Sense and Sensitivity

6/23/09

new yawk

I'm back from NYC and it exceeded my expectations per usual!

Highlights:

- Dinner at Trestle on 10th

- Natural History Museum

- Finally locating Greenwich Press on Christopher Street. We were very, very confused for about half an hour.

- West Side Story

- Getting a taste of the Brooklyn Bridge

- Dinner with our dear friend Steve at Les Deux Amis in Turtle Bay

- Brunch at Sarabeth's (part of Hotel Wales in the Central Park East area). Such tasty jams and muffins!

- Dinner at Cookshop in Chelsea. The quail and anticuchos were the best things I ate the whole trip. And really liked the dandelion salad!

- Traveling with two awesome people

6/3/09

I'm working on the song Tea for Two (from No, No, Nanette) in class, and it is becoming one of my favorite songs from musical theater. It paints a very traditional picture, but I love it all the same. It makes me want to have some "sugar cake" too...whatever that is.

~ ~
Picture me upon your knee
Just tea for two
And two for tea
Just me for you
And you for me alone

Nobody near us to see us or hear us
No friends or relations
On weekend vacations
We won't have it known, dear
That we own a telephone, dear

Day will break, and I'll awake
And start to bake a sugar cake
For you to take, for all the boys to see

We will raise a family
A boy for you
A girl for me
Can't you see how happy we would be
~ ~

There's more, but that's the bulk of it. An older recording is available here (it's track 12).

yellow & white stripes

I am pining for some yellow and white striped curtains right now, but I'm having trouble finding any! I thought it would be a classic, well-stocked design, but Pottery Barn seems to have the only candidates.

I like them both, but the image in my head is of valance-style curtains with wide, nautical stripes. There's something fresher and less overtly sailor-like about using yellow instead of navy blue. :) I wish I was crafty enough to sew my own! I wonder if etsy has anyone that makes custom curtains...

6/1/09

C's brother got married in Nebraska this past weekend. :) The wedding was a low-key, lovely gathering. Besides the nuptials, I also got a chance to hike around and browse the fantastic antique stores. I was a happy camper!

5/27/09

tie it up

People should wear ties more.

Bowties, regular ties, skinny ties...doesn't matter. I approve. I especially love breezy ties with that lazy, hazy, crazy summer feeling. Example: the bowtie to the right's name is "nap on the porch". Would you like some lemonade and balmy evening with that tie, sir?

I ordered the hand-made tie below on etsy (a cup of jo tipped me off). Here are similar styles. I normally dislike flower ties, but I make exceptions when the fabric is from Liberty! My husband and I both take turns wearing it.