easter 2011

in ,

happy easter

how many squares do you count?

setting the set

tablescape

lovely ladies 2

on the hunt

egg hunt

egg coloring with the club

a few very, very good men

egg dye and blue fingers

this easter i attended mass at a church i'd never before been. i sat there in the foreign pews and thought of all the churches before this one. of my catholic upbringing--of how deeply ingrained it is, of its cultural power and pull. i sat in those foreign pews and cried sweet, repentant tears as i marveled at the feelings of deep loneliness and love and uncertainty and utter happiness that existed all at once. the wonder of that--of the complexity and absurdity and absolute loveliness of this life!

easter was  divine. i felt God in my morning service and its accompanying salt-tears. i felt Him in the walk from 175 to 181st. in my chai latte and the clean apartment newly made home. i felt Him in the warmth of my friends' greetings and the communion of old friends meeting new (sometimes i can't believe how many good people i know).  



the egg-dye, egg-hunt, and egg-wars were all just icing on the proverbial cake. 

(and yes, my fingers as i type this are still blue. and might just be for days to come. time will tell. what can i say, i take my art {all art} seriously).

happy weekend!

in


i had the loveliest week here in blog-land. thanks to you all. i'm off to work now but have much of the weekend off. i intend to clean (some sprucing up of my new corner of this castle in the sky is in order), celebrate easter with friends, bake up a storm (shhh, don't tell but the gift for my randomly chosen follower {rebecca, who was informed on tuesday (see, mom?)} will be a rock-hard-solid-loaf-of-soon-to-be-famous banana bread), and then venture out on a little twitter-inspired photo expedition.

i hope you all have a lovely weekend. whether you're celebrating a holiday, just recovering from one, or going about the day-to-day enjoy the earth's renewal in whatever way you choose!



(swooning over the above image from toast's 
catalog--a company with their own ethical manifesto 
{happy earth-day!}).

the violet online!

in

i can't believe what i'm about to share with you all this morning. 
last fall camilla told me she was going to launch an online magazine.
and by golly girls, she's done it. 

and yes, there are other online publications out there. but this one is done by women our age--bloggers who want to change the world.

i was floored when i saw the issue. absolutely speechless.

i can only hope camilla will allow me to contribute the next go round. because baby, i'm in. 



(i mean who wouldn't like a magazine who's we believe section declares, "that you don't have to be a rockefeller to be a rockstar.")


so without further ado: the violet