Farewell to Fall

Fall was nice this year. I found myself enjoying things like spending time in the woods, carving pumpkins, sipping apple cider and brandy, welcoming the crunch of colorful leaves under my feet, and for once I wasn't freezing. Now that a few snowflakes have fallen I find myself looking back with fondness on a season that I'm usually not that into. I can't seem to embrace Autumn knowing that Winter is getting closer everyday, but something about this year was different. Enjoy this snippet of favorite photos of the season!

360 Degrees

After organizing a bunch of my photos this weekend I have discovered that I have a bit of an obsession with round things en masse. Who knew?! I have no clue what insight this gives to my psyche, but they are fun to look at aren't they? Circularity rules!

Drive-In Bingo

Dear Jens Lekman,

Friday night was great. It's no secret I have a major crush on you and your music. When I had to go outside to get some air I thought it was because it was so frickin hot in the Logan Square Auditorium, but now I'm thinking it was because you make me nervous. Do I make you nervous too? Is that why you just said "Thanks" when I told you that you were amazing instead of professing your love? Does that explain why you only signed my poster with your name instead of writing 'Sara!' like you wrote on the other posters you were signing? You seemed distracted, but I guess it's hard to chat with the girl of your dreams when a crazy mustached hipster in a bad fedora is trying to get you to play at his friend's apartment in Andersonville and wont SHUT UP LONG ENOUGH FOR OTHER PEOPLE TO TALK TO YOU EVEN THOUGH HE ALREADY HAD HIS POSTER SIGNED....TWICE! Sorry to yell Jens, it's really not my style. Next time you are back in town I'm sure we can catch up.

Until then...

You Break It, You Make It

If anyone out there needs help moving, I will gladly lend a hand. When your stuff arrives broken I will then feel guilty and make you something to replace your beloved object. Behold the new trivets that have risen from the ashes of the green bowl! They turned out well; however, I think this will be my first and last attempt at tile work. This mosaic stuff is tedious, and grout is pretty much sand with a thimble sized amount of water added...which makes it: (surprise!) SAND! Only it's sand that you aren't supposed to touch, breathe, eat, put down your drain, or let touch anything that you might touch, eat, or breathe. Grout is my new nemesis, but you wouldn't know it from looking at these cool trivets.

Shopping List: Drawers

I'm totally on the hunt for random drawers after seeing this amazing chest from Wis Design of Sweden. Seriously, what is in the water over there that makes these Swedes crank out such beautiful objects? Think of all the abandoned drawers in the world that will find a new home when I construct my very own chest! How many times have you passed an ugly desk or dresser on the street and thought it seemed like a perfectly good piece of furniture, but it just didn't go with your decor? Never? No? You aren't a picky furniture scavenger like me? Well for the sake of this blog just pretend! I would have been on my way to a new stylish cabinet years ago if only I had the idea to swipe the drawers from the countless pieces of furniture I walked by on the street. Better late than never I suppose. This project is going to be placed in the "very long term" category...after I finish all the other pending projects. Remember that chair I was going to finish a few months ago? It's going to go really well with this chest when they both get completed sometime around 2017...

Four-legged Friends

I've been on a quest for some time now to find a set of salt and pepper shakers that I am in love with. Everything that I've come across is unoriginal, too expensive, or completely adorable and already owned by a friend. Well I'm happy to report that I've finally settled on a pair by the amazing ceramics designer Lola Goldstein. I came across these in New York at the MoMA design store, and I knew I had to have them when I decided NOT to buy them on Friday, only to obsess about them the whole weekend. Good thing I was back in SoHo before heading back to Chicago on Sunday. Seriously, how cute are they??? It is impossible to look at them and not smile!

Stitch In My Side

My whole body hurts, and it's all The Go! Team's fault.
That's not a complaint, but rather the highest of compliments to be paid to a band that had me dancing my ass off on Saturday night. The last time I was that sweaty at a concert it was a 98 degree day in July with a heat index of a gazillion and the ceiling fan above my head at the Double Door was broken...but that is another great concert story for another day. The boys from The Hood Internet got the party started, and The Cool Kids kept the momentum going, and did not disappoint.


I could have gone home happy then, but I would have missed one of the best live shows I have been to in a long time. Take what you see in these photos, multiply it by 100, add a 70's car chase, some kool-aid, fireworks, a slip-n-slide, the feeling you have on the last day of school, pixi-stix, champagne, a rabid dog, a Michael Jordan slam-dunk, pop rocks, a trampoline, a lite-brite, kung-fu movies, 3-D glasses, and some glitter; mix well, condense, and eat like you would a package of fun-dip and there (in a nutshell) you have The Go! Team.
Observation: apparently words that are hyphenated = fun.