You can see them at the Fest: Amos Lee "Supply and Demand"

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We like to stash a few Spicy Natchitoches Meat Pies in our pockets, so that we always have food on demand when hunger strikes in the middle of a great set.

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Buds of Spring

.....Taste buds that is.  Seriously craving French Macaroons!

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A chattering bird builds no nest.

Please pardon my absenteeism this week.  On the homefront: we are in full swing on feathering our nest....its musical furniture time.  I am surrounded by stacks and stacks of books, computer equipment, DVDs, and VHS tapes [these are headed straight to Goodwill].  On the workfront: we are moving a most wonderful client in this week, so there are punch-lists to be made, furniture to be received, linens to be purchased.  It's a wonderful week with so much going on!

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Happy Weekend

Hope you have a fun-filled, creative, productive, relaxing weekend! Hopefully by the end of the weekend I will have settled on what to give up for lent.  

Love this fragrance bar at Bond No. 9 in New York, using a vintage brass offering table and quite a colorful assortment of perfume bottles. [Please pardon the grainy iPhone image.]

You can see them at the Fest: Michael Franti and Spearhead "Sound of Sunshine"

As our days are getting longer, I really think that I can hear the Sound of Sunshine.  What a glorious time of year!

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For a taste of sunshine, try a Mango Freeze from the lovely folks at WWOZ.

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Stenciled Happy Thoughts

Completely enamored with Candy Chang's public art in New Orleans. With the installation Before I Die, she turned an abandoned property into a place for a community to display their desires using chalkboard paint.  She also tags a few of her favorite haunts with spray chalk in It's Good to be Here.  It's lovely to see happy thoughts plastered everywhere. 

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Happy Mardi Gras!

"Let pleasure be the rule, day and night" -Rex 2011

Mardi Gras should be a national holiday.

Laissez les bons temps rouler

Heading out the door for the weekend.

Sorry I haven't been around here much this week...our internet was on the fritz.  Let's catch up next week!  Have a great weekend.

I need a Muses

Someday, when I live in New Orleans again, I will be a member of this Krewe.  How much fun could you have decorating, bedazzling, and feathering shoes as Mardi Gras Throws?!?!  

All photos via and copyright Erika Goldring Photography

Right now as I should be thinking about daycare and preschool waiting list....all I can think of is getting on the Muses waiting list.  Happy Tuesday....one week until the Fat one!