Hoboken Studio Two Thumbs up

I got a work studio in Hoboken! Can't wait to move in.

Happy Mother's Day!

Claes Oldenburg

Claes Oldenburg at MOMA including Mouse Museum.

"Mouse Museum and Ray Gun Wing propose an equivalence between collecting and creating while dissolving the distinction between everyday items and museum treasures"

Kilim Pillows

The first kilim pillow I ordered arrived and I love it!

Cook & Gates

My bag broke so I got this new one. Carrie had one and I liked hers because of the inconsistency of the dye. Cook & Gates also has a line of bags sold at Beacon's Closet.

Game 7 Win or Go Home

Really excited the Nets won game 6 and extra stoked to go to game 7 tomorrow! I do plan to come early get loud and wear black.

New R. Sharath book

Astanga Yoga Anusthana. A good place to double check your practice and bow to the lotus feet.

Plant House Gallery

Glen Baldridge installation in the window of Plant House, a new gallery on W 29th formerly a plant store or home to plants.

LI Style

I love the Hamptons. I love Montauk. So much natural beauty and non-natural beauty i.e. cool old homes/architecture. Above is the Parish Museum of Art and Hither Hills State Park. Montauk has great surfing for beginners if you can brave the cold water and rocky shores which I could not last weekend. Maybe next time.

Weaving

 Thinking about taking a weaving class at Textile Arts Center and 1980's straw bags today when I'm not contemplating how a 19 year old teen who is seemingly normal can explode people in Boston doing strenuous exercise mostly for charitable causes.

VW Love

These days we need a bit more love in this world.

Sharath & Saraswathi Jois - NYC April 13th

This event was extremely well documented. There are photos of every single pose in the series on the jois yoga greenwich fb page.

Stone Lion Inn Montauk

Next weekend Matt and I are going to Montauk and I hope the weather is going to be nice so we can bike and surf. We're staying at the Stone Lion Inn which is supposed to be clean,stylish and reasonable opposed to overpriced and crumby.It should be quiet because many businesses don't open for the season till May.

Hello Brooklyn

Really excited to see the Brooklyn Nets play tonight. 

Sharath and Saraswathi tour 2013

Been out in CT for the last week studying yoga with my teachers from India at 6:30am. I actually like getting up this early because you can see the green plants rising out of the black dirt in the early morning. Here's an interesting article about ashtanga yoga and the current state of things...even in yoga the only thing that's certain is change.

I miss the remarkable bookstore

and old Westport. There's an informative piece of writing about it here, by Dan Woog. I love the comments describing it as "funky" and "artsy", which is of course true.

Brooklyn Cupcake

There's a new cupcake place called Brooklyn Cupcake and Matt and I tried it when we brought cupcakes out to my fave CT cupcake lovers, the Brown family. I was a little scared because we normally eat cupcakes from Magnolia Bakery which is still #1 on my cupcake hotlist. Anyhow, Brooklyn cupcake is really good and the flavors are inventive like "guava con queso" but I miss the dense crusty cupcake and ultra sugary icing that magnolia provides. The Brooklyn cupcake is soft and spongy with the texture of a homemade one from the box(except with much more interesting flavors like flan and tiramisu) with tall and high perfectly crafted cream cheese icing.

Jois Yoga Greenwich

Today I went to Jois yoga in Greenwich for the first time and it's really beautiful and all the teachers were very nice and helpful. Looking forward to going back for the rest of this week and next week for the Sharath and Saraswathi workshop.

Mrs. Grossman's stickers

80's awesome! I totally forgot about these coveted stickers until I saw them at a toy store yesterday. Then I realized a brilliant woman, Alice, is making mandalas exclusively out of these stickers, how cool.

Rug Sizing and Nomad Chic

I got this "Paxton Mink" rug for my side of the bed at I love it. It's a little style I like to call "nomad chic". Did you know it's really hard to figure out what rug size is right for a room? There's a whole art to it outlined here and here. I got the wrong size of this rug(4x6) and returned it for a runner(2.5 x7) which worked out much better next to the bed. 

Multi Colored Painted Bricks

I was out walking around Williamsburg with Stephanie and I saw this painted brick wall and asked Matt if we could do this to the exposed brick in his apt but he said "no" :-( I guess other folks in Hoboken just wouldn't understand if we tried to rent the place which is a damn shame.

Homemade Vanities

Matt and I have been doing A LOT of work on his place in Hoboken this winter. Here's a picture of one of our new cabinets that's soon to become a vanity with a self rimming sink on top. There is a lot of  African Slate tile in his bathrooms and we decided natural wood and plants could warm up the look.

Funny Signs

On this door there is a sign that says "DO NOT KNOCK! use door at 443". Heaven forbid knocking.

This Way of Life

Jenny recommended This Way of Life movie. It's amazing and beautiful. Everybody should watch it. 

It's free on hulu.

Textile Arts Center

This place seems like a really fun place to take some classes.

More Pretty Things from Pendleton

These blankets are a collaboration between Dwell Studio and Pendleton. Nice of the photographer to dogear the corner so viewers can see the pattern on pattern combo.

Our Winter Amaryllis

Jenny and I had an amaryllis this winter but now the flowers are gone. It was so pretty and we enjoyed it very very VERY much.

Maha Sivaratri Schedule

This morning I woke up to Frosti snoring and HERE is the schedule for Maha Sivaratri next Saturday at Broome Street Temple.

Maha Sivaratri, March 9^th – 10^th, 2013: As an added auspicious occurrence, Monday is the traditional day of worshipping Lord Siva. This all-night vigil worshipping Lord Siva in the form of the Linga is attended each year by hundreds of devotees throughout the course of the night, and is one of our most special and sacred observances. Throughout the four-quarters of the night, the Siva Linga is bathed, the Rudram is chanted 21 times, and there is kirtan from 6 pm until 4 am the following morning. Please feel free to come and go as you are able, but don’t miss attending puja on this important and sacred day of the year!

Revel AC

 

Last weekend we went to the new, and apparently bankrupt :-( , Revel casino in Atlantic City, also affectionately referred to as "AC". It's really neat because the interior uses diverse texture/color and popular design ideas but on a massive Alice in Wonderland scale. I can't wait to go back and stay in one of the ocean front rooms.

Guavaberry cocktails

Matt and I finally used our precious guavaberry rum from St.Martin to make guavaberry cocktails and they tasted exactly like those found in St.Martin! which could be due to the fact these drinks include 3 ingredients-guaveberry rum, pineapple and coconut cream.

Sometimes there's this email

Maha Shivaratri

Maha Shivaratri March 9th to March 10th 2013.

More Martha

Martha Stewart Omnimedia for another 5 days.

Pendleton Towels

When Gigi and Scott came to visit they stayed at a beautiful sublet in Williamsburg that had these. Originally sold at Urban Outfitters but also available at Pendleton.

Photo Editing

at Martha Stewart Omnimedia for the next 10 days.

Wednesday night lecture series on Ashtanga Yoga

once monthly, from 7-8pm. In these lectures we will cover the basic, underlying principles of the inner and outer limbs of yoga. In concert with daily practice, contemplating and discussing these principles can give us inspiration, and help to reinforce a sense of purpose and enthusiasm in the exploration of our inner sense of self – and of consciousness – that yoga leads towards.

February 13th: Overview of yama and niyama

March 13th: Asana

April 10th: Pranayama

May 8th: Pratyahara

June 12th: Dharana, dhyana and samadhi

$20 donation; Free for AYNY students

Butala Emporium

Yesterday I went to Butala Emporium which has a couple different locations in the city and outter buroughs and an online store. This is the place to get statues, books and ayurvedic oils.