For New Year’s, I escaped from the city with friends, and we headed north to a little cabin in the Trinity National Forest. It was a perfect long weekend of good company, delicious food both at the dinner table and on the hiking trail, and lots of fresh air to welcome in the new decade.
At midnight on New Year’s Eve, we gave thanks for everyone’s transitions in 2009. And then we gave a big cheers to greatness in 2010!
Did you have a memorable toast for the New Year? Have you set any special intentions or resolutions?
Listening to: The Gardener by The Tallest Man on Earth (listen)
Sunny space by the windows
In the past three months, our San Francisco studio apartment has been transformed in bits and pieces–one project after another. Each step makes this new space more comfortable, happy, and bright for everyday living and working.
From the very start, this space under the bay windows was destined for coffee drinking and quiet reading–and is perfect for soaking in the late afternoon sunlight. The green armchair is one of my favorite things, an early-LA find on craigslist–and its DIY refinishing and reupholstering was a longggg labor of love.
And there are a few new favorite things here, too. First, a matching armchair tucked under the other window, which is an upcoming upholstery project. And then, the just-the-right-height industrial wooden crate to shelve our window garden. Both were found by chance on the streets of San Francisco. (This city may be renewing my love of curbside finds!)
Listening to: Bootless Man by Gwyneth Moreland (listen)