i love how saturated the colors are in the pictures from my phone. summer feels that saturated.
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nice design
nice stainless steel map! for paris, new york or london (the next time i'm there…)
too cute!
jenny posted this cake pan from williams-sonoma today – that is too cute! i have a certain cousin with a littlle girl who might have to get one!
pizza
as on most nights this summer we had two of the nerighbor kids over. tilly is so happy to have friends over and include them in whatever she's doing.
we were making homemade pizza for dinner so we set-up a pizza station for everybody. a ball of dough, a bowl of tomato paste, a bowl of cheese – all on a plastic cutting board with a plastic knife. it keeps them happy for a little bit and then they're pretty excited when each of their own little pizzas comes out of the oven.
thank goodness for my kitchen aid stand mixer. i would never make homemade dough it if it wasn't for that.
games
i don't play a lot of online games – but i like this crossword game linked from digg (maybe a little too much – hmmm, midnight, time for bed?)
summer
I love summer. Tilly and I spent all day at the pool. (Yes, we have a good life.) We strolled there and back which was so relaxing and summery. It's kind of a long walk so Tilly took her KidzBop headphones which we usually save for trips and she listened to music part of the way. She looked fabulous this morning!
And when we got home we had a bunch of neighbor kids over and we made root beer floats – like it was hot like summer in the midwest.
Happy Father’s Day!
best day ever
i've had a lot of best days. this was one of them. today jeremy and i
were able to attend two events at Food & Wine – a three-day food & wine
event sponsored by the magazine of the same name. what an amazing experience. first we were able to attend a 'grand tasting' which is a football field sized tent full of mostly wine and other alcoholic beverages and some food. and everything is meant for sampling! i started with champagnes, had a few wines and as the taste buds went down hill i moved onto martinis. we had mussels, lobster medallions, spanish tortes, sushi and a raw fish sandwich with coffe – it was all amazing!
even better then that event though was the seminar on the cheese course aftwerwards. we were seated in a smaller tent and we each had five wines with 7 cheeses (and a single varietal honey). the seminar was wonderful!
I would do it all again – now!
the wine guy is the wine director at bin 36 in chicago (the menu looks great – let's go next time!). The cheese expert was Laura Werlin – the two soft cheeses on the right side were my favorites.
cool site
In my new field this is my favorite website. A List Apart is a beautifully designed site with incredible content. It's one of those sites I wish I had found the very first day I ever thought of getting into web design.
spring crochet
during my unintentional blogging hiatus there was some crafting. a close friend had a baby boy this april and i wanted to make a gift. i've never made a baby blanket and i've never crocheted granny squares so it seemed like a fine time. i pulled the pattern for the square from the happy hooker – thank you debbie stoller!
cool web photo
hiking at our house
tilly's neighbor friends Ali and Sydney were over today and the girls had tons of energy (too much?). so we all walked up to the store – right around dinner time – and for their treat they each decided they wanted a donut. i felt so good about getting them out for a walk before that…
but they were so happy!
summer games
tilly loves to find 'blowies' (the after dandelion white poof you blow into the wind). there may be a million here right now. but i love that she sees specific ones she has to pick and tromps into the grass as tall as she is to get 'that one',
one year until kindergarten…
we went to the ziggy marley concert up on the hill tonight. the show was jammin'.
edie's (the one on the left) mom painted all the girls to look like butterflies. they had a great time.
4 years old now
Tilly has known for quite some time that she had to be 4 years old to start ballet. She's talked a lot about it and made sure she had the shoes, tights, etc…
Well today was the first class and it was wonderful! Her best friend is in her class, as well as another friend from school.
The little girls were beyond charming in their pink!
(I'm sorry the pictures are so small. They're from my phone. I didn't want to be too much of a nuisance the first day.)
from blogland today…
another new site
so besides the new blog I also have the first-draft (close enough for public consumption) of our new business site – pixelmixel.com
. It has a ways to go as do the sites I'm featuring, but it's a fine beginning…
new site
I've moved my blog to vox. I
signed up a year ago after listening to an interview with one of the
creators – Mena – and never did anything about it. I wish I had done it
sooner! VOX is awesome!
Besides loving working in it, all the cool ways to personalize it, VOX
also imported all of my old posts so I don't lose anything. None of the
comments came with – sorry nice people – but I'm sure somebody out
there can find more ways to harass me about meat.
i joked in my old blog – encouraging any readers left to follow me here
– that we had changed seasons – but the truth is that it's always
winter in colorado. this is the snow from yesterday…
starting over
there will still be crafting, but more family, more tilly
certainly and stuff about the new business!
certainly and stuff about the new business!
next in line…
I'm sure he's never thought of himself as being in the middle but in this group he is…
My second brother is just a little younger then me (although still willing to break bones which I'm not).
Another excellent Uncle – I was so proud of him getting his shoes wet on a bitterly cold Chicago Thanksgiving to build his little niece a sandcastle. (That's true 'best uncle' competition spirit – and love!)