This is Vanessa's personal tumblrzine, for family and friends everywhere. I like all sorts of stuff, and I like to share.
If you'd like to see my work work, skip on over to www.vanessaholden.com.
In my real life you can find me at vanessaholden[at]mac[dot]com; in studios and meetings & offices quite (but not too) often; most happily at the beach; at Pearl Paint buying stuff for a project; at La Colombe or The Adore, & sometimes (just quietly) at Beard Papa, but then I don't like to talk about that particular addiction.
The idea of eating outside tonight has me woozy. We’ll be celebrating the Catalan spring rite of the calçotada: which is really a birthday party for the calçot, a spring onion resembling a leek. The tubers are grilled, presented in heaps, and eaten while drinking rosé at communal tables with romesco sauce. They’ll be served with grilled lamb chops and botifarra sausage. Crema catalana for dessert. Ah, yes please, now …