Pen to Paper

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Pen to Paper

8 years ago today I tied the knot with my main man Adam. He was the perfect combination of football player and poet, and as my roommate's older brother he was totally off limits which made him irresistible. We started writing each other letters when he lived in San Francisco and I was still at school in Davis.  When I was cleaning out our garage for our upcoming move to Petaluma, I found a box of correspondence, replete with Bob Dylan lyrics.  I'm glad I met him when I was young enough to need to make him a mix tape to really tell him how I felt.  I'm glad I was old enough to have suffered through my first broken heart. I'm glad his sister is now my sister.

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Rotate Your Art

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Rotate Your Art

I was at West Elm a few weeks ago shopping for our new home when I saw a display in their housewares section that I thought might work for our ever expanding primary art collection.  The idea was simple, plywood, bulldog clips and rope. I'd seen an iteration of this in Martha Stewart Living a few years ago that involve framing wood to create a wall gallery using bulldog clips, but that would be too permanent a solution for our rental.

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He's Crafty!

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He's Crafty!

Father's Day is coming up and it has me thinking.  In this DIY-craftster blogging bubble I write in, I don't run across too many dudes.  When I look at pictures from Altitude Design Summit I see a lot of bangs and loose knot buns.  That's why Joel Henriques is so especially cool.  He's a dad, designer and blogger. He put out his book "Made To Play" last September, which features his original paper projects and DIY toys and his work making paper cities is just amazing. 

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