you guys, i’m really feeling flowers

we got the blight last year in the garden, which means we weren’t going to grow a lot of vegetables this year since they would all die on us just when they should be ripening. boo. so i planted a bunch of flowers!!! [though this last photo of the dried flowers was from some dear friends’ wedding.] i never thought of myself as a flower person before, but here we have it folks.

next, i have to make a skirt from the floral fabric that i bought. anna bond. le sigh. i may or may not have saved all my crafty budget money for june, july, and august to buy massive amounts of her fabric…

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i know what i did last summer

as is our custom, we spent a few days in new jersey at the shore hanging out with the family this summer. as we’re gearing up for our christmas trip, i realized, hey, i haven’t shared about our summer trip. always made better by this little goof ball.

always willing to lend a hand, A makes sure her grandpa doesn’t get burned.

she’s always ready and willing to jump on in with uncle E.

one of the nights there, we decided to take little A to the boardwalk for some rides. while we were standing in line waiting for tickets, she looked up at us and said “let’s do this thing.” so do this thing we did.

standing in line to go on the roller coaster. this kid is fearless. i chose to document rather than climb into a rattling car on a wooden roller coaster. she’s a braver man than i gungadin.

i was hanging out on the porch skyping with my bestie when she walked up me, “uncle E said to tell you that now i have eyebrows like you!” i married a real charmer.

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that’s how you do snowy sundays!

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robert frost trail, snow shoe

it has become clear to us over the last few years that i’m not a skier. so, if we ever want to do outdoor activities together, we had to come up with something other speeding down a mountain on a piece of compressed fiberglass.

enter…SNOW SHOEING!!!!!

so, we went up to the robert frost trail yesterday to tromp around. it was glorious.

our intrepid leader breaking the path

man down. luckily, he landed in a fluffy pile of snow, and not a river.

happy, ’cause it was 25 degrees, and sunny!!!! some bridge twerking eddie was overcome with the masculine need to tackle someone. luckily, he chose jamie friends eating snow #1 [note: the snow is so high, that the waist height sign is barely poking out] friends eating snow #2 friends eating snow #3 [we forgot water bottles] fertig.

a distant far off time of warmth and sunshine

we here in vermont in are of course in the grip of the nasty cold that’s taken over the east coast. while it’s waaaaay to early to be longing for spring if you live this far north [think at least three more months of snow,] i’ve decided to wax philosophic about the fall. my mom and step-dad came to visit us for thanksgiving. in typical new england fashion, we gave them three seasons over the coarse of four days. it started off at 65 degrees and sunny. so we went to the shelburne museum. it my first time going, and it was pretty cool.

i took my coat back to the car, and we frolicked in the sunlight. it was glorious.

two days later, this is what the town looked like.

oh well.

we fled to montréal to drop the fam off at the airport, and the mister and i bopped around town. we discovered that the real hard-core of the world are the quebecois. it was 19 degrees, and NO ONE was wearing say, a hat, or gloves, or boots. we even saw a guy walking around without a coat. though to be fair, his friends were laughing at him. meanwhile eddie and i were wrapped with scarves around our noses.

we went to a ping pong bar in mile end, but it was a pallid replacement for the ping pong bars of berlin. [i realize that i never posted about our favorite ping-pong bar, that will come soon.] but it was nice to be in a city even just for one night.

party leggings!!!!

note hanging on the exit door of one of the subway stations in montréal.

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i made a quilt!!!

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quilts

i made this one for one of my oldest friends. the mister and i went to nyc for a long weekend, and i tried desperately to finish this “demented flying geese” quilt, but failed. thus, i showed to the ‘rents and cooed over baby charlotte, but ultimately ended up finishing the quilt at the mast brothers/ blue bottle coffee shop in williamsburg. such an awesomely hipster thing to do.   i’m all about the hand quilting these days.

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paris: part 9 of ???

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versailles

dudes, we went to versailles. it was at once AWESOME, and AWFUL. so much gold filigree. but the grounds were amazing.

french aristocrat faces. obviously. 

paris: part three of ?.

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food, paris, sacre coeur

we climbed the mountain, and i must say, the sacre coeur is one of the prettiest churches i’ve ever seen. i dig the relative simplicity.        lest you think for even a moment that any part of paris isn’t a theme park…

oldest vineyard in france. it belongs to the monks of the sacre coeur.

not nectar of the strawberries, but nectar of the gods. it has to be at 8€ a tiny bottle. worth it though.

paris: part two of?

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notre dame, orsay, paris, tulleries

life with eddie entails a LOT of museum going. seriously. in my 11 days in paris, we went to seven museums. the orsay was one of them…

one is not supposed to take pictures in the museum, but the french aren’t so rule bound as the germans, so i took some liberties. one of the coolest parts of the museum is their cafe. it’s BEHIND the clock. very “hugo.”

 

honestly though, i was disappointed by the tulleries. i was expecting an english style garden, but, well, it was mostly gravel. a little grass. that you can’t walk on. and a cool pond where kids were racing miniature sail boats.

notre dame was of course beautiful, though i think the sacre cour is more my speed, but we’ll get to that later we hit up shakespear & co., so i felt super hip.

aaaaccchhhhooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
allergies were a wee bit fierce.

space invader was EVERYWHERE. and really, that’s the best street art that paris had to offer.

the narrowest street in paris!

the first “street sign” in paris.

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paris: part one of ?

so! i went to paris! eddie spent march in leeds england, and then april [i know, i’m really behind in adventure sharing] in paris, were i met up with him for my mandatory 10 days of vacations as part of my 6 month contract. i love germany. we planned this month in paris last may when we were getting ready to move to berlin as a hopefully celebration of eddie finishing his manuscript. and i’m proud to report that it all came true! the mister has sent the manuscript to his editor!!!!!

we stayed in the 16th at at victor hugo in an apartment owned by my father-in-law’s friend. it was perfect, and nice to pretend we’re fancy for a few weeks on the heels of moving to neukölln here in berlin. the first day was one of much walking and hot chocolate drinking. not too shabby.

 

champs elysees              turns out the tulleries is mostly made of gravel         paris arcades               la droguerie, fabric heavenfertig[ish]

to love and to lose.

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costco, dad, teddy bear

while procrastinating working on my designerly website, i came across these photos of pops. we were shopping at costco in december of 2011 when he became irrationally attached to this little guy only for the duration of the shopping trip, only to abandon him of a pile of diapers at the checkout isle. ouch.  fertig.