simply lovely

I'm not sure why, but I can't seem to make this blog into anything other than an advertisement for the ShakeIt photo app. I'm a one-trick pony.

This week started with a low-key Valentine's Day at home. Hermit that I am, I can't tell you how pleased it makes me to have reached the point in our lives where holidays are spent homebodying. Cameron made buttermilk pancakes, fruit salad and scrambled eggs with fresh-pressed apple juice for dinner, and we went on a cold evening walk around the neighborhood. I constructed a saccharine Valentine's display of anything red, white, floral, and porcelain in our home, accented by heart paper chains and sugar jars.

Some of the internet i've been loving lately:

-Saipua on the Makers Project
-BHLDN launched on Valentine's Day (aka: Anthropologie weddings), and while I am in love with the concept, the vintage stylings, and the romantic Marie Antoinette details (watch the prelude, it's especially beautiful), there's surprisingly no one item in the shop that I would rush to buy for my own imaginary wedding. (What, you didn't know wedding websites were one of my internet addictions? They are.) I can't quite put my finger on why - the gowns just seem a tad too poufy/high maintenance/frou frou or deliberately wacky/non-traditional for me personally. For example: this one would very nearly be a dream come true but only if you took away the poufy skirt and the Swarovski beading. It's just a titch too "look at me, I'm a faux-vintage wedding dress" for me, but I'd probably die to see it on someone else who could own it better than I. It's all for the best, because it saves me from yearning for a dress that costs $2600. (Why not go to the extremes of the impossible and pine after these three dresses from Valentino? That's how you nail feminine and romantic. And for an elopement or informal dinner wedding, I'd wear this one in a heartbeat - but I'll gladly settle for seeing Michelle Williams wear it to her next premiere. (Am I right??))
-Too much fashion for you? Ah, well, this one has a little bit of short film and a little bit of Elle Fanning thrown in too. The Curve of Forgotten Things is a dreamy little film by Todd Cole featuring the clothes of Rodarte. (Speaking of dream dresses: that blue one!)
-Kate's preview of the new collection of Warby Parker frames
-I started a Pinterest which clearly shows I like wood, books, light, plants, and animals (one. trick. pony.)
-Arcade Fire, and the 'Never Heard of It' Grammys - really amusing and spot-on analysis of music fans and internet cultures
-My best friend just finished assembling an orca whale skeleton for the marine science center she works for. No big deal.
-Have you seen Portlandia? So funny in an absurd, awkward, cringey way. My favorite clips, in order of favorite: I Dream of the 90s, Did You Read?, Hide and Seek, Put a Bird on It.