quick pic: up up and away

[San Francisco]

I'm gone for an extra-long weekend in California. Here's to hoping the weather isn't too rainy!

quick pic: old + new

[new + old necklaces]

The old necklace is one my Mom bought me at Ten Thousand Villages. I love the dozens of red strands but it was too tight. Today I got around to extending it by adding silver chain in the back.

The longer necklace is a new one I bought today while dropping new jewelry off at the Blue Elephant. Stop by the store starting tomorrow to check out the new items I'm selling there. I got it for a song too.

quick pic: BT+IRN

[Tree on University of Mary Washington campus]

quick pic: inlight

[Light art from Inlight Festival 2010]

quick pic: peacock

[Outside Tom French Flowers on Belmont St]

quick pic: street graffiti

[At 10th and Main]

Not sure what they are doing to the street but the spray paint markings brightened up my day.

quick pic: staircase

[Stairs with reclaimed frames, by Stuart Haygarth]

Found on Re-Nest.

quick pic: hands across the sand

[Hands Across the Sand: Virginia Beach]
Part of nationwide protest of offshore drilling.
More images here. More information here.

quick pic: mail

[Old mailboxes at the 2nd St Post Office.]

quick pic: my tomato plants

My tomato plants are starting to have tiny tomatoes!

quick pic: new jewelry

I've been wearing this necklace nearly every day since I made it last week.
I can't decided if I'll list it or keep it.

quick pic: best if used by MAR0810

Best if used by March 08, 2010. Today. Normally best if used by is a flexible guideline of sorts, but I couldn't bring myself to use this as much as I wanted to make aioli. I did open it and even took a little taste but I swear it was just off.

quick pic: robot sandwiches

Maybe my incredibly picky little cousins would eat these sandwiches?
I know I've fallen in love with cutestfood.com.

quick pic: paper mache

papier mache peacock jane grey for stray dogs designs at gwg

My paper mache masterpiece, done in 9th grade.

quick pic

Cold and rainy weekend in Richmond, so I made one of my favorite comfort foods- risotto!

I wanted to try to make it healthier (because last night I was eating icing out of the jar) so I used a lot of veggies. I had fresh broccoli and carrots (and onion) and frozen peas, mixed peppers and fire-roasted corn. Thew in some chicken sausage to make it hardier.

I also had some aspargus so I oven roasted it to eat on the side. Dinner done!

Pic is from the Macbook camera so not to clear but I wanted to get the picture taken so I could dig in!

quick pic: a few of my favorite things

Fresh ground pepper + perfectly picked out Pantone colors=
two of my favorite things.