i am bummin' today big time. i don't know what's going on but i feel like i got kidnapped, blindfolded, and then dropped off a bus in the middle of nowhere at 4 AM with no cell phone and no toothbrush. i just don't feel so hot, but, man, that's no good, so i started thinking about the person i love more than anyone else on earth:
joan holloway from mad men.

i was thinking about how she always knows the right thing to say or do or when to say or do nothing. i was thinking about indomitable she is and how much i admire her. so i said to myself, "what do you and joan holloway have in common?" and i thought and i thought and i thought. and you know what i realized?
joan holloway and i have the same favorite color palate . . .
HA!
i mean, come on, warner. well, i know that's not much but it was a good start. there's nothing i love more than noticing and thinking about color and there's nothing i love more than seeing jewel-tone, super-saturated colors. and that's all joan holloway wears.





and that cheered me up a little.


this is a handmade leather saddle bag-- offered in most of all my favorite colors:





70's joan/ 2012 jeest ?




a gem in all senses of the word, except sans gems:




there is a blog with only cheesecake photos of minerals. somehow, i bet even a non-nerd could spend many a happy hour here:








it looks like joan holloway !!



this does not.
(but i still really like everything about it.)



somehow, it fits:






so romantic.



i'm not one for on-line diy projects. it's too many worlds colliding. nonetheless, i have been endlessly compelled by this design sponge idea:




for a big-shot office on madison avenue:




you are a close second to joan holloway on the list of j. warner's top ladies.

night night,

jw