Monthly Archives: June 2006

I adore letterpress

Picked up the new Martha Stewart Weddings yesterday at the local Barnes & Noble (my “dealer” of choice), and of course flipped through it to look for stationery inspiration.  I was thrilled to see that Sesame Letterpress collaborated with the Weddings staff to produce some gorgeous picnic inspired invitations. A very cute save-the-date came in a brown […]

Listen up & read

It’s the first day of summer!  I have two items for your enjoyment today – keeping it short and sweet. 1.    Read David Sedaris’ commencement speech at Princeton, courtesy of the New Yorker.  (v. funny) 2.    Check out the Office’s song, “Wound Up,” at iTunes.  It was the free song of the week a […]

Should (all) women work?

Over the weekend, I read a Newsweek magazine snippet about the new book Get to Work: A Manifesto for Women of the World, by Linda Hirshman.  (by the way, Amazon is offering a special deal if you buy the book along with Mommy Wars – marketing genius!)  After scanning the editorial reviews at Amazon, my quick thoughts are: 1/ She’s likely […]

Cross one off

My procrastinator’s list just got one (small) item shorter.  Yesterday, on a rainy Father’s Day, we went to Winfield, IL, home of Planter’s Palette.  Kind of a hike for us, but the plant selection is outstanding, and we’ve had great luck with all of our purchases over the years.  Our front porch was looking like November […]

Friday Five

Thursday’s Chicago Tribune featured its annual picks for 50 best magazines.  I thought it would be fun to start a poll on Fridays of five things.  Since magazines are one of my obsessions …. the first Friday Five is favorite magazines! 1.    Vogue    The go-to, reliable fashion magazine.  Great writers, chock-full of ads, and […]