recent features in BUST and DIY magazine have got me silly happy and pumped for the holidays. these are some picks by Lisa Butterworth, BUST's associate editor. there's a little love for for me, for you up there too!
and just a few works from some of the participants...
my lady friend lisa aaron of lou lou and oscar. bugs!
cross stitched smith lyrics. hell yeah. by chez-sucre-chez
too tute. by my new crush the pin pals. these girls are cute and i want a beau!
ps just finished his dark materials on audio book. i really wish i could have a little dæmon, but i guess buggy is a pretty good alternative....
this one is kitty names. oh, how that kills me. somewhere there is a little cat named tater who loves a little cat named tottie. sweetness.
each frame takes you to the item and i'm lucky enough to be featured. see me on the top left...
katie also runs of save gocco and has an esty shop with her gocco prints. i want to gocco more than ever after browsing the save gocco site. i've never done it, but it looks like addictive fun. i found this gocco print on Art Wall's studio that i'm loving.....
i love these! by hayley carmo on flickr and etsy....
we went to queens county farm museum to pick some pumpkins for carving and maybe some pie making. i was pleasantly surprised to find there were animals to coo over, pet and pester. i love petting goats! i chased around the poka dot feathers, which i learned are from female peacocks, and was generally happy to play in a farm and watch all the little kids in their costumes.
really excited about this!
the little drummer in yellow is my Mom!! her little high water pants just kill me. so sweet!
this was on the back of the image above. i love the notes we write on the back of images....
my sweet friend vanessa came over a while back to help me. she also took some photos while i worked. more here. the one above is my favorite, because it shows my crazy cuttlered little bedroom/workspace. i can't wait to have a dedicated studio space!! and look how the bug takes over. he is forever where i need to be.
Black Eiffel- some constellation inspiration 
there is some crazy good photography on green wedding shoes!
swimming with the stars- i learned of mothology from her. dangerous. great finds!
lara is a nice etsyian who features lots of other makers, and she was just featured in the storque in the regular feature, quit your day job. she had great tips. read it here.
you can win this lamp. i'd love, love, love this hanging in my home...
or these vellum placemats!
i'm not a big cook, but i've been gaining such an appreciation for food now more than ever. once we started with our csa i found inspiration in fresh vegetables, where i had never before. i mainly steamed broccoli and that was about it. this insanely big sandwich features our csa veggies. lately i've been struggling with where my food comes from, how that makes me feel, and its effects.Some of my happiest childhood memories are of sushi “lunch dates” with my mom, and eating my dad’s turkey burgers with mustard and grilled onions at backyard celebrations, and of course my grandmother’s chicken with carrots. Those occasions simply wouldn’t have been the same without those foods — and that is important. To give up the taste of sushi, turkey or chicken is a loss that extends beyond giving up a pleasurable eating experience. Changing what we eat and letting tastes fade from memory create a kind of cultural loss, a forgetting. But perhaps this kind of forgetfulness is worth accepting — even worth cultivating (forgetting, too, can be cultivated). To remember my values, I need to lose certain tastes and find other handles for the memories that they once helped me carry.i'm a vegetarian and live with a vegan. i enjoy my eggs and cheese and push out the idea that these things come from factory farming, which is a horrible, cruel existence for an animal. so i question my daily decisions, my cravings and how that effects not only me but the animal and you. factory farming is the number one cause of global warming! i think about this and safran's story daily and it makes my head spin. i eat my homemade egg and cheese "mcmuffin" that i obsess over making and wonder if the loss of that taste is worth forgetting.
image via NY Times/ Suzanne Opton/Time Life Pictures-Getty Images
little collection by lizzy janssen
i said jump! and he did. my parents are in the background and the washington memorial too...
the back of a joseph cornell piece. swoon. he made some of my favorite things and is an incredibly interesting man.
the library of congress is a-ma-zing. one of, if not, the most beautiful buildings i've seen. 
maya lin's vietnam memorial. 
the old house we stayed in had a closet full of these. i think they are player piano reels?
hadn't seen my mom in a while and i love her new hair did. red.
my parental units taking pictures of me taking a picture of them (pictures of pictures, of my favorite things) at the botanical gardens.
i had a "ding" moment looking at these bottles in a nautical museum in boston.
a detail of a painting of st. lucy at the national gallery. i thought she was the saint of photography, but i was wrong. that's st. verionica. lucy is the patron saint of the blind. my confusion was that her name is derived from the word light, lux. i love this stuff. we ran this whole trip to trying to see it all. little things like this make it memorable.
these images are from my last brief visit to dc- i think i was there a whole 6 hours! this trip will be the first time i've seen my parents in about 6 months and it's a big one for us. we are celebrating my father's and my own birthday, as well as my parents 31st wedding anniversary! all these things are spread out over months, but since we don't see each other often this is our time to celebrate. we've all been waiting for this trip together for a long time. so glad it's here....where the wild things are, the movie and there will be a book too! Dave Eggers novel, The Wild Things, will be released alongside the film. Heres a little excerpt from Egger's Max at Sea, and the full text here on the new yorker.
So he had a choice. Would he stay behind the curtain and think about things, marinate in his own confusion, or would he put on his white fur suit and howl and scratch and make it known who was boss of this house and of all the world known and unknown?
the image above by, Roadside Projects, who makes amazing cut paper dioramas, was in the show Terrible Yellow Eyes. The show has it's own blog full of works inspired by where the wild things are....
i swear my right hand is swollen. i tried stitching this week with my left. no good!
