Elsa May: little winter market

Monday, November 8, 2010

Hello week...

Things seem to be puttering along nicely...our weekend was a perfect mix of this'n that. R and I watched the sobering documentary The Two Escobars. Speaking of sobering, a wee while back we watched No End in Sight - both are well worth watching. In between pottering about, I had time to catch up on lots of reading, listened to a couple of great interviews from here, rearranged the furniture and organised my desk, dragged the rowdies on a coffee + shopping expedition with a dear friend, and attended Little Winter Market. Home with me came several items of loveliness including the one of Herriot Grace's teeny wee salt bowls. I do however regret leaving these beautiful socks behind....especially with the cooler weather upon us. Anyhoo I'm off to make soup and sort out the disaster zone that is Mu's room. I hope your week is of to a great start!

Friday, November 5, 2010

What:nots...

Here we are, another week down. How's it been for you? Ours has been the regular round of this'n that. Next week is looking pretty full so I'm planning to lay low and perfect the art of not doing very much at all - except attending this much anticipated event. I hope you have a wonderful weekend...

Joyce Tennyson's beautiful photographic series.

Elegantly simple silk-chiffon pieces by Jean Yu.

Ussimimique by Claude Tousignant. I love how he describes wanting to take a painting back to it's source "...to the point at which painting is pure sensation"

Terrain's wonderfully wise wee owl.

Stunning equestrian images from here.

If you're in Portland this weekend I recommend you get yourself along to Little Winter Market - there will be oodles of loveliness guaranteed.

Stella McCartney's country house. Reading this article has given me a dreadful case of garden envy.

And my absolutely new favourite ice-cream brand Strauss Family Creamery. Seriously, their ice-cream is yum-diddly-scrumptious and tastes exactly like it's homemade.