6 years

6 years ago today I married the love of my life. We've been through so many good times and hardships. I can't imagine my life without him.

Photo by me. (my favorite picture of us.)

Elsa Dray-Farges

Love these paper mache sculptures and window displays by artist Elsa Dray-Farges. So imaginative and beautiful.

RIP Steve Jobs

Technology and the world would not be the same without you. You can here his inspiring speech here.

manhattan happenstance

I am in love with the apartment of Andi Potamkin from the recent anniversary issue of Rue. My favorite part is either the photograph of Andy Warhol above the console display of cameras and the albums beneath or the huge black painting above the wooden shelf of gorgeous books complete with a record player. There's something so laid back about the attitude of this apartment. How there's little collection of books, magazines and jewelry just strewn about but put together all at the same time. Definitely one of my favorite places I've seen in a while.

Vally Nomidou

Just stumbled across this amazing sculptor Vally Nomidou via pinterest. Her work is so amazing. She creates everything almost entirely out of just paper. She doesn't use molds or casting and her colors are brought out by using different types of paper. If you read the article in the link above it goes into more detail about her amazing process. These pieces are all part of a series called Let It Bleed.

The Night Circus

I was recommended this book through amazon. Normally I ignore those emails, but when I saw the word "circus", I had to check it out. The description drew me in and when a friend of mine who has similar taste in books was also recommended it, we both decided to order it. I got two other books as well and I was going to wait and read that one later as it was the longest. It sat on my coffee table all weekend and come monday morning, I grabbed it to take with me to work. I didn't put it down for the next four days.

Rarely does a book suck me in as much as The Night Circus did. It was so fantastical and enchanting. The description of each and every part of the circus made me feel like I was right there in the middle of it. It's a story of magic (literally), love and enchantment. You must read this book!

btw-the whole time I was reading it I thought "someone MUST make this a movie!" Summit already bought the rights and the book was just released a week and half ago. Just sayin.

my horse

I've been working on some circus inspired works recently. (You might remember this.) So I decided to dig up my old bouncy/rocking horse I got for christmas when I was about three. It's been hanging out under my parents house and I think I might have to find a space in my home for it. I had forgotten how beautiful and fun it is. It reminds me of carousel horses. You certainly can't find anything like that for kids nowadays. My mom even joked, "There's no way to strap you in! A child could fall off that thing now." Kids were just more balanced and substantial back in my day I guess.