yay family day

pictured left to right:
super rad sis-in-law, awesome mom-in-law, me, totally rockin' hubs
not pictured: Mr.Schlancey.

darling mr.mischief

my darling nephew, jake and I hanging out at the Tacoma Dome watching some highschool football. eating hotdogs and yelling at the ref's. not a bad way to spend a saturday!

Hello, Calacatta Gold, are you out there?

Word on the street is that a high profile project in Dubai has bought up 10 million square feet of calacatta gold marble, effectively shutting off the supply from the one mountain in italy to the rest of the world. I dont think it's good form to use profantities on a blog. But Fuck.
This is what I call a design crisis. I need 2o slabs. Stat. If you see any, you know, laying around, please send them my way.

something new

This one's for you cheffy.

I'm not in the holiday spirit much this year, and as a result, the christmas music that the ladies in my office have blaring is either:

a. making me grumpier

b. putting me to sleep (this is happening as i type)

or maybe c, "both".

Favorite thing of the holiday season so far: Sonna's mom's Russian Tea.

cheffy- this is a combo of Tang, sugar, instant tea, and cinamon. it's magic.

NB Ladies + Champagne

The lovely ladies at NB Design Group finally threw a party to celebrate our new office space! It was a wild party with over 300 people from the design community stopping by to toast our new digs. I'm at work today, feeling a little *sleepy. Insert the obvious adjective that usually follows a late night out. Cheers!

be inspired

I dont normally cry when 'famous' people die. in fact, I dont think I ever have.

I did last night.

and I might again as I type this:
"no one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven dont want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change again. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become old and be cleared away. Your time is limited, so sdont waste it living someone else's life. Dont be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Dont let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary." -Steve Jobs

orange crush: part 2

several years back I took on the challenge of 're-decorating' my then boyfriend's bachelor pad. the goal was to create a space that I could live in... which meant removing the black plastic playboy shower curtain and removing the mold from the sink dishes. ewwwwww. (to his credit, the offending dishes were not his. there is no excuse however, for the shower curtain).

at some point i introduced orange into the space. the then boyfriend (now husband) went a little crazy (read: obsessed) with the new color, and it took years (literally) to get the orange back OUT of the house. Now.. believe it or not, I'm hot to bring it back.

The obsession has shifted back to me in a fit of tangerine induced karma.