Yours is the earth tea towels

Weee… my new tea towels from Yours is the Earth arrived. I saw them on Fab.com a few weeks ago and couldn’t resist the cuteness, so I bought a set of 3. I am such a sucker for tea towels, and the worst part is that I don’t allow my husband to use them for dishes – we have a different set of terry cloth towels for those. Instead, I just hang them from a door handle and treat them as rotating kitchen art.

Check out the other cute things the artist duo Allie Peach and Jamie Wyckoff have to offer on their website.

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5 things I loved during the snow

Over the last few days, we had quite a bit of snow in Seattle. I always love it when the pretty snowflakes turn my neighborhood into a sugar coated winter wonderland. Fortunately my neighborhood got spared and didn’t become part of the  300,000+ homes in the Pacific Northwest that lost power. This means that for me it was just a calm time to walk in the snow, talk about the crazy weather with the baristas that lived close enough to walk to work, enjoy time with my husband, relax, read, draw and marvel at the beauty of nature.

Here are my top 5 things I loved during the snow:

1. Getting a chance to rediscover my visually changed neighborhood and post new photos to Instagram.

2. Walking to Capitol Hill with Elmo-Bandito

3. Realizing that my brand new rain boots designed by the talented Jessica Swift turned out to be perfect snow boots (with a thick pair of socks inside).

4. Walking by a bunch of freshly made snowmen, here are two of my favorites.

5. Drawing some penguins and snowflakes.

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Granny Smith and the Ginger Bear

I enjoy seeing other people doing fun things with food. Well, over the last couple of days, I came across these two images which I want to share with you.

On Instagram @joshurawr posted Granny Smith and her husband:

And just a couple of days later my friend Sumit posted this adorable Ginger Bear to facebook, explaining why he needed to be sacrificed to become part of a delicious Shehperd’s pie. To find out about Sumit’s recipe, check out the post on his blog:  ThatsGreat.org.

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Gorgeous sunset over Seattle

Last night as I walked my dog, the sky over Seattle took my breath away. It was lit up in the most amazing pink, purple, yellow and orange tones. Because I wanted everyone to see it live, I immediately posted a picture to facebook, encourating my friends to go outside and look up. As it turns out, I was not the only one with that idea. Over the next 30 minutes, sunset pictures from all over the pacific Northwest started dominating my facebook feed which I watched outside on my iPhone as the sky took me in. Below is a collage that I made from some of those amazing photos that my facebook friends posted. It was a night to remember!

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A little glimpse into my Instagram gallery

A few weeks ago I got approached by @PedroAlmeida one of my Instagram followers, asking me if I wanted to participate in a new multimedia web project on Público newspaper, a Portuguese daily news site. Never having been asked anything like this before, I felt honored to be one of the photographers they picked for this series and sent him 10 photos that best represent my style on Instagram and a brief blurb about my experience with daily social photography. Just a few weeks later, I got an email that it’s up on their site. Extra bonus points if you speak Portuguese and can actually read the description on the right.

Check out the slideshow on http://p3.publico.pt

I am @TheNadj on Instagram

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Meet TheNadj Menagerie

Say hello to two members of my menagerie. The left one is a gift from a friend from a few years ago. He reminds me that the world really is all about rainbows and unicorns! The little wand broke once, but love (or rather super glue) was stronger than that. The little duck on the right is vintage. I guess that now officially makes me vintage… ugh! I recently rediscovered it in my mom’s house. It’s a tin windup toy that I used to play with as a child. Today, these two cuties sit on my desk and make me happy on a rainy Seattle day. Check out the rest of TheNadj Menagerie.

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Ring, ring… who’s there?

In a time of text based communication it’s getting easier and easier for people to reduce phone calls to a bare minimum. I was never one to voluntarily pick up the phone to just call someone to chat. At best, I’d use it to communicate something that couldn’t wait or to arrange a time to meet someone in person, at worst, I’d simply let it ring and wait for it to go to voice mail. For me as a visual person, I like to see someone when I talk to them, or at least read them in email or text messages. With Face Time, I am slowly warming up to “phone” conversations with friends and family overseas, but it’s still not the same as talking to them in person. Last week, a friend took me to an underground art show in Basel, Switzerland where this caged phone hung as part of an installation. It immediately spoke to me; a vintage phone hanging in mid air, out of reach as an object of the past. Would you pick it up if it rang?

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Cardboard is the new plastic!

Swiss psychologist, writer, artist and overall creative mind Michael Mittag couldn’t find a case for his new iPhone 4S. Apparently the buttons on the 4s are in slightly different locations than the ones on it’s predecessor iPhone 4. Instead of waiting for the new cases to arrive at the store, Michael took action and crafted his own. I absolutely love how it turned out and really like the contrast between the sleek glass/metal gadget and his innovative cardboard creation.

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Make your own 3-D photo tunnel book!

Okay, this is really fun! Photojojo posted instructions on how to make your very own 3-D photo tunnel book. Weee… brings me back to childhood but with adult skillz! Check it out, make one and let me know via twitter @thenadj instagram @thenadj or email what you came up with.

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Homemade roasted squash ravioli

For my birthday I got a pasta maker. It actually took some time to convince my minimalist husband to add another “machine” to our kitchen. So now I have to prove that I am worthy of the clutter. Seasonal for fall, I decided to make raviolis with a roasted  squash, parmesan and toasted almond filling and it am happy to report that it was well worth the time it took to clean up the flower dusted kitchen. If you’re interested in making them yourself, here are a couple of recipes that I mixed and matched to create my own: recipe one |  recipe two

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