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Tuesday

Here are some more findings from Umajimaya:

glass storage jars

wooden sake cups

razor

black q-tips!

little dish rags

Monday

Beautiful farmers market produce and another delicious roast chicken- Giovanna, I took your advice and put some sliced fennel underneath, so good!

Lunch at Le Pichet

Here are some more shots from Giovanna and John's home in Portland since my last post got deleted. See more here :)

Reposting some images that I accidentally deleted from that photobucket... Anyone know how to use flickr to resize images? I just realized I have to pay for photobucket!

Margiela + Yoji shoes

Majiela trench

at Totokaelo!

Friday

Went to my favorite market the other day called UWAJIMAYA and spent about two hours looking at magazines and another two looking through the actual market...

Come Home! is one of my all time favorite living magazines, I looked at every volume :)

I love older women with such good style

aren't these food containers perfect?

my two favorite things on a one page spread: Chemex and Japanese toothbrushes

they have the best produce and meats...

Then came home and made dinner! Instant miso soup, cucumber salad, soba noodles with garlic, green onion, chili pepper and tofu, and bok choy with kobe beef!

oh, and dessert! my favorite!

Monday

Finally! Here are the necklaces my mom and I collaborated on! My mom is a jewelry designer, so we decided to make a special collection of necklaces together. I found these rocks (remember?) at AGATE BEACH in BOLINAS, CALIFORNIA (a very unusual hidden beach with the most incredible treasures) and she hand cast them from bronze. They all come with an interchangeable black and brown deer skin cord that you can size yourself. AT TOTOKAELO! Hope you like! P.s.- there is no rock inside, it it pure bronze:)

Here are some good Swedish crackers we ate with cheese and salad.

Thursday

Warm tuna salad! So easy, just pan fry some green beans and super thinly sliced potatoes with a little garlic and chili pepper, then at the last minute toss in a can of tuna- presto! I am really excited- we finally got a studio! It's very tiny, but cute. I will post pictures soon. We are getting a table made today and should have it by the weekend :)

Wednesday

We went to the Nordic Museum near our house this last weekend and it was so worth it- check out these awesome woven textiles! They totally remind me of EATABLE OF MANY ORDERS, except these are one hundred years old :)

Tuesday

My beautiful Satomi Kawakita ring! I will treasure it forever, so delicate! Thank you Satomi :)

Sunday

Jägerschnitzel mit knädeln und krautsalat!

To make the dumplings:

-mince white onion and fry until camelized

-two ladels flour

-two eggs

-one heaping spoon of creme fraiche or greek yogurt

-salt

-cilantro

-boil water

-using a flat knife cut small chunks into water

-drain and top with homemade butter

Wednesday

Sunny day in our apartment! Below: handmade Japanese candles from vegetable wax, paperclip sculpture by M, tin box and wooden puzzle from Tortoise! o and candles too!

Today Gail and I went for a nice long walk at Discovery Park. It was actually sunny out earlier, believe it or not, but turned a little gray as it got later...

Coffee from my new Chemex! It took me a while to learn how to use, but it does seem to make the coffee taste better (the filters are thicker and remove oil and impurities). Walk with Taylor at Carkeek.

Tuesday

I used to work as an atelierista for a Reggio Emilia inspired preschool and this is a project we did exploring color. The dialogue this project invoked was incredible, "Look, I am using my hair as a paintbrush!" and "Something is happening, it's green!" I miss working with children, they are such an inspiration!

Spent the other night cooking sausage and kale soup while listening to Sasha's mix! I got to use the homemade stock I had made from the chicken I roasted, man I am never going back to bouillon! Thanks so much Sasha!

Friday

How devastating is the tragedy in Haiti.... ugh it makes my stomach turn. I pray that all the families of the women Verrettes are safe. In 2007 I worked with the co-op Famn Veret to develop a line of computer and i-phone cases from felt with Dutch journalist Ton Vriens. They have since produced beautiful products from the organic, plant-dyed wool I use. Please read more here and support them by purchasing one. You can also help by purchasing anything at Heath Ceramics, 25% will be donated to Architecture for Humanity's earthquake reconstruction efforts in Haiti.

Wednesday

Tuesday

Since the New Year we have decided to be a little bit more active in seeing/doing all the touristy Seattle things. We read an article about how people living in a city rarely see/do as much as tourists that visit the city for just a few days, which I found to be true for me since I have yet to walk over the Golden Gate Bridge! We started with brunch at Boat Street Cafe!

Then walked up to Queene Anne for an incredible view at Kerry Park. We were going to go on the Space Needle but it was like $17.50 or something ridiculous, so we walked up the hill to see this view of the city, which I though was way nicer anyway!

Doris Chase (1971) sculpture

Paul Horiuchi (1962) mosaic

Monday

Hip hip hurray! I finally figured out how to make bigger photos! Sure took me long enough... Aren't these toothbrushes cool? I am a toothbrush collector (well can I call myself that if I use them?) and I went crazy when I found these at Tortoise while I was back at home over the holidays. The pink one has boar hair bristles!

So, here it goes, I followed this tutorial, but found that flickr made the photos too big/too small (I wanted them to be in between) so I used photobucket. I was really resisting having to upload images to another site just to make them bigger, but it turns out it takes just as long to "upload" them through blogger. It's crazy blogger doesn't make an even larger size available... hello!

Since that tutorial doesn't tell you what size to select on photobucket, I had to troubleshoot and figured out the following: create an account, upload the photo, click on it, then "resize" it to "Large (640x4800)", then scroll a bit down the page and copy the "HTML code" and paste it into your "New Post" box and publish. Whew... hope that makes sense! Good luck!

Here are some shots from my friend Alison's apartment. Below: bison wool we're working with!

Friday

One of my New Year's resolutions is to practice roasting a chicken to perfection. I usually don't take the time to follow directions and they don't turn out quite as good as they could. I've looked at many recipes and the one that I did last night was simple and fast. Here is my rendition from Gourmet Mag:

-Preheat oven to 475º

-clean chicken

-make rub with unsalted butter and minced garlic

-rub butter mixture under skin and use remaining to rub inside chicken cavity

-stuff cavity with lemons if you some, truss

-salt pepper

-put in a cast iron skillet

-cook for 20 mins or so or until golden brown

-turn temp down to 350º until cooked

We ate it with roasted curly cabbage and squeezed lemon, I thought it turned out delicious, but I am excited to try out some other recipes to get it down pat! Next I will brine it I think.

Oh! and check out that cute water craft I got at Gravel and Gold!

Any good chicken roasting recommendations?

Blue Bottle chocolate chip cookie- love the serving paper (coffee filter)

While I was back in San francisco I finally got a chance to visit Gravel and Gold. Love the geode planters and wooden crystals.

Wednesday

Some shots from IKO IKO! So happy I got a chance to go visit, the shop looks so great. If you're in L.A. you must go visit, Kristin just got back from Arizona and brought back some mighty fine treasures. Also, I found that Japanese masking tape I posted on Hunter Gatherer for her at Tortoise.