Mary Oliver

Purple Kitchen

Perfect color scheme

Etsy

So I decided to start an Etsy shop. I figure that I love to crochet and make things all the time that wind up just sitting in the closet, because there are only so many crocheted items I can personally use. I've never liked to part with the things I make, but I think it's time to try profiting!

Defeats The Porpoise

Amazing Tattoo

Molly’s Flickr set - more pictures of the tattoo’s progress.
The tattoo was done by Shawn Hebrank of Identity Tattoo in Maplewood, Minnesota.

 This tattoo was inspired by a trip to Bread Loaf this summer, where I studied poetry with Ellen Bryant Voigt.  I have always admired the ways we can re-imagine poems outside of typical lineation, how poems can become sculptures and books can be objects of art with textures and breath.  A bit of fortune converged with my desire:  I have a dear friend in my MFA program whose husband happens to be a tattoo artist, and that husband just so wanted to spend some time on a letterpress, and I had just acquired a Kelsey platen press.  A trade was proposed, and Shawn designed the whole thing with wings in mind, something that would also resemble lungs and breathing and the lift of freedom at the end of Sharon Olds‘ oft-studied “I Go Back to May 1937.” The poem is there, on my arm, in its entirety.  Olds is my most beloved living poet, and this poem speaks to me with my own work–taking life experiences and professing:  “Do what you are going to do, and I will tell about it.”  Olds once said that poetry comes out of her lungs, and now I have this reminder, this collection of gorgeous language, that tells me again and again:  don’t forget to breathe, don’t forget who you are. - contrariwise.org

Teapots

source unknown

Work can be good sometimes

...when I get to eat delicious things at my desk. In honor of my birthday yesterday, I got a delicious chocolate cake (to share with the entire office, of course), and today I got a cupcake!

 

Nature themed bedroom

full size // Attila Design

Blue Bicicletta artwork

via http://bluebicicletta.wordpress.com/

Leonetto Cappiello - Polaire a la Scala; 1900

Leonetto Cappiello - “Letter to Grandma” - 1902
“Above all don’t write me any nasty things … Mummy opens all my mails”

Beautiful places to live

via farm4.static.flickr.com

Tulip Stair (via Graeme Webb)

Wedding Cake

Real Weddings - A Casual Wedding in Fredericksburg, TX - Tree Motif Cake

Template

After much playing around this morning, I think I'm relatively pleased with this template. Now, it's just a matter of getting content and building the blog out some more.

Enjoy!

The first of many wedding posts

Photograph by Leslee Mitchell