Days offer spades of hurled outcries, gone is the fair five and dime;

Over the last few months we started getting into Weeds thanks to friends of ours loaning us the first season on DVD; since then, we’ve received all three seasons and only recently finally went through all of the episodes.  There’s a lot to love about this series as evidenced by its multiple award nominations, and [...]

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And animals that climb, and they’re climbing over you until you see;

A few months ago, one of my favorite style bloggers wrote about her search to find a bracelet with some timeless elements–she preferred either a gold or brassy metal–but with a dash of wit to reflect her personal style.  She finally decided on this gorgeous talon cuff from Pamela Love, a New York-based desginer who [...]

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It’s sixteen miles to the promised land and I promise you I’m doing the best I can;

Reading all of Diana’s potting exploits over at creative structures (http://creativestructures.blogspot.com) over the past few months stealthily entered my brain, I think, because I have a very powerful urge to start not only making beaded jewelry, but also playing with clay–specifically making some clay versions of gorgeous metal cuffs I have seen recently.
More importantly, it [...]

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He says “there’s plenty of things to wear when you come to me, every color of sleeve to be rolled”;

It’s been a creative day here at the casa de Helvetica.  Michael made an amazing dinner that featured a lovely mango and peach gazpacho, featured here:

And yes, that is the table runner I mentioned that I was going to make so many moons ago!
To remind you that it’s not a drink:

If you’re dying to know how to [...]

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I never thought I would find myself in bed amongst the stones;

There’s a new exhibit at the Philadelphia Museum of Art focusing on one of Philadelphia’s local boys, Alexander Calder, and his vast catalog of jewelry that he made over the course of his career.  Though known primarily as a sculptor and as the inventor of the mobile, his jewelry making, just from the few pictures [...]

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