and, eventually, she came around...

i'm a bit on the busy side. so, the new blog idea is suffering. however, i was cast in An Ideal Husband, and that's exciting.

More news: I applied for an internship this evening.

i guess i'll leave you with these three links.
If you like Anthropologie, you'll like these... at least, i hope so, as these are the three shops i listed as 'where else an anthropologie customer would shop.' I think their pieces are beautiful.

http://www.jovovich-hawk.com/index.php
http://www.mayleonline.com/mayle.html
http://www.kurtgeiger.com/

i'm sleepy.

okay...so cute

blythe, an old company that came back to life in 2001, is mesmerizing.

and a product that fell in my path this morning when i was showing my mom the wonderful world of etsy...

from feltchef

and earthbabydesigns

and goldilocksbarrettes

My niece will LOVE playing with these.

all together now. 3..2..1.. "Seizure!"

would you really put your coffee cup on this table?
is this to be the jewelry of the new millenium?
has another bank finally outdown the piggy?


cool stuff. but i'm a little freaked out, actually.

a day's inspiration

This morning I was looking through some of the websites I've 'favorited' over time, and I decided to take another glimpse at a site full of Rumi's poetry. I found a few verses that are inspiring me today...

'Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field. I'll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase each other
doesn't make sense.'


'I died from minerality and became a vegetable;
And From vegetativeness I died and became animal.
I died from animality and became man.
Then why fear disappearance through death?
Next time I shall die
Bringing forth wings and feathers like angels;
After that, soaring higher than angels -
What you cannot imagine,
I shall be that.'


[Look! This is love]

Come, come whoever you are.
Wonderer, worshipper, lover of leaving,
It doesn't matter.

Ours is not a caravan of despair.
Come, even if you have brokn your vow
a thousand times
Come, yet again, come, come.

Off the List

So I'm starting a blog. I'm not sure what I'm going to say, but I enjoy reading other people's so much, I thought "why not?" Plus...now I have one of the things on my this-year-to-do-list that can be marked done.

For This Year
1. tap dance
2. REALLY learn to play the guitar
3. explore a new part of philadelphia
4. make, paint, and mosaic tiles
5. learn to sew
6. plan a trip to italy
7. karate
8. have margaritas and chili and Cafe America
9. play my oboe
10. participate in the broad street run
11. walk through the city, looking only at the window displays
12. act on my inspirations
13. be in a play
14. make a big dent in my toreadlist (but don't stop adding to it)
15. actually make it to argentina
16. start a blog ****
17. paint the house
18. finish the garden
19. make jam (strawberry AND peach)
20. give more impromptu gifts
21. document my creations - build that portfolio
22. visit faraway friends
23. go camping
24. have a winter picnic
25. revisit ringing rocks
26. take more pictures
27. host a summer get-together
28. be a part of something bigger than myself
29. put pictures into albums
30. yoga

For Someday
1. snowshoe through woods in deep snow
2. live without a personal computer (ironic, i know, as i've just begun a blog)
3. live without a car
4. explore the west coast
5. bike through another country
6. take a trip and document it with photobooth picture strips and diner receipts
7. live a whole year without buying anything plastic
8. make a whole meal from the contents of my garden
9. plan a summer get-away with friends
10. sew an article of clothing for myself
11. make a dress form
12. be a co-op member