Thursday, September 9, 2010

Last call...

This is the last time I update the ether with the progress of my guided tour until my next birthday.  This place I love so much has served it's purpose. You cannot serve two masters or two blogs. Actually,  in my case, it's
three, thanks to these lovely ladies..  I grieve, but I have to confess that I wouldn't even care except that  I just ordered business cards for A Guided Tour so that I could feel more official when I asked if I could take photos.  I'm going to get another set for Cooked Heads. It could be that I'm reading Jane Austen right now, and what is a business card if not a calling card for someone with an official purpose.

Until February...   to deep love, to perpetual bliss, and to "drinking stars"

It's not Paris, but...

...it's still travel.  I booked my flight today.  I'm going to see my family in Houston, a city that has a bad rap. In some respects it's deserved, but Houston is also something other than strip malls, congested sprawl and
the very high pressure system that moves in and squats over the city all summer, every day between mid-March and late-October, which is why I'm going the first part of November.  It also home.

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

The art of the "doodle"

Almost ten years ago, I bought my husband a leather bound journal because, for a while, he thought he wanted all the grief that being a writer brings.  He never once cracked the back, so eventually, in a moment of deep need, I did.   In the years that followed I'd filled it with menus and notes, drawings and groceries lists, wine labels and the thin strips of linen paper the clerk at Jo Malone's gave to me after she'd sprayed them with Blue Agave and Cacao and 154.  They kept falling out and I kept insisting they stay within the creamy yellow pages to remind me of that day, a particularly nice one.
A few weeks ago, I lost it.  I mourned and moved on to the point that I'm on the lookout for another, but I hope somewhere, someone is enjoying that coffee stained book bound in caramel colored leather.
Maybe it will end up here:

The Sketchbook Project: 2011

Sunday, September 5, 2010

Just lovely

I went to the place that made this:
because I'm reading Emma for the first time and found C.E. Brock's watercolors from the late 19th two volume release of Austen's book.

In case you'd enjoy:
The rest of them

Friday, September 3, 2010

Beautiful things...

...for a certain happy people, and you know who you are.
While ( bargain=true) Shop here;