Drinking: the best kind – coffee at home in my pjs. Listening to: several songs, really. Here’s the morning playlist: -Walk You Home – Badly Drawn Boy – from Born in the U.K. -O’oh – Yoko Ono -Fall In A River- Badly Drawn Boy – from Hour of the Bewilderbeast I bought a little lomography...
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Drinking: Fondo Paez Coffee Listening to: Ray Of Light – Madonna Every morning, it’s Olympics hangover. Watching the snowboarders last night, I kept seeing the women put their earbuds in and sometimes sing a few bars before speeding down the half pipe. I kept wanting to see their playlists, so I searched for Olympic snowboarding...
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Drinking: water Listening to: Send Me On My Way – Rusted Root Go check out Simple Blueprint’s post on her vacation to the Maldives. It is the best recipe for this cold weather.
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Drinking: caramel latte from Coffea Listening to: coffee shop chatter My friend Mica and her husband were featured in this adorable interview about their dinner with food critic for The Washington Post. They are foodies and they love to travel so I’ve been putting high pressure on her to write a food blog. I told...
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Drinking: Jasmine Tea Listening to: Green Onions – Booker T & The MGs This was new to me: author/illustrator Keri Smith offers an Artist’s Survival kit on her website for bad days. It is free, but she accepts contributions.Very cool. I love her post How to Feel Miserable As An Artist. Here’s the graphic from...
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Did you get to see @LongestMarried’s {together for 85 years} responses to the questions on Valentine’s Day? If you didn’t, here are my favorite quotes: Question: At the end of bad relationship day, what is the most important thing to remind yourselves? Answer: Remember marriage is not a contest – never keep a score. God...
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Drinking: hot chocolate Listening to: the mix below We are exchanging mixes for Valentine’s Day. At first I thought I would keep them private. It felt a little like sharing a love note to post it, but I talked to him about it and he thought it would be okay and added that he would...
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Drinking: Just Coffee’s Fondo Paez. We were out for a while and there is much rejoicing that it’s back in the house! Listening to: So Post All ‘Em by Yacht from the album – I Believe In You, Your Magic Is Real which may be the best Valentine message of all time. -If Valentine’s Day...
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Richard Avedon. Swoon swoon swoon. Everything he does is EMOTION. Each image is a candid interview. Wow. My reproductions don’t do them justice. Here are more direct links to some of his portraits. Phillipe Halsman is another one…. seeing his portraits made me go buy black and white film and rush home to my 40...
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This Richard Artshwager caught my eye. I love how feminine they are even through the grain. Speaking of fashion and feminine, check out the amazing illustrations of Petra Dufkova. Her work isn’t in the MoMA {as far as I know} but it’s completely fabulous. So feminine and light. I love her watercolors.
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