Crazy things! I was asked by BUST magazine (via Tricia of Bits & Bobbins) to do a shoot for the Looks page. (Check out Keiko Lynn‘s take on it!) Don’t worry, this isn’t a whole outfit so you aren’t getting anything sneaky, it’s me being melodramatic while Gabriela checks the light. I woke up moon-timing, [...]

The one thing I haven’t gotten used to after 14 years in the Bay Area is Summer being in Fall. I like warm weather in the Summer (it’s cold in the summer here,) and when September rolls around and I want crisp air, apple pie, mulled cider, kicking through fallen leaves! Vermont runs in my [...]

I’ve had a rough few weeks. Endings, beginnings, thunder-crashings of life, hibernation, cocooning, blooming, burying. Sowing seeds and tending metaphorical gardens in all parts of my life, and I’m happier than I’ve been in a long time – sense of joy and possibility and Good.  Still, shaken and stressed on the journey, with ends yet [...]

I’m about to go back to Vermont for the elflings’ shared birthday, and I realized I hadn’t shared some of the magical treasures I found last time! These letters (with the Air Mail stamp) are phenomenal – a woman is traveling around the world, and writing back to the man she refused to marry. I [...]

I was asked to guest blog a Top 10 list for the great design blog Hiss & Hearse, a collaborative project from cutie design power couple Kristin Cofer & Richard Wayne. She’s a stunning photographer, he’s a writer and style blogger for ModCloth! I went a little outside the realm of design, but brought it [...]

It’s that time again, where the constant trips to the thrifts have rendered me incapable of getting dressed. Every morning I stand in the door to the closet and feel like no one piece of clothing matches another, the drawers overflow & I don’t have the energy to dig through them, and it’s 7:30am anyway, [...]

So yeah, I was in high school in the late 80s, and obsesssedddddd with 10,000 Maniacs. (At least up until “Our Time in Eden.”) Michael’s comment on my last post reminded me of Natalie Merchant & how adorable she was. Picture this: my high school graduation, I’m in a lilac floral grunge dress, lilac dr [...]

1st day of thrifting in Vermont – a good many treasures! I also found 2 big bags of clothes – paper bag waist shorts, a bow tie, sailor jeans and a striped shirt for me, & many more lovely dresses and skirts to head onward to Etsy, as soon as my sister in law succumbs [...]

Maybe you know this about me, and maybe you don’t, but I almost never buy anything new from a shop. Handmade, yes, and vintage/thrifted, of course, but my personal contribution to saving the world lies in my purchase choices.  Recently my thrifting mojo was tested, I’ve been looking for sandals forever – now, normally when [...]

Vogue Germany just had a shoot in their March 2009 issue – which I came across on Foto Decadent – which reminded me of last fall’s resolution that this summer I would only dress like Renee Perle, and lounge by pools in wide legged trousers looking impossibly fresh in tropical locales. Can I start now? [...]

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