Tuesday Morning

Coffee for two

Rachel

Happy Holidays

& whatnot

r

Last Night

I had a dream about Sauvie Island.

rachel

Play Date

Carlsbad's rendition of the Santaland Diaries & tiny little tomatoes

Fun in the Sun?

and general shenanigans.


hope everyone is enjoying themselves as much as this dog is!

-Nicole

Home

cutest couple... good grief.

ps. I'm home.

Rachel

Home

just saying...



hope you are having a good weekend!

-N

Coffee to go

This is what going out of town looks like.

-Rachel

Books and Such

Made a little something for Rachel:





for keeping dangerous things in, like pesticides and such


-nicole

p.s. goin home in a few hours!

Holidays

This is a little sketchbook full of random bits and pieces i made for Miss Nicole. Does anyone have any cool handmade gift ideas??

Rachel

My kind of card

The dapper cadaver- $15.50

Abby and Sam- &15.50

Check out the rest of this awesome shop ......Here!

A Saturday Hike

My Dad is in town from San Diego , and I can honestly say I enjoyed the heck out of spending time with him today. We went hiking, then he helped me pick out a sweet new (or old, actually) bedside table.

Oh yeah and guess who gave herself a snazzy set of bangs? That would be me.

cheers for the night.

Rachel

Paper Snow Cabin

Finals week is upon us! While everyone (read: Rachel) is tucked away studying, I have been amazingly "productive"..... making paper snowflakes and this:





cheers!

-nicole

Thought of the Day:

Christmas shopping is hard.





-nicole

Image from here

Jason Segel

just saying.

Happy Day

A thank you to the lovely florist who decided I needed bunches of free flowers. November was good.

Rachel

Happy Thanksgiving

Finally some free time today to finish my first real crochet project... Now I think I forgot how to knit...uhh.

Hope you all enjoyed the day.
-Rachel

Apology & a pillow

Dear everyone,

I am oh so sorry that there was no project yesterday (tuesday), I was absolutely swamped at school and I am missing the Nicole, and it was near impossible to muster the energy to even take my shoes off. All excuses aside, I have been getting friendly with textiles lately, and I fell in love with the fabric used on the pillow above.. We will have something extra special (I hope) planned for next tuesday!

Rachel

Going to California!

I will be gone for a bit, hopefully will be back in a week with a full belly and photos to show you!

I hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving, especially Rachel! and peanutbutter...

-Nicole

A Normal Sunday Night

Alright, who has a pogo stick?

Try it Tuesday: Favorite Socks

Do you have a favorite pair of socks?

We do!

this week's assignment is to take a picture of your feet in your favorite socks!

Nicole's:


my auntie Linda knitted them and they are awesome and colorful and warm and i love them!

post yours in the comments below!

-Nicole

Rachel's:
Perfect for braving the wind that seeps through our windowsill and for sliding on our floors.

-Rachel

More Coffee Developer

I finally got around to scanning a few more photos today.

These were the prints i developed in coffee:








plus more vivitar ultra wide and slim shots are up on my Flickr!

more later this week!

-Nicole

In Search of Eustace

The achingly beautiful father-daughter journey of David and Rachael Eustace, view the entire journey here.

Rachel

New Project: Try-It Tuesdays!

Hello long lost friends, Oh boy I'm going to cut straight to the chase today because I'm so excited about this... Nicole and I have decided to take on a new project with you all: Try-it Tuesdays. So some of you may recall the good ol' girl scout "brownie" days where young girls are given patches called "try-its" for well, trying! The patches weren't based on ability or skill, or even knowledge, they simply meant: you tried something new, and that's freaking awesome! And although were not touting that you go out and buy a zillion boxes of girl scout cookies (ok, we are.), we do think that you should still receive recognition for trying new things. So, whats the big deal, you ask? Ill tell you!

Every Tuesday we will come up with a new project for you...Some projects will ask you to make something (and show us, duh!), some will ask you to tell us something, to meet someone, to do something outside, simple enough, right?? Well for your participation, we vow to send you a little something special as our way of saying "Hey, you rock for tryin it!" Oh yeah, you can bet Nicole and I will be participating too!

So here it is, your first try-it Tuesday: Make a list of 5 things you enjoy about yourself.

Simple enough, right? Just post a comment with your list of lovely quirks and misshapen bones, and viola! Send us your address at TableB5blog@gmail.com, (seriously, we wouldn't have anyone to give it away to, so don't worry.) and be proud of yourself! Alright, yada yada... Here is my dosage of ego-stroking self-love:

Five Things I Love About Myself. by Rachel Stahl
1. I Like that the hair around my ears curls just so. I got it from my mama!
2. I cannot hold a grudge. Seriously, I cave. Butter, if you will.
3. I make it a point to hold doors open and talk to the mailman every day.
4. I really am clumsy, and I have amazing scars to prove it. Ask me to show you!

5. I love that I value my alone time, and I can respect when others need to be left alone too.

(p.s. The photo above (Richard Avedon) is a little tribute to our sweet new header, courtesy of Nicole!)

Rachel.

Wellies

Sometimes I forget how much I love my rainboots until my canvas shoes get all soggy.

I have a pair of plain black ones I got ages ago, but how fun are these?



I like the shape, and they are fuzzy inside. Perfect for happy feet!

Get them here

-nicole

Mysterious Letters Part Two

Hey guys!

Remember this post about Michael and Lenka's Mysterious Letters project?



They are trying to raise enough money to write to their next town and are on on Kickstarter.

They have fun incentives for donations. Here are a few:

PLEDGE $5 OR MORE
You will have your name written in calligraphy on a list that will be read in a reverential tone of voice into the letterbox as we post all of the letters. (Specific accents requestable.) You also receive our unconditional lavender love.

PLEDGE $10 OR MORE
You get to choose a theme which will be used to write a letter to a stranger (eg: how giraffes give birth, babies’ names, what dogs are thinking when they look at the moon, etc.) Each donor will receive a digital image of the resulting letter and a unique digital thank you.

PLEDGE $24 OR MORE
You will receive a unique hand-written postcard composed whilst we were sober, clear-headed and utterly focused on the task.

PLEDGE $25 OR MORE
You will receive a unique hand-scrawled postcard written while we were drunk, which we'll regret horribly by the time it arrives.

click here to see the rest of the details and incentives

There is a week left before the deadline!


happy monday!
-nicole

Making Space

Good morning early birds! Before I skip out for the day, I thought I would share a recent project.. I have really crumby shelf space in my room, so I took this cheap goodwill find and decided to fix it up a little.. I knocked out a few of the wooden pieces and stained the wood, then used an old roadmap of ohio as the backing... much better! It's a bit sparse now, but I'm on the search for trinkets!

Enjoy your tuesday

Rachel