Hello! Hope you had a nice holiday weekend. While I write this, our contractor is laying red rosin paper down over the kitchen floor, to be followed by masonite, in advance of Wednesday’s demolition. We’re down to the basics in the kitchen: everything else has been packed up and carted off to the basement, or the dining room, or wherever it seemed to fit. My packing followed a typical pattern (for me): started off hyper-organized, with boxes labled, carefully packed, and devolved into tossing stuff into shopping bags and tote bags, as well as putting items on windowsills. Our curb appeal is sorely lacking right now, but it’s definitely interesting …..
We also got some garden work in, as it was warm! Planted more vinca and pachysandra to fill in, bought a white bleeding heart plant and a pink poppy, too. It poured Sunday night, so we picked a great time to put things in the ground.
And how could I forget, there was a holiday weekend soccer tournament, too. The team went 2-1, and just missed a spot in the finals.
On with summer! I’m going back to my book. See you tomorrow.
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Hello, Summer. You’re mere hours away. (If that is true, why is our heat still on?)
I was a bit nutty with my magazine purchases yesterday. I picked up the new Everyday Food (yes, no kitchen in days and I’m looking for recipes) as well as Entertainment Weekly’s Sex and the City issue (just tattoo “sucker” on my forehead, please). I also bought InStyle. Yes, I know that my subscription ended in May and I had resolved to stop buying it. But here’s a little math: Steve Carell + January Jones + Selma Blair = You Can Have My $3.99, InStyle. Well played.
On with the Five:
- iheartpeonies
- waiting
- relax
- What they are really like
- taste the rainbow
Have a terrific holiday weekend! I’ll see you back here on Tuesday, full of angst and news.
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.
photo from latimes.com
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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 kitchen, which, I’m sure, will be interesting. Get ready for lots of reports on the glories of carry-out.
Wednesday’s Tribune introduced me to some very interesting people. (Yep, I’m still making time to read the paper – what else are you going to do at 5:30 in the morning?) Click here to read all about Team TEAL – that is, the Typo Eradication Advancement League. They’ve covered a wide swath of the United States, discovering typos, and even better, pointing them out, and if permitted, correcting them! Read all about their journey at the TEAL blog. As someone who grimaces when she comes across a typo (especially when it’s coming from corporate America; not so much when it’s a 10-year-old) I’m cheering them on. If you’d like to read the Tribune article “Typo Personalities”, it can be found here.
Back tomorrow with the Five. And probably (maybe?) some stationery news. If you need a quick fix, check out Paper+Cup’s blog, with photos of their ultra-cute booth at the show. Can’t wait to see it up close!
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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 that you could walk to and drop in your outgoing mail …. probably one of the more charming things about the USPS, in my opinion. Not much charm in the set-of-four rural boxes we’ve got going.
photo from trulysmitten
The second fell into my lap rather fortuitously when I returned from walking the dog, and logged on to Google Reader. (By the way, the photo at the top is of a pine tree I noticed during our walk.) Truly Smitten, a Chicago-based graphic designer, offered up a sneak peek of her custom notecard collection. I still have a thing for silhouettes, and so I really like the first card shown (photo above). But they’re all nice. I look forward to seeing more from Truly Smitten, as I’m ‘smitten” with the website. Can’t wait for the portfolio to launch! So many interesting options, from wedding invitations to gift tags/labels to business identity. Check it out here.
More tomorrow. See you then.
If you by chance read my Carolina Herrera resort 2008 gushing post from yesterday, I deleted it, because the photos were one year old. Oops! Still pretty, just not topical.
