Christmas

It's so close I can almost smell it!!!
-M.

Christmas Time Crafts

I love ribbon...and I love Michael's for having it on sale!

-M.

Use wired ribbon, and cut into 20 inch strips

fold into figure-eight shape and staple the ends together

place each piece on top of each other, rotating each new piece to ensure a circular pattern

as you get closer to the center, use 10 inch strips and sew all pieces together

sit back and admire your work

William Blake

The marriage of art and poetry is a tough one to keep in harmony, and like any marriage, when the two fit together, they make for wonderful moments of genius.
-M.

Rain

Bring it. I'm ready.

A girl can dream, can't she?

*photo taken from the web, original source unknown.

Krampus

Naughty or nice...you decide.

Dapper Kitty

Dapper Kitty...he's so handsome.  Always in attendance at the midnight grass party, all nine lives intact, each swing of his tail an invitation to adventure.  Champion bare-paw fighter, his moustache is always neatly groomed and never a whisker out of place.  He thinks it tacky to enter a room before any molly.  His awesomeness needs no clowder.

A lone and agile hunter, he has a collection of rare birds, each caught in a single pounce and kept hidden away behind his favorite butcher shop, where he is greeted daily by a stroke to the spine and a bowl of cream.  On occasion, he leaves a sparrow on the doorstep as a thank you to the man with the strong hands and soft heart.

Crepuscular strolls make his eyes shine bright, scaring away would-be predators.  Should one have the gall to get within scratching distance, Dapper Kitty simply makes himself twice his size, emits a hellish howl, and scares away his competition.  With a lick to the paw and a rub to his face, Dapper Kitty turns around and heads back home, putting another daily adventure in the books, and looking forward to what the next day brings...hoping for a nice sunray bath to wash away the mustiness of the night.
-M.

Little Dragon

Again, I know, but holy shit. This song hits home.
-M.

Wallace Stevens

Of all the modernist poets I studied in English major school, Wallace Stevens is the only one that truly got through to me.  There is a beauty in the difficulty of his writing that is balanced by his undying devotion to nature and all its splendor.  His "Thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird" is constantly on my mind, always triggering new perspectives on nature and new definitions on life.  Even though Hemingway used him as a (literal) punching bag, Stevens, to me, is the better writer...with bigger passion.
-M.

Little Dragon

Obsessed.

The Hunger Games

Oh, hell yes.  Finished this up on a gloomy Friday night. So worth losing sleep over.

Happy Halloween

Halloween Time

With the help of Martha Stewart and the wonderful pinners at Pinterest, I am decking out my home for Saturday's Halloween party. I'm so excited to finally be able to do this and can't wait to share my photos!
-M.

Umami, Round Two

Kate MccGwire

PORTISHEAD

Before the show we had dinner at Umami Burger on Los Feliz. I had the Carnitas Burger and will be going back very, very soon to try the Manly Burger.

As for the Portishead show...all I can say is...I feel very honored to have been a part of it. This much beauty in music should be reserved for the gods.
-M.

October 15, 2011

Congratulations to my friends Ericka and Jesse Rodriguez on their beautiful wedding! I have never been in a room where there was so much love and happiness emitted from so many people at the same time.  The ceremony was beautiful, the food and cake were awesome, and the photo booth was an amazingly sweet surprise. There is no doubt in my mind that these two will have a very blessed life together.

...and, I finally had an excuse to buy a pair of glittery shoes!