January 2010
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'On the plate, a pinch or a pound?'
“I think that 99 percent of why people don’t think of themselves as good cooks is that they’re reluctant to use salt at home.” -Chef Caroline Fidanza. Don’t worry, I don’t have that problem. Nice article in the New York Times about the use of salt in restaurants and packaged foods.
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photo by nicoshape2. Okay, okay. I’m done dropping gorgeous wedding photos on y’all for now, so here’s some cows, and I’m done for the day.
photograph by our labor of love. Yes yes yes. By our labor of love, of course.
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photograph by jagger photography. Cute cute. I can never help wondering about the logistics of riding a bike in a wedding dress, but it makes for lovely pictures nonetheless.
Click over to Libby and Greg’s wedding at Once Wed. The bride has possibly the most lovely short wedding dress ever, and there were tons of sheep at the wedding! Color me jealous.
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photograph by glen allsop. How giddy in love does this groom look? I really hope that one day I see a boy look at me just like that.
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only on the left side
yeah, that’s the crip side
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it snowed.
and there was a train! i get excited about both of those things independently as it is, so when i saw a train racing by in the snow, i thought, “that’s not something you see every day.”
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chard: leaves
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chard: stems
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in the backseat, on the way out, over the weekend. i guess cold weather is good for something.
Photograph by veasyble via swissmiss. cool!
Image via le love. Neat!
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the tea sub
Image from swissmiss. Oooh, I think I need this. Can’t figure out quite how to buy it, but it’s available, maybe, here.
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the winter blahs
Photograph by andrea. when fighting the winter blahs, head straight for the thrift store and buy the brightest, happiest thing you can find. 79 cents and one daisy-covered plate later and I’m practically a new woman. A good reminder.
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ho cho with a chance of clouds
Image via hello tiger via swissmiss. What’s better than a cloud-marshmallow ho cho? (And how much do I love saying ho cho? A whole freaking lot.)
please no more grindcore at 3 am
Image via swissmiss. Passive agressive wi-fi networks. I love it. From gizmodo via swissmiss.
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Photograph from Sea of Shoes. I could never pull it off, and I’m not how sure I am that I’d want to, but geez louise, some kids are just so cool. btdubs, Jane was featured on a little one-page spread in Vanity Fair last month. Le sigh, even more jealous.
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Photograph from design*sponge. Oh my my. How fabulous are those walls? Too bad I can’t be a super hip Portlander, working in a super hip office for a super hip design firm. Alas. See the rest here.
today Originally uploaded by girlhulait’s gloomy here, this weekend, so it’s nice to imagine things looking like this.
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make-believe
Image from Sea of Shoes. How fabulous is this photo of Jane’s little sister Carol as a child? I didn’t play dress up nearly enough. (Nor did my dogs!)
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Image via swissmiss. Oh my gosh! How amazing is this book case for macbooks? Old and new. Oh, I want it. Via swissmiss.
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ampersands
I’ve been a bad blogger lately, but I’ve been an even worse blog-reader. My Google Reader is a really overwhelming, frightening (but simultaneously lovely!) place to be right now, so I’ve cut a few blogs that I don’t especially enjoy and I’m trying to go easy on adding new ones. Still, when I discovered 300&65 ampersands, via swissmiss, I had to subscribe. Too...
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Instead of packing my entire wardrobe like usual, summer clothes for Rio and snow pants in case we get the idea for a little ski trip to Courchevel in between Milan and Paris*, I’ll just have to, me, Gaga, princess of menswear, lover of all my man’s button-downs, pants and coats, go sneaking around in his bag for outfits!!! Genius! Wahooo!!!! Share a suitcase = idea of the century. No sooner said...
Photo by the Sartorialist. Oh. my. gosh. Marry me, mister. (The outfit’s not shabby, either.) I wonder if I could actually ever date a guy who dresses 1000000x better than I.
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In Ireland, kids can now collect vouchers from boxes of Rice Krispies and take them into the local bookstore to get a book! Perfect!
Picture from mtv. oh. my. gosh. best thing ever, michael cera’s jersey shore makeover. YES! here for more.
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January 5 -- done and done!
I did it. Thank goodness this is over.
love supreme
Photography by Jonas Peterson via Once Wed. Oh my gosh, they are perfect. Her booties, her bow (Marc Jacobs, I’m pretty sure)! His shaggy hair! Australian people, how I wish I could be more like you. More photos here. Go!
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January 4
Technically my last day of project 365, since I started last year on January 5. I am going to try really, really hard to write in my (paper) journal every day this year, but I’m going to be low-key about it and just do my best. Having a pretty journal helps, though. Snagged this one at anthropologie for four dollars!
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one of those days
It’s a rough day when you find yourself on the side of the road crying into your mittens. I think I broke my own heart today, y’all.
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January 3
I finally live somewhere cold enough for me to justify wearing and buying boots. Hooray!
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January 2
Tiled bathroom wall at Fontaine’s, a fun bar in the Highlands.
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the best bad lawyers
The Guardian’s John Mullan reflects on ten of literature’s “best bad lawyers.” Do I need to start getting offended about this kind of thing? I think not! Especially love Sandor Himmelstein (“effing eggheads! It takes an ignorant bastard like me to fight liberal causes”) from Herzog. Gosh, I loved that book.
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barbietinis
I wanted to bring a fun champagne cocktail to my friend’s new year’s eve party, so I decided to recreate the first drink I (legally) had out, a barbietini at Pacific Rim in Sarasota. I was able to find the ingredients on theor menu, but had to guess on the proportions. Here’s my super-exact recipe (featuring metric and standard measurements): 1/4 gallon orange juice 500 mL...
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fresh to death
“My personal style is fresh to death. Have you ever been to the supermarket? You know the produce section, like where the food is fresh? That’s my style.” - Pauly D. Nice.
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Photograph from Hello! magazine. Too cute! I looove pigs.
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books i read in 2009
Soul Mountain (Gao Xingjian) Complete Works: One (The Birthday Party, The Room, The Dumb Waiter, A Slight Ache, A Night Out, The Black and White.) (Harold Pinter) Midnight’s Children (Salman Rushdie) The Lying Days (Nadine Gordimer) Wandering Star (JMG Le Clezio) Herzog (Saul Bellow) The Hive (Camilo Jose Celas) Pygmalion (George Bernard Shaw) And Quiet Flows the Don (Mikhail Sholokov) Enemies, A...
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movies i saw in 2009
Inspired by a friend, I kept a list of every movie I saw and book I read during 2009. Here we go: Slumdog Millionaire (actually 12/31/08!) The House Bunny Love Actually Sex and the City Burn After Reading Get Smart A Mighty Wind Pineapple Express The Wrestler The Reader Mamma Mia Confessions of a Shopaholic Hotel For Dogs Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist Milk Rachel Getting Married Role Models...
you're in my head
Image from le love. Oh, I’ve been (am) there.
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January 1
For Hannukah, my mom had one of my late grandmother’s necklaces (which had along the way been turned into a ring), made back into a necklace for me. It was made by hand in Europe before my grandma came to the US (by way of Israel.) I really love its imperfections and its so nice to wear something that was once my grandma’s.
