All of this rain (it’s been raining for a week straight, Lindsay says San Francisco is crying because of my departure) has me dreaming of warmer weather.
This morning I finally woke up to sunshine.
bowl o’sunshine
While windy and freeeezing outside, it is warm and sunny in my sunlight-drenched room, calling for my current favorite breakfast, a bowl of sliced mangoes topped with chopped almonds and coconut milk.
Oh yes, and that is knitting you see. Just a little project I’m working on, to wear on an upcoming trip… for my new job…
I’m being mysterious, aren’t I?
I could so go for one of these right now…
lavender martini from post ranch inn
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Tagged cocktail, lavender, martini, post ranch inn, post sur
But I should be eating these instead.
parsnip sticks with harissa & cayenne
sweet potato fries with sriracha & creme fraiche
Want to make all of them. CruncySpicySwag.
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I can’t wait to see this
I love this one.
Look at what my mom and I picked up in Big Sur…
love poems
A beautifully designed book for a beautiful collection of poetry.
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Tagged Big Sur, books, Henry Miller Library, Pablo Neruda
Sometimes you get invited to a last minute event – be it a dinner party, birthday party, et cetera – and want to bring a little something something as a
“Hello, I love you.”
While wine is absolutely lovely, (and believe me, I love a bottle of wine when throwing a dinner party) I think it’s sweet to bring something homemade.
But, when you’ve been invited to a last minute get-together, that can prove to be just a little bit difficult.
Do not despair – there is a solution!
They’re called brown sugar brown butter cookies.
Um, yum.
browning some butter
They take a couple of hours of chill time (1 hour of butter chill, 1 hour of dough chill) but you can get primp and prepare in between the chillage. Which is exactly what I do. Beautiful.
cookies in a mason jar
Just add a mason jar and some ribbon and you’ve got a prezzie!
bow time
Blow Up! did the sweetest guest post for Martha Stewart Crafts;
adorable little love struck pencils! They were so effing cute I just had to make them. I couldn’t resist! Oh man… I am such a cheeseball.
Eeeee how fun are these? Paint and feathers and colored pencils… oh hello.
eeee featherssssss
I couldn’t find the natural feathers they used in the diy (argh I went to two different art stores!) so did a little improvising by glue gunning an array of feathers and wrapping a little bit of ribbon around them to cover up the ugly that were the cut tips of the feathers.
feathers and fun
You’ve been hit! Happy Valentine’s Day!
So, I make jewelry sometimes.
My friends yell at me on a constant basis about the fact that I don’t really do much with it other than wear it myself or give it away.
I love giving gifts!
Since I’ve been feeling a bit under the weather and just a little bit (ok a lot bit) stir crazy, I went at this jewelry making in a major way. First, I finally made a bracelet I’ve been dying to make for months from Honestly…WTF :
look at all of those colors! and that bling!
Then I decided it was time to do something with the massive number of vintage chandelier crystals I keep in my art dresser.
(yes, it a dresser… and a shelf… plus some other things…)
repurposed vintage crystals
What do you think?
Oh, and I chopped off four inches of hair last weekend.
That shit cray.
blingityblingbling
la juliafication du monde 