Yet Another Reason to Visit Portland

They already have Stumptown Coffee and Powell's Books. So, it just follows they would have an ace hotel and an old school hotel. so nice.

Portland, how i love thee...
even though i've never set foot in thee...

Thankful

am thankful for love.
Being loved...
Learning to love...
And the whole messy
Quieting
Wonderful
Humbling
Grace-full
Process and journey and adventure
Surrounding love.

It is a beautiful thing.



p.s. thanks to Jessica at the Daily Drop Cap for the lovely "I" at the beginning of this post.

New Favorite

oh my. i just love Meg Hunt's illustrations! And I'm especially moved that she has little sketching journals for sale at etsy that are covered with drawings of dinosaurs. i loved dinosaurs as a kid even though they always came back to haunt me in my dreams. that wasn't so nice of them.

anywho...

The Dream Keeper

The Dream Keeper

by Langston Hughes

Bring me all of your dreams,

You dreamer,

Bring me all your Heart melodies

That I may wrap them

In a blue cloud-cloth

Away from the too-rough fingers

Of the world.

Rox

Alyssa really liked my picture of the rock wall from our girls' weekend in Scottsdale. This was on the side of a sushi restaurant--I just loved all the tactile textures and color.

I decided to change it up just a teeny tiny bit so she would like it even more. Renee says she points at the computer screen and says, "Rox!"

Love that kid.

Happiness and Beauty

(sandra junto rain print and erin-the-amazing-aunt's subway poster for her nephew)

Rain is a beautiful thing.

We needed the rain this week to wash all the city muck away...

to bring us crispy clean clouds and bright blue skies.

The mountains look fresh, the trees are glistening

and the flowers are bursting out of their skins to smile at us.

Mmm...

Night Beauty

This flower fell--kerplunk!--next to us last night. It was so heavy it actually made a sound, unlike a leaf that would have quietly fluttered to the ground. I took a picture and it reminded me an octopus spreading out its tentacles and lying on the ocean floor.

I think these are some of my favorite trees in this area. The trees are covered with these large pink blooms and then they all fall off and are replaced by bright green leaves. This is what I call our perpetual spring in lalaland. Lovely...

hi there

hi there, little blog. do you remember me? i have been away out in the big world. but today i thought of you, over here all by your lonesome self and decided to post a little bit of inspiration so you won't be lonely.

i really love this print by enormous champion as well as this new and sweet blog on fonts. i have to admit i am very distracted by the cat in this picture. i think i'm going through a 'i wish i had a cat phase' which has been dormant since my cat decided it was time for him to go a few years ago. (that wasn't very nice of him, i think.)

anywho...

keri smith has a new book that's not a book.
mati rose always inspires me. i need to make some time to play in my art journal again as it has been treated even worse than this blog as of late.

however...

i have managed to whip out two gorgeous scarves and start a baby blanket (for my sister's new munchkin) and there are things lining up to be made as it is christmas-present-making time. so life is good.

Die Liebe ist sehr gut! (or something like that ;))