“a love affair”

I’ve had a Billykirk bag bookmarked for about 2 years, as one of those bags I will have “when I am grown”. When I have more money than a waitress makes, when I have more important things to carry in my bag, when I have a nice pen… Those totally conditional adult markers in your [...]

Monday Monday…

Hello strumpets! Many decisions made this weekend – one in fact to replace Monday Must Have with a Music Monday. Due to the cash flow slowing to a torturous drip, we’re looking for more economical ways to be happy, be fun and enjoy the incredible place we’re living. More on this later. I’ll keep Wanted [...]

The Movember Mix Tape

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The Movember Mix Tape – Some tunes to put hair on your chest. And then smoothly remove it. xo

Wanted Wednesday

{AESA}
Yowza. This are so talismanal and awesome, I’d feel like a warrior.

Monday Must Have – Bereitschaftstasche Bags

{Bereitschaftstasche}
Chiropractically, I should probably consider downsizing my purse. I have an enormous sac that seems to accumulate “stuff” which usually results in me lugging around dozens of tampons, three apples, tonnes of Band-Aids, two books and a miasma of tangled pens, jewelry, sunglasses assumed long lost, receipts and ok, that one time there was an [...]

a slice

Hello boys and ghouls! Hope your Halloween was a howling success! We had a fantastic time, thouroughly enjoying the first time in at least 5 years that there hasn’t been snow on Halloween. Not only was there no snow, but it was 15 degrees! I have a feeling that that weather may be what is [...]

show me what you got.

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I’d just like to let y’all know that by some strange twist of fate, I will be singing – nay, not singing – rapping – at this evenings Halloween house party with the illustrious funk band “Mustache Pony”.
I will, somewhat hilariously, be dressed as Betty Draper.
Bloggas, think of me. Perhaps, if you’re of that persuasion, [...]

campus colors

I still can’t get over the colors of fall on campus… It makes me think of leather boots, blazers and riding crops. Beautiful.

Wanted Wednesday – Give it to me straight

{Tiny Toadstool}
Alright my lovely keg standers – give it to me. Is this adorable and slightly funky (think oversized black cardigan, pointy black flats) or so Oktoberfest that you can’t help but think of lederhosen and two different kinds of jugs? I love it so, but I’ll take your advice, I swear.

Monday Must Have

{via All Modern}
When I miss home, it is more the feelings that I miss than the places exactly. The coffee shop that J. and I would bike to in little Italy had these beautiful Miller/Eames chairs, the smoothest little pieces of architecture you’d ever slide into. It was a Sunday ritual that we’d bike [...]

a little slice

It was a pretty quiet weekend lovelies! I worked Saturday and then had a few drinks with J. at the pub, Sunday we walked into town in the spectacular 16 degree weather we had, and then had a lovely dinner with friends. The night was lovely, there is something about sitting around a table of [...]

for being there.

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sometimes there is not much more to say than thank you. And most of the time, thank you doesn’t quite cut the mustard. to each of you, for your phone calls, your emails, your comments and above all your words.. thank you. for reminding me that i am stronger than that, tougher than that, for [...]

Fill ‘em up!

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to be hopeful.

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There is no post that I can write that can properly convey the lump that is in my throat. There is no way to look at you and turn my pockets inside out, bow my head, put a hand over my eyes and let tears leak through my fingers. This is a post that I [...]

Ladies? Anyone?

eep! I need to have a little virtual blog party. I am in need of a laughing, screaming, dancing evening where we squeeze each others shoulders and step on each others toes in  blatant and ecstatic acts of spontaneous electric slide.
will you come?
what will you bring?
xo

the slice

That’s all she wrote folks. Honestly, there were little to no photos taken this weekend, save a few of the second great hair dying fiasco, which will be posted about later, I assure you.
Jared and I both took the weekend off of .. well, everything. We run on fairly opposite schedules, and rarely get a [...]

Inspiration – David O’Brien

{David O’Brien}
These pieces from David O’Brien are so simultaneously chaotic and orderly..

a long weekend slice

We spent the rest of the long weekend being perfectly irresponsible and doing nothing but eating, trompsing about in our adventure boots and kite flying by the river that runs behind our house. The apple trees everywhere smell wonderful, everyone is burning wood in the fireplace and the air is so crisp and cool. If [...]

Monday Must Haves

{via Snappy Fish Vintage}
{via Erica Weiner}
The obsession with geometrics continues. I love that dress so very much, though I have a feeling it may clash with my pink hair. The sacrifices we make. xo

a slice

Happy Monday cupcakes. We have a long weekend here due to Thanksgiving, but I couldn’t resist sharing a few photos from our weekend. The colors around here are just so incredible here right now that I feel like I’m living in lush kodachrome pack of film. Everywhere you turn the trees are just shockingly bright. [...]

all together now.

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Monday Must Have

{Henrik Vibskov via Creatures of Comfort}
Hello and Happy Monday lovelies! Let us all wink and nod and pretend that while I was away I was doing far more productive things than kegstands, gorging on chinese food and reading trashy magazines. Which, while not all I did, was fairly close.
However, I did manage to get the [...]

flux

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I know, right?
I’m in a dubious process of adjustment. I’ll get there, then I’ll get here.
I miss you all, I do. I will be back soon, as long as you’ll have me.
xo

nerves, part 3.

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She was not so sure what time it was. Or day. If she thought hard enough, she was fairly certain that it must be Friday.
She was standing on a roof overlooking Main Street. There was a menthol burning sickly sweet and caustic in one hand, the smoke curling up and into the humidty of her [...]

Inspiration: Katy Horan

{katy horan via all the mountains}
holy.

Wanted Wednesday – Louis Reith

{louis reith via Design Dig}
I’m really liking these works by Louis Reith – we haven’t put up any art on the walls at the new house yet, and we’re trying to decide what exactly we want up and where. Perhaps I can get one of these into the mix… 
It’s raining hard again here for the 3rd [...]

Belated Monday Must Have -Sunja Link

{sunja link}
I think these are just the right colors to go from summer to fall. I have a beautiful olive colored Sunja Link jacket that I bought at Nokomis this summer, but what I wouldn’t do for the grey one in the first photo. Lovely, and beautiful styling too. 
Wish me luck today blogettes, I’m interviewing [...]

things unsaid.

{via catherine kennedy garrett}
I really did have full intentions of posting about our trip, about our adventures. I wanted an excited three part story that detailed the fun, the restaurants, the mishaps. But the farther away it got, the longer I waited to write about it.. the less I wanted to. 
Once when I was little, [...]

Inspiration: Gwonosang

{Gwonosang}
These 3d sculptures are photo collages… they are also blowing my mind.

home slice

Hello ladies and gents! A few little snips from our new home, filled with airplants and the most incredible sunlight. We only have a few boxes left to unpack, but recently discovered (to our delight) that behind one of them was a dishwasher! This is exciting and exhilarating news. *smile* I am recuperating slowly from a bout of the [...]

smoted.

{life}
Remember when I was all excited about internet? Remember how that was days ago and then I disappeared? I have no internet.
What I do have however:
- three floors of hillbilly neighbors intent on killing me with cigarette smoke, j-Lo circa 1999 and screaming children.
- new cabinets that swing out way farther than I anticipated or my muscle [...]

Inspiration: Richard Barnes

I’ve been trying to choose just one series from Richard Barnes‘ work to show you, but I just can’t. So I’m taking two from each to show you – it really is worth it to peruse the rest of the photos.

Richard Barnes’ amazing photos of thousands of starlings “murmuring” over Rome.
The images in the “Refuge” [...]

And on the 6th Day

Darlings, you must have been praying/drinking extra hard, because we have internet. Given, we still don’t have stuff, heat, food, and I’m still going to bed fully dressed to stay warm during the night – but we have internet. Which makes me feel just a little more connected and a titch bit happier. I start [...]

Camping.

{ray fenwick}
Hello lovelies. I am currently pressed as closely to the wall as I can with my trusty computer attempting to keep my internet connection with the “McFerguson Family” network who has so kindly forgotten to password protect their internet. Bless you. Just stopping in – the last few days were a bit like a [...]

Inspiration – Thomas Nozkowski

Jared and I went to the National Gallery last night to see the Nozkowski exhibit, and it didn’t disappoint. The man has been making these incredible abstract paintings for over 20 years, and the collection of 60+ curated and exhibited works was simply awesome. See a neat little five minute interview with him here. 

No Full Stops – Bus Blinds

{economica}
I really like these vintage bus blinds from Economica. They were featured in this weeks News, and I can’t stop going back to look at them. They’re a little out of my price range, but still incredible inspiration. 

through the fog

{miel et cannelle}
An incredible fog rolled onto Old Orchard beach as we went for our final dip in the salty ocean. The lights of the midway behind us lit everything up – it was eerie and beautiful and magic. xo

the maine event – part one: an assumptive junkie

{miel et cannelle}
While my belief in a higher power at all is suspect, that belief is exponentially stronger when it comes to thinking of a vengeful higher power. At least, these were my thoughts as I was struck down with the most vicious sinus cold I’d ever had, and was left unable to taste anything [...]

Carrier Pigeon Wanted

{miel et cannelle}
Darlings – interwebs are not so good at reaching our little cabin through the fog and melted butter of Maine. I have many stories to tell you (The Real Housewives of Kennebunk County anyone? Accidentally trippin’ the light fantastic at the only gay cocktail lounge for.. um.. states?) but they will have to [...]

There are so many puns with Maine in them.

{life}
Hella yes, we are in Maine. I just spent 5.12$ on a six pack of miller high life and 9.25$ on a pint of fried clams. Things are so good, that I kind of feel like that fine lady up there in her strapless, backless, wireless bra adhered with glue – free, slightly delirious and [...]

Hello/Bonjour!

Greetings from Ottawa/Montreal! 
It really is no secret that almost the entirety of every decision I make is based upon the probability of food, and preferably good food, being availible to me. Lest it be said that “good food” is an objective statement, today was spent in the pursuit of stacks of smoked meat sandwiches from Schwartz’s deli [...]

and away we go.

{miel et cannelle}
 

String Theories

With my winding steps, with each push of my bike pedals, with every cab ride I have taken, with every car I’ve gotten into, this city has knit me a story; it’s streets no less than needles, it’s alleys no less than looms. 
There are reinforced stitches around pubs and coffee houses, there are quiet and [...]

a last slice.

{miel et cannelle}
This last week was spent with one foot in the old and one foot in the new – packing and packing and incessantly packing everything we own,  canceling utilities and opening new accounts. We went to the Fringe Festival to see the same act we seem to see every year and sit in [...]

Guest Post – Kyla Roma

Hello lovelies – This is the last guest post! I have to thank you all for being such amazing caretakers of Miel et Cannelle – you all made me a bit weepy with your talent. It was a much needed week off, and I’ll be back to posting tomorrow! But for now, one of my [...]

General Bad-Assery

Hellz YES. Just stopping in to tell y’all I love you, and is Rainer Elstermann not the most awesome ever? That’s what I thought.

Not So Mad (Libs) – Guest Blog by Apronstrings and Pretty Things

Damnnit Tammy – you made me cry. And you made me realize that I really will write my own adventure, as soon as I stop referring to this move as “a two year extended vacation where I take all my stuff”. Sometimes it takes somebody half a world a way to remind you that the [...]

Sneaking In – Yarn Over Movement

Hello bloggies.. I miss you so! I’m sneaking in for a quick second today, I just had to share this lovely gal with you – I’m so head over heels for her and her adorable product shots, wallpaper and simply autumnally awesome knit wear.

Find her shop here, and her lovely blog here.

Belated Monday Must Have – Guest Blogger: Moorea from Rumination Reading Room

A lady after my own heart, Moorea Seal is blogging for me today. I have to say.. Moorea, her stylin’s, her singing, and her words leave me with no less than a big girl crush. She’s the sweetest, and a blogger I can’t wait to meet.. xo lovely lady. (Ps – is that the longest [...]

Guest Blogger – Elizabeth Knox!

Hello My Lovelies! Another wonderful, uber talented blogger here today. Check out the fabulous Elizabeth (previously of The Spotted Ottoman) over at her photography site .  I’m loving visiting all your cities! Thanks again Elizabeth, you’re a peach. 
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I have a problem–I fall in love too easily.
No, not with men. I’m happily married, thank you very much!
I [...]