Has this ever happened to you? There's a book/movie/thing that you really want but it somehow fails to find its way onto your Christmas list or into the ear of your gift-givers. But! Christmas arrives and there it is! Tucked shyly between all those questionable sweaters and candles - a totally un-anticipated gem. Awesome.
My Christmas was stuffed to the gills with fantastic, eerily spot-on, unasked-for presents. It's almost as if these people know me or something. An Aveda haircut, a blood jade bracelet, the Spike Jonze/Chris Cunningham/Michael Gondry Music Video library, a ReadyMade subscription, a copy of The Freedom Manifesto, and most impressively, a two-pound ball of Edam. Woot!
Design Fantasies
We moved into the new place two weeks ago, amid sub-zero temperatures and snow emergencies. Now that the holidays are over, I'm free to indulge in over the top, thematic design fantasies. Asian inspired! With a hand-painted scrolls and red-black end tables! Modern and Spare! With black and white photos and beautifully art-directed book shelves! Farmhouse! Vintage cookie jars and embroidered everything!
We discuss paint colors in hushed, reverential tones and forward each other Craigslist ads for end tables. Because we are huge nerds.
Design Fantasies
We moved into the new place two weeks ago, amid sub-zero temperatures and snow emergencies. Now that the holidays are over, I'm free to indulge in over the top, thematic design fantasies. Asian inspired! With a hand-painted scrolls and red-black end tables! Modern and Spare! With black and white photos and beautifully art-directed book shelves! Farmhouse! Vintage cookie jars and embroidered everything!
We discuss paint colors in hushed, reverential tones and forward each other Craigslist ads for end tables. Because we are huge nerds.
The lovely Reeder was kind enough to pass on the Super Scribbler award to me. So sweet, e
h?I do believe that I'm supposed to pass the award on to some other lovely bloggers, but I always feel a bit weird about that, as though I'm handing out invites to my second grade birthday party and then pointedly glaring and you and swishing past. Is it totally gauche to not pass on the award? Do tell, friends.
Reeder also tagged me for the much loved book meme. So I'm picking up the nearest book, turning to page 56 and quoting the fifth line. Are you ready to have your socks rocked by 'Scratch Beginnings: Me, $25 and the Search for the American Dream'?
Also! What's that you see? Over there to on the right? Adding ever more visual clutter to the side bar you'll note a shiny new Alltop badge. I successfully tricked the Alltop folks into letting me past the velvet ropes into their club. Now I can rub elbows with the likes of Meg Fowler and Confessions of a Pioneer Woman. And like a real life VIP room, I will probably hover around the cheese plate and get stuck in conversation with The Weird Guy.
Extra Credit
Our new three season porch - lined with cedar and smelling like a clean hamster cage, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, the knowledge that my car is now really, truly fixed, cookies baked by Grandmas, this song, this song and this ukulele cover of Walk on the Wild Side. a new passport ripe for stamping, blue mason jars lining the shelves, running into a girl I taught with in Italy at a NYE party in St. Paul.
What's good in your life these days?
Reeder also tagged me for the much loved book meme. So I'm picking up the nearest book, turning to page 56 and quoting the fifth line. Are you ready to have your socks rocked by 'Scratch Beginnings: Me, $25 and the Search for the American Dream'?
Politely, he dismissed my warnings, showing that he wasn't interested in hearing what I had to say about finding a place that was cheaper and maybe even finding a roommate. He didn't even want to listen when I told him that the second bedroom he required to house the drum set he was going to buy was just not a feasible option.
Also! What's that you see? Over there to on the right? Adding ever more visual clutter to the side bar you'll note a shiny new Alltop badge. I successfully tricked the Alltop folks into letting me past the velvet ropes into their club. Now I can rub elbows with the likes of Meg Fowler and Confessions of a Pioneer Woman. And like a real life VIP room, I will probably hover around the cheese plate and get stuck in conversation with The Weird Guy.
Extra Credit
Our new three season porch - lined with cedar and smelling like a clean hamster cage, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, the knowledge that my car is now really, truly fixed, cookies baked by Grandmas, this song, this song and this ukulele cover of Walk on the Wild Side. a new passport ripe for stamping, blue mason jars lining the shelves, running into a girl I taught with in Italy at a NYE party in St. Paul.
What's good in your life these days?
5 comments:
Unanticipated gems are the best!
Also, how good are the Vitamin String Quartet albums? They sound like they should be really cheesy but they are actually quite extraordinary.
Sounds like you got some lovely presents! Mine were mostly heavily hinted at, but I made only vague suggestions (e.g. a scarf) and it is really lovely seeing how well people know you! xx
I received a lot of presents off my wish list, but one of the ones that wasn't on it was truly inspired - a granite pestle and mortar! Possibly the most perfect gift ever!
My TiLT is here http://sparkleandglitter.co.uk/2009/01/the-first-things-i-love-thursday-of-2009/
Celery! (I'm a simple girl!)
best good thing? the 12:00 dawn-of-a-new-year kiss made just in time on the front step of our tiny, cozy house. it could be truly romantic, or i could be reading too much 'twilight.' ;)
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