hey, stop thief!

if you look closely, you'll see the head of a sunflower that this rascally squirrel chewed off it's stem and ran off with.

the constant fascination with our birdfeeder

this little bird seemed to find the birdfeeder a good place to have a nap.

utterly devoted to naptime, he kept resting even while the feeder was getting other visitors.

she seems to wonder what exactly it is that he's up to.

finally, a gimpse of his sleepy face.

Brooklyn sunset. . .

k* shoes, fall 09!

this one is roxxi, originally inspired by Roxxi (aka Maggi).

it's wild to see this process in shoes after doing this for so long with clothes. starting with a drawing and then seeing it get modified by reality. this is fairly different then my very first drawing, but it's become it's own thing, a different shoe, a real one!

roxxi in nude....
and this one is beatrix. . .
Keiko's k* event at the Standard Hotel in the Meat Packing district was awesome. I'm sad I didn't take any pictures. I was so overwhelmed by the really positive response to everything (not just my 2 styles) we made for fall 09 and all the samples for sp 10. It was awesome!

Dad will have to help me with learning to light my products better, because happily I might start moonlighting as a product photographer . . .

so cheers! here's what I've been doing "on the side" since January . ..

xoxo

tuesdays were hard last august also. at least this is the last one for the year.

inspiration for k* shoe drawing

our real inspiration is Lauren Becall from the 40's, but i have this photo of My Phong's shoes that she wore to my birthday party that i totally love. all off center and off kilter . .

some how her strapy shoes and the tiled floors fall in line with my thoughts on a modern 1940's Becall for Fall 10 for k* . . . .

I still believe in magic. . .

and I still love the sight of the moon on a clear night.

I still prefer the bright side, and I still see all the good, everywhere.

good is in full bloom.

Where is the shade in the night time?

it is annoyingly hot and muggy for 10pm. While this photo is not from today, it's the one I thought of in my file of "to be posted", seemed the best showing the sunshine. or the shade.

I've been revisiting my thoughts on how I want to use this space, I'm sure I want to be using it, posting more, maybe writing more. I've been reading so much lately I might be going back to the beginning of the circle and instead I want to distract myself with the photos, hats, shoes and dresses.. .. I might start shooting the shoes, hats and dresses.

just as soon as it's cool enough to be productive in the studio again. oh and maybe when I start spending more evenings in the studio again . ..

yep, that sounds good.

from my walk to Daniel's house

I'm very behind, I don't remember which sunday night this was from, but it was a lovely evening, we finished his curtains and 4 bottles of wine. to get there I walked past the Brooklyn Museum and the Botanical Gardens (I've yet to go into either of these places). It was a good walk to get there.

We'll have to do it again soon.

fourth of July from Brooklyn,

these are from my fourth of july, totally different then Briana's weekend, with the nephews and nature. . . . we had a bbq in the back yard, and even Brown Bear passed out from the sunny day and too much beer. . . 

tibor on his island

jeffrey goes for a swim

instead, we used the little blow up pool and my hat to fill this little rock crevice with water.

due to a very belated application of sunscreen, jeff and i swam the boys over to the shady side of the river and he swam back to constuct this fancy shady shelter.

you can see a little blow up pool in the top picture. the boys were not so sure about the river and so jeff was trying to find a flat spot to fill this with water so they could splash around.

there were no flat spots.

a lovely end to my beautiful summer vacation weekend

our gorgeous, i mean handsome, nephews at the washougal river.

the next day

i was eating breakfast (potatoes from our garden, sauteed with that lovely arugula and a fried egg) when our brother called to see if i wanted to go to the river. hell ya!

and i gardened.

and in between meals on the fourth

i cleaned the house.

and hung our new painting by martha.

the evening of the fourth

the evening of the fourth, troy brought home some salmon fillets-- they'd been sampling them at new seasons that day... one of the delicious perks of his job, hopefully enough to offset the kooks.
we had them, grilled, with a grilled nectarine, snap pea, shaved fennel and basil slaw with local feta and arugula.

doesn't that look delicious??

then we watched the neighborhood fireworks from our front porch. i drank a little too much rose but luckily didn't handle any explosives.

summer vacation in one long weekend, cont.

for breakfast, i had leftovers from the nicoise salad-- potatoes, peas and artichoke sauteed and on toast with a soft boiled egg. it was actually the first time i'd ever made a soft boiled egg.
i finished the book, by the way, before the weekends end. "monsters of templeton". it was very good. the rock keeps the pages from turning.

Grand Central

I think this might be my first photo in my "Tibor" project, since it's a train station I think it counts for the kinds of things he likes. maybe it's a stretch . . . but I like it.

art school comes to NY or welcome to NY Aubrey!

one of my favorite fellow photo majors (from my undergrad experience at PNCA) to sit for has recently moved to NY  for grad school in photography. so this last weekend, I sat for her again. it's been 7 or 8 years since she's photographed me. it was really cool to see her still working.  her stuff is still really amazing. it's inspiring to be in this space again, with art projects abounding, be they mine or someone else's. 

anyway, this was the floor from the shoot, my shoes, her shoes and her girlfriend/photo assistant's shoes with ribbons of my silk sewing scraps. . . . 

a perfect summer vacation rolled up into one long weekend: in photos & words

Friday was like a welcome surprise. I hadn't known about the day off due to the holiday. Now that--after 4 years of work--the bones of the garden were there, I’d bought flowers to plant over the weekend.
But I didn’t plant flowers on Friday.
I cleaned a little. I read. In the sun, lounging around like a teenage summer. I made hard-boiled eggs and aioli. And then I thought: nicoise salad. The perfect summertime meal when the temperature hits 90 and keeps going.


But in typical Portland fashion the day was at its hottest in the evening, still too hot to eat. We sipped on our sangria-- so easy to drink--and had some chilled beet soup with horseradish, dill and buttermilk and waited for the sun to go down.

So many things come from our garden-- the potatoes are the first we've ever grown. In fact, I wasn't even sure how to harvest them. They are the best potatoes ever.

Artichoke, peas, lettuce all fresh picked from the garden. Seared ahi. Aioli. Delicious.

Chocolate ice cream with cherries for dessert. Decadent, beautiful summer.

my trip to Beacon

I love meeting the babies of the brilliant people I know. especially these people, since I've known them forever. and since I knew Justin was smitten with Paula from the first time he talked about her. I wish the photos of Ruby with Paula turned out as well as these. 

It's such a beautiful family!