missed connections

Currently loving Sophie Blackall's ongoing 'Missed Connections' series of illustrations.  She describes them best...

"Messages in bottles, smoke signals, letters written in the sand; the modern equivalents are the funny, sad, beautiful, hopeful, hopeless, poetic posts on Missed Connections websites. Every day hundreds of strangers reach out to other strangers on the strength of a glance, a smile or a blue hat. Their messages have the lifespan of a butterfly. I'm trying to pin a few of them down."

~ Sophie Blackall

'dear girl with silk screen'

'throat tattoo'

You can see more of them in her Etsy shop.

And speaking of missed connections, I missed a call from my niece this morning.  Apparently she threw a bit of a tantrum until her mother agreed to let her call Aunt Dana - and I was sleeping.  Darn it.

don't forget

It is, like, totally cold in my house right now and my fingers are frozen and I am having trouble typing.  But I do have a little something to share.  I discovered a band called 'Smoke Fairies' this week.  They are rad and make for great art-making music or just turned-up-really-loud driving music.  Check them out here.

This past weekend was spent in Kansas City with my family celebrating my dad's birthday.  Good times.  And my nieces are both so much fun and so adorably gorgeous.  I love them so much (and yes, I do tend to use the word "so" a lot).  If you could only hear the way Raghen says "Aunt Dana".  It's awesome.

Peighton (the most sensitive little girl - which I love - with the biggest heart, who is obsessed with Transformers) and Raghen (who is currently loving jumping and likes to copy whatever big sissy is doing/saying)

  

And speaking of awesome, I came across this today...

Kerry Doyle / Super Swoon

Great advice and people everywhere will appreciate that about you.