Just a few weeks to go before the mini-nugget arrives! It has been hairy around here with a big leak, insurance people and then construction workers coming in and out, stomach viruses, husbands away in Mexico City, and this baby’s prenatal karate practice. Trying to find my center in the middle of the chaos. Each […]
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On my kitchen counter, there is always a whir of activity. It’s definitely the center point in our home, and it’s the place where you will usually find us all in the middle of one project or another. As you can see, our counter is essentially a giant wooden butcher block. I love the way […]
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Thinking ahead for Spring and when we will have our newborn ruling the roost, I have been making a few things for the children now so that they can wear them later. Blue, while I know this will not be popular to admit, is one of my least favorite colors. My Gran, who took care […]
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Mira and I ended up spending our Valentine’s Day day together. She had two PINK eyes, and I had been up all night long the night before with HEART BURN. We were quite the pair! Since Mira was feeling well besides the gory looking eyes, we just enjoyed hanging out together and doing errands around […]
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(photo credit: http://www.tate.org.uk/tateetc/issue10/dancingwhitedarkness.htm) The divine Maya Deren. Experimental film maker and actress who lived on the Lower East Side as an artist way before anyone else was doing it. There is something intensely awake about her on film and very, very subtle. Go take a peek here. And, as for a young, up and coming […]
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I'm a New York City mum of three children—Mira, 8, Liev, 6, and our littlest Yummy, Genevieve, 2. I teach mommies, preschool kids, and grade school age children (or "Yummies" as I like to call them) how to make delicious things. Read more…