New York City
I spent all day Saturday volunteering with some friends and coworkers for New York Cares Day. Because we’re book people, we were on a team in charge of repainting a middle school library. As expected, most of the room was slated to remain a standard shade industrial beige. But, for some reason, the columns were …
The Ladies of the Table (About half of us aren’t in the frame. Sorry.) Yesterday evening, I met up with my vegan lady-friends for a Friday Night Dinner at Natural Gourmet. This is what we ate: The Menu Pumpkin Sage Soup with Cashew Cream I am obsessed with this soup. I don’t usually like sage, …
Yesterday afternoon, I took a ride to Purl Patchwork in Soho to scare up some fabric for my next sewing project: the button-down shirt. After months of drooling over the online store, it was finally time to visit the real bricks-and-mortar location. To be honest, when I walked in, I was expecting it to be …
I love being inspired by the craftiness, creativity, and enthusiasm of others. I definitely have project crushes on these folks: Window FarmsI love this urban gardening/vertical farming project. There’s a great community feel on the website, and I’ve already found a ton of ideas for improving my own window garden. (Photo from the windowfarms Flickr …
