what a terrible, terrible job i've been doing.

you'd think as it got darker and winter-ier, i'd be even more bloggy, but instead i've just hushed right up. here's a little something just to remind myself that i do this, and that i like to do this. it's my favorite etsy thing of the week, from yardia.

it's just a really important thing.

and it's part of the reason i've been so quiet lately.

look what they've gone and done.

bottle rocket is being given the criterion treatment it deserves...(why eric chase anderson didn't do the illustration for this one is a question i'll leave to the anderson family psychiatrists.)

as val said, since iceland is bankrupt...

...plane tickets are finally super cheap. or, at least, cheaper. but you know it'll be mobbed by folks who got the new anthropologie catalog, and who wants to deal with that?


well, i would, actually.


speaking of which, the dude who directed the shoot there put up a lovely set of photos (sans skinny girls with pouty mouths) from the visit up on flickr, two of which you're gazing at right now...so go see the rest, why don't you.

say hi to your mother for me, alright?

also,

yay! they just posted the fantastic opening sequence of the documentary i've been waiting patiently patiently and patiently to see, and it's




f. a. n. t. a. s. t. i. c.


i got my copy of the book this week and read it all up in one night. shoot.

more embroidery, of course

swiped from design*sponge this morning, news of a show coming up in january, with a call for entries here.



i'm so in love with an intimidated by this piece, by Anna Keck, that even though I've picked some embroidery projects back up (it's chilly out!) there's no way I'm ready to send anything off to be judged. whatevs.