Cheers!

Four years ago...ah, young love.

I was looking through recent posts and realized the majority of them involve me basically bragging about my husband's art career. I hope that's not what it's perceived as because it's really truly sheer pride and excitement. This is all very new to us and I'm just incredibly proud of him.

I met Chris in San Diego about five years ago. Now, San Diego is a near perfect place to live...lovely weather, beautiful people and gorgeous beaches. But because of this, it's easy to become complacent. I mean, what more do you need when you can work and then head to the beach and surf til the sun sets. Still, I wanted more for myself and Chris wanted more, too. His passion for his art and self-assurance that one day he would make it really drew me to him. Granted, it's also been known to drive me nuts, but that's another post ;)

So here we are, five years after we met and a short six months after he received his MFA and he's truly making it. Chris finally feels like he can say that he is indeed an artist. I mean, just yesterday he was featured in a New York Times article and last week he found out he's taking part in San Jose's ZERO1 Biennial next fall. And I'm telling you all this because Chris wants to make sure everyone (meaning my family, especially my brother) knows that he will be able to take care of me and support me one day doing what he loves. Translation: Don't worry...she's not wasting her time married to a slacker wannabe artist.

Anyway, thanks for reading about my journey these past few months. It's been quite a whirlwind adventure and having this online source of support has been pretty amazing. So much has been happening and I'm slowly learning how to balance it all (it all being two posts a day at AT). My posts here will most likely be a little less frequent int he new year, but I won't disappear again like these past two weeks (pinkie swear!).

This has been a pretty amazing year! I can't wait to see what 2010 holds! And I am so excited to read what great things all of you out in the blogosphere do!

xoxo,
Jess

A Little Bit of This, a Little Bit of That.

Yesterday morning, I was perusing Facebook (because that's what all the cool 31 year olds are doing these days) and I came across an article written by the Mayor of San Francisco on his blog (yep, our mayor blogs...he also twitters). The article was about the Art in Storefronts projects and featured Chris' project!

I was very excited when I read it, but then I noticed under Gavin's name it said Huffington Post. Whaaaa??? I did a search on the HuffPo and sure enough, there was Chris' project in all its glory! Granted, they spelled his last name wrong and failed to give me credit for my photograph, but I guess I'll let Arianna slide this time. Chris' first national press! Very exciting!

Now, I owe you all an apology for being so flaky on the blog lately. There's just never enough time! So, I wanted to share an awesome link in order to make amends. You might have noticed that I love well-designed book covers. Well, I'm now adding DVD covers from the Criterion Collection to my list of loves.

Head over to grain edit to check out more DVD beauties.

I have a pretty crazy weekend ahead of me so if you don't hear from me, hope you all stay warm, get some shopping done and sip some hot cocoa!

After My Own Heart.

French designer and illustrator, Tom Henni, via design work life.

As you are an observant bunch, I don't need to proclaim by love for the combination of turquoise and red (even though I just did). I keep thinking that it's time to update by masthead, but I do think it's quite lovely and it seems that I'm not the only one with an affinity for the aqua and ruby pairing. And yes, if all my friends jumped off a bridge, I would follow.

Photograph by Elle Moss via tell love and chocolate.


Stitch Design Co. via design work live.

Oy, just realized I owe you all an update on Chris' Art in Storefronts project. You can check out all the images here. It's been an amazing experience. He's never done a piece that's elicited such a positive response. The residents that frequent that strip of street have embraced it and vowed to protect it. It is not only another installation in the neighborhood, it is their installation.

Hanging on the Frig.

Michael Papasedero, who lives in the Tenderloin, poses in front of the piece. Photo by Michael Macor courtesy of the San Francisco Chronicle.

My blog has now become my refrigerator. This post is my virtual version of hanging the San Francisco Chronicle article featuring a picture of Chris' installation on our frig. I'm one damn proud wife! Check out the article here.