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Illustrations + Giveaway from Emma Kisstina!
Posted on March 29, 2011 by vmacandcheese
When I first laid eyes on the EmmaKisstina Etsy shop, I fell instantly in love. The illustrations are whimsical, bold, and unabashedly girly. Nothing wrong with that, right? I first learned about Swedish illustrator Kristina Hultkrantz through The Neo-Traditionalist, and was thrilled to discover that she could create a custom illustration for me, and for [...]
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Style to Inspire: Jessica Pakzad Bennett
Posted on October 26, 2010 by vmacandcheese
Today I’m thrilled to introduce you to the brilliant Jessica Bennett of Jessica Bennett Interiors. A fellow USC graduate, I recently discovered Jessica had started her own design firm, and the minute I saw some shots of her portfolio, I knew I simply had to feature her work here on the site (case in point: [...]
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She works hard for the money
Posted on August 18, 2010 by vmacandcheese
Okay, confessions time. I’m bad at saving money. Really, really bad. Wait, let me amend that. I’m not so bad that I’m in severe debt or anything like that. I pay off my credit card bill each month. I even have an IRA and a 401k. I’m just terrible at putting money aside for that rainy [...]
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Oh hi, 2009.
Posted on January 5, 2009 by vmacandcheese
The funny thing about a new year is as much as it symbolizes grand change, the turning of leaves, the wiping away of all things bad from the past year, life baggage is life baggage. As much as you’d like to hurl it off a bus somewhere on a dark highway in Nicaragua, you’re stuck [...]
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Job vs. Calling
Posted on December 11, 2008 by vmacandcheese
Yesterday, Joe emailed me this article by Michael Lewis, a well known non-fiction writer (he wrote the famed Liar’s Poker). This was in the wake of us having a heart to heart about careers and jobs the evening before. Though Joe and I are very similar in how we view many things, career isn’t necessarily [...]
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Cellar Rat: Day “We made it through September!”
Posted on October 3, 2008 by vmacandcheese
That’s right, folks. Harvest — though it completely caught us all with our pants down, scampering for the bushes — is around half over. With hundreds of tons of grapes already processed in the first weeks of September (and most of that tonnage already turned into wine), picking has been ramping back up again and [...]
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Cellar Rat: Day Five
Posted on September 17, 2008 by vmacandcheese
Nothing could be quite so precarious as climbing up stacks of barrels, each filled with a half ton of wine, for the sole purpose of measuring their Brix and temperature, until you begin to think to yourself, “Well, shit, if The Big One hits San Francisco right now, we’re totally effed.” As in, pray you [...]
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