For some reason, every lamp in this house is a random, mismatched hand me down. It’s time to invest in some lamps!  I’ve been pining over these Schoolhouse Electric lamps, or maybe something like this to go next to the bed. I’ve yet to find the perfect lamps to match my budget. I did, however, finally [...]

Every Friday I’ve been in the habit (ritual) of picking flowers from the garden for that week’s bouquet. For the last few weeks, though, the garden has been sparse – apparently the Bay Area doesn’t normally get rain this time of year, and it’s messing up the flowers. In 15 years I haven’t noticed that [...]

This is totally random, but Sean said something that made me think of Belinda Carlisle, and then I got on this Google image search to look up her cutie late 70s early 80s punk photos, and it turns out she just posted a bunch I’d never seen in the last week to her Facebook. Is [...]

A lot of flax in the back yard + a wee scrap of cream silk charmeuse = a dyeing experiment. A little known personal fact: the 1st two years of my college career were spent studying textile design. I did weaving, dyeing, repeat pattern design – I loved it, but wanted to have a broader [...]

So, that the comments on that last beauty post opened a major can of worms. Bad worms!! Between that and these recent news stories my head  was spinning with terms, chemical names, and a complete sense of panic!! 1. Aveda founder’s mission: to clean up beauty industry act 2. Delicious but deadly: why cosmetics might be [...]

So, seriously, Karie over at Shelter Protects You is doing so many great things I can’t even deal!! She sent this amazing letterpress piece – her first attempt. (??!?!?!!?!?)  It’s so gorgeous and I’m so honored to hang it in my home. It seems like every day she is making and creating new things – [...]

I started reading Vogue in 1988. I was 13 & what stuck with me was that when you are grown up and successful, you get a Chanel bag. Well. I’m neither of those things, but I am resourceful. In 1988 while my delusional child self was dreaming, bags were around $1000. They now retail about [...]

A few weeks ago something clicked & I finally managed to change my diet for more than um, 4 days. I’ve struggled for years to give up sugar and wheat, even though I have celiac disease and a number of other autoimmune issues. You’d think constantly feeling sick would be enough to switch my brain, [...]

Lately I’ve been a terrible parcel-packer, just tossing things in with some tissue paper. So lazy! Yesterday, when I got this trio of beautifully wrapped prizes from Jen, I knew I needed to step up my game. I’d like to wallpaper a room with that red, pink & gold paper. I’m a total sucker for [...]

I forgot how comforting forts can be. There’s even a nice view.

As I get older, it’s interesting to see how I’ve moved from tomboy rage to dainty time. When I was a little girl I ran screaming from the color pink & only wanted train sets, as a young woman I wore combat boots, shaved my head, pierced my face. I wanted a wall between myself and [...]

Today is, oddly, my 10th anniversary of blogging. Luckily most of it is tucked away private on LiveJournal, because whew! when I read back, it makes me want to just tuck my smaller self into a little nest. Anyway! I am here to tell you that my fancier half has started his own blog – [...]