Nine Symptoms of Falling in Love

Photo series by Dan Estabrook, Nine Symptoms, salt prints with ink:

Things I Like to See

Via Vic and this is colossal.

Missoni for Target

I'll admit I marked my calendar even though I'm not always crazy about Missoni prints and apparently didn't even stand a chance...

I'm told the nearest Target was sold out by 8:15am, and Target.com was constantly down due to heavy traffic. Still, I found myself about a mile away from a Target after work and it was hard to resist seeing the devastation for myself. Indeed, there was little to be found. A few women were circling the store like vultures, grabbing at any rejects placed back on the shelves. It was rather frightening.

This collection has been hyped for a long time, and after checking it out online tonight, I have to say that it might be - to my surprise - my favorite designer Target collection so far. So I went pretend shopping. And I practiced using Photoshop, and this is what I might have bought.

Don't Break the Chain!

I was recently browsing the House of Vintage in Portland, Oregon and came across this postcard:



It was sent from one man to another and reads:

Hi Boy!


You should have come along like I said. - Nice scenery - especially thru the mts. - Utah, Nevada & Wyoming - Plenty of time to see it as this truck isn't very fast.


P.S. A man should consider if he follows thru on this chain he might be worse off.

Suffice to say, I've never seen a chain letter quite like this before. It's dated Sept. 27, 1954 and the was 3 cents.

Haute Paper Couture

I saw this video on my dear friend David's Google Buzz feed (originally from scene 360), and it's just too awesome not to repost.


C'est l'amour!

Color + Packaging: Opinel Knives

Over the weekend I ventured across bridge and bay to check out a warehouse sale of products made in France and came home with these colorful knives by Opinel. They are sharp(!) in more ways than one.

Aside from a nice block of kitchen knives we received as a wedding gift, we were still using a very dull set of table knives I bought at a discount store about 15 years ago, and had only one paring knife in constant rotation. We hardly need more kitchenware, but in this case there was no danger of buyer's remorse. Luckily, my husband likes the knives too. He said, "You should put those on your blog." So, here they are, cute as a knife can be (if you like cute knives).

Joyeux Anniversaire

One last post from the vintage paper fair:

This poem appeared to be penned from husband to wife on their wedding anniversary, and I found it, months ago, in one of the .25 bins. It seemed like it was worth more than that.

Today is my 3rd wedding anniversary, somehow. I visited my grandparents last night, and they said that they'll have been married 58 years this fall, and together for 68 years. She's put up with me that long, my grandfather said, smiling.