dear readers, i've been wrestling with a rather

stubborn head cold for the past week, and i

really think this just made me well again.

(well, maybe it is a vast quantity of

ginger lemon tea, vitamin c, zinc &

starting--24 hrs ago--antibiotics that

finally did it.) but, i swear, this place

could have healing powers. someone should

call them up and get one started, don't you think?

Bories and Shearron

a proposal

& not to be missed: their link to the eternal aesthete

springtime

is at hand.

when will you ever bloom

if not here and now?

angelus silesius

photo:

ivan terestchenko

we write everything small, thus saving time

letterheady via the william arthur blog team (go team!)

title quote is translation

of bottom (red) line on

bauhaus stationery

Mr. Dahl

"The cleverest man in the world is called Mr Billy Bubbler. He can invent just about anything you want. He has a marvelous workshop full of wheels and wires and buckets of glue and balls of string and huge pots full of thick foaming stuff that gives off smoke in many colours. There are old motorcar tyres, baskets of carrots and electric machines and sewing machines and fizzy-drink machines and bath tubs and cow's teeth and rice puddings and old shoes and everything else Mr Bubbler needs to make his wonderful inventions."

roald dahl

(the october issue of

world of interiors

has a swell article called

mr. dahl's fantastic box.

written by donald sturrock,

photos by antony crolla.

read it if you can.)

image: here

the probability of light

eva truffaut

here via

m. r. carter

& sam berg

a perfectly kept house is the sign of a misspent life

this. book. is. marvelous.

&

p. s.

look here:

carterjunk tumblr

&

here:

mary randolph carter

&

here,

two excellent reviews:

style court

mrs. blandings

our first highly recommended gift

image via lox papers

happily,

i think this actually classifies as a need

& not just a want. from the always amazing acl.

this

is a great story

(support the arts)

via charming and delightful the little red hen

coeur

they say

it's the thought that counts;

and i'll tell you, friends, this

time it's true. thank you, dear

tim. how much fun was this?

mary randolph carter's new book is out.

& it is just as good as mrs. b says it is.

yep

palette

set

created for

holidays on a high note

design: victoria thorne

via dear kissssing

dove

factory 20

(if you want it, here it is)

factory 20 via design milk

one more reason to go to new zealand

anderson and paul antiques

& say thank you

after someone gives you that boost,

here is where you can sit and look

into their sweet face & say thank you

(behind you, of course, will be

the wall of ladders you just installed)

chairs, ladders: here

boost

here

i think a wall of old ladders

would be just the thing for today.

something to remind you that

every once in a while someone gave you

a boost up. and it made life that much better.

(thanks, someone.)

dear wondrous booktryst

julie blackmon via 16 house

A quick look back (there

there might be more later,

this is it for now): here's how

Sunday/Monday was spent.

Would like to send out sincere

thanks to the brilliantly elegant

Claudia Schwartz of Bell'occhio

for knowing the perfect table

covering (hemp; magnificent)

& sharing it for the event. Another

note of gratitude to very talented

Mercedes McAndrew for coming

by with her marvelous camera

(which will surely supply better

photos than mine) and great eye.

Many thanks to the Foothill

Auxiliary to Peninsula

Family Service for hosting

Holidays on a High Note

and helping transform lives.

at stopping off place

found via topsy design

sometimes i wonder if movies might

be the best medicine. did you ever

ever just think: i need to watch this

movie, stat. like it was going to save

you or something. and the thing is,

i think, maybe sometimes it does.

babette's feast.

stat.