life cleanup and LVL shoutOUT.

now that ronald will be gone in ecuador for the next two weeks, i will have a little more time on my hands. some of that time will be spent missing her, of course, but i talked to her when she was on layover in HOTlanta, and she made me realize i needed to clean my life up, really bad. ronald gave me a two week deadline; mop it all up by the time she gets back to the states. i can totes handle that. after a night of organizing, i got my eight hours and started over my week this morning. things are looking up already. if i'm this productive in one day, just think of how cleaned up my life will be by the time she returns! i'm on my way.

i have also realized that i should use blogging as a form of stress relief, so after a hellacious week last week, im going to start turning to blogging, instead of other vices. on that note: i was doing my daily flickr check today, and noticed some very fun sketchbooks that our friend Leana made, by hand of course! this girl is talented. we have both known her since our second year, so about five years now. she is a potter as well as a designer. i have three of her pots. and they are gorg, dahling.

that blue is fantasiche.

i took the bookmaking class with her our fifth year, and she has just run with it. her etsy store has some of her handmade books and they are so cute! i think i will be getting one of the vintage map sketchbooks.

look at that spine. i love red thread!

the girl has an amazing attention to detail. while we were in school, we called ourselves LVL. which is funny because LVL is laminated veneer lumber, which we learned about in school. did we know that, or even care? no way. its our initials, in the order we sat in mario's studio second year, a LVL sandwich. so, check this grrrrl out. she got skillz. i'm sure if you contacted her, she'd do special orders. but, perhaps i shouldn't make that assumption or offer that. [but she's the sweetest ever, so i'm sure she'd do whatever she had time for.]

in other news: my roommate and i ran the Monument 10K this weekend, and it felt so amazing to cross that finish line. we're running the richmond marathon in november. that finish is going to feel spectacular. so get out there! start slow, but enjoy the sunshine and exercise for your health!


over and out,
larry