2010
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By Emily on December 31, 2010
While going through my Flickr postings for the year, trying to find something for their Your Best Shot 2010 group, I couldn’t help but reminisce…about all of the good food I’ve eaten in the past year. The rest of the photos in my stream bring back all kinds of memories, good and not so great, [...]
Posted in a few of my favorite things, adventures in cooking, colors, photography, seasons | Tagged food, photography, year in review
By Emily on December 28, 2010
What are the calendars in your life? One on your phone? Outlook at work? Dayplanner? Do you buy calendars for the wall or your desktop, at home or at work? Are you all-electronic? Of course I’m not. I love paper too much. Having worked at a stationery shop, I’ve learned that people have very defined [...]
Posted in blogs I read and like, design, seasons, things that make me smile | Tagged calendars, etsy, Geninne Zlatkis, planner, Snow and Graham, space invaders
By Emily on December 26, 2010
Because I work at a university, and live close by, and have friends and a sister and a roommate in some form of school, I find that I’m still measuring my time by semesters. It’s strange, being involved and yet outside. I didn’t have the same kind of end of the semester stress that students [...]
Posted in books, design, getting crafty, jobs schmobs | Tagged college, moustaches, rhythm, semester
By Emily on December 20, 2010
As the year starts winding down, and the influx of new presents is just around the corner, my mind floats back to January – when I was starting to drown in stuff in my little apartment, stored in boxes at my parents’ house, in the back of my car. I decided that 2010 would be [...]
Posted in moving, new house, The Purge 2010 | Tagged cleaning out, donating, organization, simplify101
By Emily on December 18, 2010
I’ve been doing a fair amount of crafting of my own, as well as shopping at local craft fairs, shows, and so on. I’d love to take some photos to share, but there are two slight problems: – I’m like a vampire and rarely see the light. Photography needs to happen on weekends. – Even [...]
Posted in blogs I read and like, getting crafty, photography, seasons, things that make me smile, what I'm listening to now | Tagged amazon, Christmas shopping and crafting, darkness, Fleet Foxes, snow, winter, wrapping
By Emily on December 14, 2010
These are the kinds of things that make me really happy. Please pardon the crappy camera phone quality. Goofy English plurals are some of my favorite linguistic quirks.
Posted in things that make me smile | Tagged Barnes and Noble, bwahaha, thesauri
By Emily on December 9, 2010
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising up everytime we fall.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson Gocco print from Lisa Congdon’s Etsy shop.
Posted in design, poetry | Tagged art, Etsy hunting, gocco, Lisa Congdon, thoughts
By Emily on December 7, 2010
I’ve been thinking a whole lot lately about music. And sound. And silence. (I feel like all of these should be capitalized, I sound so dramatic.) One of these days I’ll sit down and actually write out some of these thoughts, the kind of things that take up space in my brain as I walk [...]
Posted in blogs I read and like, what I'm listening to now | Tagged background music, movie scores, wordless
By Emily on December 6, 2010
It’s possible (though, ok, fairly unlikely) that you’ve noticed a little change in my sidebar. After a few years with WeRead, formerly Books iRead on facebook (one of many things that seems to have just *poof!* disappeared with the stupid new facebook), I got sick of seeing this: So many weird dead links. And a [...]
Posted in a few of my favorite things, books | Tagged Barnes and Noble, books, literary life, New York Times, NPR, reading
By Emily on December 4, 2010
It’s been a long week, so I am looking very forward to a cozy weekend. Lots of things I want to do, both around the house and around town, but today I’ll get a coffee and wander a craft market, then come home and do some cleaning and tidying and organizing. I’m way overdue. (It [...]
Posted in a few of my favorite things, new house, seasons, The Purge 2010, what I'm listening to now | Tagged Christmas music, craft market, weekend
I like writing, photography, reading, music, design, typography, paper products, days in the seventies and sparkly snow, Spanish wine and cans of PBR. I spent a year in Córdoba, Spain, working as a language and culture assistant through the Spanish government, traveling, and writing about it here. After a few years back in my home state of Montana, I moved to Austin, Texas, where I like to go exploring, take pictures of my food, write letters, dream of far-off places, and think about concepts of home.
