Archives for August 2010

Favorite Blog: The Purl Bee

August 30, 2010

http://www.purlbee.com/

I just love this blog. It makes me wish I knew how to knit! To think of all the adorable things I could be making!

The purl bee has a shop in NYC’s Soho- Purl Soho.

This shop looks like it’s straight from my most wonderful dream.

It’s out of a storybook.

I hope I can make it to this shop the next time I’m in the city.

I would be in heaven.

While browsing the blog, I came across this simple lunch bag. I love it and it’s so fitting, as I am going back to school today! Staff meetings at school all day–

wish I had a lunch bag like this one to hold my PB&J.

photo credit: The Purl Bee

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that upside down feeling…

August 30, 2010

I bought this card a few days ago and am planning on putting it in a frame. Somewhere where I can see it every day.

It just put such a smile on my face.

I love that upside down feeling when you’re on a swing.

The one where your stomach flips as if you were on a roller coaster.

That

the

best

feeling

the

world.

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Fifty, Nifty, United STATES

August 30, 2010

This is the most amazing map of the United States EVER.

I found it in a shop in Chatham and it costs $3,900.00

SHUCKS.

The artist, Aaron Foster works with vintage license plates to make spectacular wall art. He’s even been on TV and sometimes, replicas of his work can be found at Target (now THAT’s more my budget!).

This taxi cab, made from a NY license plate, is one of my favorites!

“I always wonder about the history of the vintage plates I use, what roads they may have traveled down and where they might be headed next, like the cars they once belonged to, I hope that my artwork will take fantastic journeys in the lives of their owners and always remind them of life’s eternal sense of adventure.”

-Aaron Foster

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This summer flew past, right before my eyes. I can not believe how fast it went actually. So super fast– like those horses and jockeys at the Saratoga race track. Whew! Mostly, I was finishing up my coursework, but also, I was having fun.

I finished up the Summer Compass Program (a Lesley University/Cambridge Public Schools partnership) with an extreme sense of accomplishment. Mostly because I can’t even belieeeeeve how much paperwork I finished in only 6 weeks, but also because I really did feel like a reading teacher. :)

The other reading specialists I worked with (pictured above) were all AMAZING. I loved spending my days in the reading room with them, working as colleagues, and getting to know them as friends. I will miss this group and will have great memories of our crazy summer together!

I did also manage (although I’m not quite sure how) to do other summer-y things with other fabulous people in my life. LUCKILY, I have the documentation to prove it. Here is my summer in a nutshell….OR, more appropriately, a CLAM shell. Wish it could go on forever.

I made it to a red sox game!

I enjoyed a night out with friends at an HWS/SLU alumni event…

Hung out with Zan’s fam… ate a good amount of ice cream…

Went down to Greenwich to spend time with family…. got some pics with my Aunt Heidi’s chicken coup…

Fresh eggs, anyone?

Drank PBRs with the guys…

Loved me some EE and Aaron…

Becca came to visit and she cooked up a delicious meal!

I am the proud new owner of a FABULOUS FIT-

I took a weekend trip to the Cuse and spent most of my time in Skan-town… picked some corn, ate some veggies, hung out with my cousins, spent time with Tinsley, and got to see MO!!