I'll discuss my recent obsession with period costuming (in particular the Regency era -- think Jane Austen) under a cut, because I don't know if this will interest anyone at all!

( some thoughts on period costuming... )

I'm going back to England for a two-week visit in just less than two weeks.

I have been feeling some serious nostalgia for England (I think I'm too young for that). Anyways, I decided to reread some of my journal entries from my time over there -- in my written journal -- and found this little beauty that I don't think I ever posted to LJ.

Things Which Are Quintessentially British (A List):
1. Wellies
2. Tea, even if it doesn ( Read more... )

Miles Davis' Kind of Blue is bloody brilliant. Every time I listen to it, I am astounded by the man's utter musical genius.

If I could go anywhere, right now and instantly and for a stay long as I liked, where would I go? Somewhere I love -- Washington D.C., Edinburgh, Venice, Snowdonia National Park? To visit someone -- someone I haven't seen in a long time, someone I've lost touch with, someone who I love to spend time with? Somewhere I've never been -- Paris, ( Read more... )

I've decided, amidst all my cookie-baking and other baking of late, that eating raw cookie dough is a little bit like living. It's sometimes messy, and it might cause you to die (from that nasty salmonella), but it's mostly worth it because it's just so sweet and delicious.

Candles burning away on my bookshelf, a doorstop of a book which I am nearly 200 pages into already (it's The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Vol. I, if anyone is curious), a mug of chamomile tea close at hand, some good music, and the night is only just beginning. The only thing that would be better would be to add a thunderstorm to the mix.

It must be ( Read more... )

First, a brief bit of happy news: I finally got my lovely Andy Warhol print framed (it says "the world fascinates me.") and my $4 vintage-look map of England is getting a $90 frame (that's what I get for buying a non-standard sized print). Once the map gets back from the framer's, I'll be hanging up all my art. Finally, my poster from Chicago (the ( Read more... )

It's after 1am and I can't get food off my mind. Tomorrow is Mother's Day and I'm in charge of cooking (asparagus & spinach quiche and lime yogurt cake because I will take any excuse to bake). But I thought that instead of talking about things I'd made lately, I'd talk about my favourite restaurants. Unfortunately for North American types ( ( Read more... )