i was so happy to have my great friends tasja & andi in town for a few days from germany! they were doing a classic california roadtrip and started and finished here in the bay area. we were lucky enough to spend a lot of quality time together, including a getaway to the headlands...
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earthy bean pot in mothersmemories etsy shop if you love BEANS then you gotta love BEAN POTS!!! and if you love bean pots you must love BEAN FEASTS!!! i kind of can’t wait for wintertime just so i can have a bunch of friends over to eat beans from a cool old pot and get...
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with two cars full of snacks, sleeping bags, and an extremely generic map of oregon, we headed eastward towards the deschutes national forest with no real plan, just camping and swimming on our minds. lots of driving and bags of chips later, we ended up in a post-forest-fire patch of dryness near the metolius...
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if i had to choose a theme for our entire trip up to oregon, it would have to be “all grown up” (***commence shimmering sparkles and tears***). it was the first time nico and i had been back together since we met there five years ago…woah. FIVE YEARS! we were just KIDS when we...
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WITH THE PEOPLE: BIG THINGS SHOP BOET BOX OF CONTENTS NUTFANG THE GOOD MOD & RECTANGULAR OBJECTS SEE YAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
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don’t pretend you don’t like em- EVERYONE LOVES GUMMIES! created by haribo founder, hans riegel in the 1920s, the “rubber bear” has skyrocketed to popularity in germany and all over the world with endless shapes and sizes that are all equally bad for your teeth. but who cares?! my favorites are the gummi peaches...
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for some bizarre reason our calendar always fills up in solid blocks, giving us social famines one week and in the case of this weekend, a total social feast overload. we were invited over for dinner at various friends’ homes on thursday, friday, saturday, AND sunday! just wanted to offer a big thanks to...
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BIG THINGS is coming to PORTLAND for a special lemonade stand/garage sale/pop-up shop/open studio! i’m excited to be visiting the city of roses, where i lived many moons ago. please join us for a whole sunday of fun! featuring friends… rectangular objects… boet jewelry… nutfang… the good mod danish, industrial & mid-century modern furniture… AND LEMONADE,...
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For those of you in town this 4th of July… Come to the People’s Gallery for the opening of the exhibition US and a 4th of July BBQ. We will have meats and non-meats, drinks, and snacks. US is an exhibition using the 4th of July as context to examine and reflect upon American...
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took me a while to recoup after the big weekend, but here are some shots from the summer solstice party this past saturday at swarm gallery! thanks to everyone who came down to celebrate with us; to social studies, piki and ben for the awesome jams; the knitters for the yarn installation; to alice...
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