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🎨Decorator for Film and TV 📫LA/NYC 🏵Arts, nature, travel, lifestyle and design 🌅 Scripps College Alumna. Current 📚 “ The Screwtape Letters” and “Meet Me at the Museum” All photos are mine unless otherwise noted
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You Guys! We are one month away from “Sirens” dropping on Netflix. We had such fun building the sets for this dark comedy critique of the Billionaire class. It’s airing in May Staring Julianne Moore, Kevin Bacon & Millie Alcock #sirens #kevinbacon #film #assistantsetdec #setdec #netflix #propsistops

Bernie Sanders made a surprise appearance at Coachella 2025 last night. So he went from the LA rally to Coachella. He's 83 and fighting like this. This should be an inspiration to all of us. If he can do this, we can all do a little more.

The U.S. House of Representatives voted Thursday to pass the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, a major voter suppression measure that, if it became law, could disenfranchise millions of eligible voters and badly undermine U.S. democracy. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

I was dropping off a book at the Brooklyn Public Library and they were having a read in for banned books. Here are 3 that I loved growing up. #books #bkpubliclibrary #bkpl #brooklyn #readbannedbooks #bannedbooks #inthenightkitchen #thegiver #tokillamockingbird

While we have all been distracted by the stock market the Government is openly impinging on freedom of speech.

Book #8 of the Year was an Agatha Christie Mystery. It had all the twists and turns of a standard Christie Mystery but the comic relief of costumes and fake identities, made it a super cozy read. 10/10 #book #vacationread #mysterynovel #agathachristie #cozymysterybooks #booksky

Crazy 'Enormous risk': Experts alarmed as Musk's private security force deputized by US Marshals www.rawstory.com/us-marshals/...

I’ve started to clear some space on my bookshelf so I am selling off a few books on @pangobooks.bsky.social ! Check out the book I listed on PangoBooks! | The Restaurant of Lost Recipes | pangobooks.com/app/book/04d...

Spectacular view of 100,000 people attending the #HandsOff march in NYC

Power to the people!!! Sending love, strength and solidarity to our brothers and sisters in the streets today. Still We Rise 💪😊💜💚❤️ www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

If your plans for this weekend involve being outdoors voicing your displeasure with *gestures* the entire situation, just sayin', my colleagues have a guide that you should read. www.theverge.com/21276979/pho...

Book #8 “Miranda in Retrograde” The main character is a TypeA astronomer who is challenged by her best friend to try living by horoscopes for 1 year. I liked the questions that were posed about what we allow to define us in our pursuit of happiness #books #mirandainretrograde #bookreview #booksky

'Fox, on the way to a fox’s wedding'- Watercolour and white gold by Jackie Morris, contemporary artist, author and illustrator who lives and works in a small cottage by the sea in Wales #WomensArt

I just got back from my Amsterdam trip and I can’t say enough how lovely it was. More photos to come but here was a snapshot of my 3rd day in the city. (Also yes I did buy books there and finished 2 abroad). #amsterdam #booksky #travel #europeadventure

R.I.P. Val Kilmer 🙏🏼 December 31, 1959 - April 1, 2025 "There is no normal life, there's just life. You live it."

My second day in Amsterdam I found the Bookshops (yes I bought something) and saw some pretty lights. #booksky #amsterdam

My first day in Amsterdam I stumbled through the gates of Beginhof. It has been a home to Single Women since 1346. The Beguines were a group of Charity workers overseen by a Nun but not part of a convent. They made wool, lace & cared for the sick up until 1970s #amsterdam #beginhof #womenshistory

We expected 2,000 people out in GOP-held Greeley, Colorado. 11,000 people showed up. Something special is happening, folks. Now is the time to organize in every dimension possible and get to work.

Diana Davies, US photographer who documented the US Gay Liberation movement of the 1960s and '70s, including activist Marsha P. Johnson #WomensArt

French architect and designer Emmanuelle Moureaux's large-scale interactive installation created with thousands of coloured paper cut numerals, known as the 'Forest of Numbers' #WomensArt

Despite the chaos, the vote today, the disappointments, there's progress, courts are pushing these bastads back & much of the damage they've done, is already being undone. Hang in there people We're going to win this one For future generations

Hedy Lamarr, Austria born Hollywood actress, who also pioneered the technology that would later form the basis for today's WiFi, GPS, and Bluetooth communication systems #WomensArt

The U.S. Education Department's Office for Civil Rights, Institute of Education Sciences and Office of Federal Student Aid were especially impacted by the cuts announced on Tuesday.

Breaking News: A judge ordered the rehiring of thousands of probationary workers across six federal agencies, saying their firings were based on a “sham.” Follow live updates. nyti.ms/422hhPg

Intrepid Women introduces six extraordinary women who broke through the proverbial glass ceiling to carry out revolutionary anthropological field research in distant parts of the world ‘unsuitable for ladies’. Read all about it here and order your copy: bodleianshop.co.uk/products/int...

Events in Selma, Ala. six decades ago helped win support for the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Today, local activists say they're still fighting stubborn segregation, poverty and gun violence.

They send missiles at night, we go to read and buy books in the afternoon. Unbreakable. In the bookstore. Kyiv. March 7.

May we all know our value.

The challenge: In March, post a book or play by an author who identifies as a woman every day. 5/31 Stunning. An account of an affair that touches on gender, class, age, love, and sex- 10/10 #TheWriteWomen #booksky #books #booksky📚 #TheYoungMan #TheNobelPrize #AnnieErnaux

I have so much yarn but these are so pretty!!!! To buy more yarn or not to buy more yarn…that is ALWAYS the question.

Abusers don’t expect people to fight back. And then tiptoe back and make excuses or shift blame when the abused hit back. Keep fighting back. Keep calling. We aren’t done and “limits” are not removal.