To Do

To do list:
1. start smoking
2. grow hair long & dye back to original dark color
3. stop putting arms through sleeves in trench coat


















From one of my favorite blogs, Garance Dorè

Food I Just Made Out of Food about to Go Bad in my Fridge

• chinese meatballs
  - ground turkey on the verge
  - 1/2 an onion
  - old rice
  
• fried rice
  - old rice
  - also used edamame and peas & carrots from the freezer, and someone else who lives in this house says I never use the stuff from the freezer, so... bonus!
• cornbread
  - buttermilk creeping towards that expiration date
• banana bread
  - brown bananas
  - more of that buttermilk
  

Making Lists from Lists

Looking at lists from my 2009 & 2010 trips to New York City to make my list for 2011.

Things I Took Pictures of Yesterday with my Brand New Camera

1. meatball sub!



















2. geese



















3. Simon



















4. dark hersheys kisses



















5. wine and feet



















6. ceiling



















7. cat?



















8. cat!

Borderless Books from Borders

Yesterday we went to Borders for their next-to-last-day going-out-of-business sale. Seeing as how everything was 90% off and we both like to read, we bought 34 books for $54.72, saving $540! Now to go spend that $540 we just saved! (Just kidding!)

The novels and memoirs I picked out shared a common theme: they are from all over! Here are some of the places in which these books take place:

• Trinidad
• Brazil
• France
• Afghanistan
• Iran
• Taiwan
• Ireland

Muses for Go Change

Some of the things that inspired me while working on the paintings, stories and drawings in my show Go Change, which opens tonight at Flicker Street Studio (74 Flicker Street, 6-9 PM):

• my friends
• my family
• Dusty Springfield
• The album God Help the Girl by the guy from Belle and Sebastian
• lots of photographs
• nearly every book I've ever read, but specifically: The Help, Lives of Girls and Women, At Mrs. Lippincote's, Jane Eyre, The Elegance of the Hedghog, My Life in France 
• being a girl

Today's Sketch Group, by the Numbers

Today's Memphis Urban Sketchers sketch group was at the Dixon Gallery and Gardens. Here are a few things I saw there today:

• Chipmunks: 4
• Mosquito bites on me after sketching in the garden: 7
• Giant spider webs: 2
• Giant spider webs I almost walked into: 1
• Sketchers: 10
• Other artists who happened to be there at the same time: 1