who wants to go swimming?!?!
ME!!!!!!!!!!!!
My new summer romance, the Sol Goldman Pool in Red Hook.
3 comments July 17th, 2010
Posts with the tag 'happiness'
wyatt’s life might just be more interesting than mine
Went to this photography exhibit opening last night, and it rocked my world. It was called “Moments Like This Never Last” and the photographer is Wyatt Neumann. He chose to document the everyday life experiences he had so that he could remember the color, warmth, and people he shares his life with. The exhibit was touching, funny, badass and, above all, inspirational. I haven’t been taking as many pictures as I used to and I’m not sure why. I guess I feel like my life hasn’t been all too interesting lately, but sometimes I guess you need to remember that often the good stuff is the sum of a lot of little moments that pass by quickly and if you don’t stop to smell the roses (or take a shot to remember) then you’re not really living life. Right?
April 2nd, 2010
kokkina avga (red eggs to you!)
This Sunday is Greek Easter (and happens to be regular Easter, too) and we are hosting a slightly smaller version of our yearly Greek Easter (Greekster?) dinner party. As usual, I am stoked to get out the Badavas/Lianides family recipes and have a great reason to head over to the Greek neighborhood of Astoria to do some shopping!
This year may prove to be the year that I actually get the traditional Greek Easter Red Eggs right! The past few years have been plagued with light pink, hot pink (both from red dye packets), and reddish brown (red onion skins) eggs — but never truly the reds that my YiaYia always managed to pull off with little difficulty. I realized too late into the game last year that the homemade egg dye was supposed to be made with YELLOW onion skins, not RED, and ended up pretty close to the mark, but with a slightly brownish tint. This year I am quite determined to get the perfect red eggs, and have the giant bag of yellow onions at the ready!
And then of course, once you have the red eggs, you have the best part of Greek Easter, the part that all of our guests eagerly await, competition singing through their veins — the Greek Easter Egg Battle!! WHO’S EGG WILL REIGN SUPREME??
Wish me luck!
Here’s a good recipe if you feel like giving it a whirl.
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3 comments March 31st, 2010
investigation of form, aka congrats andrew & sheila!!!
Investigation of form is a phrase that my graphic design teacher throws around when discussing out of the ordinary design for fairly standard objects — and this spinning wheel wedding invitation fits that bill to a T. I love the idea of this, and see so many possibilities inherent in this particular incarnation.
ANNNND, seeing as my brother-in-law just got engaged to his kick-ass girlfriend last night (woop woop!), I see a lot of opportunity for design brainstorming and harassment of the happy, wedding-planning couple in the future.
(via Unstitched)
1 comment March 26th, 2010
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)
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)
1 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
