tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56027922008-05-11T23:39:41.932-07:00Jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05238212688663358230noreply@blogger.comBlogger118125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5602792.post-54251875046141657132008-04-30T17:55:00.000-07:002008-04-30T18:07:13.216-07:00

Another post-it note that's been hanging out on my computer: Stores in Portland I Want to Visit. They are: • Canoe • Hermitage • Olio United • Life + Limb • Flora • Herbivore Debbe Hamada's store Tilde was on my list - I crossed it off by going there. It is freaking awesome. I would highly suggest making the trip to this delightful corner of Sellwood. In the meantime, definitely sign up for

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This morning while cleaning off our desk I found a list of books/authors/illustrators I'd written down while browsing some bookstores at the coast. The list is below - I'm throwing the paper away right now. I remember very little about any of these, so if anyone has any input on their worthiness, do tell... Suite Francaise The Meaning of Night Saturday (Ian McEwan) Home From the Vinyl Cafe

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Purple sweatpants and a feather boa; a bumblebee Halloween costume with a pink tutu; shirt, pants and socks - all stripes but in different colors: these are just a few of the genius combinations kids come up with to wear. My friend Christina and I decided to document this (ahem) creative form of expression, and are inviting everyone who has kids or knows kids who like to wear kooky stuff to

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It’s another one of those crazy internet things. I saw somewhere that there was a flickr pool related to the new book Taking Things Seriously. I’d never seen the book in person, but I had seen and loved the book's cover image on the Web. The pool description said that they would be talking about some of the entries on an upcoming show on WNYC, New York public radio, and I thought it would be

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By Sophie, With Real-Time Transcription By Me I got a cookie for you and you can eat it cause… I have some cookies for myself one for you and one for me two a really big one and I eat it and… [hunchback crane dance*] I ate some cookies. I got to get some cookies and decorate ‘em. *Performance element described as acurately as possible (Thanks to Todd, Angie, Brennan and Zion Fadel for making

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* The title of the Joseph Cornell exhibit at SF MOMA which was the impetus for my trip was “Navigating the Imagination.” So, yes, this blog post title is almost 100% stolen. It’s been over a month since my fairytale trip to San Francisco (getting to see the major Cornell exhibit, traveling with someone who actually wanted to go to thrift stores, seeing an art show about book covers, etc. etc.

Jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05238212688663358230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5602792.post-79230052171280460772007-11-26T00:42:00.000-08:002007-11-26T00:44:47.520-08:00

Put your hands in 'em when your child is trying to do something hard that you know they can do.

Jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05238212688663358230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5602792.post-46802690666100592752007-11-09T15:03:00.000-08:002007-11-09T15:09:37.956-08:00

Well, I've gone and done it - I've started another blog. I wanted a place to think/talk about running my little handmade jewelry business without having to mix it all in over here. So Jewelry By Jessica: A Spot to Talk Shop is up and running. Hope to see some of you over there...

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I had a super-fun birthday day, and thought I'd post a little record of my adventures here for posterity, and because you might want to do some of this stuff too, on any old day. It was basically an art and food extravaganza - two of my very favorite things. Here's the list of events in order of occurrence: • Birthday Waffles at Jacé Gacé - holy toledo, those are yummy. Mine looked like the one

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I have made a tutorial - written instructions and a video - on how to make the shrink plastic flower pin pictured above. It was a heck of a lot more work than I anticipated (I now know how to use iMovie... sorta) and the video is pretty darn amateurish, but I think it does the trick. I got inspired to do the whole tutorial thing after watching a video of a fascinating talk: "The Global

Jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05238212688663358230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5602792.post-68281830166849166592007-09-25T21:56:00.000-07:002007-09-25T22:08:47.279-07:00

We pray with Sophie before she goes to sleep. I taught her the simplest prayer I could think of: “Dear Jesus, thank you, I love you, amen.” I pray after she prays, and usually start out, “Dear Jesus, thank you for this day, for the food you’ve given us to eat and the place you’ve given us to live,” and then go on from there. Eventually she memorized her prayer, and has now started using parts

Jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05238212688663358230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5602792.post-56042093618574066372007-09-25T20:05:00.000-07:002007-09-25T22:11:19.114-07:00

An almost daily exercise in resisting snap judgments of others: Near my house there is an adult video store right next door to a charity-run thrift store. As I drive by, there is absolutely no way to know which store the person getting out of their car is headed into.

Jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05238212688663358230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5602792.post-59783172502233842562007-09-13T01:05:00.001-07:002007-09-13T01:09:07.811-07:00

Finally, some new designs - must be that "back to school - time for work" vibe hitting me. Available at Etsy only for now: http://www.jessicapoundstone.etsy.com.

Jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05238212688663358230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5602792.post-18979508540114030802007-08-29T23:39:00.001-07:002007-09-06T01:16:24.557-07:00

Symmetry in nature gets a lot of press. But what might we learn about the creator when we see shapes like this in the sky?

Jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05238212688663358230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5602792.post-32955088009543834832007-07-10T21:33:00.000-07:002007-09-06T00:36:56.339-07:00

For a while I've e-mailed around a list of books I found to be particularly helpful during the time just before, and for the year after I had a baby. And for a long while I've thought hey, wouldn't it be convenient if I could just send people to a link on Amazon wherein each of these books could be looked at easily? So here it is: Taking Care of You and Your Baby: Humor, Spirit and Good

Jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05238212688663358230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5602792.post-18211099152542746662007-06-22T21:10:00.000-07:002007-09-05T15:43:54.835-07:00

I expect a lot out of the music I listen to. I want emotional honesty balanced by a smart or funny or poetic (or all three) sensibility; I want a commitment to excellence (in whatever particular way an album is trying to be excellent), and I want there to be something I can fall for in the voice of whoever’s singing - I want their voice to be as unique as a fingerprint. There are many songs I

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I’ve always really enjoyed singing, but have always felt pretty self-conscious about it. My dad is a performing, solo-quality singer, and I don’t have that kind of voice. I spent six years in a best-in-our-division-in-the-state jr. high/high school choir being directed by a man who demanded you use the best-sounding voice you could produce. As a result, I spent a lot of years using a cultivated,

Jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05238212688663358230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5602792.post-57539795033554804532007-06-10T20:02:00.001-07:002007-09-06T10:31:13.962-07:00

There's a quote by Kenneth Lonergan (I'm trying to find it) to the effect of: at some point in time in life you realize that there are people at every level of power who feel like they have no idea what they're doing. The fact that I'm a jewelry designer despite having zero formal training in doing so has made me feel like an imposterer at times. It's resources like Patricia Zapata's Crafty

Jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05238212688663358230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5602792.post-68387148540031801482007-05-10T13:43:00.001-07:002007-09-05T15:48:33.066-07:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Jewelry By Jessica Production, originally uploaded by Poundstone. There is a certain amount of drudgery in every job. Even in jobs that seem terribly glamorous. Artists who create amazing work still have to spend time

Jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05238212688663358230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5602792.post-33569045103489737222007-04-27T00:32:00.001-07:002007-09-05T15:49:53.729-07:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Dogwood Tree Bloom 1, originally uploaded by Poundstone. I guess I never really noticed it before this year, but when flowering trees get going in the spring, their flowers arrive first, and then their leaves, which push

Jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05238212688663358230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5602792.post-2995949560741277492007-04-09T09:55:00.001-07:002007-09-06T00:36:56.341-07:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Sometimes Music..., originally uploaded by Poundstone. From: Stephen LambTo: jpoundstoneDate: Apr 6, 2007 6:21 PMSubject: Jeffrey Overstreet / Bill FrisellJessica,I found your website after reading Jeffrey Overstreet's book

Jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05238212688663358230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5602792.post-50924672279779517452007-04-02T23:19:00.001-07:002007-09-06T00:31:14.475-07:00

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Clouds 4, originally uploaded by Poundstone. I read an interview with Lucinda Williams a few years ago and remember her saying that oftentimes, the take of a song that ends up making it onto an album is the take she does

Jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05238212688663358230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5602792.post-36404698800888705332007-03-17T23:05:00.000-07:002007-09-06T00:27:12.611-07:00

Trying to find the URL for a blog a friend of mine just started, and which she calls "The Story Girl," (I eventually did find it; it's here) I ran across a mention of the novel of the same name by L.M. Montgomery of Anne of Green Gables fame. Curious about the book, I popped over to Amazon, where I noticed something I'd never seen before. Along with other book information, there was a list of "

Jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05238212688663358230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5602792.post-49388175556401920972007-02-14T12:36:00.000-08:002007-09-05T15:50:49.948-07:00

Let me start off by saying that "children's music" no longer means what it once did (apparently): an endless, insanity-inducing loop of "The Wheels on the Bus" and "I Love You, You Love Me." In fact, I find myself listening to the "children's music" we have for Sophie even when she's not around. Most recently, I got my hands on Elizabeth Mitchell's "You Are My Little Bird," which I'd seen

Jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05238212688663358230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5602792.post-53667557472735567882007-02-14T12:17:00.000-08:002007-09-05T15:51:53.471-07:00

I've been meaning to find out more about Inuit art for years. Re-inspired by a photo of a print from a flickr contact, today was the day to do some looking around. And I am bowled over by the work I saw. Simple, yet full of personality and wit, it's exactly my favorite sort of thing. The lithograph pictured above is titled "Spring Morning" by Pitaloosie Saila - you can learn more about it and/or

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