by it's cover.

while in savannah we stopped in to check out the book lady, a nice little, jam-packed, used book store. they had tons of early 1960's editions of penguin books. maybe the penguin collectors society should take a field-trip.

happy birthday chanel no. 5!

while i'm on a birthday roll here, i might as well wish chanel no. 5 a happy 87th birthday. it was introduced on may 5th, 1921.

happy birthday elizabeth!

well i suppose that if i'm going to wish happy birthday to a stranger i should sure-as-heck also wish it to my own sister! today is her 28th birthday and i hope that she gets to eat lots of cake and ice cream! here we are in 1985 looking mega cute and waiting to see santa.

and here she is with her not so lady-like dog, blue who is so nice and low to the ground and makes me laugh every time i see her.

happy birthday lizardbreath!

happy birthday keith haring!

yesterday would have been keith haring's 50th birthday and in honor of his life and work the keith haring foundation, goldman properties and deitch projects unveiled a reproduction of his famous houston street and bowery mural in downtown nyc. painted in the summer of 1982, the original mural was up for only a few months during the summer before it was painted over. the mural is being repainted using the extensive photographic documentation of the original work and will remain up until the end of the year.

i'm back!

whoa. what a week! the trip down to savannah was really great. we went rollerskating at an intensely medieval themed 'family entertainment center', thrift shopped at about 5 different places, drove around in our ridiculous electric blue pt cruiser [nicknamed diamond lou}, went to the beach TWICE {and i got sunburn, of course}, confused people by ordering a pizza without cheese, took a tour of scad fibers studios, hung out mostly at the health food store, snooped in the marc jacobs store, took a historic trolley tour {remind me to read 'midnight in the garden of good and evil' before august!}, had gross burritos and really good sushi and saw a giant globe shaped water tower that has a MOON SHAPED MAILBOX. that might have been my favorite part. savannah is really beautiful and i think that i'll really enjoy my time down there, even though the water tastes funny. it's strange being back here at work after 9 days out, but there's only 4 months left before i'm fully immersed in the world of textile design and i'm never looking back!