Drinking: English Breakfast tea – again. I guess I’m a creature of habit. Listening to: Empire State of Mind – Alicia Keyes Jay-Z {An aside: recently, a witness’s phone rang during their deposition with this song as the ringtone and I had to lean over at the next break and say, “I’m sorry, but was...
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Last night, after my daughter was asleep, we watched the most recent version of Pride and Prejudice again. I have written so many essays to the soundtrack, especially this song, {Liz On Top Of The World}, but I had forgotten how completely beautiful the cinematography is in the film and how each shot is composed...
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I’m blessed to have two amazing sisters who {unfortunately} live far away, so I find myself drawn to books and blogs on the subject. I love finding collaborative blogs where people who love each other are creating together. This has lead me to two amazing, good energy blogs: Shootin’ Sisters and Soeurs du Jour. Both are blogs of...
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Mom and I started new schools at the same time. I began kindergarten. She began college to study art. We went to plays and galleries together. I would bring my sketch book and markers. I cannot draw to save my life, but I loved being in an environment of artists with her. It helped me...
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Since I have the journals out, and since we’re all mourning the loss of Blueprint and Domino, here’s some eye candy for you…Cut out from House & Garden, this one inspired me to paint our bedroom cerulean blue when we lived in Georgia 8 years ago. Now I just settled for a door this color,...
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Check out this album of Lennon covers put together by the Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur. Everybody is on this album: U2, Regina Spektor, R.E.M., Lenny Kravitz, Jack Johnson, Corinne Bailey Rae, and so on. Highlights include Ben Harper’s cover of Beautiful Boy, which reminds me of this post from artist Faye Christian Phillips....
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To kick off my 31st year, and this Blogiversary, here are some of the 31 things inspiring me today…. 1. I adore Darondo. I first heard about him on this NPR piece. The music is amazing, but what I love MOST is the details in the liner notes of his album, Let My People Go....
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I found these post-it style vocabulary cards on the bargain table of a local bookstore in both French and Italian. The graphics, fonts and color combinations are really great. I’ve had these awkwardly shaped frames from Target without anything to go in them..until now. It’s a fresh summer day just passing them in the hall.
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Painter Faye Christian Phillips told me about Karin Jurick’s work featured in this slideshow below.The music, I believe, is by Stan Getz who is played so often in our house, I feel like he lives with us. The work is great, but the presentation is even better. It feels like a rainy Sunday afternoon.ps- my...
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Thanks to the creative genius at Pixel By Pixel, my little photography business has a new logo. I’m so excited. The graphic artist came up with several delightful designs. I wanted something very simple and clean though because I’m still defining the scope of the business. I wanted something reflective of newspaper print because I...
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