• Art

    Gifts by Hand

    In the eddies of internet mourning that came after David Rakoff died a couple months ago, I’ve been most amazed by the tumblr listing the gifts he made by hand, for his friends. Can you imagine if something like this could be created after you died from gifts you’d given? I especially like this one, which he slipped into a friend’s pocket, to surprise him later.

    on the topic of making lovely things, I can’t stop looking at these little felt creatures on etsy. Tiny, and handsewn in wool felt:

    Baby Honey Badger Plush $48, French Bulldog Puppy $48, Miniature Grey Squirrel $28, all from Mount Royal Mint.

     

  • Good design

    Peppermint and Clementines

    Have you added a little peppermint to your diet? I’ve upgraded my occasional Starbucks hot chocolate to the peppermint kind, which means a hearty sprinkling of peppermint-flavored chocolate curls burrowing into the whip cream.  I just heard Trader Joe’s has peppermint cookies ‘n cream ice cream, wow.

    I’ve been buying those cartons of clementines that show up in stacks at the grocery store about now–the ones with vintage styled Florida advertising on the side, if you’re lucky. They are so delicious when most of my other food is not so fresh these days. They remind me of when kids used to look forward to oranges in their stockings. Like my young days of longing to be Laura Ingalls Wilder (didn’t we all have those days?),  I pretend to savor the sections like they are my only citrus for the winter.

    Red Bird Peppermint Sticks from Canoe; $6