Things that made me… …sigh: No, this isn’t Photoshop! Dutch artist Berndnaut Smilde creates clouds indoors through the clever use of a meticulously climate-controlled room and a fog machine. Isn’t it lovely? It makes me appreciate the fragility of nature all the more. …think: Schrödinger’s Cat explained …squeal: Sound-Maker from Tipsy, my favourite experimental lounge [...]
One of my favourite bloggers, Brandi at Brandi Girl Blog, recently tweeted about organising a Color Palette Blog Walk. The theme was Achievements — anything you’re proud of, big or small. § Taking in the Venetian skyline Here is a photograph that I took when I was 10 years old, on a family visit to [...]
Golly! It’s been a few weeks since my last post, which I think is the longest stretch I’ve not posted in a year. I guess sometimes life takes over and some things get pushed to one side, temporarily. I’ve been quite busy this past month with work, class, restocking my Etsy store (2 sales already, [...]
Last summer, I was invited to dinner at my friend’s parents’ house atop a hill overlooking the Pacific Ocean. As if that weren’t enough of a treat, I was served the sweetest corn on the cob I had ever had the pleasure of gnawing on, the ear’s yellow teeth yielding to my bite with a [...]
Golly, it’s that time of year when time whizzes by and the new year will soon be upon us! My belly is groaning from vast quantities of lovely food, and I have new toys to play with (thanks, Santa!). But all of this good cheer means I’m behind in my blogging and my inbox would [...]
It’s been nearly eight months since Mr. Fizgig and I left New York. Our things are still in storage, but I am aware of the sorts of things that we tend to accumulate. Books! We got rid of half of our books before we left — when the cost of moving works out to just [...]
My blog friend, The Daily Frolic, is having the most fabulous giveaway! If you or someone you know is getting married and is in the San Diego area, be sure to check out her blog. (Check it out anyway, she is charming and takes wonderfully soothing photos.) But hurry! Only two days left to enter.
Twenty years ago today, at the very moment this post was published, my great-grandmother, Violet, or “Nanny” as we all called her, died. I still think about her almost every day and can’t believe that, at this point, she has been gone for longer than I ever knew her. Today is one of those potentially [...]
I have just finished reading Out of Africa and have already decided it as one of my most favourite pieces of literature. It is breathtakingly beautiful. Karen Blixen was 21 when she left Denmark and emigrated to Kenya with her Swedish husband. There, they bought a 4,000-acre coffee plantation which she ran from 1914 – [...]
I love electronic music. For me, it’s the new jazz. Alright, I say this as someone who has catholic taste in music, so allow me to explain what I mean: when every single musical combination out there has been done, electronica presents a new way of making music, the same way jazz broke the mould. [...]
