I like things that are well made and look stylish but don’t stand out. So, I don’t like “labels,” even the few I can afford. On the other hand, I don’t like “fast fashion.” I would prefer to save up for an item that’s going to last rather than going for a quick fix that’sContinue reading “Friday Favorites: Brands”
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Friday Favorites: Children’s Books
I’ve always collected kids’ books: I love the illustrations and the stories. I had quite the stash when I worked at a bookstore during college; then, I gave most all of them away when my friends started having babies. Now I’m in a lull–until those babies start having babies (yikes!), so I’m starting to re-accumulate.Continue reading “Friday Favorites: Children’s Books”
Powder Room Remodel Plans
So, I’m putting together a plan to do a light remodel of my powder room: it’s the only space downstairs that remains un-updated since the house was built in 1989, and as such, it has all the mauve formica, brass lighting, and southwestern-style vinyl flooring you would expect. I don’t want to do an invasiveContinue reading “Powder Room Remodel Plans”
Friday Favorites
This is just what I was into this week: You guys, ATEEZ has a new album out! I will neither confirm or deny the rumor that I set my alarm for 4 am to watch their live Korean comeback showcase on YouTube. But as usual, my favorite part of the whole campaign was the danceContinue reading “Friday Favorites”
Friday Favorites: Japanese Vlogs
This is partly for Steph because I promised her the link to the couple who lives out of their microvan, but also there’s just a lot of fantastic and original content on YouTube these days from Japan, and I wanted to share some of my favorites. I’ve posted a couple of these before in otherContinue reading “Friday Favorites: Japanese Vlogs”
“It’s not bad! It’s not good, either….”
I’m still getting settled in back Stateside and trying to get United to give me back my bags that they “mishandled”…. In the meantime, enjoy my new favorite YouTube buddy (spoiler alert, the fish involved is neither poisonous nor particularly ridiculous):
Ceramics Saturdays: Altes Museum
I said this when I visited the Archaelogical Museum in Athens, and I still believe it’s true: if you want to see the finest examples of Attic Greek ceramics, don’t look in Greece.* They were begged, bought, or stolen from the country in the colonial period and now sit in Northern European museums–such as Berlin’sContinue reading “Ceramics Saturdays: Altes Museum”
Ceramics Saturdays: Meissen “Red Porcelain”
Edmund de Waal includes an extended account of the development of “red porcelain” or Meissen red wares in White Road, but the upshot is that on the way to discovering a formula for a European white porcelain, Böttger and his assistants in Augustus the Strong’s kilns in Meissen first discovered a way to reliably produceContinue reading “Ceramics Saturdays: Meissen “Red Porcelain””
Friday Favorites: Feedly-Cleanup, Cute Animal Edition
It wasn’t even a bad week–these are just adorable: OK, this isn’t adorable: It’s a pile of 1,000,000 mosquitoes. But it reminds me that a bat can eat over 1,000 mosquitoes an hour, which means that a group of 100 bats could chow their way through that pile in 10 hours. Bats are awesome. SoContinue reading “Friday Favorites: Feedly-Cleanup, Cute Animal Edition”
Ceramics Saturdays: Mycenean and Cycladean Wares
I’ve learned a lot about these ceramic traditions on my trip to Athens, and they’re really special. A little historical background: these were the two cultures that preceded and most heavily influenced Classical Athenian culture. The Cyclades are a flock of Aegean islands fenced in by Greece, Turkey, and Crete, the mythical home of theContinue reading “Ceramics Saturdays: Mycenean and Cycladean Wares”
The Rookery 