I want

a weekend like this.

junkaholique

Links

ive got to reduce some of my open tabs! so i can pay my first utility bills here at maplecroft! ah, adult life and bills, how exciting. anyway- check out designtripper for inspiring articles and beautiful photos of dream travel destinations (theres even an article about asheville, nc). and if you're ready to get your hands dirty WOOF italia offers a chance to coordinate your own experience helping a working farm. and a song to listen to, shady grove (by the grateful dead) covered by appalachian picking society. just beautiful.

sorry things around here look a bit funky, the new blogger format is messing with me!

Maddie on Things

super cool project, more here

A pat(io) on the back

Pimpin outdoor rooms.

May Baby

"I think there are certain things you have to face about yourself,” she says. “I’ve made a lot of mistakes in my life. Sometimes you think: I’m the Queen of the May—I can do anything. The great thing about life is—the terrible thing about life is—that everything is mixed up. All the things that you thought were one way suddenly turn out to be another way. I don’t think anybody that has a brain can really be happy. What is there really to be happy about? You tell me. If you’re a thinking human being, there’s no way to divorce yourself from the world... So what you think is happy? Happy shmappy. I think you have to be unconscious to be happy. Are you unconscious?” -Lauren Bacall from a vanity fair article. Reading about old hollywood, listening to the blues. Happy May!

Leopard carpet

i want to dance around in this room! found via bespoke bloke blog, from greenville designer Eric Brown

The white stripes

the air beneath my fingers

you have no faith in medicine offend in every way

Beautiful Apartment!

Birthday!

Its coming up..

Hazel

Rainbow Hotel

palm springs hotel the saguaro. sweet!

Letter on Love

from john steinbeck to his son-

New York
November 10, 1958
Dear Thom:

We had your letter this morning. I will answer it from my point of view and of course Elaine will from hers.

First -- if you are in love -- that's a good thing -- that's about the best thing that can happen to anyone. Don't let anyone make it small or light to you.

Second -- There are several kinds of love. One is a selfish, mean, grasping, egotistical thing which uses love for self-importance. This is the ugly and crippling kind. The other is an outpouring of everything good in you -- of kindness and consideration and respect -- not only the social respect of manners but the greater respect which is recognition of another person as unique and valuable. The first kind can make you sick and small and weak but the second can release in you strength, and courage and goodness and even wisdom you didn't know you had.

You say this is not puppy love. If you feel so deeply -- of course it isn't puppy love.

But I don't think you were asking me what you feel. You know better than anyone. What you wanted me to help you with is what to do about it -- and that I can tell you.

Glory in it for one thing and be very glad and grateful for it.

The object of love is the best and most beautiful. Try to live up to it.

If you love someone -- there is no possible harm in saying so -- only you must remember that some people are very shy and sometimes the saying must take that shyness into consideration.

Girls have a way of knowing or feeling what you feel, but they usually like to hear it also.

It sometimes happens that what you feel is not returned for one reason or another -- but that does not make your feeling less valuable and good.

Lastly, I know your feeling because I have it and I'm glad you have it.

We will be glad to meet Susan. She will be very welcome. But Elaine will make all such arrangements because that is her province and she will be very glad to. She knows about love too and maybe she can give you more help than I can.

And don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens -- The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.

Love,
Fa

To Do

lots of things to do.
ps. hello

(by wendy macnaughton)

in the round

Pink!

Rainer Maria Rilke

Initial

Simply give away your beauty
without talk and reckoning.
You are still. She says for you: I am.
And comes in meaning thousandfold
at last comes over everyone.

Wish it would

all of this warm sunshine is just too much to handle! just kidding. typing with the sun on my fingers is nice.

Dark

Shoes I made

In Art Foundation at VCU I was inspired to make sandals out of birch bark. I think I liked the softness of the bark- how it is always peeling off and seems so fragile, yet as a bark it protects a tree, so its tough in its own way too. So I coated a leather bottom with the bark and attached some simple twine to make the top. You could say it was my rebellion against the manolo- obsessed, the girls that wear things that just hurt me to look at..

Hey Dahlia!

I'd like to work there please!

Its Been Awhile..

hello world. hello blog. i missed you!

more

nautical bar with cheep cheep boozies near the rivah- the rusty knot
lillies victorian bar 13 east 17th street 10 dolla burger and beer lunch special!

BROOKLYN FLEA 1 hanson place (at ashland place) fort greene sat/sun 10-5

williamsburg shops
catbird
brook farm general store

john derian design shop in the east village

art for farts
openings listed here

high line! starts at west 20th and 10th ave

asscat 3000! 8:15 free tickets for 9:30 show @ 307 W. 26th St

fatties food for thought
ino- italian sandwich shop- brunch sat/sun -4pm!!

DAY
new museum
the library
little italy
woot!

MUST GO- neue galerie- 5th ave and east 86th st
closed tuesday and wednesday/ 11am- 6pm

helpful map of hoods

things to do

movies man
all about the goog
historical house tour for the lady
what chu talking bout ellis?
a rose in spanish harlem
you met your ass

skater skirt

supa cute
get one here for your girl who likes to spin