Saturday, August 18, 2012

photographs to paint






















A rose by any other name...

This most beautiful flower, all over Brooklyn in August, big as my hand...has many names.
Familiar name: Rose of Sharon
Scientific Name: Hibiscus Syriacus
Family: Malvaceae or Mallow
Commonly Called: Rose Mallow
I love it!

GO!!


Before the Big New York Posts...

Jordan welcomes home Mac at the San Diego Airport August 14, 2012



I love this

photograph because

it looks

like a painting.


And is also

very. very

sweet.

Wednesday, August 01, 2012

Brother Sister Day 2012



Started with donuts, then Inflatable World, Soup Plantation, Magic Cards, Sherlock shirts and hours and hours of The Settlers of Catan (the best game ever!)

Monday, July 30, 2012

Happy Making!


Cute and smiley Macky in a Bow Tie



and



Painting my favorite Photograph!

Saturday, July 28, 2012

Ok I like to paint Magic Cards!



NATURE is un-bee-flappin-leave-ubble.

GRAPES!!!

PLUMS!

FENNEL!
                   

Saturday, July 21, 2012

Wild Animal Park sleepover with Nana!

8 years for mac, 5 for emmett and year 2 for silas! lucky (and extremely cute) duckies.
thanks nana!!  xoxoxoxoxo

Thursday, July 19, 2012

summer can be sweet

camping, magic cards, children in nature, cuddling and covered in sunshine, relaxing and socializing and hanging in a mid-century modern paradise...


magic cards!

our new upstairs art space



mt laguna year 5
glamour girl



magic cards in the tent


Sunday, July 08, 2012

Meg, Crys and JOHN GREEN...Here they come!!

nerdfighters fighting to decrease world suck


5 AM
 These two  NERD FIGHTERS are headed to Indianapolis to adventure with their most favorite people, mid-west stylie. Meg and Crys have the whole trip planned out and it should be a whirlwind  that includes a literary tour of all the places mentioned in the book The Fault in Our Stars by John Green. (Mr. Green, if you are out there, there are two very excited kids coming your way who would love to thank you for all your books and vlogs!!)
...and she side-walk chalked Sherlock quotes all over South Park...




Meg and Crys We Love You


Meg and Crys have gone vegetarian for the week and will surely be exposed to Mac's favorite Sherlock (PBS), which she is also reading...or devouring, I should say! And also, look forward to geeking out with Emmett and some serious Minecraft and Magic Card action. They've got passions!
xoxoxo Love to You all and Happy Adventures!!

Sunday, June 24, 2012

i might get into trouble for this...

Shifting and Settling, Changes Abound

silas LOVES his new room

emmett now has a gigantor room, all cozy and bookish


and the upstairs has been entirely hogwarted with a train track, hagrids cabin etc

there's nana peeking out behind cilantro and daisies and see the new painting by mama, emmett and ren

and my room has had a transformation as well, definitely vagified. i said it.

Good-Bye Rose Panda

the saddest thing...we had to say good-bye to Rose Panda. She wasn't having that great of a life anymore and it was time...she was the best cat and we all spent a lot of time talking about all ways she was special to us...
we love you forever. we will miss you. you will always be a part of the flower house.

Saturday, June 16, 2012

Friday, June 01, 2012

Silas' New Purple Cast....



Our boy has broken his arm. He fell off the jungle gym not once but 3 times in the past week.
Luckily it's not too painful and he'll only have the cast for 4-6 weeks. Silas really likes his cast
so far and is having everyone sign it with his new silver pen.
Silas would also like you to know a little about Venus. Did you know that Venus' day is longer than a year because it rotates so slowly. And that it is often called "The Beautiful Planet with A Deadly Atmosphere"? Also, it's mountains are up to 5 miles high!
Since you couldn't be at his school presentation, he thought you should know!





Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Spring turns to Summer just like That!

 i completely couldn't help myself walking around the place I get to live
that just always, naturally, so so beautiful
 those, down there, are plums
 and our tiny mulberry with hundreds of berries
 our garden is really overgrown and seems to be enjoying the neglect
 even the bunny house got an untamed, out-of-nowhere, pink and fluffy roof
 the yellow finches, the unripe grapes

nature cradles our house.

Sunday, May 27, 2012

Happy Birthday Cami!


I love you my beautiful and inspiring, completely kooky and hard working, full-of-magic sister.