my lately...

Goats & greek food.

This past weekend I visited friends in my old hood, Rochester. My friend Nicola is an amazing chief and makes the best baklava from an old family recipe. She was going to cook a Greek Feast for 40 in a small town just out of Ithaca, so I really wanted to visit and take part.

Part of the feast for Nicola was curating the fresh, local ingredients right off of farms. The highlight for me was visiting Clover Meadow Creamery where we picked up goat's milk and yogurt. It's baby season and the farm had 30 new kids! They are expecting about 60. They were so kind and brought out lots of baby goats for me & Nicola. I've seen baby goat's before, but to see these children carrying them out just for us made me start crying. Such a cry baby!

I loved seeing the behind the scenes in this amazing kitchen where the feast was prepared. I've never been in such an open, bright, and functional kitchen.

Opa!

You can also click on each image for more on Flickr....
More goat pics here!
More food pics here!

mail love and other stuff...

these past few weeks have brought me some amazing mail- one of my favorite things. so many, many thanks to these kind friends..

Chad ~ Mon Petit Fantome...

mr. Mon Petit Fantome, (who jeremy calls the Kevin Bacon of the etsy world because there seems to be three degrees between him and any etsy shop- he's just that nice!) sent me some mix CD's and this lovely little print he used for a note..

Alyssa ~ BrooklynRehab

I got a set of Alyssa's Uninvited Guests Doilies that came awhile back in the smartest packaging. these little doilies were wrapped in a gingham paper, like a table cloth. so good. i put them up in a little corner and you can see Chad's bear there close by in the second picture too...

Nicola,
is one of my great friends from school. she makes a-ma-zing baklava from an old family recipe. It's seriously delicious and insanely good. how amazing is it to get fresh, homemade baklava in the mail?!! **i'm pushing her to make an etsy store and pretty soon there should be one up.
any one interested?!**

she also sent me these tiny, vintage books which upon seeing i literally screamed in delight...

toni,
also a friend from school, sent me a curious new friend, but how the hell did she get the rhino in that little box? ha! so fun to receive. the package also had a vintage embroidery hoop, and a small, vintage glass bottle. the bug liked it too...

other wise this weekend has been spent lazily working. heres what i've been making of late:
new little/big constellations. here's a 5" Orion...chad, alyssa, nicola and toni thanks for all the mail love!!!