I’m in love with this all natural, unscented cold-pressed soap made in Maine by the Rocky Top Soap Shop. As someone with sensitive skin, particularly on my legs, it’s so wonderful to find...
My friend Amy is selling these amazing hair and facial oils that she makes. I am a huge fan of facial oils because of the way they help balance your skin, can be made without nasty chemical preservat...
I love the illustrations printed on these cotton/linen dish towels by Lisa Rupp.
Until a few weeks ago, it had been a while since I’d done any serious swimming. I first got into it in grad school, when I took a swim class with a fantastic coach in UC Berkeley’s gorgeo...
Hi, friends. I ended up taking an unexpected break from just-for-fun blogging this summer, I suppose. There are several reasons for this, not the least of which is that I’ve been knee-deep in w...
For my birthday (a couple weeks ago now), Kenn and I decided to take a little drive to Cannon Beach. Being from southern California, the beach here is nothing like the beaches of my childhood, which ...
If there’s one thing we have here in Oregon, it’s berries. We took a little trip out to Sauvie Island recently to pick some strawberries. Caitlin suggested Sauvie Island farm and since I ...
{image: Twentieth-Century Pattern Design} These beautiful floral designs are the works of the teenage girls who staffed Atelier Martine, a decor workshop founded in Paris in 1911 by Paul Poiret. Insp...
… or is it a butterfly bush? I’m not 100% sure. I’ve seen about 18434920 times more bees on it than I have butterflies. It seems to lure the big fat buzzy bumblebees like nothing el...
I’ve been collecting smoothie recipes lately with pinterest and have so many new ones I want to try! This rhubarb smoothie is definitely a winner, and one I’ll make again, at least as lon...
We’re still having some cool weather off and on around here, so it doesn’t feel funny to be making wintery breakfasts on occasion. This carrot cake oatmeal I made this week was outstandin...
Finally, I’m ready to show you our house! Check out part one for the before pictures, and part two for a few shots of the renovations in progress. These photos were taken just as we were moving...
I’ll just show you a few in progress photos before moving on to part three, the after shots! See part one for the before shots. As renovations go, I guess ours were pretty minor. There were two...
I fell in love with this house the moment I saw it. We’d looked at a lot of houses at this point, and we’d even tried to buy two of them (both had severe structural issues that we couldn&...
Our new house is awesome. I’m dying to show you all photos. We did so much work on it over the last six weeks or so, and it is truly transformed. I have some fun before and after photos, but un...
Another project I’ve been working on for the last few months was Cocktail Camp, an awesome local craft cocktail event spearheaded by my dear husband Kenn. I’m a little embarrassed to not ...
About six or seven months ago, I took up running. Portland Winters are wet and gloomy, and I’d started to feel a little stir crazy being inside all the time, so I picked up this excellent book ...
Hi friends! You may have noticed that things have been pretty slow around this blog. On top of working on a million different things for Colette Patterns, Kenn and I have been engaged in another huge...
I meant to post about this a few days ago. I did this lovely last minute Colette Patterns shoot for Valentine’s Day with some amazing women. Anja was the photographer, Jade and Rachel modeled, ...
While in Vancouver, we also ended up at a cavernous shop called Salamagundi West, which was just full of odd little treasures: old photos, toys, musical instruments, beads, ribbon, old tins, and othe...
I hadn’t been to Vancouver BC since I was very young. I was looking forward to this trip, since I remembered how beautiful the scenery was and pretty the city seemed to me then. Plus people hav...
I am a big fan of baked fruit in the Winter. With a few nuts and spices, it is the perfect sweet and warming breakfast or dessert. I saw some beautiful jewel-colored baked grapefruit at our local fav...
Sarai Mitnick Day 2 from Sarai Mitnick on Vimeo. I thought I’d share yesterday’s video from my Ground Rules challenge. Doing video is super weird and frightening, but I am really learning...
When we lived in Berkeley, La Note restaurant was one of my favorite brunch spots. There are a million amazing restaurants in Berkeley, but the lines outside of this place on the weekends is well-des...
We took a little mid-month trip home to southern California in December, just in time for some unseasonably warm weather. It was 79 degrees on our first day there. We had an afternoon in Santa Monica...
While down in California recently, I’d go out to the docks in Long Beach for a nice easy run. Everything about it was soothing: the calm water, the crisp salty air, the quiet, the few people ou...
I’ve become accustomed to many things about living in Oregon over the last couple years. The rain doesn’t bother me at all. The fact that people are polite and nice (even bus drivers! unh...
Life has been hectic lately. You know when things get very busy and very stressful, and you don’t have time for the things you love and you can’t enjoy them anyway because you feel worrie...
Winter has settled in early here in Oregon. I pulled up the last of the summer plantings over the weekend, and cleaned up the copious dead and fallen leaves that have covered the garden. I’m kn...
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