Can you tell I woke up early enough to get some photography in today? I have been wanting to take a picture of my new and improved kitchen display for so long but I have been in a bad staying up until four am habit lately and, as you can imagine, I am waking up [...]

I just couldn’t resist the punning, despite my usual bellyaching about puns being the lazy fall-back for all magazine and newspaper headlines. Oh well, it’s my blog.

Yesterday, I finally got a chance to get to Global Table (aka heaven in a store) and spend the rest of my gift certificate from the holidays (thanks dad!). [...]

I’m still drowning in book stuff (no really, there’s paper everywhere!) but I thought I would pop in to share a few links.

*Beautiful papercut images (shown above) from artist Kako Ueda.

*I Spy, a self-published book featuring the photography of artist Kerry Pitt-Hart. I love her photography of collections and this trend toward self-publishing is really [...]

One of the highlights of my London trip was this exhibit at the Victoria and Albert Museum. If you live in London or happen to be going there, you must go see this! Out of the Ordinary features fine artists using traditional craft materials and techniques in their work.
Below are two of my favorite artists [...]

If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you probably know about strange attraction to French macarons, not the big heavy coconut laden cookies but the airy meringues filled with sweet jams or pastry cream. They’re pretty hard to come by in New York so I was excited when I heard that Parisian pastry [...]

photo of a delicious mocha consumed at Brooklyn Label on Saturday morning
It’s good to be back in Brooklyn! London was really fun and lovely. It was actually so similar to New York that I experienced minimal culture shock and I found the city to be very easy to navigate.
Unfortunately, it rained the whole time I [...]

Thanks for all of the tips and recommendations for my trip! I definitely want to go to the Victoria and Albert Museum and I have always wanted to see the stores Labour and Wait, Caravan and V.V. Rouleaux.
My flight is tomorrow and I have about a thousand things to do before then so I am [...]

Kirsty Hall is a UK based artist who works with materials like pins, salt, dyes and matches. Her latest project (which I learned about thanks to Diane at Craftypod) was called The Diary Project and just finished at the end of the year.

Here are the basic guidelines Kirsty set for herself: “Every day in 2007 [...]

Well, I’m off to London in a week to photograph the book! I can hardly believe it; this thing happened so fast.
I’m mostly going to be cooped up in a photo studio for a few days but I should have a day or two to walk around. I would love to check out some really [...]