The boy and the dog are off on a camping trip without me. While I trust they are having a great time - and I am happy for them - I am finding myself missing them greatly.
6.27.2009
6 days of sadness ensues
The boy and the dog are off on a camping trip without me. While I trust they are having a great time - and I am happy for them - I am finding myself missing them greatly.
Shade Structure
ARTEKS Arquitectura created these sculptural shade structures in Spain. They mimic the shape of nearby pine trees. The park needed shade, but the salt spray from nearby ocean made it difficult to grow the same trees. The structure is fiberglass and salt-resistant.
I love how they varied the angles to mimic the pine tree's shape. Awesome.
Jimmy Choo + H&M
I hope one of the select stores is MPLS. Jimmy Choo handbags, shoes and accessories featured at H&M this November. Yippie!!
image via dexinger.com
Dear MPLS, please catch up
June 23rd SF signed into law mandating all residents and businesses to separate their recycling and compost material from normal trash. No other city requires separation of food scraps and food material to be composted. It will go into effect this fall and will reduce greenhouse gas and increase landfill diversion by 75%.
Awesome.
6.25.2009
Get lost
Maybe if I go to one of these places and stay long enough, that thing I'm most afraid of will just go away?
Pentagram and Marlboro Re-design
Obama has made marketing to cigarettes more difficult. Some of the new rules include print ads in only black and white. The St. Petersburg Times asked Pentagram partner, DJ Stout, to redesign the packaging based on new rules.
Stout says that to pull that off, tobacco companies could embrace tobacco’s deadly effects: “Over the years there has been an onslaught of public awareness messaging about the evils of smoking. Unless you’ve been living in a cave for the last 50 years you are very aware that smoking is not only bad for you, it could very likely kill you. All smokers know this for sure but it doesn’t deter them. “Our marketing advice to cigarette companies in the new heavily regulated era is to fully accept the new aggressive anti-smoking restrictions and wallow in the government’s apocalyptic health warnings. Don’t make excuses or dance around the stepped-up marketing regulations, just transform the whole cigarette pack into a three dimensional warning label.”
Found via Futureblog
Stout says that to pull that off, tobacco companies could embrace tobacco’s deadly effects: “Over the years there has been an onslaught of public awareness messaging about the evils of smoking. Unless you’ve been living in a cave for the last 50 years you are very aware that smoking is not only bad for you, it could very likely kill you. All smokers know this for sure but it doesn’t deter them. “Our marketing advice to cigarette companies in the new heavily regulated era is to fully accept the new aggressive anti-smoking restrictions and wallow in the government’s apocalyptic health warnings. Don’t make excuses or dance around the stepped-up marketing regulations, just transform the whole cigarette pack into a three dimensional warning label.”
Found via Futureblog
6.15.2009
Puppy Love
Steve and I went to my brother's farm yesterday for my dad's birthday and got a special treat. Puppies!! Cute little German Shorthairs. Adorable. This is the one I would keep if I could keep one.
6.05.2009
5.26.2009
This is Where We Live
A bit long but very lovely.
Found via Pink Shirts and Car Wrecks.
This Is Where We Live from 4th Estate on Vimeo.
Found via Pink Shirts and Car Wrecks.
Brasa Recipe
I heart Brasa in NE MPLS. BEST (local/organic) food around. I was pleased to find an article in Metro mag today dishing out the meat rub recipe. yum.
Easy Compost
I plan on doing the "dig and ditch" method since I can't seem to get my big compost bin to work.
Simple steps
5.09.2009
Mom presents
I love it when my mom comes to visit and brings little gifts. She always says "Oh, I thought of you the other day..." and pulls out some cute present for me. Mom's are the best.
She brought me this fun book called Happy Gloves by Miyako Kanamori. Shows you how to make little animals out of gloves. I LOVE it.
I can't wait to find some of those little gloves and start to make frogs and donkeys.
Cradle to Cradle
Friday was a rough day at work and I wasn't even there. In order to stay positive I thought I would post some exciting news about the company. Aveda has become the first beauty company to receive cradle to cradle certification.
you can read more here
