Polyvore wedding madness. This helps, really. My ideas have been so scattered! And yes, I know that you’re supposed to make pretty overlapping collage type things in Polyvore but I like it all spread out. I don’t know why. What’s left? We ordered a suit on eBay, fingers crossed it fits. I need to start [...]

So I freak out about wedding planning a lot, and pretty much every day I think; “We can’t do this! It’s too much money! It’s too much stress! I want more time!” But, I’m almost 35, we want to try for babies, and I feel past my prime enough being a 34 year old bride. [...]

I DON’T WANT TO POST THIS POST!!! It means the trip to Paris will really be over, all like a dream! My last 2 trips out of the country prior to this were in 2003 to London and 2004 to Tokyo – all very fast, very intense trips for work. This trip to Paris has [...]

So, I’m in a really pissy mood. Stop reading now if you want pretty niceties, I’m in a rage. I just got this comment emailed to me: “Congrats. You live a privileged upper-class American life and are smart enough to appreciate art and design…just like every other blog-writing woman on the internet. Share something NEW [...]

I am slow on blogging! We drove up to the tidepools in Salt Point National Park last weekend.  We’ve been managing to get some wedding things done, so that’s good, but still so hectic. I swear, all I think about right now is “Do wedding things! List Etsy! Get day job projects done!” I need [...]

The thing about going away is that when you walk into your house after ONE MILLION HOURS of traveling, it’s like you’ve cuddled into the lap of the biggest mama ever. If you’re lucky. And I am super lucky, because I have a dreamy house and dreamy boy and dreamy cat to come back to. [...]

At the beginning of March, I made a quick and dirty Facebook status update, asking if other women would want to get together to map out business plans & goals for art/work & network & inspire & brainstorm. The response seemed positive, and more and more interest in this formed in my head. So many [...]

I’ve been feeling pretty under the weather, crazy migraines and vision problems to the point where I’m essentially blind all day – I see double and can’t focus past a few feet from my face. Apparently it’s stress, but it’s so stressful to be mostly blind that it’s hard to relax. Hooray. So I’ve been [...]

Hope everyone had a delightful Sunday! This was my first weekend at home to just rest in ohhhh, over a month? A lot of walking, thrifting, a little Etsy-photo-taking, and watching the new Poirot. We’re like old people around here!! Sometimes it’s just nice to be cozy. Thursday & Friday were spent at Flora & [...]

I think now it is time to introduce my lovely Parisian host, Mathyld. She really welcomed both me and my coworker, bringing us muffins and mapping out quick walks while we were still on work-time, and welcoming me into her home on my last few days in Paris, which allowed me a little extra vacation! [...]

A little break from Paris, and mostly photos. We took the train to Bonn from Paris for our conference. 1st class seats were only 10 Euro more and included free internet and lunch, so it was a nice 4 hour comfy ride, watching the countryside roll by. I’ve never taken a train in Europe (and [...]

Sick of Paris yet?! But I have so many more images!! Maybe I’ll do a Bonn/Brussels post next to shake it up a little. I haven’t even come close to editing all of them, AND I just realized I never finished writing about this last Vermont trip. LIFE. YOU ARE GOING TOO FAST. Did I [...]