Thursday, August 27, 2009

oh...

As I sit here... waiting... hoping... wishing (whatever good that will do) that our house may finally sell.... I go over the 75+ homes that we've seen in the last 3 months, trying to imagine living in them in my mind, what great design ideas I could explore in our new house. I stumbled across this neato lamp today.
Then I imagined this over the bar in the kitchen.... I could go on and on...

I have a fantastic idea for a headboard too... but that will wait... with me.. as I wonder.. and continue to wait... to find out... if our house will finally sell. the end. ho.. hum.. de dum..

Thursday, July 16, 2009

4 years

For our 4th anniversary we decided to do something other than the usual dinner night, so we picked up a BBQ picnic and a bottle of wine, and drove up Big Cottonwood Canyon to Donut Falls. The weather and the drive were beautiful, and we had a romantic dinner near a stream. Then we hiked up to the falls which were not quite as beautiful as they used to be since the filled it in. some... I think. Regardless the night was perfect and romantic. I look forward to spending many more nights like that together.





Wednesday, July 15, 2009

take a look

julio

One of my most inspirational professors from college Julio Bermudez, recently published an article in 'Faith & Form' magazine, after years of research. He posted a list of buildings, that in his research are ranked highest for eliciting EAEs, Extraordinary Architectural Experiences. I have been to a few of the places already, but most of the others are already on my list of what I will see, with a few additional others, such as the pyramids in Egypt and Santorini. I love dreaming of the places I will visit in the future....

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

...and meag's







nic nic b-day.




I forgot to post pics from Nic's belated birthday dinner, so here they are, taken at one of our fav restaurants Cinegrill.

st. kitts





Beach day!


Antigua
























Tuesday, June 30, 2009

st. lucia

Okay so I know I've called the past four islands all beautiful, but they are and this one almost tops the list, hell even Oprah vacations here, it's so pretty. Okay so I was a little naive when I booked the shore excursion here, but when it said "The world's only drive-in volcano," I imagined driving in this mysterious vehicle through the jungle to tippy top of the mouth of volcano where magma and lava ooze and boil. It wasn't. don't get me wrong it was cool, but if you've been to Yellostone, which I have, it's doesn't seem quite so impressive. Maybe it was the gusts of rotten egg swallows your breath, so disgusting that you can taste it through your nose AND your mouth. Yes it really was that bad, but beautiful!



We stopped for a photo op at a look out point and this amazing basket weaver was there selling baskets, he sold all of them and in my traditional form of waiting until the last minute, as the van was leaving I asked him how long it would take to make another basket. Before the words had come out of my mouth, he was already weaving, and I'm not kidding, he answered with, "Don't you worry baby, this basket will be finished before your tour leaves, and if they try I will hop on and walk back after I finish." Within minutes my basket was finished! It was truly amazing, and an awesome souvenir, which by the way I had to sneak through security... oops.



Sulphur Springs, the water was not nearly as stinky as the collapse volcano with oozing nauseous gases and it's supposed to be really great for your skin, the problem was it was about 100 degrees and too hot for me. This guy was one of 3 to get all the way in from our group.


This was the last stop on the tour, and for $5 who could resist this?! Fresh off the grill chicken, seasoned crab cakes, and fried sweet bread... mmmm... my mouth is watering...