Pico Burrito

I bought this washcloth at a tag sale some time ago and now its sole use is to roll Pico up in it after a nice shower.

I call her a "Pico Burrito"...and she nibbles on the edge of the terry tortilla.

Oh Pico!

acorn weekend

Collected some mini acorns on Saturday by the East River. Fully mature, little bulbous ones with pointy tips—my favorite kind—pygmy acorns! Wish I knew exactly what species of oak they were from...

Hope everyone had a nice day off.

currently inspiring

The color of old book pages.

Carson Ellis's art

Kurt Cobain's mugshot

Louis Reith's design

      United Thread's original watercolors     

an ad from 1998 that I just found in an old notebook.

a book I bought for its cover from Strand for a buck

this open dusty loft

Parsnipity carrot wallpaper

Preparing for Autumn, drab, and Drabware.

more skulls

Found a silver screw incased in tar when I was beach combing in the Bahamas back in May. Made it into a charm, put it on cord and gave it to my sister after she "desk combed" and found it under a pile of work in progresses. She added a heavy little skull bead she found at Evolution in Soho. I like it better now with the weight of the head.

Some exquisite skull carvings by Dimitri Tsykalov via Booooooom. creepy and raw.

Blog-a-sphere

If you've looked in my profile, you'd see that I follow the max number of blogs—300. I am constantly filtering through them, deleting the ones that have been abandoned and adding new ones I find. I wanted to share a few of my favorites—the ones I click on everyday to view what's new in their internet diaries. 

For all things art:

Booooooom—with 7 o's—is a place to discover contemporary artists and be constantly enlivened by what's happening in the creative world.

For all things fashion:

Studded Hearts keeps you up to date with fashion editorials, what's hot on the street & puts names to the faces who are rocking the clothes.

For all things sweet & cute in everyday life:

Fine Little Day is an inspiring blog that follows an inventive family and shares their collections of stirring imagery and creative likes.

For all things kooky & a little bit off:

Intelligent Clashing is a gallery of mismatched pictures that somehow effectively go together. Visually stimulating and laughably backwards.

For all living things:

ZooBorns is the home of all the animal babies born in captivity. A site that honors every species and aids in illustrating the importance of preserving and celebrating the most vulnerable of this planets creatures. Visit your local zoo today!

I created link buttons for all these blogs on my sidebar, so you can follow them too!

dogs. eyes. grey background.

When it wasn't raining, last week, I took this picture of four doggies waiting for their walker, sprawled out on the sidewalk. Reminded me of Ashley's crazy collection of NYC dog photos—he has taken a ton over the years.

Yesterday I posted on Martha's thecraftsdept blog how to make this kooky eyeball t-shirt. You may think it is too early for Halloween, but I wear my eyeball tee all year round! Check it out, it's easy to make and will catch a lot of eyes ;)

SKULLS.

I'm not exactly sure when skulls became so trendy, but they are beginning to haunt me. They are everywhere... really everywhere... it's overwhelming.

Designboom wrote a pedantic post about the history of death's head symbol. I prefer the use of the skull when it has meaning over it just being a statement of "cool". 
Skulls in works of art...

... and 3-dimensional art...

... sculptural and made into jewelry...

... and straight up bejeweled...

... or totally decked out in diamonds...

... and studded for fashion apparel...

... printed on silks and carved into hardware...

... and cleverly interpreted differently everyday...

We've gone skull crazy—bedeviled head-cases infatuated with ourselves. It seems so narcissistic of us? wait... what ... we are.

sources:

skull graphic—All is Vanity—Dali's women skull—cassette tape skull—Ikea box skull—skull spoons—twine wrapped skulls—structural skull ring—Dior Joaillerie's "Coffret de Victoire"—Alexander McQueen skull ring—Antique Georgian Memorial rings—skull beads on ebay—Damien Hirst's ridiculous diamond skull Thomas Wylde leather pants, emblem & dress—skull heels—McQueen scarf and clutch—Noah Scalin's Skull a day projects

cardboard frame

Was perusing through The Selby and discovered this frame made completely out of cardboard. It's ridiculously amazing & I want to make one.

Beautiful Emmanuelle

Watched Roman Polanski's 1988 film Frantic. The movie stars Harrison Ford with the young and cunning Emmanuelle Seigner as his sidekick. Besides the actress having a bad ass 80's style—I was intrigued by the unfamiliar french face and decided to do a bit of googling (since it is so convenient to, when you are watching Netflix from your laptop).

Turns out she is Polanski's wife (among other things)!—where have I been? and how does Roman score such hotties?

My "Emmanuelle" Internet search made me discover another french starlet I hadn't thought about in probably two decades...remember the 1987 movie Date with an Angel?... yeah well I was pretty fascinated with "the angel" when I was a kid and wound up rediscovered her via Google and my fascination continues with Emmanuelle Béart.

Is there another beautiful Emmanuelle that I don't know about? 

I got nothing.

except a picture of my reflection in a mirror at Martha's—was up there for a visit.