Worth the Week: Mille

Mille

I'm happy with this photo for three reasons:

1. I'm learning to use my new camera better and it's starting to show.

2. It's a lovely - and still! - portrait of my Mille (who is typically captured as a blur of nose and fur).

3. ORANGE! This bright, crazy orange wall is the very wall that inspired the tag line for this blog. The time has come to paint it over now but it'll always be orange underneath.

Take one photograph,

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call it Worth the Week.

Weekend Diptych

March 27-28, 2010

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Weekend Flings

• A Hill Story (seen above)
• Cake vs. Pie
• Ryan Ain't Chicken
• Hipster CEO
• Organic & Local

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Bonus Bone: Round paintings by Sophia Brueckner

Round paintings by Sophia Brueckner

I love everything about these paintings by Sophia Brueckner. The size, the shape, the repetition of pattern. I can lose myself staring at the waves and undulations. I find them soothing. It's like sitting at the beach and watching wave after wave come in. Lucky for us, Sophia is thinking about opening an Etsy store to sell her beautiful work.

For these reasons, I, Porcelain, declare this a Design Boner.

Worth the Week: My Own Personal Sunset

My Own Personal Sunset

My commute home from work involves almost one hour, split between two trains. It also often entails gum smacking, brassy cellular blah-blah, and the litter of afternoon teenagers. Sometimes I am like LOL but usually I say, "FML" and wish I was anywhere else.

It was one of these latter moments, one in which I was on the edge of hurling my unobtrusive and COMPLETELY SILENT book at these obnoxious folk, when I noticed this sunset. Everyone else - busy smacking and yakking - did not.

This was mine - all mine - and it was the quietest, most lovely sunset I ever did see.

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call it Worth the Week.

Weekend Diptych

March 20-21, 2010

Weekend of glutenous homemade gluten.
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Weekend Flings

• A New Idea for Easter (seen above)
• Free Moos!
• Love Handles Beware
• Update Resume; Read this List
• Wonder Wise Ass
• Holy Heels!

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Bonus Bone: Abacus

Abacus Wall Decor, at CB2

I would love this in a child's bedroom or maybe in an entryway. Everywhere else, I'd use a calculator.


For these reasons, I, Cardboard, declare this a Design Boner.

Worth the Week: Trump Tower

Trump Tower

Darth Trump.

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Weekend diptych

March 13-14, 2010

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Weekend Flings

• Russian Art Watch (seen above)
• Way to Go, Skinny CO!
• The French Woman's Secret
• Dulce de Hell Yeah
• The Final Show

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Bonus Bone: Monstrito pillow

Monstrito pillow, at giulia sagramola

This little guy is just plain cute! I'd snuggle up with him any day for a cat nap.

For this reason, I, Porcelain, declare this a Design Boner.

Weekend Diptych

March 6-7, 2010

My weekends as of late have been a combination of domestic chores and screen printing.
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Worth the Week: Ice Jellyfish

Ice Jellyfish

The back porch/fenced-in area of my condo building does some crazy (cool) things in the winter. Our ice situation, for example, is an absolute menace. To empty out the trash bins, one must risk paralysis either by icy steps, icy jellyfish, or icy stares from neighbors because our gate is broken again.

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trade thought for order and words,
call it Worth the Week.

Weekend Flings

• Shopping Cart Chic (seen above)

• How to Do It for the Little Gold Man
• How WE Do It for the Little Gold Man
• Sexy Star Wars
• Business Days Means Business Days
• Cardboard's Nightmare

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Bonus Bone: Picnic Plates

The weather was so totally nice in Chicago yesterday...

So this time, when I found myself waiting for my ride, instead of shivering and swearing, I was squinting and smiling. As my face soaked up the warmth of the sun, I actually started to think of spring. And then, since I was hungry, I started to think of food.

Picnic Palette Dish Set, at ModCloth

The sun, the snacks, the several minutes of trainspotting - it all got me in the mood for a picnic and these plates are so totally cute.

For these reasons, I, Cardboard, declare this a Design Boner.

Weekend Diptych

February 27-28, 2010

Lovely shades of brown and a gorgeous set of green eyes. Chloe is back!
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Worth the Week: French Fries IN the Sandwich

French Fries IN the Sandwich

Heat and I are a couple of hams. We ended up at Lucky's Sandwich Company only because we saw it on TV. Well...that and who wouldn't want to try out a sandwich that has the french fries already in it?!

Last Wednesday at Lucky's was nearly empty, perfectly cozy for a slow, snowy night. The sandwich though...? It plates up more slices of legend and bravado than it does bacon or steak. The fries, we understand now, are ideal filler, which may allow the eatery to skimp out on the meat.

But it was still a feat to eat this beast and, when I'm not clutching at my chest, I hold my cholesterol trophy high [ack!] and proud.

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call it Worth the Week.