Paris: A Food Diary

This past summer my mother turned to my sister and me. "I have a conference in Paris in November," she said. "You guys want to come?"

Mind you, she phrased this as if it were a question.

Birthday Presents

Peter is one of those infuriating individuals who had the nerve to be born less than a month after Christmas. It makes the winter season that much more stressful (not least because I get super impatient for people to open the presents I make and waiting without giving anything away is not one of my strong points.) I think the idea for this particular gift was inspired by something I read about Elizabeth I embroidering a prayer book cover for Catherine Parr one Christmas. I liked that. So this project developed into a fourfold creative endeavor: embroidering the cover, constructing the book itself from scratch, and filling it with poems and photographs I'd written or shot that I thought Peter would like. You are not allowed to see the poems or photographs, so we'll just talk about the cover!

Food Photography Studio!

I put together a little food photography studio tonight out of...wait for it...posterboard, parchment paper, and a daylight lightbulb! I am super excited. My sister sort of gave me the "you're cute but insane" smile. Let's hope some mouth-watering things come out of this bad boy!