tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39427282010-03-18T12:43:35.003-05:00Andrea AveryAndreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14185635553837321895noreply@blogger.comBlogger173125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3942728.post-18068895190421819542010-03-18T06:02:00.007-05:002010-03-18T06:02:00.412-05:00

We watched the 2006 documentary A Man Named Pearl a couple of weeks ago and I've remembered something from it almost every day. I heart netflix.

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Potato Love on St. Patrick's Day! Here is one of my favorite potato recipes. We had this at our wedding. Yum!

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I just discovered depression era photographer Russell Lee's photos of Pie Town, New Mexico. I'm sure I've seen some of his photos before, but my art history class didn't spend much time on photography and when we did, it was Dorthea Lange. There is an interesting 2005 Smithsonian Magazine article on the photographer and the town. Pie Festival, anyone? I think these images are fantastic. I love

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I hadn't visited SKIF for months, but went over the weekend with Tracy and Katy. The display windows on the Daggett side entrance are filled with goodies from a new boutique. Jipsi is a gorgeous amalgamation of rust and glitter, sort of a more authentic and organic Anthropologie. The owner was super sweet and had I not been chasing Audrey away from the sherbert colored typewriters, I would have

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I had to provide a follow up to my Rock Star post from January. Audrey's silver leggings arrived and we finally broke them out yesterday. She hardly stood still long enough in them for me to get a decent photo. The hat came from Aunt Katy's trip to Thailand. Love the bad attitude pose.

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This is a picture of my great-grandma Stella. I'm not sure what birthday she was celebrating here, but doesn't she look happy and sweet? March is fairly slow on the birthday front, but come April we have 14 to celebrate. I have a lot to do! My mom still had the energy to make me my favorite white buttermilk cake for my birthday a couple of weeks ago. She's incredible (and so is the cake).  I 

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Audrey's been sick since Friday and now I have a cold. This is pretty much how we feel about it. I'm making chicken and wild rice soup for dinner. Maybe that will help.

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We don't have a single thing planned this weekend, and after a couple of very busy weeks, I'm oh, so thankful. Just me, daddio, our tiny tot, and a 60 degree Sunday.   Holy cupcake kits! I'm eager to try this Potato Matafans recipe from the gorgeous Lucy's Kitchen Notebook blog. I caught readings from the best of 52nd City magazine on KDHX's Literature for the Halibut on March 1st. In honor

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Some days, I don't have a whole lot to say.  {Found at Weird Friends.}

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More, please. Utah Carol Alec Baldwin Turquoise Nina Totenburg (I love how she can break it down.) Sade (I love how she can break it down, too.) Less, please. John Mayer Clients from Hell Gretchen Rubin (I absolutely love this snarky reader's review of her book.)

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So many bloggers do beautiful food photography, so not sure why I'm bothering. But I made this soup today and it is so delicious. It isn't difficult, but it is a little time consuming. But Audrey and I didn't have much scheduled for today, so we went for it. Tuesdays and Thursdays (when I'm off work) are my days to make more elaborate dishes. Ingredients 3 tablespoons olive oil 1 large onion,

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I came across Ralph Lauren's spring 2010 look, influenced by The Grapes of Wrath, in the New York Times' T Magazine. Typically, I don't get excited about such things, but the overalls caught my attiontion. Similar overalls were my uniform from about 1987-1990 when I was painting almost daily. I miss that routine of creativity and the routine of the uniform. I would like to dress like this every

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We are heading to the farm for the weekend to visit my mom, whose health continues to improve. It will be cold, but sunny. The drive will entail a lot of crappy billboards. But once we are there, it is heavenly. Plus, many of my dads cows are already calving. Nothing cuter than a newborn calf. We had chicken with 40 cloves of garlic in the claypot this week.   An entire blog about bookshelves. A

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So while I'm always complaining about the winter weather, we have friends in North Carolina who rarely receive significant snow. When they get it, they take full advantage of it. Check out the magnificent igloo Boyce, Ingrid, Cameron, Blake, and Alexi built! It was large enough for all of them to fit into and they lit it beautifully with a star lantern hanging thorugh the ceiling. How fun and

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I don't remember where I found this image, or if someone sent it to me. I keep a folder of such things for inspiration.

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This kitchen certainly suggests a "command center". Reminds me of a ship!Isn't it weird?Three acres and a great view. Only one hour west of St. Louis! But this place is just too strange. If I were a hillbilly alien robot, maybe. 

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The irony of my last post is that I wrote it the Friday before my mom's birthday and scheduled it to post on Monday, her birthday. My mom is a private person, so I won't go into detail, but this past week she experienced a major health scare. She spent Sunday through Friday in the hospital and I shuttled back and forth from Jefferson City to home. Tuesday was pretty much the worst day of my life.

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My mom is truly the best. Today is her birthday and mine is Friday. When I was in junior high and high school, she would let me skip school around our birthdays and we would go shopping and out to eat to celebrate ourselves. She has always been my best confidant and biggest supporter. I am her only daughter. Last summer we took a ride on the golf cart out to the field where my dad was putting up

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“I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Indeed, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all.” – Ogden Nash On the eve of yet another 3.5 hour drive to my parents, I have decided to join and/or donate to Scenic America. The billboards along highway 70 depress me every time we head west. There is a Scenic Missouri chapter. I think I read somewhere that we are

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I am all crazy for and inspired by the tiny books lately. These are by Jenny Meilihove, who has all kinds of cute tiny things on her site. Oh, and an Etsy shop called behappynow.

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