Monthly Archives: May 2008

May 22, 2008 – 7:30 am

Eye Candy Bonus

photo from latimes.com I love this house, featured in today’s Chicago Tribune. Two architects, Vanessa Choy and Andrew Wong, built a modern + gorgeous farmhouse in Studio City (Los Angeles). It reminds me of the Carneros Inn, especially the pool house. Love it! You can see more photos courtesy of the Los Angeles Times. Slide [...]

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May 22, 2008 – 4:00 am

Busy busy busy

My head hurt on Wednesday from all of the ducks I’m trying to get in a row before the 28th: that would be “tear-down of the current kitchen” day (courtesy of Habitat for Humanity – we’re donating our current cabinets) as well as delivery of the new cabinets, as well as the start of no [...]

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May 21, 2008 – 4:00 am

At last, a little stationery news

While I don’t have all of the “scoop” that I’d like quite yet from the stationery show, I do have a couple of finds I’d like to pass along. The first is the adorable mailbox correspondence cards from small square design. (click on through: collection/correspondence cards/mailbox) I wish we had a mailbox in our neighborhood [...]

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May 20, 2008 – 4:00 am

Making a list

Mondays are made for overachieving. It’s like a mini do-over each week. Revisiting resolutions, making lists (oh, am I good at that). So I set out with a lengthy list of to-dos, and I am proud to say I got through them all, including finishing an actual book! Non-fiction, of course: Public Radio, Behind the [...]

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May 19, 2008 – 4:00 am

Cold Sunday; Traffic Woes; S’mores on the Brain

Still waiting on some warm spring weather …. at least the sun is nice and cheery! The photo above was taken close to 6am on Sunday. (Yes, I was up.) The sun was streaming in all of the windows on the front of the house, and I quickly grabbed my camera and started taking pictures. [...]

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