it's been one week, vol. 4

alternate title: hot hot heat.
Yup, it's hot out there. The start of unofficial summer feels very real now with the first heat wave. I'm very thankful for air conditioning... but, here are some good things found this week:

- After much agonizing, I bought a backpack! It's the first one I've bought since I had a Northface Recon in highschool (so, over 10 years ago...) which is still functional but has not looked good in a loooong time. I'm very pleased with my new Everlane purchase, and think it will make a great companion for my weekend trip to reunion (one week away!) and for my bike-riding needs around the city.

- I saw this cute wooly mammoth on Etsy this week (a wooly wooly mammoth!), and then my friend sent me this article about a perfectly preserved wooly mammoth had been found and could potentially be cloned. Crazy!

- For a two-song summer dance party, there are new releases from CHVRCHES and Icona Pop:

- This weekend, if I don't melt, I'll be heading to check out a few of the 600+ Bushwick Open Studios. One of the featured studios, Wayfarers, is where my friend Anne Marie has her work! In addition to being a talented artist, she also has a super cool apartment that I always love visiting, and a new puppy who I made into this gif on the day I met him:

our spring is sweet not fleeting

Today I've gotten myself a Pinterest account and downloaded the new Fleet Foxes album Helplessness Blues, which in case you haven't heard it, is beautiful and perfect for this lovely spring day. And, it's only $3.99 today, which makes it pretty much impossible to pass up.




















ALSO

You may notice that some tweaks got made to my blog design, namely those links right up under my header! That link to Etsy? totally has stuff in it now Yeah, I know, right?! My favorite toot-my-own-horn piece below:

I took all these pictures last week while I was at home (on pretty much the only really nice weather day!) I made two of these and only listed one - TBD if I want to keep it for myself or list it, too.

the walls are coming down

A couple of things:

#1: I am very excited that this concert is in two weeks! :

#2: In case you haven't noticed, there are some new additions to the sidebar of the blog, all having to do with the Etsy shop. It's up! It exists! Well, you can only buy one thing right now, but I figured it was about time to get a move on that. I have other things, but I'm still working on photographing/editing. And, I have a tumblr blog to track all of those things as they arise.

the winner!

Hi guys,

Thanks for voting and sharing your opinion. "A" was the winner, by a decent margin. I tweaked it slightly, to incorporate my name (making the pun more obvious). Here's the final version:

When I get back from Amsterdam, I'll be starting to produce all sorts of stuff to fill the shop! I expect/hope that this will launch in October. For now, have a great weekend!

Banner options!

Here are all of my options right now. Vote for your favorites in the poll, above! Thanks, guys.

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