for me, for you

Into The Woods

I noticed a common theme among my flickr favorites lately: forest. Either it's my northwestern heart longing for the woods I grew up in, or it's just a damn lovely subject to photograph. Maybe both.

Some recent favorites

Irina Troitskaya, who made these amazing masks.

rebecca missing

Mary Ek

Olivia Bee

tobsucht.

violetjulia

Desks

Billy starts grad school in a few weeks, which means he gets his own art studio, which means goodbye too his big work desk in our living room. So we're looking for a little desk in its place. These aren't really what we're looking for but I love these new desks from West Elm and CB2.

swoop desk, reminiscent of the George Nelson desk for a fraction of the cost. Also kind of sort of reminiscent of the Herman Miller desk we bloggers drooled over many months ago.

bond desk (also available in a larger size). I wish they had an even smaller version of this guy, I'd snatch it up in a heartbeat! Love the shape.

As ready as I'll ever be

window, wallpaper, pig, originally uploaded by shespeaksoceans.

Vacation is over, and it was definitely a great one. I made sure to be completely lazy for at least a total of 24 hours (um, and then some..) but also made sure to be productive. Not only am I excited for 2009, I'm ready. Usually I'm bitching and moaning about going back to work right now, but I'm excited to dive back in because I've realized in the last few months that I really love my job and I want to keep it*.

I've never felt as creative as I have in the last few weeks and I can't wait to get back to work and to give time to some side projects for myself. I feel good about this year and feel good about the shape of things to come.

Thank you all for being such amazing readers, bloggers, and friends, this blog has given me more confidence and love than I've ever received before.

My new years resolution is to just be more optimistic, productive, and to meet more people outside of my computer! Of course I also want to bring you much more quality blogging. ~~Less shopping~~, more creative. Oh hell, who am I kidding...:)

*fantastic link via swiss miss

Truant Holiday Issue

I'm quite late on this, but the latest issue of Truant Magazine is out, Jessica and Erin's fabulous travel mag. Yours truly has a section on NY again, and Samantha Hahn made some great illustrations of all the contributors. Let me tell you it is a funny thing seeing yourself as an illustration:)

Get it now for only $2

back, sort of

, originally uploaded by shespeaksoceans.

I wanted to post normally again this week, but vacation while staying in town makes you realize all the meeeeeeelions of things you should really take care of that are better done during the day. So, I've decided to take this week off as well.

Chicago was relatively uneventful, the train was a nightmare (I now never recommend to take a train ride over 6 hours) and I'm glad to be home. I hope you all had a wonderful holiday and I'm looking forward to 2009!

Happy Holidays!

tracks, originally uploaded by painted fish studio.

I'm off next week on a train to Chicago! I'm very excited as I've never been, and I'm a huge fan of train travel. It's snowing like CRAZY here today and I finally feel like Christmas is really coming fast.

I'll be back blogging the week after, though, as I have the whole week off and not a thing to do (which feels amazing). Happy holidays everyone, hopefully you're all taking a nice vacation to relax.

Revolutionary Road Trailer

I can't say that I'm sure this is going to be an amazing movie - though I will probably see it because I like depressing over-dramatic movies and it's coming at a perfect Mad Men-craze time - but I think that the Revolutionary Road trailer is amazing. Could they have picked a more perfect song? Wild Is The Wind is one of my favorite Nina Simone songs and it fits so perfectly with the emotion-building feel they created with the trailer. When I saw it in the theater during the previews at a movie a few weeks ago it made my spine tingle.

vintage winter

vintage hush puppies, originally uploaded by shespeaksoceans.

I scored these awesome vintage Hush Puppies winter boots from a great Etsy shop, Rare Treasure. They have plaid fleece lining! Billy is very jealous of them. Winter, I'm ready for you.

A huge snow storm is supposed to be coming our way tomorrow, I'm pretty excited.