Sorry for the lack of posts… not feeling inspired by much on the web… Also, getting ready to host Thanksgiving at our place this year with friends. I hope to post more gift ideas as they hit me, or rather, as I stumble across them slowly. 🙂 Here’s one Etsy shop that I suggest you look at… I kind of love everything. She’s made it around the blog circuit a lot lately, so I wouldn’t be surprised if her prices go up.
(thanks to mthw for the image)
My favourite part of the Huntington is the cacti and succulent garden. If you are in LA near Pasadena and like plants (or extremely rare books), you should definitely pay it a visit.
To move or not to move…?
Sorry for the lack of posts- midterms this week, as well as just general craziness including a weekend trip to Portland tomorrow after my last class… I’ll be back to more posting next week hopefully. I leave you with some photos of things I’m studying for my Botany lab exam tomorrow! I get to look at about 20 slides and identify them, and various parts of the specimens. Exciting stuff, right? Beautiful though, you ave to admit.
This is what a botany book should look like. I found this a while back… probably at a thrift store, but I don’t remember.
I don’t know if I mentioned this but at the ripe old age of 28 I decided to go back to school to finish my Associates degree, and this semester I’m taking a botany class at Pasadena City College, to fill the science lab-lecture requirement. I was very excited about taking this class, and still am. My teacher is Dr. Debra Fulsom, who is a research botanist for the Huntington Botanical Gardens and also apparently a published author (which I only found upon Googling her!). It’s a fascinating subject for me, as I have been obsessed with plants since I was about 13. Anyway, I just wanted to post this beautiful old botany book and have you compare it to this cover, which is what is on my actual schoolbook… no offense to Van Gogh, but this is inappropriate for a botany book.
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One of the things I miss about working in buying was that year round, as Fashion Week approached, I would be the indirect recipient of the most beautiful and expensively produced invitations from couturiers and small fashion houses around the world. Milan and Paris Fashion Weeks were of course the times when there were no-holds-barred and we’d get the most beautiful invitations. Letterpress; silkscreen; plastic overlays; laser-cut plastic; foil- you name it. It was my job to make sure that my boss got the invitations that he would most certainly care about, but the rest were mine to ogle and dispose of, or (occasionally) hang on my inspiration wall by my desk.
I was reminded of this when reading this article on Hint by Haidee Findlay-Levin, renoun stylist.
*Jealous sigh.
I <3′d you Mr. Newman.
