fika with pinky leon. mandarin orange, chocolate and red tea chai with cream and honey in it. lately i'm putting cream (as in heavy whipping, not just half and half) in everything. what the hell i say.
i've taken down my mecozy website (but am keeping this blog). it feels like forever ago that i started making tea cozies (of all things!) and put mecozy up. it was four years ago when i made my friends play tea party dressup for the first version of the site. (on the homepage, they transformed from grannies into hipsters.) anyhow, it's time for a change, and mecozy has been very out of date for a while now.
in the summer i'm going to work on making a (mostly) graphic design site for myself. i may still post stuff i make on etsy now and again. (thinking of putting some leaf earrings up there soon.) until the new site is up, i do still have two (reorganized) links pages: page 1 and page 2.
if your link fell off in the transition, it's nothing personal—just a mistake. email me at svendsen@kattare.com and i'll stick it back on there.
thanks to all who supported my little tea cozy+ adventure!
(i was looking back at who i first interacted with through blogging. it's kind of amazing how early on i met mati and lisa, both of whom live just blocks away. also in looking back at some of the first comments i received, i rediscovered clotilde, who has twoblogs.)
all of my shoes (and actually tights, jackets and bras too—argh) are running out on me at once. this is a new pair. they have straps with big round buckles, which you can't see here. i am a sucker for big buttons or buckles.
trying out some lettering for a sign i'm going to make for a high school friend who just had a baby.none of these are it yet. R is my favorite letter though, so i'm glad there's one in the baby's name.
cat power's the greatest. am looking forward to the new album.
great books. if you are looking for great books, i highly recommend the novel the known world (which i've recommended before), and short stories, all aunt hagar's children, both by edward p. jones. i normally can't get past one short story. even if i like a short story, once i read one, i feel like i'm done, and it's very hard for me to pick the book up again. NOT SO with all aunt hagar's children, which i just finished. what a wonderful collection of stories! so much love, so many wonderful characters and engaging stories in this book. i savored each story.
about having an appointment on the other side of town in the richy neighborhood are that: 1) the dresses in the windows are pretty fun to see (if totally inappropriate for wearing in winter). (is that a valentine window already? oy. at least if it is, it's a non-traditional one.) 2) the 33 is one of my favorite bus rides in SF. who can say that crazy (almost 360) turn off market is not fun? and what great views of the city! and it's not as packed as the bus i take more often, the 22, otherwise known as the party bus. for you non-SFers, this one goes from one end of SF to another and probably traverses at least 8 neighborhoods. you will see, hear and smell almost every kind of person on this bus.
sit in front of the computer less (unless i have a project to do on it) if i'm not working this coming semester while going to school, do some volunteer work! get into some group activities (knitting, having dinner parties, walking/hiking, playing board games...) find a graphic design internship in the fall draw a pattern/doodle a day (made myself a recycled journal for this one already) make a graphic design-focused website and take down ol' mecozy try new recipes, cooking with the seasons learn more about: slow food, permaculture, gardening, sustainable housing, potential places to move to, how to practice graphic design (and live) in environmentally-responsible ways dance more talk more try new things more meet a sweet gal, magically not have to deal with excruciating dating, and fall in love (of course, this was on my list last year as well)
in thinking about creativity for 2008, i really like what keri has to say in her dec. 21 post, kidd me not. although i crave inspiration from and connection to you bloggers (and readers), and i will, i'm sure, still visit certain blogs regularly, i'm going to try to focus more on creating and less on comparing this year.
