with over one hundred engagement photos, five hundred wedding photos, and two thousand honeymoon photos to show off, it hardly seems right to do one simple “we’re married!” entry and be done with it. so here’s the start of a series of posts, beginning a handful of engagement pictures taken by my good friend and […]
this seems doubly true for me now, freshly married with a new home and packing for a 2.5 week cruise in the eastern mediterranean.
poster by anthony burrill available here.
for the water
a beautiful little umbrella from modcloth - 10% of earth day purchases go to the pennsylvania resources council.
for the trees
a cool tee from threadless. $1 donation made to plant a billion with each purchased shirt.
for the birds
charming little feeders from j schatz.
for the bees
a fun little home for your friendly neighbourhood pollenators.
after one of many pleasant bus rides home, hans and i were admiring the skill and usual friendliness of seattle’s bus drivers, and we wondered if, perhaps, there was a day devoted to these often underappreciated transportation heroes. we found no such day, and realised we had no choice but to create one. bus […]
with the fresh light of spring and a feeling of near finish on the current series, i have not only been spending more time in the studio, but also finding myself frustrated with how uncomfortable the studio makes me feel. so, in hopes of keeping my spirits high, i’ve rearranged - the furniture, the paintings, […]
the proposal was perfect.
the ring is perfect.
but most importantly, hans is perfect.
unofficially, i decided to partake in the whole nanowrimo thing. unofficially, i say, because i had no desire to sign up on their site. i decided to do this strictly as a personal experiment, and, having finally reached the fifty thousand word goal, my assessment is as follows.
fifty thousand is a lot of words. c’est […]
last saturday was a day for protesting, as cities across the country joined together to rally against california’s passing of proposition eight. here in seattle, we were part of the estimated six thousand who marched from volunteer park to westlake center with very few naysayers along the way.
to quote king county executive ron sims, […]
every three to six months i get the unignorable itch to redo one of my websites, which usually leads to the unignorable itch to redo all of my websites [in case you’ve lost count, that’s five sites - two blogs, two portfolios and a splash page]. since it’s inception in june 2006 [just after my […]
we should not seek inspiration to create. we should create, and in this process of creation, find inspiration.
we visit museums and galleries, concerts and symphonies, films and plays, to reinvigorate ourselves. we read the words of great authors, we study the thoughts of great philosophers, we listen to our idols, hoping their ideas will make […]