Archive for April, 2008

barf! (+ 6 more months)

Disgusting. I’m so sick of all this cashing in on what should be simplification. The Phila Inquirer had a bit about the local design school’s trashion show — clothes from shower curtains and magazine pages — the same weekend the silly NYT ran some ridiculous magazine blurb about eco fashion. Now I’m getting better about [ READ MORE ]

sprouts!

Who knew squash would be the belle of the ball? These baby pepper sprouts make me feel unsettled, as if I were looking at maggots or something equally icky. And heirloom tomatoes – a present from my Mister’s beermaking buddy – also are coming up in an old terrarium. My chamomile is popping up in [ READ MORE ]

sew frustrated

I had a minor wardrobe meltdown this morning. Couldn’t find anything that worked. Granted, it wasn’t my usual office situation. I had to go to a writing conference full of people I’d never met, and I was riding my bike into the Loop instead of taking my car to the usual suburbs. Nothing fit quite [ READ MORE ]

a present just-because

My Mister’s sister is crazy for pink. I suspect it’s to prove her tacit credos that redheads can wear whatever they like, and so can tough broads. She also teaches at a Chicago Public School, and hates mixing her ‘normal’ wardrobe with her teacher clothes. So she has a sort of double wardrobe. I don’t [ READ MORE ]

Growing a stash

Card by Rar Rar Press, Chicago. My mister has a fantastic auburn stash growing under his nose. And I have a fabric stash growing under a terrarium (it sits atop a bookcase, stuffed with folded fabric). Totally just added to it. 70 degree weather (!) inspires all kinds of growing. And whenever the Joann has [ READ MORE ]

Word on Georgie-girl

Sleeping standing up. Nose pokes out.

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