Book now for holiday card sessions! Music by Jack Johnson.
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Something about the peppers at the Farmer’s Market this morning inspires red patent leather accessories. I’m thinking shoes, handbags, a rain coat, bangle bracelets. Maybe I’ll just wear the peppers. What a perfect color. I love that the seller put them in such a comfy container.
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From Dr. Randy Pausch’s final Carnegie Mellon lecture this week, How To Achieve Your Childhood Dreams and Enable the Dreams of Others. The entire lecture can be viewed here. Here’s the article in the Wall Street Journal. He concluded the lecture by saying, “This was for my kids,” who are 5, 2 and 1 to...
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National Geographic has live web cams set up in 7 locations. Take a trip to Botswana after dinner.
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I picked up Cormac McCarthy’s ash covered novel The Road when my daughter took a nap today and finished (hiding my sobs) just after she woke up. It’s amazing, but I’m completely haunted. It is a particularly disturbing read for a parent. As Michael Chabon’s New York Review of Books article concludes:The Road is not...
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I love photography. For photo gifts, I often rely on shutterfly, kodak, and exposures online. But, there are a few new companies out there offering unusual photo gifts who have me interested and thinking outside the frame for holiday gifts. Like custom photo night lights and Laptop skins. Here’s a sweet little site, Photojojo, that...
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Every Fall, I break out the Nora Ephron movies and bask in the perfection of the built-in bookshelves, tea cups, perfectly located, well-lit apartments and twinkle lights. I love the writing and casting too, but mostly, I want to move into her movie sets. And in my mind, we are girlfriends. She gives me advice...
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This month’s Cookie, has a fascinating article about an American family living in Marrakech. The mom featured in the article, Julie Klear, talked about how hard it is to be so far away from family and to be raising children in a place, “without dance classes and children’s museums as we know them, let alone...
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I’m starting to stock up on craft projects for winter and Amanda Blake Soule has written this very sweet book. Here’s her inspiring blog. The fabrics remind me of my grandmom’s house and there’s just such simplicity and comfort in her work. Great photos too!
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