sun and shine

My great friend Annie and I took our chitlins down to Florida for a last minute girl get-away. We're quite fortunate to have such superbly awesome neighbors and friends. Our five-year-olds have grown up together and are 'best' friends, but can egg one-another on like antagonistic little sisters. Nothing a beach can't cure!

Some highlights from our sunny trip: the ringling circus museum model , the mote aquarium and the ski-a-rees.

I always dread returning home from holiday or any sort of get-away , but this time was different. my partner surprised me with freshly painted rooms, home repair and mopped floors which makes coming back to real-life quite A-OK!

Fiberglass. Animals. Shapes. Trademarks Corporation

A sampling of F.A.S.T Corporation's treasure trove of goods. After driving through the Wisconsin Dells a lot of these sculptures are alive and well. Check out my previous post from F.A.S.T's fiberglass mold graveyard. Also you may be interested in my ongoing Flickr set of roadside culture—it's a good time (at least I think).

! Toilet Paper Magazine !

Toiletpaper Magazine conceived and published by the artist Maurizio Cattelan and photographer Pierpaolo Ferrari.

Vivid and brilliant

--bunnytails + gulls--

River guard from Knock Knock / Smog

From our time in Michigan over the holidays.

roman snippit

Just a quick update and preview of my springbreak in Rome. I had the opportunity to visit my sister + family in Rome while Jay prepared for his exhibition at The Federica Schiavo Gallery. The generous gallery director lent Jen and Jay their home and guesthouse for the last four months—outrageous huh!

Words can't describe the experience—pictures do a better job. For more textures, signs and roman greatness, check out my flickr.

Oh, and The Red Balloon made it from France to Rome and landed in the Colosseum's basement!

best present ever

Lemme spit some rhymes for a favourite professor
always lookin sharp— she gotta fail-proof dresser
but her skill-set full and clothes ONLY the beginning
you should see this kid she made, that'll keep you grinning
but her bagga tricks too big, you can't touch them cases
...it'd take years of rapping, she gots way too much aces
so we won't try to list 'em cause the endeavour futile
just rest assured her prowess beyond clever true style
now I'll finally adress what I came to do
birthday well-wishes & some rhymes for you
I got a little off-track, as I'm often known to tend
hadda work my way back with a little verbal mend
but the thing I meant to say, become my means to an end
no longer my professor, Im honoured to call you a friend

HAPPY BIRFDAY KINJA!!!!


(thank you Colin!)

winter recap

We've been buried again.
74.9 inches of snow this winter = a little crazy & slightly beautiful. I surrender.

! 4 !

my groundhog turned 4 today and here's a story about her day.

Delaware

does it again!
"We are alive ou+side +he compu+er."

record guild

where is my muffin man?! I'm loving these googly eyed illustrations.
happy friday!

More cardboard kiddie records here.
and a whole lot more here.

The Record Guild of America, Inc.
NYC

fall miscellany

we've been quite busy here with parents visiting, school school and more school, flickring, gardening and some fall fieldtrips!

so here are some pretty shoddy photos for y'all!

plaster circus toys from the state fair museum
should have bought circus game creatures from hunt & gather
lived in backyard from above
small things gathered before vacuuming
+
a friendly restaurant in nyc.

summer beasties!

I've got a backlog of summerfun and new findings that I must share—my three week holiday followed by school prep has left me short of time. Whhohoot, I'm back!

1 kiddo under bucket. 2 freaky garden fruits. 3 huge spider living on our window.
4 cool monkeylion found at mn state fair. 5. sidewalk antics.

summer miscellany

things things things that make me happy.

gauzy hooded towel
old pinwheel—a gift from nana to my kiddo
memoir from my philly trip
morning antics
+
good kitty stencil (midwest and east coast companions?!).