Maquette

I like these quote posters:

1. Robert Ingersoll quote via Lola News blog
2. Dazeychic on Etsy
3. “You are my sunshine” by Jess Gonacha on Etsy
4. Another one by Dazeychic

Here’s a post on Tauba Auerbach I did a while ago. I love her use of text.

Hello there Maquette friends,
I’ve been working on lots of projects for “business” so I needed a little break and thought I’d just do a new drawing for myself. I do at least a drawing a day but usually just doodles. I thought I’d take this one a little further. I am totally obsessed with color so I thought it would be interesting to try working tonally with just black, white, and gray. Then I played with adding a little color and doubling the girl.

I sent it off to Jessica, she may want it for Shiny Squirrel Shop. Then we can reduce my other stuff in there. It’s time for something new. Shiny Squirrel just blew up the spot in Nylon Magazine. Yay Jessica.

1. Rachel Pally
2. Thread
3. Philip Lim

I’m all aboard the long dress trend. I think my wedding dress last year gave me a taste for it. They are so flattering and classy. I lucked out at Century 21 and found a DVF one. I might wear it to a wedding later this summer or something. I need to start jogging again though or it just might accentuate a curve or two that I don’t want exposed. Maggie Gyllenhaal is perfection. She’s my favorite. See this picture I pulled from Coquette’s post on the Dark Knight premier. I also found this DVF gem. So many choices out there. What a great trend, glad it’s back.

Here’s a crumpled old photo of me as a kid donning the fairy/flower child style:

Dave and I had a really spectacular long weekend in the beautiful Berkshires. Everything there is lush and green. We went for some fun hikes, we swam, picked and ate wild blueberries on the top of a mountain, and enjoyed a visit to Massachusetts Museum Of Contemporary Art (Mass Moca). I’ve posted about it before here. One of the exhibits we enjoyed was entitled Badlands: New Horizons In Landscapes. The exhibit features many artists perspective on landscape art engaging new ideas about exploration, land use politics, and the relativity of aesthetic beauty. One artist, Vaughn Bell created Personal Home Biospheres suspended from the ceiling. They were small scale natural environments encased in Plexiglas domes. We put our heads through the opening in the bottom of each biosphere, literally inserting ourselves into the micro- environments. Bell uses the natural fauna from the Berks. I thought each biosphere was aesthetically interesting and I enjoyed the interactive experience of entering the mini environment.

Hi everyone, I could not be more excited to welcome one of my favorite bloggers and designers in the world, Mary Jo Matsumoto of Trust Your Style. I told her I’d be off this weekend to the Berkshires for some blueberry picking, swimming, hiking etc. and just look what she whipped up at Polyvore! If you have not already checked out her fabulous blog and stunning jewelry, accessories, + clutches, do so now. I truly want everything she picked especially that hat, those jeans, that high wasted skirt….the ring….ok everything! See you Monday.

Here’s what MJM says:

Hello everyone! This is Mary Jo from TrustYourStyle and I am so honored that dear Samantha has invited me to put together a blog post for you all today! This is a little dream-vacation wardrobe I put together for Samantha so that she could better pick blueberries, hike, dance, and do some lake-swimming. If you click on each image it will take you to the source in case you want to scoop it up for your own dream-weekend.