new apartment!

we'll be moving into our new place this coming weekend...FINALLY!! and if all goes well, our things should arrive this coming monday or tuesday. i am THRILLED, to say the least...living in this temporary place hasn't been terrible, but there is something to be said for having your own familiar and well-loved things around you. even little things like the forks and knives and sheets you're used to. it's as if we've been living in a glorified hotel for over a month. it would be one thing if we were traveling/doing something enriching and fun, but alas... anyway, i took some quick and dirty shots this evening when peter and i stopped by the new place to meet with our landlord/upstairs neighbor(s) (one in the same), get the keys, and tour the empty apartment:

more here, if anyone's interested (hello mom and dad!): http://www.flickr.com/photos/pintuck/sets/72157594313574246

wardrobe_remix(ers) o' the week

my wardrobe_remix picks of the week. enjoy. nappyco: (easy, comfy urban threads.)

persephassa: (does this girl EVER look bad? no, never! :D)

uproar: (an amazing thrift find, clearly.)

laurenn: (wearing black with sass.)

sabocracy: (sweet simplicity.)

sjwhidden: (everything about this photo delights me! hee.)

as always, click on any photograph above to see more details about the photograph, and explore the flickr photostreams of any of these lovely wardrobe_remix(ers).

oh, and P.S.: this blogger GETS what wardrobe_remix is really all about. thank you, whomever you are: http://www.utata.org/ink/2006/18933.php

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i am missing NYC more than ever today, after a particularly horrible experience out in SF last night.

i'm not sure how much longer i can stand it here in the bay area...i'm not feeling at home here yet and i'm not sure if i ever will. i can't stop comparing the two cities to one another, and that's really like comparing apples to...raisins. or something. either way, the comparisons are an exercise in futility.

having to stay here for a year or more seems like having an eternity in hell to me...unfortunately i think i'm stuck here for a while.

here's hoping the coming months will give me some sort of reason to change my mind.

...but i'm not going to hold my breath.

inspiring blogs

i'm all about the eye candy.i am also all about sharing, with you.

i particularly like blogs of other creative people and artmakers. i like blogs that have photographs. i like people who are THINKING, DOING and MAKING. & following their own muse. transcending the ordinary, being extraordinary.

i like to think i am creative now and then, but, DAMN, these amazing people kick my humble, has-a-long-way-to-go ass all the way around the internet block. what i do: mere dabbling, mere dreaming! :)

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kris atomic is a fabulous illustrator from the UK. you can see some of her amazing, poppy, modern/retro doodles and illustrations here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/krisatomic/sets/1258567/

this is one of her blogs: http://krisatomic.vox.com/library/posts/page/1/ i love how her blog is mostly photographs (her own, & of things she loves or that inspire her), like a scrapbook. pictures really are worth millions, if not thousands of words.

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someone recently turned me on to alicia paulson's blog, posie gets cozy. hers is the penultimate craft/life blog: gorgeous photographs of her work shot in her droolworthy, colorful, amazing home. http://rosylittlethings.typepad.com/posie_gets_cozy/ she also runs this craft retail site, rosy little things: http://www.rosylittlethings.com/ ***

susie of brit (fashion) blog style bubble trancends the inane trend-slavishness of most fashion blogs, and looks at what's now, what has been, and what will be in the most irreverent, intelligent manner.

http://stylebubble.typepad.com/style_bubble/

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i am completely sick with internet envy over the creative force that is san francisco artist/crafter/blogger, lisa congdon.

lisa blogs about her work (art and craft), life, and related subjects here: http://birdinthehand.typepad.com/a_bird_in_the_hand/ her droolworthy, colorful, amazing pad was recently featured on apartment therapy: san francisco: http://apartmenttherapy.com/photo/092806lisahousetour/_all_ and she recently opened a webstore, where she's selling her art (and soon, her craft?): http://www.lisacongdon.com/ ***

i'll tell you about more about creative, fashionable internet denizens as time slips into the future.

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tell me about blogs YOU love. don't be lazy. comment!