the plant journal

nate got this magazine for me. and i love it.
i read it, then went thru out our house and took care of all of our plants. ha.

it's very inspiring and beautiful. each issue will focus on taking care of a certain plant with detailed intstructions.
you're probably wondering, couldn't you just find all this info on the internet? yes... yes you can, but will it nicely laid out, with nicely currated artwork and articles? i didn't think so ;)

my favorite page, of course. (cutting this one out of the magazine and hanging it on my wall...duh.)

one thing, i will have to mention, is that there was a typo. (nate's probably rolling his eyes right now, b/c i can't seem to drop it! ha ha. well, i just think typos are ok on blogs and things that aren't really important, but come on! this is a $20 magazine! triple check your work...right?)
anyway, very inspiring and awesome magazine, w or w/o typo! :)

oh  yes, it's finally fall weather around here. mid 60s weather. we are keeping our ac in our window for another wk or so, b/c we hear it's gonna be hot this wknd! anyway, while it's chilly, i'll stick to long skirts and drapey sweaters.

the hat i'm wearing is the pendleton wool hat. nate bought it as a "share" for us....we have been known to share clothing...

we went to the PS1 museum book fair, this last wknd. we saw a lot of cool art, and i loved pretty much everybooth, and wanted to get one of everything, then be locked away with only the new books i bought... yeah, probably not.
there was one thing we really wanted to get, it wasn't a book, but a huge photograph. we both loved it, and found their website where it's available, i hope we get it soon. i feel like this is what's been missing off our wall this whole time.

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love these little cheetoh pins by sebastian butt!

i saw this cat trying to climb out of the window, so i took a picture and said "what do you think you're doing?" and he/she said "meeeeeow!" and ran back inside.good times..

for brunch on sunday, i made tofu scramble, a salad & some toast. it was one of those meals nate wanted me to remember & make again soon. i have this habit of making new things all the time, and forgetting to remake the things we've been liking. 

[saute' onions, peppers & garlic. add mashed firm tofu. saute for a little while, then add soy sauce+crushed garlic+a lil evoo+agave+tumeric cook for a few minutes, until it's nice and toasty, add chopped kale for like last couple minutes... mmmmm]

k. since you're really asking for it, heeeeeeerre's rozzzy!!! photo cred to nate!! so cute. it was like his dream home for a few days (that's all i could stand, a huge box full of paper in the middle of our living room)

 

ok. bye guys. thanks for coming by! 

g' mornin'

it's a beautiful saturday morning here in brooklyn.  i woke up 8 am,  made some coffee, special toast & thought about an unsettling situation.
i don't know if anyone else experiences this, but when there is something that causes anxiety for me, my stomach sort of turns off. this could be any anxiety, good or bad. for example, before a show, i shouldn't eat, i know food wont settle right.
i believe this is what triggered my quest for healthy foods, early on in my life. i've been vegetarian a little over eight years now. i remember i decided to try & not eat meat for a while to see if my heaviness in my tummy eased up. & it did.
& then that makes you look differently at meat all together. anyway.

back to the special toast, i mentioned.
neither nate nor i eat breakast very often. we're just not hungry in the mornings.
a cup of coffee & we're golden. but, mornings like today, where we lounge around, playing with our kitties, we start wanting a wittle snacky packy.

my sister came to visit last weekend, and brought a glass jar ;) of homemade apricot jam.

so here's the complicated special toast recipe :

two slices of toasted ezekiel bread 

(i love this bread b/c it's organic, & they use sprouted grains, which are full of extra nutrition for ya!

& not the biggest fan of plain bread anyway, so this does the trick for me)

crunchy almond butter (i use trader joe's brand)

helen's yummy apricot jam 

ok. well, we're on cup of coffee number three... (they're small cups though..) which means we better get going! we get to go pick out a new guitar for nate, get some lunch, go to the fort greene farmer's market & rehearse for our show tomorrow night.

if you live in NYC, come see us play tomorrow, at the delancey @ eight.

we've had some record breaking rain recently here. i don't hate it.
if we move from here, i'll miss the variety in the weather, ya neva know watcha gonna get around here.

family timez

we had a nice weekend, I hope you did too.

my older sister & her family came to visit NYC this weekend.  we did a lot of fun things, like go see dinosaur bones at the museum, brighton beach (where pretty much everyone is russian), restaurants for days, some shopping and more beach.
anthony (who goes by Tosha) is so big now. he has two big kid teeth in front. he's becoming...older! (duh! but still, so strange!)
my little neice Alicia (a-lee-see-ya) has such an adorable & hilarious personality, was really cool to get to know her more. ( & to top it off she's such a cute little monkey.) 

she has a really silly sense of humor. her favorite thing was to make this face at me & make me think she was upset at something. this face was always followed by a giggles, b/c she couldn't hold it for too long. 

i tried to take family photos for them, but sometimes it's tough getting everyone's face & background & focus to cooperate

my sister took a really sweet photo of nate and me.
my favorite part about the photo is the pair of little legs between us.

ok. once again. here i am, up later than i want to be, on a sunday.
there were some sad good byes happening when they left. no worries, we'll see each other soon!

have a great week everyone.
bye.

new bag new dress

so, i won this bag. 
canyon backpack by tenoversix 
my favorite store/my favorite people/my new favorite bag.

i dip-dyed my dress with teichopsia textiles. it washed out a lot. they told me the color wouldn't hold if the fabric wasn't cotton. whoopsy.
coincidentally, the bag looks great with my dress.

 had a whole coconut to cool off yesterday. i was walking in the lower east side, and saw this little vegan restaurant/juice place that looked like it's been there for ev er. i didn't write down the name, but i know where it's at exactly, so i can go back to it.

it was better than any canned coconut water!

 

then i took the L train, one stop to williamsburg. it's kind of awesome how quick you can get into the city from williamsburg. one stop!

*if anyone knows of any places in williamsburg available for rent, 1bdrm, let a girl know! oh & cheap! oh & windows! 

talk to you another hot day.

money shot.