A Tall Dark Stranger

October 13, 2010 by mymateriallife

I love Woody Allen movies.  So it was perfect that we went to see this on our anniversary because my favorite Woody Allen movie, Hannah and Her Sisters, came out in 1986 – the same year we were married.  It’s so comforting to see the familiar typeface used for the title and credits, to hear the same kind of music, and of course to revisit the same themes that feature in so many of his movies: restless, romantic longing (usually […]

Categories: TV & Movies • Tags: woody allen, you will meet a tall dark stranger

TV Tonight!

August 29, 2010 by mymateriallife

I’m kind of excited to have two shows to record tonight!  The first, on KQED Masterpiece Theatre, is a new Inspector Lewis episode and the start of a new series.  You know I’m crazy for a good British mystery and I know who’s who with my Agatha Christies, but I’m still trying to figure out these more modern stories with Inspector this and that.  Lewis is the one who works in Oxford, England and I believe he used to work […]

Categories: TV & Movies • Tags: design star, emily henderson, inspector lewis, joanna lumley, project runway, secrets from a stylist, tim gunn

My Nepenthe (The Book) & Ambrosia Sauce

August 24, 2010 by mymateriallife

I’d just hate to visit Big Sur without a stop at Nepenthe.  Yes, you can say the food is overpriced, but it’s that view you’re paying for!  It’s a magical spot that we’ve enjoyed for many years.  We were there last week and they had this book for sale, but I didn’t buy one because I found mine last spring.  Bought it no questions asked and at full price because of the happy memories I have of Nepenthe.  It’s a […]

Categories: Places, Reading Material, Savories, TV & Movies • Tags: ambrosia sauce, kaffe fassett, my nepenthe, nepenthe, the sandpiper

My Very Own Project Runway

August 4, 2010 by mymateriallife

Did you catch the premier of Project Runway on Lifetime last Thursday night?  I just love that show.  Love, love, love it!  And it’s funny, but it only occurred to me long after I started watching it that I had my own little “sewing under pressure” experience when I was a teenager way back in the summer of 1978. That August I participated in something called The Greatest Sew on Earth at the Los Angeles Convention Center.  There were about […]

Categories: Sewing, TV & Movies • Tags: greatest sew on earth, project runway

Men, Boys, Food

August 3, 2010 by mymateriallife

I finally returned this book to the library yesterday.  I had it for nine weeks legally and one week overdue.  I only made one of the recipes (biscuits) during that time, but there are so many more I want to try that I think I’m just going to have to buy the book.  Even though I don’t have any boys to feed and only one man. Don’t let the title put you off, as a female I would love to […]

Categories: Reading Material, Savories, TV & Movies • Tags: adam richman, lucinda scala quinn, mad hungry, man vs. food

A Little Armchair Traveling

July 9, 2010 by mymateriallife

Do you get the Sundance Channel?  If you do and if you enjoy travel shows and things, you might want to take a look at the new season of Man Shops Globe. Keith Johnson is “buyer-at-large” for Anthropologie and the show chronicles his shopping exploits as he urgently tries to find something he’s never seen before to sell or display back in the U.S.  The show has its detractors (crass materialism, the banality of Anthropologie stores – suburban moms and […]

Categories: Other Textiles, TV & Movies • Tags: anthropologie, keith johnson, man shops globe, scotland, vera