I never mentioned that Will and I celebrated our five-year anniversary in March. And I also didn’t mention that around the same time he had his three month CT scan and everything was shrinking and looking great and as hoped. Both were big things, but I’ve fluctuated between wanting to share my heart with you guys and wanting to be a stranger. Such is the strange, complicated life of a person putting their life online, a blogger.

fun fact: Will is wearing the same exact shirt in these photos, even though only two were taken on the same day. When he buys a new article of clothing (which is never), it basically becomes “the one”. 

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Photos by Kate Miss, taken with a Mamiya 645 with Kodak Portra 400 film (1 & 3) and a White Slim Angel Wide-Angle Camera with Kodak Portra 160 film (2 & 4)

I recently purchased a cute little wide angle camera to take with us to Coachella because you couldn’t bring in cameras with interchangeable lenses. I took some photos there, but finished more than half of the roll over the course of the last month, carrying it in my bag wherever I went – snapping little things I saw on my walks around my neighborhood. I’m really impressed with this little camera, I can’t wait to take it on more adventures. So continuing my “I Love LA” theme, here are some of my favorites. LA (at least my area) has the best old cars, signs, and foliage.

Have a great weekend!

Photos by Kate Miss, taken on a White Slim Angel Wide-Angle Camera with Kodak Portra 160 film

I’m so in love with LA lately and I can’t help but get a stupid grin on my face and light up when people ask me how I like it here.

Photos by Kate Miss, taken on a Mamiya 645 with Kodak Portra 400 film

NPR is streaming the new Beach House album, Bloom. It’s fantastic and moody, which Beach House is so good at.

I’m going to be a bad blogger/emailer/blog reader/human being this week, but luckily I have two shots left from my last roll and I just dropped off two rolls I’m picking up Wednesday – including one from my new! camera!

Photos by Kate Miss, taken on an Ikon Ikoflex with Fujifilm Pro 400h – I had someone else develop them than usual and they did a not so great pixelated scan job. 

I’m in the midst of an insane deadline this week and next (if I owe you an email, I apologize!), so in lieu of Friday Bits, here are some of my Instagram photos this week. I know some of you have missed Wendy, anyway. I downloaded the Vsco app, which is pretty awesome, if you haven’t used it.

ps. This is amazing, and I will be talking more about it later, when I can come up for a moment to breathe.

Have a wonderful weekend!

I found out about Tame Impala recently while listening to KCRW – yes, on the radio. How old fashioned of me. I’m into their psychedelic feel and their Beatles-esque vocals. They describe themselves as “psychedelic hypno-groove melodic rock music”, which is awesome. They just completed a new album that I can’t wait to hear.

Last week during office day (in which Jessica works in my apartment, super helpful for productivity), Sara of Matchbox Kitchen stopped by and brought us a cake. Sara is an amazing baker, if you are not aware, and apparently the downside (??!) to being a baker is that you end up eating everything you bake. Ok, I get that, it probably starts to get ridiculous after a while. I told her that Jessica and I would gladly help her eat things as that’s what friends are for. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it. I told her she could force cake upon us if I could take photos of her pretty cake. Deal. She came over on a gloomy afternoon and when she pulled that perfect beauty out of the box, it lit up the room and there was definitely lots of ohhhhhs and ahhhhs.

The slow reveal.

Sara shares:

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I just keep making cakes to practice different recipes, techniques, and flavor combinations. It is a simple vanilla cake with a light lemon cream filling, covered in vanilla swiss meringue buttercream. The lemon cream is one of my favorite things because it’s similar to a lemon curd but mounted with more butter to give it a lighter, smoother flavor and texture. 

Sara used this cake recipe.

I should really change the name “Weekly Goods” to “Whenever I Feel Like it Goods” – ha! Here are some products I’m really loving lately, no particular theme this time:

1. Heath Moonstone mug. Nothing new, but I went to Heath recently and picked this mug up and put it back like, eight times? I just want this one dedicated I hear there will be a 15% off sale on Mother’s Day, but I can’t find anything about that online so don’t hold me to that rumor.
2. Larissa Hadjio Panzano Ball bag, part of her amazing Diamond Vision collection. I love how interesting the shapes of her bags are without being too weird.
3. Pot + Pantry Salt Cellar. I love that this has a lid! They rarely do.
4. Fine Little Day Cross Breadspread. I love everything about this – the black and white pallet, the geometric yet rough painterly-style strokes.
5. Blackbird Coffee. One of my favorite shops in Seattle teaming up with one of my favorite coffee shops in Seattle? Genius.

Two fun things I’ve been featured in this week that I wanted to give thanks/shout outs to:

Daily Candy featured For Me, For You as one of the top jewelry designers in LA, a honor I’m pretty jazzed about. In related DC news, did you notice their amazing new illustrations? All thanks to the fine talents of my buddy Samantha Hahn. I can’t think of a more perfect partnership.

*There are still necklaces left in the shop! Brass drops will be restocked next month*

Page 26 of the April/May issue of Modern Ink magazine features a gigantic Kate Miss photo and feature, and I share my 10 must-haves on their blog.