~ Craftwerk Wednesdays: The Fixin' To ~

What are you up to tomorrow evening? You'll find me getting my craft on with a beer and chili bucket at The Fixin' To watering hole in St. Johns. Join me, why don't you? It'll be fun.

Poster and website by Kelty!

~ Welcome to the Family: Sabi & Friends ~

Kelty rang me on my way to volunteer at Sabi & Friends on Saturday morning, swooning over some old photos she'd snatched up that day at an antique shop in Orange, MA. The faces! The places! The ensembles! Each photo told a little story about a person or a place, and I was as excited to see them as she was to have found them.

I naturally had this in mind when I got to the shop, and made a b-line for a box full of old photos for sale on the counter. Looking through them I realized that I've always imagined that old photos would be handed down through the years, protected and admired in albums, stories told to each generation. Seeing them so unattached to their families, places and identities made me a bit melancholy, strange as it sounds.

So I decided I had to adopt as many photos as I could possibly afford! Like Kelty, I bought 30 or so snapshots, some with descriptions, names or dates on the back, but most with no information but the image itself. I may never know their stories or their lives as I do my own family photos, but it feels good incorporating them into my life. Who knows, maybe years from now someone I've never met will be caring for a photo of me?

Have you friended Sabi & Friends on facebook? New items {and future family photos} are posted weekly...

~ Beating the Blues: Sunday with Claude/Alex ~

We've been listening to a lot of Debussy around here lately, so it didn't surprise me one bit that Alex decided to use a favorite piece as the soundtrack to his just-finished motion graphics/vfx reel. It's called La Fille Aux Cheveux de Lin {the girl with the flaxen hair} and I could listen to it on repeat all day. 

Filmed at our famous rose test garden last month, I'd have never guessed a bleary, rose-less garden would be an ideal setting for a reel. Add a little history, imagination and fancy skills to the mix, though, and now you're cookin'...

Here's to Sunday.



Visit Alex's website {named after the second love of his life} and more work, if you like. I'm quite proud of that man. 

~ Mad As A Hatter: Spring Priorities ~

When I started my little online journal, deep down I knew it would only be so long until I went batty from posting something every day.

Well, that day has officially arrived. 

A little over two months of daily posts has been quite enough, thank you very much, as recent projects and good weather have at times made blogging begin to feel like less of a pleasure and more of a chore. And that's just plain silly. 

So I'll be cutting back a bit to keep all this the way I initially intended it to be: FUN. And now you know, in case you wondered what happened to my daily shenanigans. 

xoxo H

~ Eye Candy: Dapper Menfolk ~

~ La Casita de Wendy: Verano '10/Otoño '11 ~

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