One more thing...

My darling hubby and I will be off to some far-off locations in the coming two weeks. We fly out on Thursday and will spend tomorrow night in Boston. I have the summer off from work (as the store is closing... sadness.) and will only be taking one class, so I plan to have many crafty exploits to discuss in the next few months, so stay tuned! Come fall I will be back in school full-time, but until then, can you guess the two places we're going based on these two photos?
yup, you guessed it. Back to my homes-away-from-home, San Francisco and Seattle (ok that second one isn't Seattle, exactly, but it is nearby). We will be celebrating the weddings of some very dear friends, and enjoying some west-coast goodness along the way. We will also be visiting my very talented little brother Tomm in Portland, OR. We'll be back in early June, and like I said, I should have some more projects to talk about here. I'm hoping this trip will allow me to absorb quite a bit of inspiration for those upcoming projects!

Below is a silly shot of me from the first week I lived in San Francisco back in 2004. Everyone has to have this picture, right? It's taken from the little park below the Golden Gate Bridge in the Presidio.


I'm so excited!

finally, some crafting

There's nothing like a deadline to get me to work on into the night! And a newly (almost) organized studio doesn't hurt, either. I don't want to show the design just yet, because it's a gift for a friend, but will soon. It was a fun one to come up with, though. Cuteness abounds!

I will show off the backs of the cards drying atop my new library table/desk, though. Note the swanky new ikea bookcases and paper chandelier. love!

Spring has sprung...

...or some other equally cliched phrase?

:)

so it is officially spring and it's awesome. Ok, it was really cold and windy today, but we DID have a great BBQ/potluck this weekend and it was lovely (pics on my flickr if you're interested). We were able to sit on the deck and have a fire in the 'pit and it was an all-around good time. I think everyone enjoyed themselves, I know I did!

Jane enjoying the view from the deck

some pretties from the nursery (or maybe the grocery store?)

this is my garden at the beginning of spring

and the same plants a few weeks ago, below. My camera battery is dead, but these are Allium and they have gotten even bigger by now -- they will be huge!

i do not heart inappropriate-apostrophe's and hyphen's

but i do heart this guy's smirk and toothpastefordinner.com

toothpastefordinner.com

letterpress the world!

Answer to previously posed question: It's a tiny tiny (print size is 3x5" max.) tabletop letterpress!!!! Kelsey Excelsior, to be precise. Guess we know what I'll be doing this summer...now only to convince John to fabricate/replace the missing parts for me.

oh brother!
;>

uh oh

what have I gotten myself into?

I might have just bought this on ebay!:

Do you know what it is?
(hint #1: it is missing some parts and is very very dirty.)
(hint #2: it's really old, and coming from NV! ok that's not really a hint...)

why didn't i think of that?

something like Andy Goldsworthy meets gritty European City meets my childhood...

via Jan Vormann

Happy Anniversary

Today marks the one-year anniversary of our silly dog coming to live with us!

You may know that her full name (as it was when we took her home at just over one year old) is Happy Anniversary. The family that raised her for that first year was obviously nutso, but we will be eternally thankful that they brought her to the Berkshire Humane Society, so we could take her home and enjoy a dog-full life with her. If you love HappyDog (or dogs, in general...) as we do, you can see a little collection of pictures of her first year with team Coyle here (including a few cameos by her best friend Mickey), and a little preview below:



HappyDog, we heart you! We are dog nerds, and we love it! Yay for dogs -- if you don't have one in your life, I highly recommend it.

yes

from ffffound (my new favorite website)