happy food

Sayaka Minemura's sweet little set on How's Your Weekend? led me to something wonderful: her breakfast project. I love these happy foods (and her wooden utensils) so much. Her blog, life in the slow line, is also super cute.

ming makes cupcakes

Ming Makes Cupcakes is run by Ming Thompson, who... is really good at making cupcakes (and other things). The design on this website is fantastic - and those photos. Oh, those photos. Up in the middle of the night with sore muscles from my first venture into hot yoga, I was just drooling over Ming's cupcakes. It's probably for the best that I don't have an oven or I would surely be making the Sour Cream Apricot Cupcakes for breakfast!

hippy kitchens

Um, this is amazing.
(via Salad for Breakfast)

this and that

I was inspired to change around my wall decor after seeing this post at Oh, Hello There. I love the idea of floating clothes pegs as I was getting majorly sick of the twine. My boyfriend bought the sailor painting at the Chatachuk Weekend Market while we were in Bangkok over Christmas, and it has proven to be my favourite addition to our loft. That funny rabbit hologram and the "All Goodness" card came from the best stationery shop in Hongdae, and you may recognize that little foxhat print if you've been reading along.

Speaking of Bangkok, you should check out this amazing photo blog of the smoking hot city. Essi's photos make me want to jump on the next plane back.

how's your weekend?

I've contributed to How's Your Weekend?, a beautiful photography collective - check it out.

forever is today

My new favourite photography blog.

telephone

Kermit gabbing away on a pay phone (remember those?) via this awesome post at I Love Hotdogs.

Happy Friday.

great DJ

The Music Room, New York - The Sartorialist

I like so much of what's happening here.

curious pages

Looking for books about teddy bears or rainbows or feelings? You’re at the wrong place. Here we celebrate the offbeat, the abstract, the unusual, the surreal, the macabre, the inappropriate, the subversive and the funky.

I pretty much love every post over at We Love You So - especially their post about Curious Pages, a hilarious blog devoted to peculiar children's books. When I was young, my parents religiously read to me, but stuck to more conventional material - the Merchant family favourites were The Berenstain Bears, Madeline, Each Peach Pear Plum, Goodnight Moon, and, of course, Love You Forever. For someone who teaches her fair share of children's books, I could certainly add some inappropriate tales to Curious Pages' list - Chunk the Chick (a story about a lonely chicken who is too 'chunky' to have any friends), and The Sad Clown Brigade (two clowns quit their circus jobs, become janitors at a hospital, build a rapport with a sick kid, giving him the best day of his life after which he promptly dies). Anyway, I digress. Curious Pages is a treat, serving up equal hits of nostalgia and joy. Check it out.

it will stop raining

My new favourite food blog: it will stop raining*. I like to see pictures of what other people eat as much as I like seeing what they wear and what they read. One thing I've sincerely missed since being in South Korea is cooking, and this delightful Japan-based blog makes me desperately want to use my teeny kitchen for more than just toast, soft-boiled eggs, and cereal.

the considered ensemble

Thanks to So Much to Tell You for posting this website - what a refreshing take on street style blogs.

good morning midnight

My life, which seems so simple and monotonous, is really a complicated affair of cafes where they like me and cafes where they don't, streets that are friendly, streets that aren't, rooms where I might be happy, rooms where I never shall be, looking-glasses I look nice in, looking-glasses I don't, dresses that will be lucky, dresses that won't, and so on.

-From Good Morning Midnight, Jean Rhys
(via via)

lovely coupling

My parents, looking handsome, in print.