Color Inspiration: Paris’ Gray Sky
Yes. Yes I did take a photo of it for color inspiration. Considering taking this to the paint store for a match.
It’s was drizzling, so you can see a few drops on my lens if you look close. Bad camera owner, I know.
The Creamiest Aioli
Two weekends ago, we had dinner with my husband’s family. My mother-in-law is a fantastic cook, but she outdid herself with this creamy, garlicky aioli.
She served parmesan topped grilled steaks on a bed of lemony arugula and baked potato wedges which we all dipped (and redipped) into the aioli. Heaven! We were all embarrassed by the degree to which we fawned over it. It quickly went from polite, to exuberant, to an eyes-rolling-into-the-back-of-our-head-style swoon.
I couldn’t stop thinking about it, so a few nights ago, I recreated the whole meal (including a double batch of the aioli). Here are the recipes:
Aioli recipe via Epicurious.com
Baked potato wedges via The Barefoot Contessa
Arugula salad with steak, shaved parmesan and lemon vinaigrette via The Barefoot Contessa
The Hemingway Papers
The Toronto Star has collected the columns that Ernest Hemingway wrote for them. I haven’t read much of his Toronto Star work, so I’m brewing coffee and digging into a few of these today. Check out The Hemingway Papers - there are sure to be a few bullfights or brawls.
Unedited
Last week, my friend Ez of Creature Comforts shared a link to a post by Jess Constable of Makeunder My Life. It sparked a twitter conversation about how over styled and/or perfect our lives can appear on blogs. Most of us share pretty things, ideas that inspire us, edited photos, gorgeous products or homes we covet. From the outside looking in, lives can appear rosier than they are.
A few of us decided to pick a day and share things we wouldn’t typically talk about on our blogs – imperfections, insecurities, quirks, etc. Today is the day and Ez has the “Things I’m Afraid To Tell You” participant list over at Creature Comforts. Perhaps you’ll be inspired to share some of your own!
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I carry my cat upstairs with me every night and place him on our bed even though I know he’ll immediately jump down and go back downstairs. He’s old, senile and often cries for me at night, so I’m wracked with guilt. Somehow the ritual of inviting him upstairs alleviates some of it.
I sometimes mix cake mix with water (just enough to moisten it) and eat it out of a mug. I never, however, put it in a bowl (???), and I rarely make a cake from a box. So yes, I buy cake mix just to eat it with water from a mug.
Despite three years spent photographing Paris, a published book, and all the amazing things that have happened thanks to the Paris Color Project, I still find it extremely difficult to refer to myself as a photographer. At least with a capital P.
I hate underwear.
My “bed” is currently a mattress on top of a box spring with a headboard propped up behind them. Every weekend, I plan to deal with it, but it’s been that way for a year. The comforter and pillows do a decent job of hiding it, but I know the real deal, so it bugs me.
My license expired when I was in Paris in 2009. I noticed in 2011. Because it had been so long, the state of NJ made me retake my driver’s test. I was the oldest person on the driver’s course and my husband laughed about it for days.
I am falling out of love with New York City.
I want to stop writing copy for clients and fully run my own business and focus on personal projects. But I continue to take on new work and push off the things I want to be doing. I can’t figure out if this is due to financial fear, fear of losing the contacts I’ve made, or fear of failure. It’s probably all three.
Paris in Color at Shakespeare & Company
Most of you know I studied English Literature in college. Six lovely years with my nose in books. Many books. And like many English majors, I romanticized (ah, heck, still do) Paris’ cafe and literary culture in the 20s. Shakespeare & Company is ground zero in that literary fantasy, despite its changes since.
So you can imagine my delight when Ryan Fox and Kristi Roberts posted a photo on Facebook of it at Shakespeare & Company. Paris in Color next to Salinger, Shakespeare and Neruda? I know it’s silly, but I wanted to jump out of my skin.
Thank you Ryan and Kristi!
Hair Envy
She was admiring Notre Dame. I was admiring her hair. Pretty, right?
I added this to my “perfect hair days” board on Pinterest.
