durham flowers

i love making eve get right in the flowers

a visit to durham a little while ago

beautiful beautiful durham north carolina in the springtime. now that i'm a grown up i can finally see it.

T-bone update

This little cat is a "cat's cat," the way James Salter is a "writer's writer." (She doesn't really want to be held by humans, but she loves when Suki grooms her.)

Internet favorites for June: favorite wallpapers

Here are the other internet favorites!

I don't know when I'll ever own a house. But I dream of having a room of my own where I can write at one desk and draw at another. I don't think my gf would like to have wallpaper--she's all about simple, white-box style--so I'd need my own space to put up one of these beautiful beautiful prints.

Hygge and West is what kicked off this strange new obsession with wallpaper. Feast your eyes on these beautiful designs from Rifle Paper Company:

1. Rosa in indigo

internet favorites for october: 3 favorite online stores

Some more internet favorites from a grizzled internet veteran.

1. Kaufmann Mercantile. Everything here would be a great gift for my boo. It's a lot of hard-wearing, all-natural, Brooklyn-ish homewares, the kind that's hard to find on the internet.

Since we don't have space for much, we've started to care even about the beauty of things like sponges and laundry hampers. That way everything's beautiful from the inside out, and even cleaning wares can be put on display.


2. OMG Posters!
 I keep worrying that whoever updates this site will quit, because it seems too good to be true. This site documents all the noteworthy new poster releases from all kinds of independent and under-the-radar designers. They're mostly concert posters or art prints, mostly screen-printed, mostly limited-run. You can't shop directly on OMG Posters, but the site gives you links to buy everything that's featured. I've gotten so many of my very favorite decorations from them. I'm recently really digging these Thick Lines posters by Aaron Draplin.

3. ASOS Africa
These clothes hit every nail on the head. They're wearable, weird, and pretty affordable (especially when on sale), and they're sustainably made in Africa. I'm always checking back to see their latest items.

internet favorites for august: my favorite two apartments on the selby

i recently moved apartments, so i've been buying furniture for the very first time. eve and i have had so much fun picking out muji sheets, home depot crates, my little pine nightstand from ikea, and other things that fit in the simple/cheap/natural triad.

i love reading home decor blogs, but i rarely find anything i find actually inspiring--something that makes me want to get up and do it myself. well here are my two favorite-ever apartments photographed by todd selby that are really special and make me very excited to make new things.

katsuya kamo-- a hairdresser from tokyo who has created or amassed a huge collection of shadowboxes. i'm obsessed. i love the one that's all white-paper geometric solids, or the one that seems to show an arrangement of twigs in front of an image of tall mountains.

cheri messerli and david rager--these photos, from 2008, show their loft in brooklyn. (they've since moved to paris, how beautiful!) i love how theatrical their space is. dark jewel tones and paper-white sheets and lamps. it reminds me of shakespeare and company.

all photographs from the selby.

visit to durham nc, 2013

Durham, North Carolina, 2011

 Photos from my hometown and my house.