#27

#27 on my list is to get my medical file organized. since developing rheumatoid arthritis, the amount of paper work related to my health has grown exponentially. the system i set up last year just wasn't cutting it any more. so, i sorted everything out by doctor with a couple of extra sections for insurance companies, clinic visits, etc. and voila! nice and organized. (although, i can see already that i'm going to need a bigger binder. eeek.)

claire danes

(images from dailymakeover.com)


i've always liked claire danes. i was obsessed with my so-called life back in the day. but man. claire danes is looking fabulous these days! so very, very pretty!

wanderlust

i'm such a sagittarius.

i want to go pretty much everywhere.

places i have been:
boston (though not in a very long time)
chicago
florida
japan (2 trips + 1 year of living)
l.a.
new orleans
philadelphia
portland
seattle

places i want to go:
paris
thailand
san francisco
london
south korea
china
ireland
barcelona
madrid
florence
venice
austin, tx
amsterdam
bruges
argentina
hawaii
moscow
tibet
india
south africa
sydney
melbourne
new zealand



where do you want to go?

52 projects

how have i never heard of this site before? such fabulous ideas!!

i love this one:

Take some chopsticks from your kitchen drawer (the one where all the take out chop sticks get thrown), and, along with $25 cash and a take out Chinese food menu, seal them up in an envelope. Mail off the envelope to one of your currently unemployed friends, your college-aged kid brother or sister, a person you know who is financially strapped at the moment.

Keep it anonymous. Do not hand write the mailing address or enclose a note. Include the take out Chinese food menu regardless of geographical issues. You want to be sure that the person you mail the envelope to gets the right message and orders up some good take out.

and this one!

Find your old letters. Gather up all of the letters that one of your oldest friends has sent to you over the years. Photocopy the letters. Put the photocopies in an envelope, and then mail off the envelope to your friend.

i'm sure i will find plenty of others to love, too, when i have some free time to go through them all!

a happy morning

a few days ago, holly from decor8 had a post about walking around her neighborhood in germany. she mentioned that she has been drawing big happy faces in the snow on cars around the area. something about that just made me really happy and stuck with me. so, this morning, when i awoke to a dusting of snow, i decorated several cars in jackson heights while i took henry for a walk. it made me so happy!! i hope it made my neighbors smile, too. =)

i'm in trouble

i'm broke, but oh how i love this scarf from martha at uniform natural. yes, please. i like the gray one, too.

sixty-four colors

when dani & i met in washington last summer, we decided we needed some kind of collaborative project. i came up with the idea to draw a color each week out of the crayola box of 64 and our project was born. it has been so much fun to hunt for a particular color each week and put them together in a diptych.

sixtyfourcolors.blogspot.com


(my favorite diptych so far)

so many people asked about doing something similar, that we started a group over on flickr. after we do our diptych, the group has the rest of the week to search for that color. want to join in the fun?

and while we're at it - cross #26 off the list!

the list

33 things to do before i turn 34

1. go ice skating in central park
2. walk across the manhattan bridge
3. give my husband lots of kisses (in progress)
4. give my puppy lots of cuddles
5. make something with my sewing machine (find parts first)
6. go to the beach
7. renew my passport
8. learn a new recipe
9. make more handmade gifts
10. surprise someone
11. have my photos published
12. visit at least one new city
13. go to the new museum
14. read five books for fun
15. shoot more film (in progress)
16. practice random acts of kindness (in progress)
17. buy or make curtains for my bare windows
18. give my mom & dad big hugs
19. ride a bicycle
20. play skeeball
21. have dinner at tree
22. mail letters to my favorite people, near & far (in progress)
23. learn to crochet
24. go the macy's thanksgiving day parade &/or the greenwich village halloween parade
25. go to a county fair
26. start a new photo project
27. get my medical file organized
28. shop at more thrift/vintage stores (in progress)
29. open an etsy shop
30. clear out the clutter (in progress)
31. add to the list of flickr friends i have met in real life
32. organize my workspace at home (in progress)
33. document this list

33 things

for my 33rd birthday, i made a list of 33 things to do before i turn 34. i am always so inspired by the lists that andrea, kristin, elizabeth & dani make, so i wanted to give it a whirl this year. elizabeth, in particular, made an awesome mini book to document her last list. i used to scrapbook a lot, but now that everything is online, i haven't done anything. a mini book seems like just the ticket to get back on the crafty track.

so, taking inspiration from elizabeth, her inspiration (elise blaha) and ali edwards' december daily books, here is the beginning of my 33 things book. mostly assembled and waiting for the documentation to begin!

































(can i just say how happy i was to find these sparkly aqua letters at target? and how happy i was to use my new japanese masking tape? hint: the answer is very.)