Category Archives: FAMILIA

Black Forest Fashion

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Okay, so- here’s a whole lot of inspiration for anyone attending the birthday party, and who is stumped on what to wear.. For everyone else- I wish you could come too! What would you dress as? (Clockwise, from top left) 1 + 2 = Alexander McQueen 3 + 5 = Jean Paul Gaultier Fall 2005 [...]

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Lone Grove New Year

Friday, January 2, 2009

It’s become a New Year’s tradition for me and mine to go out to Lone Grove, a ghost-town near Llano and my ancestral home. My aunt and uncle live there now, and before them my grandparents and great-grandparents lived there. My mother died there. I spent countless summers swimming in the creek and wrecking on [...]

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Happy Hexmas!

Friday, December 26, 2008

If you haven’t guessed by now, I really get into holidays- in my own peculiar way. I just enjoy the idea that a day, or series of days is extraordinary and to be a reason to celebrate and enjoy any or all of the following: ♥ dressing up ♥ making and giving gifts ♥ delicious [...]

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Russet + Bone

Friday, November 28, 2008

Finally it’s beginning to feel like Fall- though short-lived as it is, the leaves everywhere are golden, flame-colored, russet and scarlet. Perhaps not as dramatically so as in other places, but I for one am pleased. I would really rather the leaves stay just as they are through the winter, however. I am not prepared [...]

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SCHWARZE KATZE UND INSEKTENFRESSENDE PFLANZEN

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

On our second day in the city by the sea, we unearthed a curious creature curled up in a tree-stump. Bright dark eyes and nose a-twitch, glossy curls and black-orchid scented.. Peekaboo. We were able to lure her out with promises of pastry and exotic confections from Crixa Cakes… It was a regular smorgasbord of [...]

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Salomé + Yma Sumac

Friday, November 7, 2008

I was Salomé for Halloween this year, as in Dance of the Seven Veils, daughter of Herodias, and all that. I suppose I oughtn’t have been surprised at how many people I met had no idea who Salomé was.. All obscure biblical references aside- I mean, really? The favorite femme fatale of the fin-de-siècle! “In [...]

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Día de los Muertos – R.I.P. Studs Terkel

Sunday, November 2, 2008

I was saddened to hear that Studs Terkel died on Halloween. He was an amazing man, whom I had the honor of meeting a couple of years ago. We went to visit him at his house in Chicago on Thanksgiving morning. It was bitter cold and snow was on the ground, too bright- it gave [...]

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Triumvirate Lemniscate

Saturday, August 9, 2008

Dog-days, my friends- where the storms tease us, unfurling bruised capes behind them as they hurry off to other counties- snubbing our parched and pathetic orchards. Drought didn’t mean nothing to me before I grew what I ate. We need several days of good soaking, and soon! If you’ve got rain, send some my way [...]

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Hot Pursuits

Thursday, July 17, 2008

Texan summertime truly encourages innovation in the realms of refreshment and distraction- Anything to take your mind off your parched throat, and the rivulets of sweat dripping down every limb.. Thus, fancy sodas, frivolous frocks, and every night a cabaret, a soiree, a show! This Thursday (technically speaking, today) I will be joining the inimitable [...]

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San Frantastical!

Monday, December 3, 2007

Roasting ducks and painted ladies. I had not visited San Francisco in twenty-one years. Not since I was seven and I went with my grandparents who lived in Los Angeles. I remember hills and pretty houses, yes. We went to my cousin Polly’s wedding and I was the flower-girl. I was running in the woods [...]

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