30 June 2008

kikkerland

check out these wall hooks from saturday's shopping spree:


cool, right? i can't find them on the internets, but it turns out they are made by the same people who make my new timer. actually, i recognized a lot of stuff on their web site, including this little guy:


i bought him (from target) a few months ago to replace my giant coffee can of change.

27 June 2008

i love


i love this little spot in my kitchen, grinder, coffee maker that doesn't suck at all, and especially the photographs picked up last trip to soho.

{i wish i had asked the photographer for his name, because i can't read the signature on the back. i wanted to badly, but for some reason i felt like it would be rude or something. i knew i would regret it. why am i so weird? being scared of asking someone that you are buying something from what their name is? truly ridiculous...}

anyway, in case you can't tell this is looking up at the stairs at the apple shop. so creative.

26 June 2008

things i want to do

learn to speak spanish. so i'll be ready to live in mexico when the time comes.

make things!
make a quilt. something like this - how lovely.


and this bag. already got the pattern.


maybe even a few dresses.

find an good online printer. these came in the mail today (to frame for the boys' room) and they never look as well as i expect...

25 June 2008

months fly by

it amazes me how easy it is to remember passwords sometimes. like dialing a telephone number you haven't used it forever.

look who was back last night:


jack is out of town and this is what makes it bearable:


and although you can't see them: pride and prejudice, the other boleyn girl, and love and other disasters.

i learned that cooking is pretty easy. i still don't do it much, but it's nice to know i can. and it's fun. i love allrecipes.com. you can find anything almost, and the reviews let you know whether it's good. i bought a crappy timer from target, and just replaced it with this one from anthropologie:





05 February 2008

guilty pleasures

cyndi lauper's time after time and pat benatar's love is a battlefield.


and random pictures (which still don't get me through january for 365):



30 January 2008

why i love my husband


flickr photo: pink by seetying

i called jack yesterday to let him know that i had finally decided with 100% certainty that if we ever decide to have a baby and if it turns out to be a girl we would name her [sorry - it's good enough to keep secret]. jack, who had heard me rambling on about this for a few days, simply said "that is beautiful".

he reminds me so much of benjamin barry in how to lose a guy in 10 days when they are a the chick flick marathon and she's harrassing him about what is he thinking and he says something like: if you must know, i 'm sitting here thinking about how beautiful you are...

29 January 2008

project 365

i've decided to try out project 365, and see if i can keep it up. i came across it a few times, before i was actually inspired to try it by this blog. so i will post 31 pictures for january sometime soon, then start in february. i probably won't even worry about taking a picture for each day, but just try to have seven or so by the end of the week, or 30 or so by the end of the month. hey, low expectations, right?