blooming orchids

because big girls know that only good things come when dormancy ends! giddy up!

Trailer Cake

Oops, my mouth is nine again.  My parents do all my worrying for me, and my toughest decision in life is how I'm gonna get a hold of that Vuarnet sweatshirt. 

fever ray

Fever Ray is the title, of both project and album. It's the culmination of work that began in 2007 when Karin and Olof, the brother-sister duo who are The Knife, decided to take time out. Karin needed a break – she was about to have her second child – but couldn’t stop writing.

Haunting and beautiful, it's If I Had A Heart

the essential nature of "plan b"

There's the thing you plan to do, and then there's the thing you end up doing. Most of us start off our lives with some Plan A which we abandon...switching to a Plan B, which becomes our life.

cranes

There is an ancient Japanese legend that said anyone who folded a thousand paper cranes will be granted luck, happiness and a wish, such as long life or recovery from illness or injury. Not bad, not bad at all.

rockin' out, modern-style

The Eames Plastic Arm Chair is Herman Miller's reissue of the now legendary Eames Fiberglass Chair, based on the original 1948 design.

want one?

slices of life

(leica, don't leave home without it!)

when function and beauty meet

Public art creator JR just installed his latest project in Kibera, Kenya - on of the largest slums in Africa.

After more than a year of planning, 2000 square meters of rooftops have been covered with photos of the eyes and faces of the women of Kibera. The material used is water resistant so that the photo itself will protect the fragile houses in the heavy rain season. The train that passes on this line through Kibera at least twice a day has also been covered with eyes from the women that live below it. With the eyes on the train, the bottom half of the their faces have be pasted on corrugated sheets on the slope that leads down from the tracks to the rooftops. The idea being that for the split second the train passes, their eyes will match their smiles and their faces will be complete.

grilled sandwiches

pecorino and sweet basil leaves, cambozola and pear wedges, or the less exotic peanut butter and honey...anyway i slice it, foreman's a loyal accomplice in this irresistable culinary adventure.

matryoshka dolls

Go forth and multiply!

bon iver

* because it's a wish.
* because it's beautiful.
* because it comes from a place of solitude.
* and because it might just be the perfect soundtrack for a canadian girl who is caught up in the snow and herself.

a warm neck, and therefore cowls

want one?

flurries cowl
moss cowl