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Add comment March 1st, 2010
Posts with the tag 'happiness'
forest of calm
This wallpaper is so amazing. Wallpaper is one of the reasons I want to live in someplace that I own, or at least someplace I know for sure that I will be in for a long enough time to invest in some real decor. This paper is gorgeous and calming and has just enough design to be interesting but isn’t overwhelmingly patterned as to be distracting. And I LOVE the fact that it is just on the one wall, serving to extend the headboard and really make that wall outstanding.
Check out the incredible before & after makeover of this room on Design*Sponge. It’s nearly unbelievable that the before could even be the same room!
(via Design*Sponge)
Add comment February 26th, 2010
gimme sun sand water
I really, really want a tropical, sunshine-y, beach-y, swim-filled vacation. Now, please.
(restaurant off the coast of Zanzibar, found via gimme gimme)
Add comment February 18th, 2010
curd love
Whoa, did paper tastebuds fully hit the nail on the head with this idea for a Valentine’s day gift, or what?
They are talking about DIY Cheese Kits from urban cheesecraft, and they look insanely delicious and mighty do-able.
I want in on this, bad.
(urban cheesecraft via paper tastebuds)
1 comment February 3rd, 2010
dreamlining
Fine, I’ll admit it. I am reading The 4-Hour Workweek. I like the idea of automating income and taking mini-retirements throughout my life, what can I say? Doesn’t sound too sucky at all.
One of main things the book teaches you (well, so far–just started reading it yesterday) is to think big–outlandishly, even–in terms of your goals and the things you want to experience in life. Like how there is less competition for the big stuff, because people assume they can’t do it/have it, and lower their expectations to the same level as everyone else–leaving fewer to battle it out at the high end. Anyhow, it suggests you make a 6 month timeline and include as many far reaching experiential goals you can, then narrow it down to about 4, then actually price out those 4, and then write down the 1st steps to accomplishing each one of those 4, and do it TODAY.
I got to brain-storming and I realized that I have been talking about going to Greece for the past, oh, 10 years and still haven’t managed to do it. I have been LOTS of other places in the world, but have avoided this one for some particular reason. I can’t tell if my expectations are too high for it, or I have some weird anxiety surrounding my heritage background, and my complete lack of speaking the language at all, or SOMETHING. Who knows? All I know is that I want this to happen, and I want it to happen soon. Now I just need to figure out how.
What would you do if you felt you had no restrictions on your life? Where would you go?
4 comments January 28th, 2010
one little bird
One Little Bird Studios is Leanda, an English ex-graphic designer who is now living in sunny Greece awaiting a bundle of joy and about to be married. She makes these really cute little prints (I think?) and is in the midst of setting up an Etsy shop to sell them at, and a blog to keep us all updated on the awesomeness. Her Flickr is up and running with about 20 shots of some great typography-based work, and I know I’ll be checking back!
(found via design is mine)
January 26th, 2010
appreciate
As I was doing the morning rounds of the internets, I wasn’t really finding a lot to inspire me today, until I came across this sort of old clip from Conan with the comedian Louis CK. This clip is FUNNY. So, so funny. And reminds us to maybe appreciate the world we’re living in a little bit more. Maybe. Or maybe it just reminds us to laugh? Either way, it wins.
1 comment January 15th, 2010
sorry, tokyo garden
We have done the un-doable–made homemade Seattle-style chicken teriyaki that is JUST AS GOOD as our beloved Tokyo Garden in the U District, from 3,000 miles away. We got insanely lucky that the recipe the NY Times just happened to include in it’s article about the beloved Teriyaki joints of Seattle is from our go-to, absolute favorite spot. Which is pretty crazy, considering there are approximately 3,000 teriyaki joints in the Metro Seattle area. So happy.
This was a 2 day process, but every hour of waiting was well worth it. Chicken thighs from Fairway, ginger and garlic from the veg stand around the corner, and the ever-present Kikkoman soy sauce from the fridge = pure teriyaki bliss.
With this fail-safe recipe in our hands, we can now put our money where our teriyaki is and move to Mexico and open a teriyaki joint to cater to all those gringos from the PacNW who get tired of tacos down in Sayulita.
2 comments January 12th, 2010
bsc rules
I’m not quite sure why I am so excited about Scholastic reissuing the Baby Sitter’s Club book franchise (I’m not actually going to go buy any of them), but I SO AM! This was for sure my favorite series when I was in the 2nd-6th grades, and I eagerly awaited each new one in the series–which, thinking back, came out like one every 2 months or something.
I always fancied myself a Kristy, kinda tomboy-ish with an entrepreneurial and bossy streak. In good ways, of course.
I wonder where all 80 BSC books I owned ended up…? I’m sadly voting on Annie’s Book Stop, in exchange for some fuel for my mother’s True Crime novel obsession of the late 90’s.
1 comment January 8th, 2010
designmilklove
The Storyboard Book love on Design Milk.
Talk about making my day!
December 19th, 2009
el df
Oh Mexico, how I miss you and the unendingly delicious street foods you have to offer. Reading Mark Bittman’s article this morning from the NY Times about the Condesa mercado in Mexico City not only got me salivating for fresh Mexican fruits and tortillas, but made me realize that this stretch of time might be the longest in about 5-6 years that I have gone without getting to travel to Mexico. It’s been since our honeymoon, so 1.5 years without the best tacos and tortas and sopes and quesadillas and roasted chickens and elote and chilaquiles and micheladas and more tacos… Oh goodness. I just had to stop myself from doing a kayak.com flight search to Mexico City. I guess it’s time to pull out Rick Bayless’ Mexican Everyday for dinner tonight–that’s the closest we’re going to get on this short of notice!
2 comments December 18th, 2009
dream element
I always enjoy reading HDYGTFAJ from ReadyMade, and even more so now that I’ve been redefining my career this past year. It’s always so cool to be reminded that there are tons of different jobs and careers out there that you don’t even know exist, and that a lot of them are pretty fricking amazing.
One of my dreams is to someday open up a small hotel–we’ve even been toying with the idea of something along the lines of a British-style Inn, with a pub on the ground floor and guest rooms above. That would be incredible–beer, food, a fireplace and sleeping. Does anyone need more than that?
Read about how Greg Henderson got his FAJ opening up the Roxbury Motel in the Catskills here on the ReadyMade Blog. I’ll be day-dreaming up my Inn in the meantime…
2 comments December 15th, 2009
feeling house-y
Trying really hard not to spend all morning playing with the Fonts text setter on the House Industries website, and failing miserably.
I want.
1 comment December 9th, 2009
gifted
YIKES! Clicking through my favorite blogs this AM I saw that The Storyboard Book was featured in the Gift Guide 2009 for DesignWorkLife, one of my favorite design blogs from the creative minds over at Seamless Creative. Courtney over there who does all the curating for their blog, Twitter, and ETC!!! even took the time to reply to my email. SO. AWESOME.
Check out all the other awesome gifts in the Guide, and all their other incredible design spotlights.
Yippee!
1 comment November 30th, 2009
on not cooking the holiday
This will be the first year since we’ve lived in New York, and I think only the second or third year in the past 9, that I haven’t either hosted Thanksgiving at my house, with friends (and sometimes family), or gone to a local friends apartment and participated fully in the cooking. I can’t tell if I’m happy to have the year off, not having to worry about the purchasing, prepping and cooking of the butter-ific feast, or sad because I feel like some personal traditions that have started to emerge with me and the hubs are going to be sidelined this year.
What I do know is how grateful I am to be able to be really spending the holidays with my extended families this year–Thanksgiving with my family up in New England, with all my cousins kids running around and being cute, and then Christmas out in Seattle with Dave’s family, with his brothers and all of our lovely friends we left behind when coming back east. Due to irritating crappy vacation policies at our former jobs, we’ve sort of been trapped in the city for the holidays, making the best of it and creating good times, family portraits and traditions with friends. This year is going to be so strange, with all the family, but awesome. Even the NYC->New England traffic can’t get me down!
Anyhow, I’m hoping I can convince my aunt to let me make the mashed potatoes on Thursday, since my recipe is insanely delicious (um, butter, cream & sour cream, anyone?!?). I need some sort of traditional Lianides-Osterbeck T-day dish in there. And you KNOW I’m bringing a nice, crappy, jelled can of cranberry sauce for myself, too. That stuff is like crack.
3 comments November 24th, 2009
savior
After having to repeatedly trace Minnesota into Illustrator when designing a friends business calling cards, I magically find this font today when searching randomly. DOH. I should have known better. They also have the continents!
Seriously, these are the things that make me happy.
Download this font here, and let all your state and continent needs be filled. Providing you, uh, have those needs.
November 19th, 2009
