Blog By Knight
2008 September

Mister in the country from Mark & Katie on Vimeo.

This video is an antidote to the Zombie Post a couple of days ago. I had to get that out of my mind. I Mister is the little Chihuahua dog that travels with Katie and Mark around the country in a very small travel trailer. You can see how happy he is when he gets to stop and get out. Katie and Mark are as devoted to Mister as he is to them. They say,

He spends his time like a true romantic — creating art, singing, meditating, cheering up his friends, providing optimism and encouragement.

Mister sounds like the perfect traveling companion. You can find out more about Mark and Katie’s trip at their website Wanderful, which is by the way, wonderful.

Continue reading “Chasing Butterflys” »

Inman Park neighbor, Karen Goeckle reminded all the folks on Inman Park’s Yahoo Group about the annual Atlanta Horrorfest Zombie walk coming up on Sunday, October 26th, 2008 as a part of World Zombie Day.

Karen said,

For those of you looking to get your zombie on, this is a lot of good (ahh not so clean) family fun. We took our four year old last year and he refused to get dressed up but wanted to be chased by all of the zombies. It was pretty funny. It made for some fun family photos and gets you in the holiday mood.

Continue reading “Zombies Seen Walking in Oakland Cemetary” »

Karen Portaleo is an artist, her medium is sugar, her studio, the Highland Bakery. She makes the most amazing looking cakes I’ve ever seen and they are also some of the best tasting cakes I’ve ever eaten. You can see her work here in this photo by Ben Rosa and on the photogallery on the Highland Bakery Website.

Recently Karen made this three and a half foot tall dress cake based on one of Isaac Mizrahi’s 2007 line for a fund raiser. The Sunday paper did an article reporting on this event and how Karen made this edible art.

Continue reading “Highland Bakery Cake Art” »

Danny Feig-Sandoval, Inman Park resident and owner of Small Carpenters at Large, perused Creative Loafing’s Lists from their Best of Atlanta Issue and pulled those that listed people places and things related to Inman Park and listed them on the Inman Park Yahoo group. The Best of Atlanta to be found in Inman Park includes:

Continue reading “30 Reasons to Love Inman Park” »

Lynda and Rick Wilson are putting on their once a month Tango Fundamentals Immersion Workshop Saturday October 4. This workshop is for those brand new to tango, and for those new-ish tanguerose who want to gain more confidence and clarity in their tango basics. They will cover tango posture, the connection between the partners, basic vocabulary, and navigating the dance floor. Participants receive a lot of dance instruction in a short amount of time. It will prepare you for taking regular classes and it’s excellent preparation for dancing at a milonga.* No partner or previous dance training needed!

Continue reading “Learn to Tango - October 4th” »

My kids were lifers at Paideia School, from 3- 17 years old. I knew before I even had them that they would go to school there. I wanted to go to school there. That is how it was with all of us Paideia parents. We recognized it when we saw it. Paideia was a special place, capable of amazing things, only one of which was an education. As a clinical psychologist, who as a child had moved around from school to horrible catholic school, I craved for myself and my kids a stable living situation. And I wanted them to go to a school that encouraged a love for learning and created well balanced well educated children who where encouraged and not punished for thinking for themselves.

Continue reading “Thank God for Bernie” »

This is my favorite Atlanta view. Isn’t it amazing? It is the view as seen from Freedom Parkway and Boulevard.

And this is my favorite house. I haven’t actually been inside this house but has a front row seat to my favorite view!

When I was building out my lofts on Krog Street I watched as this house was being built. I had heard that it had been a little warehouse that had once housed a car repair business. The owner bought it and fought to be able to build on to it. I have always have loved it and would look at it and wonder what it was like looking out from within. I have watched over time how the the trees and gardens on the decks have matured. Mine at Krog Street have too.

Continue reading “My Favorite View in Atlanta” »

I am doing a country kitchen for a really charming Inman Park home and have been looking into zinc countertops for it. I’m finding the whole zinc thing a bit of a mystery. Some people say they can’t get zinc. Some people say that their table tops are zinc when they are really galvanized steel with a patina. Some admit their tops are steel with a patina and that they do that since the zinc only comes in 39″ sheets. Some tops that are supposed to be zinc look to me that they are really galvanized. Oh my, just whats a girl to do?

Continue reading “Zinc Look Countertops” »

I have to admit I am a “fairweather” gardener. I do the minimum I can during the summer when the heat and the mosquitoes drive me insane but come fall or spring I get back out there. Yesterday, Duane and I took my at least once a season trip out to Lawrenceville to Randy’s Perennials and Water Gardens to check out his unusual selection of plants. Randy has the best palms, cacti, agaves and succulents as well as a huge selection of perrenials that you probably won’t find at your Home Depot garden center. I got some beautiful Mexican Sage while I was there which I have a hard time finding anywhere around town.

Continue reading “Get Your Fall Gardening Fix” »