zoo

some pictures from our visit to the bronx zoo yesterday.
T let me borrow his canon G9 for the day.

hot pink

today was a super hot day (somewhere in the mid-nineties, or 36 in Celsius).

I'm not crazy about the heat during the day
(except for the first 15 minutes after exiting an air conditioned space)

but I love the heat when it's dark,
maybe just because, being northern european,
it is something that feels very exotic to me.

I'm off for dinner (outside!) and a little walk before bedtime.

how is the weather where you are?

sunday

yesterday was a perfect sunday. I went to the MoMA with my friend M. to see the Marina Abramovic exhibition
(which starts with a performance that visitors can take part in, see pictures above).
you can read a great review here and here (thank you Petra for introducing me to artist and blog!).
the rest of the exhibit was interesting, but somehow performance art isn't really my cup of tea!

after the exhibit we sat in a little garden with a waterfall on 53rd street,
I walked through midtown to my subway stop

and later took a little walk around the neighborhood with T. to admire the day's chalk drawings.

café regular du nord

a few pictures from a little cafe in our neighborhood
that we visited for the first time a few weeks ago. I think we'll be back.

how have you been?

a few thoughts on wearing things

Over the last year or so I've been thinking a lot about the things I wear, where they come from
and where they go when I stop loving them or when they fall apart. I've been trying to make more and more
of the clothes I wear, to not impulse-buy things, and to invest into fewer but better quality pieces.
But sometimes I find it difficult to stick to my good resolutions.

I'm a big fan of Zoe's blog, she has my greatest respect for having joined the wardrobe-refashion pledge for life (!)
and writes a lot about purchasing less new things and mending things you have.
Inspired by the Makeshift Project Zoe invented her own little project in march wearing only clothes she has made
(with the exception of shoes, tights and socks I think), and now another one this month: Me-Made-May.
She asked for readers to join her (in a light version if one doesn't have a full self-made wardrobe), and that's what I'll be doing.

So for all of May all the tops, dresses, skirts and leggings I will be wearing will be made by me.
That will necessarily lead to me wearing at least one hand made item per day, but also lets me wear items
that I don't really see myself making any time soon (cardigans, jeans, underwear).

I won't be posting too much about this on my blog, but if you're interested hop on over to the
Me-Made-May group on flickr and have a look at what everyone is doing.

I hope you're having a great weekend!
Today it's summer here in NYC.