moderate home makeover: kitchen edition

[UPDATE: images removed April 2012 due to high traffic of this post in Google image searches.]

With a probable move in our future, my husband (hereafter known as "Hubby", until I get tired of that name) and I began gearing up several months ago for putting our house on the market. We discussed, made lists, and researched the changes we'd like to make in each room. Frankly, we're awesome at the planning stage.


And then, last week, we began in earnest.

Who says nothing on the internet is true?

Nice to know teh Interwebz feels my pain.

~Heather

bella penguino!

I am so in love with the look of the new Penguin classics! The covers of these gorgeous hardcover editions (designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith) are just perfect- timeless, yet visually interesting. They would look great next to any book on any bookshelf, but I especially love how they look in a grouping. Also, they feel great. The covers are that great, old-fashioned linen thread-y material, and the pages are a satisfying weight. So far, the following titles are available for sale (I've seen them at Borders and Davis Kidd, as well as online):

Favorite New Website

MyLifeIsAverage.com

This site manages to be both amusing and strangely comforting, all at once. Completely addictive!

~Heather

Letters to Our Daughters Project quote

I found this today catching up on the posts of one of my favorite bloggers, Isis the Scientist. She writes a divine blog about being a woman/wife/mother while also being an amazing scientist and a bit of a shoe diva. She has recently begun a series of posts composed of letters of advice written for young female scientists, which broadly apply to young women in general. The quote is from a senior woman scientist's letter, written for her "daughters in science"- the women scientists who are coming up behind her. She writes: