May – December romance, Ginger Rogers?

My mother passed on some movie magazines from the 1950s to me, and mostly they seem to talk about who’s marrying or divorcing whom. Did you know Zsa Zsa Gabor was born in 1906? Wow. I bet IMDB does not back that up (nope, says 1917. Wonder which is right?). And that she was married [...]

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Pie

Oh my gosh. Pie. Real pie. Did you ever see something on television and think, “Wow, I would love that!” And then someone says, “Pear pie with gruyere in the crust,” and you can’t stop thinking about it? Because the whole television show is about pie. The homey memories surrounding pie… Becoming an adult and [...]

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book art?

This is just neat, I can’t believe this is the “first time” she has made art like this. http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2011/11/29/142910393/the-library-phantom-returns

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sorry so long without posting

I think I must be feeling a little bit of the blog blahs. We all go through that, right? Nothing much of interest to report, no interesting new recipes, projects only half-finished, and the day to day stuff just doesn’t seem so important. So I was reflecting on my now long-standing repeating dream. It must [...]

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reading: Babar the King

We got to the end of Babar the King (1935), by Laurent De Brunhoff, and the sentiments on the final pages surprised me. Let’s look at the pages. Just in case the legend beneath each nasty is too small to be seen, each monster is: Fear, Indolence, Misfortune, Anger, Stupidity, Sickness, Discourtesy, Anger, Cowardice, and [...]

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window shopping on the web

I try to tell you when there is a good sale at J Peterman, but today I’m just highlighting some dresses I’m wishing about. Not on sale. Fingers crossed they come on sale in my size! The first one, at $124, is pretty close to affordable while still not being on sale. (Remember to use [...]

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not speechless but stupefied

I haven’t udpated with my usual around-home stuff because it all just seems so trivial after the earthquake. Not just trivial, but inane and unimportant as well. So a bit of radio silence for a few days to take it all in. Everyone knows my sister lives in Japan, right? Her family is fine, everyone [...]

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a glimpse of time gone by

Here’s a collection of Old West photographs published in the Daily Mail. What strikes me about the people is how clean all of them look, even the gold-panners with their months-old beards. Their clothes look crisp in a clean way, not crisp in a standing-up-by-its-own-filth way. When you had nothing but respectability to hang on [...]

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crafty: stenciling

I admit I have always thought of stenciling as being a sort of poor-man cheat, but realistically not every art job needs to be heirloom-worthy and sometimes time/money/ability calls for a little cheating. For instance, daughter wants her room decorated in Disney Princess theme, and I just can’t see investing actual time into elaborately decorating [...]

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pretty things

I refer to my stack of old issues of Victoria magazine when I want to be inspired about pretty things to buy or create. These photos are from the September 2002 issue and likely my eye skipped over them the first time, because what I was looking at eight years ago are likely not the [...]

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