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the happy house

noreply@blogger.com (victoria thorne) — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:01:00 +0000

links to include: etsy via caterina,

etsy via indianvsindian, wo & we,

16 house, axel pairon, mary caple

[check labels for further details]

gates and entries

noreply@blogger.com (victoria thorne) — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:35:00 +0000

ph: vt

in case

noreply@blogger.com (victoria thorne) — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:55:00 +0000

[in Russian, referring to why Augustine never buried her ring]

Lista: In case someone should come searching one day.

Alex: So they would have something to find.

Lista: No, it does not exist for you. You exist for it. You have come because it exists.

-Everything is Illuminated,

Foer | Schreiber

photos: vt, seattle

created to collect valentines

noreply@blogger.com (victoria thorne) — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:48:00 +0000

all you need is love

once wed

noreply@blogger.com (victoria thorne) — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:34:00 +0000

valentines

images:

Margot Hartford Photography

San Francisco

february: sweethearts

noreply@blogger.com (victoria thorne) — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 04:49:00 +0000

a good month to share

margot hartford's work

Margot Hartford Photography
San Francisco

joy

noreply@blogger.com (victoria thorne) — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:43:00 +0000

be happy;

it's one way

of being wise

-colette

image:

Margot Hartford Photography

San Francisco

square dealings

noreply@blogger.com (victoria thorne) — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 21:09:00 +0000

walker evans

via

eva truffaut

balance and order and rhythm and harmony

noreply@blogger.com (victoria thorne) — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 19:30:00 +0000

chairs: axel pairon
sampler: needleprint
lake: here

for we cannot make the best of what we are, if our hearts are always divided between what we are and what we are not. we cannot be happy if we expect to live all the time at the highest peak of intensity. happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony. let us, therefore, learn to pass from one imperfect activity to another without worrying too much about what we are missing.

-thomas merton

pillow fight

noreply@blogger.com (victoria thorne) — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 18:31:00 +0000

the urge to purchase these is currently
being overridden by willpower (hoping
it will last long enough for them to land
in someone else's home sweet home):
robin cottage

currently reading (thank goodness):

the willpower instinct
by kelly mcgonigal

(having purchased two copies-
one for me, one for my best friend-
i can urge you- strongly- to get your own.
and i won't have a bit of guilt, as
i can promise it will be good for you.)

virginia medicine

noreply@blogger.com (victoria thorne) — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:20:00 +0000

all photos:

indian vs. indian
dinosaurs and robots
&
axel pairon

2 or more

noreply@blogger.com (victoria thorne) — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 03:59:00 +0000

i'll be taking
a couple of days off.

thought to leave a few
other places you could stop by:

hiromi suzuki
the zero waste home
domainr
#vanlife
the edible schoolyard
wendy mcnaughton
vdj maison
rdio

and, here-
especially
dear
to our hearts-

abilities united

1

noreply@blogger.com (victoria thorne) — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 01:21:00 +0000

even a minute, once it has passed,
will never return / as we have used it up,
so will it remain for eternity. if it was
badly used, a miracle will not erase it.
this truth helps us to take advantage of time, of every little moment. -m. kolbe

3

noreply@blogger.com (victoria thorne) — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 01:21:00 +0000

love note to mrs. basil e. frankweiler

noreply@blogger.com (victoria thorne) — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 20:20:00 +0000

photos: vt

this

noreply@blogger.com (victoria thorne) — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 21:00:00 +0000

desk

from

knife and saw

[would be so nice to come home to]

a page of bright ghosts

noreply@blogger.com (victoria thorne) — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 09:26:00 +0000

la pomme

via

remodelista

kuehn

noreply@blogger.com (victoria thorne) — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:15:00 +0000

neue galerie

5.26.12

glimpse

noreply@blogger.com (victoria thorne) — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:36:00 +0000

milan

july11

say something

noreply@blogger.com (victoria thorne) — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:20:00 +0000

clay shirky, here

canvas the neighborhood

noreply@blogger.com (victoria thorne) — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 06:22:00 +0000

stanley & sons
archival clothing

brilliant.
hickoree's via secret forts

seattle

noreply@blogger.com (victoria thorne) — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:44:00 +0000

duromina

ignatius

july

noreply@blogger.com (victoria thorne) — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 07:25:00 +0000

what to leave in

noreply@blogger.com (victoria thorne) — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 07:03:00 +0000

mark this as a place where one spark landed

noreply@blogger.com (victoria thorne) — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:27:00 +0000

it is because of alexandra that, i suppose, i actually have a blog.

shortly after meeting her (we have, luckily enough, several mutual
friends- all of them utterly marvelous folk) i found her blog.

shortly after finding her blog i taught an art class and thought it
would be fun to track our projects on blogger (that lasted about
8 weeks; this one has lasted a bit longer). shortly after all of that
i thought a blog about children's books would be a fine idea.

&
now, some years later, i often wander back to alexandra's work and
find, in it and always, the reason her vision lit the spark that led to-

well, led to something else altogether (for me). it is with certainty
that i say that her clear and beautiful eye- and her ability to share
her gifts with the rest of the world- will continue to add light. and
that light grows always brighter, just as good & generous sparks do.

art: alexandra boiger