Intentions for the Week
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Sunday, September 17, 2006
Saturday, September 16, 2006
farmer's market flowers
market booty including flowers: yukon potatoes (for soup tomorrow night), portabello's & peppers for the grill, thai basil, cilantro, my new favorite lilacsi honey, yummy bread & heirloom tomatoes!
poppie & pickles
dixie loves these two cutie pie's - they live right across the hall - lucky dixie loo-loo!
sian
why our building is sad, why i simply must go to london, & why i now have a bunch of ikea furniture in my place!
goodie ring from amy burhoe
super great rings on amy burhoe's site go check them out; i'm itching to get several more!
new favorite pants
i *love* sitwell pants; i can only afford them when they are on major sale at anthropologie - $19.95 - yahoo!
Friday, September 15, 2006
green ribbon swirl girl
i'm a lucky lady for sure! all goodies from sarah with the small object
i love my little swirly green girlie!
a little greedy cat monster was born today and now i can*not* wait to get another one!!
Thursday, September 14, 2006
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
Tuesday, September 12, 2006
music & stuff...
worked worked worked at sprout studio headquarters allllll last night - starting second stage of pieces tonight (have to seal & varnish again). but tonight, i go out! yummy thai down on polk before the hem show! i was turned onto her this last late spring - super mellow - i'm going to go with my lovely neighbor & a friend i used to work with! of course, in my late scramblings this morning (yes, late for my meeting) i ran out and forgot to
grab my camera :( so no pics, but i'll post about it tomorrow.
more on the music front -- excited for hardly strictly bluegrass the line up looks fantastic and i'm super thrilled to catch gillian welch again! we've gone every year they've had it - it's *such* a fun weeekend - & i just found out that the mister will be able to be back with me for that weekend - so extra fun times!! i also scored tix for lucinda williams at the fillmore in october. & i'm looking for show buddies to see the detroit cobras with me on friday october 20th at bottom of the hill. although that was a hard toss up, because slim cessna's auto club is playing at 12 galaxies that night too -- ooo, i love them, but i haven't seen the detroit cobras yet, last time it was sold out - so i'm going to buy tickets beforehand this time...any takers?!
other news, a little top secret holiday gift in the works for the mister - i'll probably be asking for suggestions about it soon...he doesn't read this anyways so i should be able to discuss it soon!
have a lovely tuesday!
grab my camera :( so no pics, but i'll post about it tomorrow.
more on the music front -- excited for hardly strictly bluegrass the line up looks fantastic and i'm super thrilled to catch gillian welch again! we've gone every year they've had it - it's *such* a fun weeekend - & i just found out that the mister will be able to be back with me for that weekend - so extra fun times!! i also scored tix for lucinda williams at the fillmore in october. & i'm looking for show buddies to see the detroit cobras with me on friday october 20th at bottom of the hill. although that was a hard toss up, because slim cessna's auto club is playing at 12 galaxies that night too -- ooo, i love them, but i haven't seen the detroit cobras yet, last time it was sold out - so i'm going to buy tickets beforehand this time...any takers?!
other news, a little top secret holiday gift in the works for the mister - i'll probably be asking for suggestions about it soon...he doesn't read this anyways so i should be able to discuss it soon!
have a lovely tuesday!
Monday, September 11, 2006
live/work studio
what went down at the ole suite 16 here...still working tonight. lots to do to prep for crafty bastards & for a few other accounts...
mail fun: a letter press card from mav -- the love card, & yes, i love it - it will be flying away to my lovely mister in virginia. (shh..) i also received the most wonderful ring from amy burhoe's site -- pictures to come tomorrow...i'm wearing my glass ring right now and have every intention of buying another one soon!
xx.
Sunday, September 10, 2006
diminutive walnut ship
i would like to make these as holiday ornaments -- aren't they so rad? i love this little pirate ship; i think mine might need a skull & cross bones on one of the masts though!
Saturday, September 09, 2006
Thursday, September 07, 2006
little miss sunshine
if you do just one thing to make your week &/or weekend humorous, and funny & to let yourself love the world a little bit more, go see little miss sunshine it is *the* funniest & most heartwarming movie i've seen in such a long time. seriously, i went and saw it by myself and i was guffawing & close to peeing my pants. yes, that funny.
go see it. i know you will love it.
xxx.
go see it. i know you will love it.
xxx.
Wednesday, September 06, 2006
ARR! but really, i'm not stinky...
My pirate name is:
Dirty Jenny Rackham
You're the pirate everyone else wants to throw in the ocean -- not to get rid of you, you understand; just to get rid of the smell. You have the good fortune of having a good name, since Rackham (pronounced RACKem, not rack-ham) is one of the coolest sounding surnames for a pirate. Arr!
Get your own pirate name from piratequiz.com.
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Tuesday, September 05, 2006
fort fun-funston!
dixie & me went adventuring to fort funston; so i'm loading you up with pictures from the weekend. we went both days (sunday & monday) i here by declare that the work week really ought to be 4 days. 3 day weekends are absolutely the *best* - i love them! i'm scheming how i can work part time next fall already!! hehehe...yeah right, did i mention i live in san francisco? oh right, rent is...how much???? yep, better keep that full time gig!
let's see...i also read the entire ny times; hoorah! had a lovely dinner with wine last night (ibs is calming down a bit - another hoorah!) but, but, but, i miss the mister something awful. :( it's so not fun being alone...i'm such a whiner.
i also packaged up lots of sprout studio orders - i'm beginning to feel like some people might already be, ah-hem, some people (!) holiday shopping! yowza - they'll be on top of things & impress lots of people!
i wanted to post some new sites i've been looking at, but that will come tomorrow - in the meantime, check out some of those blog links to the left; i need to clean them up a little but the majority are ones i really enjoy reading and looking at!
until later sprout peepers!
xxx.
let's see...i also read the entire ny times; hoorah! had a lovely dinner with wine last night (ibs is calming down a bit - another hoorah!) but, but, but, i miss the mister something awful. :( it's so not fun being alone...i'm such a whiner.
i also packaged up lots of sprout studio orders - i'm beginning to feel like some people might already be, ah-hem, some people (!) holiday shopping! yowza - they'll be on top of things & impress lots of people!
i wanted to post some new sites i've been looking at, but that will come tomorrow - in the meantime, check out some of those blog links to the left; i need to clean them up a little but the majority are ones i really enjoy reading and looking at!
until later sprout peepers!
xxx.
Saturday, September 02, 2006
Friday, September 01, 2006
things i like to see...
*people walking by themselves, but obviously thinking of something amusing or lovely, & you catch them sportin' a big grin...i love watching people break into a huge smile when no one else is around...
*seeing a papa with 4 little guys of his own hanging on & trailing behind him asking a million inquisitive questions...
*the sun peeking up over the bay bridge from my ride into work in the morning...
*watching the physical force of the fog rolling over the western part of the city...& standing in yummy warm sunshine on my side of town!
*perfectly fallen leaves that are so exqisite & divine...just one laying on the sidewalk...i could look at it for a long time...
*heartwarming graffiti stencils on the sidewalks in the mission
*the bus coming on time!! :)
*my dixie loo scampering and bounding down the hallway so excited to go to the dog park!
& the thing most i like to see right now, is the long weekend coming! yay!
you have a fabulous one too!
i'll post pictures of my weekend on sunday or monday!
xxx.
*seeing a papa with 4 little guys of his own hanging on & trailing behind him asking a million inquisitive questions...
*the sun peeking up over the bay bridge from my ride into work in the morning...
*watching the physical force of the fog rolling over the western part of the city...& standing in yummy warm sunshine on my side of town!
*perfectly fallen leaves that are so exqisite & divine...just one laying on the sidewalk...i could look at it for a long time...
*heartwarming graffiti stencils on the sidewalks in the mission
*the bus coming on time!! :)
*my dixie loo scampering and bounding down the hallway so excited to go to the dog park!
& the thing most i like to see right now, is the long weekend coming! yay!
you have a fabulous one too!
i'll post pictures of my weekend on sunday or monday!
xxx.
Thursday, August 31, 2006
the cat watcher...
how i was roped into watching 5, yes *five* cats this week i'm not quite sure...probably b/c the mister is the cat person and *extremely* amiable and always willing to watch the neighbors kitties...and since he's not here, guess who is?! so on one end of the hall are two kitties & on the other are three (that's a lot of kitties in one space). dixie loo gets to accompany me and whirl herself all up in a dervish b/c she *adores* kitties; too much so actually; she's way to curious. there is one ole kitty named big gordon that belongs to our great friend, needless to say, big g is an outdoor kitty who does not take to kindly to super curious doggies snuffling around them, thus dixie got her first tragic eye swipe that she still sports as a little floaty eyelid piece to show for a trophy. she doesn't really seem to get it though; she loves to still stick her big ole snuffly nose in the kitties faces - remarkably, they are quite compliant and hiss when they've had enough and run away. dixie just lovesssss them. (rolls eyes) goofy dog. the kitties are cool, but i'm a dog person all the way.
so i watched monsieur ibrahim on my netflix while visiting with kitty set #2. (& while dixie tried to be a sneaky pete and eat their little kitty treats...rolls eyes again) the movie was sweet, but a little long.
i also began reading lolita in tehran this morning while waiting TWENTY EIGHT minutes for the bus to finally freakin' show up packed to the gills...hello i am a sardine. i cannot even begin to express to you the rage, yes, i'll be bold, rage that boils up in me at inefficient public transportation. drives. me. totally. insane. most of the time i get so fed up i walk. but honestly, i have blisters on my toes from wearing cute new shoes to school and not taking them off in time...so it sucks to walk 45 minutes home with boo boo toes...thus, the bus rage insues. i'm going to get another bike lock for my bike-that-sort-of-stops this weekend so i can at least bike in occasionally. (other lock got cut after lost key incident...rolls eyes a third time). but seriously, my other 2 fancy schmancy bikes that actually had good brakes and gears got stolen...so now i have the beater special - cute little basket, red, fun, look like the wicked witch of the west bike...you know the one...but she's not a hill bike, nor a stop in a swift situation kind of bike...so she's a in-the-flats kinda bike. but i can still ride her down around the water and then park her and hike up the mountain to school. much preferred morning atmosphere to seething bus attitude morning...oh! but back to the book, seems promising as i read through 6 chapters this morning!
i'm participating in 2 different give aways on 2 different blogs: the super cool modish blog & the hip new indie fixx blog -- modish is jena, indie fixx is jen, and sprout studio is jenifer! ha! anyways, if you go and sign up for their newsletters, you might be a very lucky person! support indie always!!
off to teach some kiddos...
so i watched monsieur ibrahim on my netflix while visiting with kitty set #2. (& while dixie tried to be a sneaky pete and eat their little kitty treats...rolls eyes again) the movie was sweet, but a little long.
i also began reading lolita in tehran this morning while waiting TWENTY EIGHT minutes for the bus to finally freakin' show up packed to the gills...hello i am a sardine. i cannot even begin to express to you the rage, yes, i'll be bold, rage that boils up in me at inefficient public transportation. drives. me. totally. insane. most of the time i get so fed up i walk. but honestly, i have blisters on my toes from wearing cute new shoes to school and not taking them off in time...so it sucks to walk 45 minutes home with boo boo toes...thus, the bus rage insues. i'm going to get another bike lock for my bike-that-sort-of-stops this weekend so i can at least bike in occasionally. (other lock got cut after lost key incident...rolls eyes a third time). but seriously, my other 2 fancy schmancy bikes that actually had good brakes and gears got stolen...so now i have the beater special - cute little basket, red, fun, look like the wicked witch of the west bike...you know the one...but she's not a hill bike, nor a stop in a swift situation kind of bike...so she's a in-the-flats kinda bike. but i can still ride her down around the water and then park her and hike up the mountain to school. much preferred morning atmosphere to seething bus attitude morning...oh! but back to the book, seems promising as i read through 6 chapters this morning!
i'm participating in 2 different give aways on 2 different blogs: the super cool modish blog & the hip new indie fixx blog -- modish is jena, indie fixx is jen, and sprout studio is jenifer! ha! anyways, if you go and sign up for their newsletters, you might be a very lucky person! support indie always!!
off to teach some kiddos...
Wednesday, August 30, 2006
school time, school time
wow, being back in the drill is overwhelming. who remembered being at school m-f, 7:40-4 could be so grueling? the first full week is sooooooo long. hump day it is then. ;) oi!
i've got my work cut out for me this weekend; i have done nothing so far to prep for crafty bastards in d.c. - the first weekend of october. i need to get motivating for that and for some wholesale accounts; sprout studio will be buzzing for sure.
also, i've been feeling like crap since the mister left. so that's been hard on the psyche to get up and get busy, get down...
however, new camera is super fun - more pictures to come...& i'm definitely getting the new (to me) car around the beginning of october too...and did i mention already it's a *convertible* :) :) :) :) how sweet is that? can't wait for the loo dog & me to scoot down pch 1 & have some picnics!
more later...xxx.
i've got my work cut out for me this weekend; i have done nothing so far to prep for crafty bastards in d.c. - the first weekend of october. i need to get motivating for that and for some wholesale accounts; sprout studio will be buzzing for sure.
also, i've been feeling like crap since the mister left. so that's been hard on the psyche to get up and get busy, get down...
however, new camera is super fun - more pictures to come...& i'm definitely getting the new (to me) car around the beginning of october too...and did i mention already it's a *convertible* :) :) :) :) how sweet is that? can't wait for the loo dog & me to scoot down pch 1 & have some picnics!
more later...xxx.
Monday, August 28, 2006
& then...there were pictures...
just a few, we went for sushi last week before bl left for the fall...boo hoo. (& my ibs was in full swing, so i didn't really enjoy the sushi...wahhh). and then i made banana bread, because bananas are good for my ibs - and one of the few things that absolutely don't bother my intestines...maybe i'm reverting back into a monkey...i do have super long arms...hmmm...
anyways, i STILL don't have internet whenever i want it, but i'm getting around in between school and the neighbors, so i should be more of a regular 'round these parts!
sprout treats are going kinda quick over there at the old updated sprout studio, so scoot quick if you want to grab something! :)
xxx.
anyways, i STILL don't have internet whenever i want it, but i'm getting around in between school and the neighbors, so i should be more of a regular 'round these parts!
sprout treats are going kinda quick over there at the old updated sprout studio, so scoot quick if you want to grab something! :)
xxx.
Thursday, August 24, 2006
okay...still haven't figured this out...
we still are trying to figure out our internet; but i'm back at school and can periodically be online there...so i won't be a total stranger. also, fabulous news!! i finally bought a camera - hoorah!! a little canon and i love it and i'm going to start posting pictures as soon as i figure it all out!
also, very sad news indeed; the mr. left today for his stint with teaching back east...& here i sit allllll allllllone at the coffee shop using there internet access. very lonely already. just me and the ms. dixie loo noodle.
now, i gotta go catch up on my mail, and business, and general computer junk while i have some time here at the shop, so...more later and pictures will be coming for sure!! yippeee!
xxx.
oh yeah!! i almost forgot to tell you, over at ole sprout studio, we updated necklaces, bracelets and a coupla other treats here and there! go have some fun lookin' around!
also, very sad news indeed; the mr. left today for his stint with teaching back east...& here i sit allllll allllllone at the coffee shop using there internet access. very lonely already. just me and the ms. dixie loo noodle.
now, i gotta go catch up on my mail, and business, and general computer junk while i have some time here at the shop, so...more later and pictures will be coming for sure!! yippeee!
xxx.
oh yeah!! i almost forgot to tell you, over at ole sprout studio, we updated necklaces, bracelets and a coupla other treats here and there! go have some fun lookin' around!
Saturday, August 19, 2006
eep! no internet!
no internet = no posts...i'm at a friends stealing their wireless...
we'll figure it out soon & then i'll be back to posting regularly!!
xxx.
we'll figure it out soon & then i'll be back to posting regularly!!
xxx.
Saturday, August 12, 2006
back in SF - hoorah!
more to report later, but i'm back - after flying on our nice red alert days; eek! went to sfmoma yesterday to check out matthew barney & a japanese photographer, sat outside of the moma with my yummy scone and mocha to survey my lovely sf streets and what they had to offer up to me, went camera shopping with the mister -- before he leaves we are getting me something!!
farmer's market this morning; beautiful sunny day with just the right amount of cool...ahhhhhhh....soo thrilled to be back... now i just need another 2 months in my city before i start back to work - ha!
market booty: locally made honey (lilacsi - yum), green peppers beautifully streaked with red, little bitty sweet wine grapes, tomatoes, garlic, onions, portabellos, yams, plums, kale, collards, corn, strawberries, chinese eggplant, thai basil and gorgeous flowers!! all under $25!!!! i love my farmers market!!
more later - off to unpack and putter around while the mister is on his little jet set l.a. flight down south to rescue yet another vw bus (at least this one is not for us; thank goodness for small mercies!)
xxx.
ps - i am nailing that boy down to a date to upload all my new sprout studio products. i know we are terribly tardy on that end...
farmer's market this morning; beautiful sunny day with just the right amount of cool...ahhhhhhh....soo thrilled to be back... now i just need another 2 months in my city before i start back to work - ha!
market booty: locally made honey (lilacsi - yum), green peppers beautifully streaked with red, little bitty sweet wine grapes, tomatoes, garlic, onions, portabellos, yams, plums, kale, collards, corn, strawberries, chinese eggplant, thai basil and gorgeous flowers!! all under $25!!!! i love my farmers market!!
more later - off to unpack and putter around while the mister is on his little jet set l.a. flight down south to rescue yet another vw bus (at least this one is not for us; thank goodness for small mercies!)
xxx.
ps - i am nailing that boy down to a date to upload all my new sprout studio products. i know we are terribly tardy on that end...
Wednesday, August 09, 2006
dominion derby girls
derby girls on the loose!! we went to go see the va roller girls; the dominion derby girls practice a "bout" - it's private but i got to go see them b/c the mister was photographing and my lady friends who are bad ass enough to do this let me come since i was going to miss their first out n' out session since i'll be back in sf. the dirty deisel darlins' vs. the femme fatales! it was super fun! i was also trying to decide if a. i lived back here and b. if i were to try out in sf, if it was something i would want to do. verdict: i think i'm too much of a wimp! i decided that if i was on that rink and slammed that hard and was so exhausted from two hours plus of skating and then got yelled at by some super tough gal that i might just up and cry. and that would be the end of derby career!
these gals are super duper toughies and it was a lot of fun seeing them strut their hard core selves around that rink. i also learned the whole lingo and how they score points. i also made up my own derby girl name - shh, don't tell though - (they all have alter ego names like tsunami sue, holly go bite me, pachuca loca, sweet n' lowdown, hard hittin' honky, becka the wrecka...etc...!) i'd be "dolly duke 'em" - that is, in my fantasy derby girl round where i wouldn't end up being one big fat bruise!
had one final round up dinner last night with 8 of our close norfolk friends (in which apparently i made one of my lovely good friends extremely angry - i didn't even realize i was arguing with him until he ceased to talk to me. root of the problem; i am an idealist and a utopian...but we won't dwell on that little sour note... ah-hem...) and today, i'm packing up. and this is going to be one big feat. because, i have a whole heck of a lot of STUFF! &, i had to get one more thrift run in yesterday in which of course, i found more cute things i needed to purchase; banana republic jeans ($2.99), amazing japanese inspired long off white vintage dress ($3.99), 2 vintage button down collared shirts for the mister (each at $2.99), one pair of beautiful vintage long white gloves ($.99) - now i need to find a soiree/fete to go to - one handmade cute as can be vintage turquoise dress with embroidered birds on it for one lucky little girlie (my friend jo's little one), one poppy red samsonite luggage carry all ($2.98), a pair of brand new with tags express pants (with the $58 tag on them for $7.98 i scored them) and one more totally cute handmade vintage dress that ended up not fitting me so well, so i'm going to sell it on ebay one of these days. (that was quite the run on sentence there; sorry grammar folks!)
so, that was just one run, and i did like, uh....clears throat and rolls eyes, 20 or so thrift runs this summer. so i have a lot. but the cool thing is, i'll leave some of it here and when we drive back together around the holidays, i'll bring the rest of it back to sf.
but oh my, the packing. eep! i better get started b/c it's almost the crack of noon!
flying tomorrow so probably won't post unless i get stuck somewhere or find free internet!
xxx.
(here i come california! yay!)
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