I’ve been carrying around the same magazine clipping for bang trims for years.
Literally. It’s from a March 2008 Harper’s Bazaar. Do you do that? Mine is in a plastic sleeve in a binder along with the makeup-lesson I got when we were planning our wedding. I better be careful or I’ll be on one of those talk-shows about women who never update their look. (Remember when Oprah had those episodes? There was always the woman who never cut her hair? I loved those.)
Anyway, I keep thinking I’m going to grow them out and then I get impatient and end up back in a chair with my magazine clipping. It happened again this week.
What celebrity haircut is in your plastic sleeve or on your pinboard? (I’ll be adding this one to my Beauty board, now that I’ve finally taken a photo!)
Have a great weekend and enjoy Easter if you’re celebrating! Here are a few links for your Friday…
Yes, the Yellow Bentwood chairs are awesome, but man… those doors!
One of my favorite sponsors, Pinhole Press, just expanded their wedding collection! I love the idea of reception wall decals (which would also be cool for a shower).
Speaking of weddings, this is such a great list of cost-cutting ideas. Anybody engaged right now?
Crewcuts Quiz in JCrew on film… how cute is the kid trying to pronounce Fuchsia? (Meanwhile, I struggle to spell it.)
Joanna just got back from a couples-only babymoon and featured some photos from our St. Lucia travelogue… which prompted me to re-read it and really recall just what a mental-adjustment it was to take that first trip with a baby. Yowza!
I just placed an order for Stickygrams! (Turn your instagrams into magnets.) Thinking of getting some? Use the code FRIENDL1BT for $2 off.
Oh, and P.S. If you see me in real life, go easy and please don’t actually compare my results to Helena Christensen. I’m only reaching for the haircut.
I just saw on A Cup of Jo that 20×200 has closed its (virtual) doors. We’ve ordered a few prints from there recently—including the Sharon Montrose Flamingo pictured—and I had half-a-dozen more saved away in a mental pile of consideration. I’d found it to be a great source of affordable art (particularly photography) and had been checking back over the past few weeks hoping that the “we’re taking a break”-notice was not going to become a permanent break. So disappointing!
Some paintings we’ve found at the Alameda Flea recently are my most-treasured purchases thus far, but what are your favorite online sources of art? Who are you noticing on Etsy lately? I’ve pinned a few favorites to my photography and eye candy boards, but am generally slow to commit.
P.S. Funny enough, Joanna mentions Banquet as an alternative to 20×200. I just hung their cacti print this past week! You can see it on my Instagram—a rare non-Hudson photo.
Just weeks after Aron and I went to a Morrissey concert—where we realized we wished we had brought those nerdy, safety ear plugs for music venues (because 1. our ears were ringing on the bike ride home, and 2. we’re getting older and nerdier)—a New York Times article on the growing problem of hearing loss made the “most-emailed list.” The article, “What Causes Hearing Loss,” is a scary, cautionary tale about what everyday noise can do to your hearing. (There was actually a really fascinating, equally scary earlier article about decibel levels in bars and restaurants and exercise classes in New York City.)
My cousin is an audiologist (audiology is the study of hearing), and Aron and I immediately bought ourselves those concert earplugs after talking to her—only we forgot to bring them along.
I wanted to learn, however, more about ways we might protect Hudson’s hearing. I spotted a photo of her and her six-month-old son on Facebook, headed to the circus. He was sporting the hearing protection earmuffs for kids by Peltor that are pictured on Hudson.
The tight-fitting mufflers were designed to protect infants while mom or dad is hunting or shooting(!), a parent-infant activity which seems crazy to me, but hey, it’s our gain!
I also asked her how to tell when something or some place is too loud: “As a rule of thumb, if you are having to shout to hold a conversation the noise level is too loud.” She added, however, that both the decibel level and the duration of exposure are relevant. “This is why iPods can be concerning because in the good ole’ days you ran out of batteries with your walkman before hitting the maximum length of time for safe listening. Now it is so common to see kids using iPods for hours upon hours at loud levels.” (You can download software and set a volume limit). Here’s a link with more information about safe loudness levels.
We obviously can’t make him wear his headphones everywhere (even if I might try to make him wear them into Abercrombie as a teenager), but they have come in handy: like when he was really little and frightened of the sound of the vacuum or for watching fireworks over the Hudson river on the Fourth of July.
