Mick + Bianca

Love, love, love.

goodbye frost.

April 14th is the last day for frost in my area which means....time to scour those heirloom seed sites and begin to plan my garden! While perusing Design*Sponge I ran across The Balcony Gardener, a site with everything a urban gardener could want! How awesome are these vintage metal boxes!

 

Also, they have a much classier, smaller scale, indoor version of the topsy turvy (although i do love mine, hideous as it is).

Now on to the real dilemma...so many plants, so little space.

Happy Valentine's Day!

 

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RIP McQueen.

Alexander McQueen Spring 2008 Collection

Love.

Gawd. Check out that hair. I neeed those boots. sigh.

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Good Eats.

One thing everyone should know about me is my longstanding love affair with Waffle House. For two years I lived in a city that had no Waffle house within 200 miles. I can tell you this will NEVER happen again. So you can imagine my delight when I stumbled across a photo of the very first waffle house that was off East College Ave in Decatur, Georgia. Just 15 minutes from my house.

First Waffle House 1965 Decatur, Georgia via atm

 As if this little gem wasn't enough,  it turns out that in 2008 they turned this location into a Waffle House Museum! Anyone want to come watch me pay homage to the Casa de Waffle??

The white stuff.

 It's supposed to snow tomorrow, but if I had a dollar for everytime I'd heard that....

This is holga photo from "Snow Jam 2009". Accumulation, 2 inches.

Remember you must die.

I discovered this genre of jewelry when a friend brought a glass faced locket with her great grandmothers hair in it to class. I was instantly fascinated. I don't know about you all but I have a serious attachment to my own hair (hence the reason it hasn't been cut in almost a year), so preserving a piece of hair seems like a very intimate thing to do. Shortly after photography was invented many people began to take photos of their recently deceased family members, as a way to morn their death. This type of "momento mori" or remembrance of death, was very common during the Victorian era and out of this grew the use of hair in jewelry as a memorial to the deceased. My grandfather passed away several years ago, and my mom mentioned the other day that she still had a lock of his hair. I think these are a beautiful way to remember a loved one.