Category Archives: places worth scoping out

packin’ to go

By rachel | Published: August 12, 2010
just spotted this beautiful felt bag on etsy. i love the color combination and the design. perfect for fall. i’m packing for our annual trip to Maine. looking forward to staying in Portland, my favorite small east coast city, and being both ocean-side and lake-side for 6 days. i just bought a very large handful [...]
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summer scenes

By rachel | Published: July 19, 2010
C and I are in Vermont and New Hampshire for some much-needed family vacation time. This is me when I’m on vacation by a lake: beaming. A beautiful evening at C’s uncle’s lake house on Lake Dunmore: All of the thoughtful posts on grandparents on Shanna’s blog last week have me thinking about the very [...]
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tiny get-away

By rachel | Published: June 26, 2010
C and I had a great little 24-hour get-away to Toronto. The original goal was to buy some furniture for the upstairs, but I’m under doctor’s orders to not drive for at least 4 weeks, so we were limited on space in our GTI for much of anything significant. C wants mid-century modern and/or Danish [...]
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count-down to second storie and handmade nation!

By rachel | Published: November 22, 2009
The second storie indie market is this coming weekend and we’re kicking it off with the first showing of handmade nation, this Friday, November 27 at 7 p.m. at the Visual Studies Workshop. If you haven’t bought your tickets yet, grab them here.Yours truely will be the panel moderator after the film this Friday and [...]
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craft store gem

By rachel | Published: July 19, 2009
I’m not sure how it’s possible, but this summer I discovered Craft Service, a odd mom-and-pop craft store that has been a Rochester stable for decades. I’ve literally driven by this place on University Ave a million times and never really paid attention to the small colorful “crafts” flag on the side of the building. [...]
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