From Sasha

Just for kicks, I decided to assemble the pictures that have been fascinating me this week. I am hardly the consistent kind of person who could keep an actual "Lookbook", but I was intrigued by what caught my eye during this one particular period of time!

First, this snapshot of Anita Pallenberg, Queen of the Rolling Stone entourage. I love her next-to-nothing outfit accented with the huge leather belt. I spend most of my summers in a (way sloppier) version of her shorts and t-shirt get-up, and just looking at this reminds me that warm days will come again soon!I love the old cars in the background, too.. and the intriguing children's book in her hand.

My band, Sasha and the Shamrocks, has been covering "White Rabbit" by The Jefferson Airplane, and it is the most fun I have ever had with a cover song. Of course I can't sing like Grace Slick, but it feels so good just to try. I hear she wrote "White Rabbit" after spending twelve hours on acid listening to "Sketches of Spain" by Miles Davis. How cool is that? I love her kick-ass attitude, so evident in her voice, and in this picture:

I have been fretting over what I am going to do when summer comes and I can't wear my favorite hat, which is made of wool. Then I saw this… vintage Balenciaga. Sign me up!

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From Amber

Last Friday, during one of the many snowstorms that have beset the Sierra Mountains lately (bringing a sense of normalcy back to us NorCal folks who had been experiencing some 70+ degree weather during December and January), my little family decided to snuggle up around the coffee table and have some craftsy time. Our materials were simple- magazines, construction paper, scissors, glue, and stickers.

But first I had to snap this picture out the bathroom window. When this magnificent oak tree is both leafless and snowless its branches look like witch's hair:

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