Posted: May 10th, 2010 | Author: admin | Filed under: house, maine | Tags: reuse, salvage, stuff, thrift | No Comments »
my parents introduced us to this great place in Hollis, Maine, a sort of salvage yard and flea market that has a little bit of everything. I bought an old wire greeting-card rack to display my cards at craft fairs! And we’re thinking of buying an old kitchen sink from them too. Anyway, I love just poking around all the weird old stuff here.
nice collection of old wooden crates
so many sinks to choose from
glass insulators
a trailer full of books
Posted: December 17th, 2009 | Author: admin | Filed under: life | Tags: junk, life, moving, packing, stuff | No Comments »
I’m trying to sort through three years’ accumulated books and clothes and art supplies and papers and dust and junk and souvenirs and stuff! Once again I have to condense my worldly things down to two suitcases and maybe a few cardboard boxes (maybe we’ll be able to ship a few things in a container ship? still not sure if it’s affordable). This is alternately sad and exciting, tiresome and pleasurable. The truth is that I love stuff. And I hate to get rid of anything that I might want later. Which makes this kind of fun and also really difficult. I keep thinking that I might rather just stay in South America for the rest of my life rather than have to decide what to bring and what to leave behind. Sigh.
Posted: December 8th, 2008 | Author: admin | Filed under: travel, work | Tags: beach, dogs, salta, stuff, turismo, uruguay, vacation | No Comments »
Lots of exciting and awesome things have happened in the past few weeks/months, and all of these exciting things have been keeping me very very busy. Too busy to blog! I’d like to go back and write a more detailed entry about each of these things, but for now here’s a quick list:
-October: weekend at the beach in Uruguay with Julia and friends.
-November: taking Level 5 spanish course at the University of Buenos Aires aka La UBA
-November: got the worst flu
-November: Amy Sawyer came to visit, yaaayyy!!
-November: 8-day trip to Salta and Tucuman provinces in the north of Argentina
-November: nice mention of Morris & Essex on Design*Sponge, which brought me tons of card orders and wholesale inquiries! i’ve been working like a sleep-deprived madwoman to fill wholesale orders and keep up with it all. I am my own sweatshop.
-December: adopted a new puppy! we wanted a friend for Emmylou Elbows, who seemed terribly sad and lonely and scared all the time. new puppy is adorable and fearless and nameless. we’re thinking of calling her Inga Josefina.
