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| prep for the new season - my favorite scent!! |
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| super foggy |
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| technology day! ipad mini and up band arrived same day! |
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Pier and Pittmans
Spent the day at Navy Pier with the Pittman's for Bella's chess tournament. Was a beautiful day in Chicago. And even better that Bella took first in her age group in the tourney! Gotta love a girl who does cheerleanding and chess! Now that's balance!
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| sloane really wanted to get in the game with these kids |
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| I can hardly believe she's 11 months already! I didn't get any good photos - now that she's on the move... |
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Hit the chocolate bar at the Pen again with some girlfriends. Love, love, love it! Was sad that they did not have the crepe station this time, but what we did have was lovely. My friend spotted a bottle of Creme Yvette at the bar and asked if I'd ever had it. I had not so gave it a try. The bartender said it is mostly a mixer - very fragrant - but I would totally sip it by itself. Mmmm. And then we talked the sommelier into giving us a flight of port and tawny - delightful!
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Had my first piece of pumpkin pie for the season and our first snow! It didn't stick since it had been 70 the day before, but it still counts as the first!
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Worked from home today since the painters were in the house. I sat on my bed in the middle of the bedroom with all the other furniture pushed up against it like a fort the whole day - working on my laptop. Phoebe was so cute and would not leave my side the whole time. Awww.
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Life is just crazy busy these days and my blogging is in a pitiful state. I think it's party because my Posterous platform (that I loved) has lost it's developers and support and the bugs that have developed (mostly huge delays in posting via email) will never be fixed. It was so easy to just whip up an email - both on the computer and phone. It was easy to tag and did not require me to log into a blog portal to properly post. And I could update all social places at once - without even thinking about it. I don't like Blogger. I think it's clunky. I can't imagine that it hasn't come farther in the years it's been around.
So... off my soapbox and onto 365 photos!
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Finally made my way to Taliesin West, Frank Lloyd Wright's home and studio. I have to say, learning how he built this place in the middle of the desert while living in the structures as they were being built with no electricity, water and such is pretty amazing. Somehow he makes these linear structures fit within the Arizona landscape - the use of local materials and pulling the reds direct from the earth - quite a talent indeed. It's sad that he died with pretty much nothing, but he was clearly an artist that lived for his craft.
My favorite room was the theater (last photo). He designed the space in such a way that performers need no equipment to amplify the sound. You can speak facing away from the audience and hear just as if they are facing you. You can even hear a whisper! And the angles of how the seating are so that when sitting with your right arm behind your neighbor and left leg crossed over put every single person at the perfect angle to view the center of the stage is nothing short of brilliance! A great way to wrap a quick weekend in Phoenix with my design friends!
