7.17.2010

summer house











salutations
from
portland
summer
diggs.

1.25.2010

Traveling On


We're Leaving


Raise your glasses please into a toast
For we are many hometown ghosts.
Let it spill all over the floor.
What the hell are you saving it for?

On June, July, August, September.
Let's drink 'em all, I don't want to remember.
These have been the best years of our lives.

It's a shame my dear,
There's no room for lost years.
So we're leaving, we're leaving tonight.

You look lovely lying wasted on your bed,
Staring at a photograph of you and your best friend.
They said make a cross over your hearts,
And we'll swear we'll never drift apart.

It's a shame my dear,
To be leaving you here.
But we're leaving, we're leaving tonight.

Oh my heroes, my brothers, where have you gone?
There is something in the air, something is wrong.
Where is my father, my mother, my sister, my lover?
Have you all gone over to the other side?

It's a shame my dears,
There's no room for me here.
So I'm leaving, I'm leaving tonight.

~DeVotchka~

Listen here.

1.05.2010

Kids Are Odd.

Most awesome kid quote from my 3 yr old at work today...
"My tummy is telling me I need to watch a movie."

12.30.2009

thE YEar of the tiger.

Greet the Tiger!
Have a great New Year Jan. 1
& a happy Chinese New Year on Valentines Day.

12.23.2009

Happy Birthday Grandma Vicki!


Merry Christmas & Happy Birthday to pretty much my most favorite person in the universe.
I hope you are spending this holiday with your husband.
You made magic happen at Christmas.
I am reading your memoirs.
You are missed!
XOXO
aLiNa

12.08.2009

11.14.2009

Five Minute Craft






I bought $5 sale necklaces and t-shirts at Urban Outfitters this week, and I loved the beautifully photographed price tags that were attached.

I was determined to do something with them
because their simple content made me smile
as if they were everyday quiet moments.

I just tied them together (the more knots the better) with a rainbow thread and called it good.

You could also make a Christmas mobile by cutting out birds from old Christmas cards that may be lying in a box in your office or by folding them into origami birds and hanging them.