it’s officially spring here
i’ve got my window open just a crack
but the way this season smells is quickly making the rounds.
there are baby buds on the trees outside,
and small white flowers springing from the dirt.
there are birds, scattered and scampering and flitting around and
singing the beautiful songs of spring.
there are flowers outside at the market now.
buckets lined together in short tight rows,
plastic pails filled with water and stems.
there are seeds for sale on the grocers’ shelves
sweet peas and petunias and all kinds of green.
it’s the season of pretty here
and that’s a brilliant thing.
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i also wanted to share
some beautiful photos of the apartment where i used to live.
it’s a a place i still occasionally work, but no longer make my home.
it was shot for covet gardens by michael graydon, a name you see around here often
and who happens to also be my partner in crime.
i’ve also been working on writing my recipes down lately,
something i’m still practicing at but am enjoying just the same.
i love this one for sakura candy corn,
and this one for custard doughnuts with rhubarb sauce in issue 21 of covet gardens.
it’ll take longer than the candy corn but it’s well worth the effort!
the doughnut dough portion of the recipe is an adapted version of this jelly doughnut recipe
AND i’ve also got some super fabulous news to share!
i’ll be announcing a new regular contributor here soon.
her posts will be based around travel, recipes and cafes,
and they’re going to be beautiful!
PLUS an HG update soon!
and more big news on the way as well.
that’s all for now, friends.
hope things are swell.
xo, n
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these notebooks and
these ones too this
soap this
photo cocoa carrot cake my blog feed is fixed, you can follow along
here these
shorts how great do
these look?! (i love the 4th photo!) i'd really like to stay
here! (
via)
dip-dyed lamp shades these
glasses (
via) these
look perfect so much goodness in
heidi merrick's spring line and this
looks like it would smell nice
Two weekends ago now, we spent a couple days in a small cottage alongside a massive lake. A place we'd never been, but hope to return. We ate dinner and we met friends, and it was extraordinary. We bought fish directly from those that fished it. We spent the day with the sun in our eyes and the shoes off our feet. We swam in that very large lake, we walked for coffee near dawn. And we spent time giggling with these two. It was one of those weekends that felt like all the perfect parts of summer rolled into two short days. One of those weekends that July and August are made for. Too, we came home with the Mjölk book. It's the first in a run of coming volumes inspired in part at least by those self-published books you find in Japanese boutiques. And I think by craftsmanship and design. And by passion and travel too. And I'll tell you what, it's beautiful. Find it here. xo, n 
this song this pizza truck these images (via) blood orange cocktails summer berry tarts! this bag these sandals and these apple fritters 
also, these things from mjölk: this knife these little trays these coffee scoops these bowls this brush 
all photos courtesy of mjolk
