Most Favorites (for now)

Favorite city: San Francisco 

Favorite hobby: cooking

Favorite song: "Nothing" by The Script

Favorite flower: Garden Roses

Favorite Blog: Pioneer Woman

http://thepioneerwoman.com

Favorite drink: Latte

(Photos courtesy of: weheartit.com & google)

The Library

I love going to the library. In the winter time it's quiet. 

In the summer time there is low chatter of children giggling. 

Sometimes I'll just get cookbooks with bright and vivid 

pictures of fruit tarts and roasted leg of lamb. 

Sometimes I'll get a crime novel that keeps me up at night. 

And sometimes I'll find a book that has short stories about loss and 

love that make me laugh and cry all at the same time. 

"I go into my library and all history unrolls before me."

- Alexander Smith

"It is, however, not to the museum, or the lecture-room, or the drawing-school, but to the library, that we must go for the completion of our humanity. It is books that bear from age to age the intellectual wealth of the world."

- Owen Meredith

"No furniture so charming as books."

- Sydney Smith

(photos courtesy of: weheartit) 

My Favorite Little Things

I am sitting on my floor; the balcony door is open and a gentle breeze is blowing. I reached up to take out my earrings, and as I held them in my hand I just looked at them. They're a pair of glass-pearl earrings and they are one of most favorite pair of earrings to wear. They're simple, and yet I feel pretty when I slip them on.

On my window-sill I have small copy of the painting "The Kiss" by Gustav Klimt in a small frame. That is also another favorite of mine that is small and just makes me smile. It has no other purpose except to be beautiful.

Last week in the mail I received a package from a friend and when I opened it an old book titled "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" slipped out...it too is beautiful. 

(Photos courtesy of: me) 

Through Susan's Eyes

I love photography, and much of my 

inspiration comes from looking at other 

people's photography skill, and 

creativity. I happen to have someone very 

close to me whose work I can look

 at anytime...my sister Susan:) 

She got a new camera, less than two years 

ago and has captured fun, beautiful,

 and creative photos with it ever since. 

Am I bragging about her? Umm...yes, 

because the truth is she is very talented and 

I get so much joy seeing a piece of her world 

through her eyes. 

So, here I am sharing her, and her pictures 

with all of you.

(photos courtesy of: Susan Brak)

A love for kung-fu

"Everybody was kung-fu fighting

Those cats were fast as lightning
In fact it was a little bit frightning
But they fought with expert timing"

I like action/martial arts films...a lot. 

I don't know when it fist started. It seems 

I've always had a weakness for a blow'em 

up, guns a blazin', good guy wins movie, 

but especially a kung-fu martial arts (Jet Li) 

type of movie. 

"Martial arts films have been produced all over the world, 

but the genre has been dominated by Hong Kong action 

cinema, peaking from 1971 with the rise of Bruce Lee. 

Other notable figures in the genre include Jackie Chan, 

and Jet Li."

(photos courtesy of: google, lyrics carl douglas

info:wikipedia)

Another one's talent (Nan Lawson)

I just discovered Nan Lawson yesterday. 

A photographer and illustrator, her illustrations are adorable and quirky. 

You can find her fun and talented work at:

http://nanlawson.com/

http://www.etsy.com/shop/NanLawson

(Illustrations: Nan Lawson)

Puppies

As silly as this might sound, one day I hope to get a puppy as a birthday or Christmas gift; yes just like in the movies. Right before I left home after I graduated, my Dad and Mom got a little, yellow, lab puppy and they say that in one month before I left I managed to spoil her...(I might have sneaked her into my bed:)

So...all this to say I have a soft spot for puppies.

(Photos courtesy of: weheartit)

You've Got Mail

Yesterday evening I walked into my room
and when I turned on my light I saw a package laying on my bed;
it was from my sister! I opened it and she had sent me a little surprise and a letter.
I love receiving mail. 
You know the one I'm speaking of; the handwritten, stamp in the corner, signed with love...
that kind of mail.
(Photos courtesy of:weheartit) 

A Sunday Picnic

Recently I have been having Sunday picnics with the two ladies I take care of~Sometimes we go to the park, lay a quilt down and sometimes we find a little picnic table and play cards after our meal is over. There is something special about a Sunday afternoon, when your shoulders are relaxed, and you are sharing a meal outdoors with someone or some-ones who are special to you. 

I hope you find the time during this summer to go on a picnic with the ones you love.

(Photos courtesy of: weheartit.com) 

A moment of summer

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.  ~Wallace Stevens

“If I had my life to live over, I would start barefoot earlier in the spring and stay that way later in the fall. I would go to more dances. I would ride more merry-go-rounds. I would pick more daisies.” ~Nadine Stair 

There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart.  ~Celia Thaxter

(photos courtesy of: we heart it) 

The Sweetness of Sleep (Anthropologie)

Have you ever watched

a child sleeping? 

Their calm breathing, 

the peacefulness of the room...

This past weekend I was 

very tired. 

The morning I woke up

after having a full, restful

night of sleep, I stretched

my arms and watched the sun 

shining through my window...

ah the sweetness of sleep. 

(Photos courtesy of: anthropologie) 

Daisy, oh Daisy

I love flowers:) There are so many to choose from so I have a hard time saying I have only 1 favorite but in my category of "favorite flowers" are daisies. In the words of Kathleen Kelly from You've Got Mail "I love daisies. They're so friendly. Don't you think daisies are the friendliest flower?"

"And a breastplate made of daisies, Closely fitting, leaf on leaf, Periwinkles interlaced Drawn for belt about the waist; While the brown bees, humming praises, Shot their arrows round the chief."

~Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Over the shoulders and slopes of the dune I saw the white daisies go down to the sea, A host in the sunshine, an army in June, The people God sends us to set our heart free. 

~William Bliss Carman 

There is a flower, a little flower With silver crest and golden eye, That welcomes every changing hour, And weathers every sky. 

~James Montgomery

Singing in the Rain

This past week it rained a lot. I would fall asleep with the sound of rain pitter pattering on the roof and I would wake up to a gray misty sky peeking through my window. When it's raining what does one need? An umbrella:)

Doo-dloo-doo-doo-doo
Doo-dloo-doo-doo-doo-doo
Doo-dloo-doo-doo-doo-doo
Doo-dloo-doo-doo-doo-doo...

I'm singing in the rain
Just singing in the rain
What a glorious feelin'
I'm happy again
I'm laughing at clouds
So dark up above
The sun's in my heart
And I'm ready for love
Let the stormy clouds chase
Everyone from the place
Come on with the rain
I've a smile on my face
I walk down the lane
With a happy refrain
Just singin',
Singin' in the rain

Dancin' in the rain
Dee-ah dee-ah dee-ah
Dee-ah dee-ah dee-ah
I'm happy again!
I'm singin' and dancin' in the rain!

I'm dancin' and singin'... in the rain