cute.
ciel architects in france.

scrap bags

scrap bags

how fun are these??!!

at purl soho

charley harper @ fishs eddy

charley harper @ fishs eddy

File this in the category of "things I want for my future dream beach house".

I don't know what made me go to the Fishs Eddy site today. I miss that store.

emily + jason

emily + jason

oh i am so sad.  i missed two very important weddings this summer.  my cousin, michelle's and my oldest friend, emily's.  emily just posted photos from their truro, cape cod wedding and they are sooo.. lovely.  PHOTOS HERE.  there's definitely a parallel here to your wedding (cape + blue!) :)

comic sans

comic sans

i find this hilarious. randall and i are always ragging on the overuse of comic sans and papyrus. seriously - every salon and massage place uses papyrus.

tune yards

tune yards

delia just sent me a link to this.  rad!

delirious

delirious

ny times article on cctv

rem koolhaas and steven holl are, i think, my two favorite architects.  (even though they are starchitects.)

danger garden

danger garden

stumbled upon this local to portland gardening site called danger garden.  i love these plants!  and am happy to see her list of cool local nurseries i did not know about.

happy mothers day

happy mothers day

Found this mutant - yet very pretty - tulip in the garden today.

emma designs

emma designs

emma made these sweet invitations for her friend's wedding and i bugged her to let me post them here :)  they are so great!  very simple with nice plants and one card has a cute portrait of the bride's kitty cat.  here's a peek!

jessica helgerson

jessica helgerson

i just wanted to tell you about this interiors place i applied to a while ago but was too late.  it's mostly residential work, but i think you'll like it.  i love it - clean and modern but also injected with beauty and fun.

more pretty

more pretty

image via lovelypackage

i found this package design for Honey&Mackie's Ice Cream Shop on the lovely package website - completely amazing!

it was designed by wink of minneapolis - also completely amazing.

lovely package

lovely package

this might be my new favorite site...

opal apples

opal apples

does your supermarket have bright yellow opal apples? we just bought some for the first time and they were SO good. sweet and tart at the same time. 

beer + food

beer + food

so this is from over a month ago..i've been meaning to post it. for jay's birthday i threw him a little party and decided to have a kind of oktoberfest them - basically because i wanted to make pretzels. i made these soft pretzels [from martha adapted by smitten kitchen], apple strudel [without the prunes] and spaetzle served with wilted spinach from martha and a bunch of german sausages from trader joe's. the pretzels were really good and disappeared quickly. next i want to try bagels.

photo shoot::sneak peek

photo shoot::sneak peek





i had a photo shoot last friday at one of my projects and the photographer just sent over these four preview images. i am DYING to see the rest!

made

made

kathryn just pointed me to this site.. cute sewing tutorials!

sarah flowers

sarah flowers

food

food

over the weekend i made the granola bars for stacey and ben (and me) from smitten kitchen.  i made two variations.  one was oats, cranberries, currents, almonds, walnuts, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, cashew butter, honey, and vanilla.  the second had all those plus pecans,  chocolate chips and coconut.  i like the second for the added sweetness plus the fact that i made it in a 9x9 pan instead of a 9x13.  the smaller pan made the bars thicker and therefore sturdier.  they both are pretty crumbly!  i also made a few pizzas on saturday, one of which was her shaved asparagus pizza.  it was soo good.  my peeler was terrible for the job, though because the little scooper is proud of the blade, allowing me only to shave 2/3 of the stalk at best.  still tasty!

next year...

next year...

ugh, wish i had the foresight to make these yesterday!  i am currently browsing for something to make with chocolate + coconut.  but next year i will make these, trevor would love them.

thank you cards

thank you cards

more etta art transformed. i took some of her paintings, cut them into uneven strips, glued them on cards and used them as thank you notes for christmas gifts.

valentines

valentines

we made valentines yesterday which will of course be arriving a little late in people's mailboxes but oh well. i made heart stamps out of some corks and etta stamped with paint onto pink paper. i cut that and a bunch of other papers into hearts and then sewed them onto the cards. sewing paper is WAY fun. i did some other cards where i "appliqued" the hearts on with a zigzag stitch.

ps. champagne or beer corks seem to work better than wine corks. the knobby end was easier for etta to hold. the corks cut pretty easily with an exacto and the denser the cork the better - like the pink heart in the pic.

valentine dress

valentine dress

same pattern as before::valentine's edition