Hello, funny faces.
I had my nose to the grindstone last week. Yesterday, I spent the entire day in my pj', read the second half of the House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne, watched a film, ate a gargantuan amount of cheese and basically regrouped and recharged. While I find myself busy, busy, busy and not documenting it, I would like to note so are some of my favorite blogger people out there posting up a storm of goodness. Some of the exciting things going on out there deserve some link love, so here goes.
Stephanie Congdon Barnes and her husband, Jack, have started a new blog, Shelter. Combining their creative forces as an architect and designer duo, they will be sharing about the remodel of their home and the homes that they design in the greater Portland, OR area. Any project that Stephanie works on is immensely interesting and inspiring, so I have already added their new baby blog to to my RSS reader. I would also like to call your attention, to the launch ofthe latest incarnation of collaboration at 3191 Miles Part, between Stephanie and MAV. After their previous collaborations on a year of daily photos of their mornings and then a year of their evenings, the ladies are back with a new concept that incorporates photos and text in weekly posts on Fridays. The content of their posts will continue to not be discussed beforehand but these ladies have such an unusual sense of synchronicity that I regularly delight in seeing that they are thinking the same thing and interpret it quite differently. When Stephanie stopped writing at Little Birds, it was a devastating blow for me. I loved her words. I'm happy she and MAV have found a new home for their thoughts on "food, life, home, family, books and the like." The first week's post included reciped for chocolate beet cupcakes (swoon) and chocolate brownie hearts.
The Congdon clan is very busy, Stephanie's sister, artist and illustrator, Lisa Congdon, has also begun a new blog, Things, a photographic exploration of singular things. Chronicle Books has released a notebook with one of Lisa's Birch Tree illustrations (one of my favorites) and will launch a notecard set of her work in the spring.
If you haven't seen this magical collection of photos by Susanna Gordon, please take a peek and prepare to feel a smile creep onto your face and stay there for quite a while.
Have an inspired week, my lovelies!
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