we used to live in a tiny brooklyn apartment with the tiniest joke of a galley kitchen where we did little but boil water.  now that we’ve quit the city for the country life and have a regular human-sized kitchen where food actually gets cooked, it makes sense to do things like buy towels for said kitchen.

there was a kid in high school that we called spooner. i don’t know why. if i was still friends with him, i’d buy him this towel. since i’m not, i think i’ll go ahead and buy it for myself.

do the dishes, indeed.

i’m feeling this tea towel. so simple and clean. as doing the dishes should be. (does that make sense?)

i’m also feeling this one. strange and wonderful. it’s on the pricey side though. i’d likely not use it much.

nice color. very mod and kitchen-y. reminds me of rishi’s blocks.

there you have it. in case you were wondering.

i love this box of blocks – great tomato red color and mod graphics.  the blocks themselves are lovely and softened with years of play as they used to belong to my husband when he was a boy.  my son, rishi, loves them.  (that’s him speeding past in the pic.)  thankfully, my mother-in-law had the foresight to save them all these years!

we bought a deep freeze and half a side of (grass-fed, antibiotic and hormone-free, happy) beef from a friend’s farm.  what a long long way i’ve come.

so, along these bovine lines….

marimekko does it again. what i love about this fabric is the scale of it. this is a single 104″ repeat!  the perfect size for curtain…. hmmmmm…….!