Redrum.

I have started getting "Fall Preview" emails from my online shopping havens and that makes me happier than Disneyland. I loathe summer. The heat. The bugs. The sweat. But I digress...
Fall and winter are the two reasons I live through spring and summer. The first day it is cool enough to wear a turtleneck is like my birthday. Cold-weather fashion (ironically) smokes its hot-weather counterparts. Keep your spandex bathing suit and tank tops - I'll take the cashmere, please. Food is more dense and comforting. Drinks trade the percussion of ice cubes for the mystery of a swath of steam. And the colors are richer. Reds become bloody and bricky.Yes! Which brings me to the point of this post - red lips for fall. Glory be to whomever sets these trends, because this is my favorite each time it comes back around.

Model Siri Tollerød for Chanel Fall 2010 Couture

Photo: Luca Cannonieri / GoRunway.com

Models Kate Somers and Kim Noorda for Jean Paul Gaultier Fall 2010 Couture

Photo: Luca Cannonieri / GoRunway.com

And courtesy of www.dailymakeover.com, a handy guide to fall's ruby pout.

we're jamming...

I am currently expoliting my new-found affinity for canning. How we are going to eat this much jelly, I have not a clue (especially if I don't start practicing biscuit-making pronto.) This past Saturday, I made black-and-blueberry jam, strawberry-fig jam and jalapeno jelly. I have come to love cooking and canning, especially after the tasty fig concoction I made during first Saturday's jam session, of which we have already consumed two jars! Perhaps I could start a one man jam revolution. Invent new jar shapes. Create couture-inspired lables. Incite millions to pick up a whisk and start jamming, Memaw-style.

This is how it all starts. Blackberries and blueberries nearing the revolution.

Sugared. Boiling. Totally the hotness.

Post jar-filling dregs.

Processing in the water bath.

 

"My first jam was at Hotel Diplomat opening for Hollywood."  ~Kurtis Blow

in the beginning...

I have decided to start blogging to document the quirky goings-on in my head and how they affect my life. I have a million and one interests. I am a Methodist who practices the Rosary. I am an enthusiastic scratch cook. I love art and music and a w-i-d-e variety of both. I believe that the man is the head of the household. I should live somewhere that is cold year-round. I would dress like my life was an episode of Mad Men every day if the heat in Texas wasn't so...hot. I subscribe to Nietzsche's philosophy that "politics devours all seriousness for really intellectual things." ee cummings is my favorite poet. Fargo is my favorite movie. Black is my favorite color. I want my chocolate bitter and my coffee blond. I love Art Deco, Machine-Age and Mid-Century design and also think Miles Redd is genius. New Orleans and Chicago are two of my favorite places on earth. Won't you be my neighbor?