Thanksgiving

Good friends, very good food, and "some" wine make for a real good time.  Everyone made their part of Thanksgiving dinner--I made cranberry sauce, roasted brussels sprouts and a lobster tail for me (I don't eat land or air meats) and we started eating at four and didn't stop until midnight.  We ate our seconds, thirds, and fourths while Youtubing ridiculous & amazing music videos. 

I also made way too much cranberry sauce.  I bought three bags of cranberries and at the last minute decided that I would only use two.  That was still a ton of sauce.  I just figured out what to do with some of my leftovers--quinoa, steamed broccoli, arugula, cucumber....and cranberry sauce.  I might be crazy, but we'll see, I haven't eaten it yet.

Cuttin' down trees.

I decided to make a playlist of songs that remind me of being cold.  (You need to have a Spotify account to listen!)

Stevie Wonder--Happier Than The Morning Sun

Cocteau Twins--Lorelei

The Microphones--Bass Drum Dream

Beach House--Heart of Chambers

Elliott Smith--Everything Means Nothing to Me

Vashti Bunyan--I'd Like to Walk Around in Your Mind

Gillian Welch--I Dream a Highway

Mount Eerie--Thanksgiving

David Rawlings Machine--Ruby

Elliott Smith--Pretty (Ugly Before)

Judee Sill--Lopin' Along Thru the Cosmos

Joni Mitchell--River

Backyard envy.

Lucy and Stephen Marr's backyard via The Selby

Gary Schott

Wonder Object from Mark & Angela Walley on Vimeo.

Find more videos like this on crafthaus

I apologize for all the videos lately, but this is so cool.  It makes me want to learn how to use all those huge machines.  Ironically, I was just watching an episode of Wonder Years where Kevin takes a wood shop class.  The only wood shop class I ever got to take was in 7th grade.  Our school had just been rebuilt and it was the 1st quarter of the new building being open.  Somehow, I was put into a shop class, but none of the machines were set up yet.  We had to sit around and learn how to use all different types of rulers....we never got to make a thing.  Shame, really.

Via Craft Haus

The Shrine/An Argument

The Shrine / An Argument from Sean Pecknold on Vimeo.

Lauren Manoogian

So excited about my new Lauren Manoogian scarf!  We're experiencing a bit of a heat wave in New York, so I can't really wear it yet--but it'll be perfect for Europe and the plane ride there.

A couple of movies that I'm looking forward to seeing.

I know, I know, another Selby film--but this one features a regular customer from my job and I am so completely jealous of her upstate home.  I want one!

Christine Sun Kim

Christine Sun Kim via The Selby and The Nowness

Beacon Pt.2

Suno.

Trying out this super cool Suno necklace that Max & Co gave to us Bird employees a couple months ago.

Upstate daytrip pt.1

Last week we rented a little yellow Fiat 500 and drove upstate to Beacon and New Paltz.  

Brook Farm General Store

My new favorite store.

(Photos by me)