Archive for the ‘things that make me smile’ Category
things that make me smile: happy feet
Monday, August 30th, 2010happiness is…
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010going to the farmer’s market on a bright sunny day with a cute new bag to fill up with goodness.
you are pretty
Monday, June 21st, 2010
Love these letterpress notecards from Studio SloMo.
It’s so nice to get mail. Real handwritten mail with a stamp and a postmark. The kind where someone sat down with a pen in their hand thinking of you and actually wrote out their thoughts, maybe even crossed out a word because of a mistake. In real mail there is no spell check. There is no delete. Just pure present emotion. Now imagine getting that lovely letter and opening the envelope and seeing these three words: You are pretty.
Well, that just makes me smile right there.
It’s nice to send a compliment.
Especially on a Monday.
Available here.
my first instant camera
Tuesday, June 15th, 2010
Before my first polaroid came the ‘picture-quick’…
Look at those great snapshots I took.
Point. Shoot. Turn the wheel. Viola.
It’s amazing I could get a frog to pose for me like that.
So much fun to go through the attic and find old toys!
admiring my imaginary table setting…
Wednesday, May 26th, 2010upon this amazing Marimekko Siirtolapuutarha red tablecloth.
Siirtolapuutarha is Finnish for ‘allotment (garden)’, appropriately naming these brightly colored graphic flowers and vegetables. Garden party anyone? Exactly what I needed to see on this dreary Portland day.
There are paper napkins in the same print, too. Imagine the sunshine bursting out of the lunch bag!
colored bubbles!
Friday, May 21st, 2010
For those of you who, like myself, have dreamed of dancing around on lush green grass with the sun shining down from the brilliant blue sky surrounded by thousands of colored bubbles…
when horses fly
Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010
Spotted while walking through the park.
writing in rainbows
Monday, March 8th, 2010
Last night an Oscar recipient said to his wife,
“I love you more than rainbows”.
Cute or corny?
I guess both.
It all reminded me of this pencil and the joy that comes
from writing in rainbows.
something i found
Saturday, February 20th, 2010in our mailbox.
i imagined the small hands cutting out the images
and pasting them in just the right spot,
standing back to admire their work
and smiling.
except i don’t know this person
or the person it’s addressed to.
they live three streets away at the same number house.
it’s probably wrong that i scanned in their mail
more wrong that i posted it
(maybe even illegal)
but it made me smile.
don’t worry.
i did deliver it to the rightful owner.
thank you, strangers, for sharing your mail.
something i saw
Wednesday, February 17th, 2010on my walk today
under a table.
it made me smile.
