i do love me some cheesecake…

and i especially love this recipe from tyler florence’s food network show. it’s lighter than traditional cheesecakes and it’s nice and lemony which i love. i’ve made it a few times and it’s always a hit. this time i was short on sour cream and had to substitute half greek yogurt and it still worked. go make it. i don’t know what you’re waiting for. it even takes fewer ingredients than regular cheesecakes.

dv is a woman after my own heart…

“I’m terrible on facts. But I always have an idea. If you have an idea, you’re well ahead!”
:: Diana Vreeland

moving back to the big girl blog?

i thought i would try it out for a while. kick the old tires again. see how she felt. i started to wipe out the old posts then i read back and it was kind of fun to see just how old they were and kind of fun to read them. this really is, and always has been, a good creative outlet for me. i can see that when i look back and i can feel it as a sit and work on bringing things up to date. i feels good. why, then, do i stop?

HOW Conference ’08 – Black and White Ball

HOW Conference ’08 – Black and White Ball,
originally uploaded by kilgore.

head scratching? demonstrating how tiny my head truly is? making fun of mollie’s hat? i think it’s the hat. funny hats are the tamest thing that happens when 4000 designers have a party. it’s frightening. the floor was moving, the band played freebird, there were pirates, scary middle-aged dancing, dancing that actually made me want to download the song toxic…you can’t make this stuff up.

check out the rest of christy’s pictures. the official eiu photog of HOW ’08.

are you playing?

from today’s aiga chicago newsletter:

“To play it safe is not to play.”
:: Robert Altman, film director

this one may bump my tibor quote in my sig line. at the very least it will get a place on honor in my notebook(s). what a challenging question to ask yourself. i think it’s especially difficult as we age and, maybe, mature in our career to remain fresh and playful in out approaches. if you’re honest with your self and you think back on most of your best and most fulfilling ideas 9 times out of 10 they probably started with play. they may have started with crazy. or…with “what the hell”.

fresh ideas are what keep me going in this business. it’s the excitement, the positively electric jolt, i get when i find a solution or when i see a colleague find one. the light-bulb above the head is my own personal jesus of design.

go play. and if you’re not playing, you need to ask yourself why…

weego home to pillows…

say what? yes, i love pillows. yes, i love hable construction (though the pillow above is not from hable). yes, they both live peaceably together at Weego Home which qualifies it, at least in my mind, as a perfect store.

also filed under: lovely little things for your home

flip flop heaven…

wonder woman havaianas!

also filed under: lovely little things for your person 

what’s the piano top in your life?

“I am enthusiastic over humanity’s extraordinary and sometimes very timely ingenuities. If you are in a shipwreck and all the boats are gone, a piano top buoyant enough to keep you afloat may come along and make a fortuitous life preserver. This is not to say, though, that the best way to design a life preserver is in the form of a piano top. I think we are clinging to a great many piano tops in accepting yesterday’s fortuitous contrivings as constituting the only means for solving a given problem.” :: R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

some days i feel as if i’m drowning is a swimming pool filled with piano tops. too much grasping at what used to work. too many minds unable to flex with new logic or, new mystery. god save us from our own piano tops.

enough said…

just the thing for those pesky committee meetings.

if you’re the one person who hasn’t already seen this…

 run, don’t walk, harvey danger!

Lip Dub – Flagpole Sitta by Harvey Danger from amandalynferri