neato calendar

I think this is such a wonderful idea. It's a custom calendar. You send the photos and kiki and polly create the colorful drawings for each month. This photo doesn't do it justice....visit the site here.

simple ornaments

These sweet and simple ornaments are from filzfelt.   They also make thick felt that comes by the yard in fabulous colors, pillows and more....check out their site here.

thanksgiving

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.

It turns what we have into enough, and more.

It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order.

Confusion into clarity...

It turns problems into gifts, failures into success, the unexpected into perfect timing and mistakes into important events.

Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates vision for tomorrow.

-Melodie Beattie

Photo by polgaroid

see our home in design*sponge

So exciting...our home was posted today as a sneak peek on the design*sponge blog. Check it out here!

eye candy

That anthropologie...I always am blown away by the displays and web images, graphics and color choices. Click here to see this display in action....so clever!

rex ray 2009 wall calendar

Rex Ray is one of my favorite artists/designers. I am so happy to have found this 2009 wall calendar. It's big and bursting with color...oh and it comes with a great 13 x 16 inch poster. Click here if you need one too.

1-2-3

Right this minute I have 3 books on my bedside table: The Barefoot Contessa Back to Basics by the lovely Ina Garten, Jhumpa Lahiri's Unaccustomed Earth and ABC's a la Charley Harper.

I could hardly wait for the new Barefoot Contessa cookbook. Some of my most favorite meals come from her older cookbooks: TURKEY MEATLOAF & STRING BEANS WITH SHALLOTS. I'll start flagging recipes from this newest book while cozy in bed with a cup of tea.

I adored Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies and look forward to this collection of short stories in Unaccustomed Earth. A short story is about all I can read at the end of the day....

And the last is truly my newest favorito: a board book of the ABC's illustrated by the late Charley Harper. Charley Harper was a Cincinnati-based American Modernist artist. He was best known for his highly stylized wildlife prints, posters and book illustrations. It's Everett's new bedtime book fave too.