Halloween

via Bodhi Villa Retreat

Halloween may just be my favorite holiday. In Cambodia, this holiday coincides with the King's Birthday, just another holiday of many in the October month.

Halloween and the King's Birthday brought me back to sleepy Kampot. My American flatmate and Brazilian friend accompanied me. After we fired the share taxi driver when he tried to squeeze two drivers into the small driver's seat for the 3-4 hour journey and my Brazilian friend cursed the driver and his family (literally, as in, "I curse you and your family."), the three of us jumped into a bumpy minivan to the small town.

In Kampot, it rained and the wind blew all day. For the rest of the afternoon and well into evening, we watched the wind stir the river's waters from the veranda, as my flatmate and I sat swaddled in blankets, the house cat squeezed in between the two of us.

The next morning, we caught a share taxi back to Phnom Penh.

Mexico City, anyone?

CD. DE MÉXICO, video documental from EARRANGOIZ on Vimeo.

Found via lospremiagrumi.

Ermie Prints

via Ermie

Some of my favorite Ermie textiles.

brunch bites

Brunch at Rachel's. Sun. Hot, crispy baguettes transported on moto bikes from Comme à la Maison . Naps.

A Dutch friend tried her hand at American pancakes, all the while convincing me that what I should be cooking is savory Dutch versions, with cheese, bacon and apple filling. (She gaffawed when I told her that we sometimes eat an entire stack of these pancakes for breakfast.)

Off topic, I'm wondering how much I'm processing of this experience. While I've been fortunate to experience bright and warm moments here (and sometimes those moments just bowl me over with their intensity), it is still Cambodia and my work is . . .

Finds

Some recent fabric finds from Russian Market. What to make?

Note to Self: Packing for Siberia

Cashmere leggings and yoga pants, even when paired together, don't insulate the bitter bite of Siberian winter, its chilly embrace bleeding through every bare thread, into every pore. Ah, it was an interesting attempt.

Mongolia, your images still haunt me!

Slowing it down

via the 1010 Project

The 1010 Project:

10 photographers. 10 photos each. All taken on 10/10/10.

A single day represented in 100 photographs.

No special occasion, no big event, just the essence of daily life captured through ten lenses.

The 1010 project was devised as an antidote to everything in modern life always having to be bigger, better, louder and brighter than what’s been before.

It’s an opportunity to slow down and appreciate the simple, everyday things that make life beautiful.

Lovely.