Many thanks to Jan of Scoutie Girl for featuring my work today. Jan also has another blog, Daisy Janie. It looks like we have many common interests!

On the morning of the fourth day I found the website of San Diego’s Art and Design District in the Little Italy neigborhood…

… so we checked out Subtext, a great design bookstore and gallery with a collection of books to pine for…

CTM (Classic Tile Mosaic) where I considered how I would tile the modular home of my dreams…

… and chatted with a friendly store keeper at Igloo, a fresh shop owned by a graphic designer, about all the great design shops and eats in SD.

Bob also picked up a great tee at facevalue, a store we would frequent if we lived in SD, but we didn’t take any photos there. Here’s their blog if you want to check it out though. We ended day four by picking up some skirt shark and locally caught yellowtail from Blue Water Seafood Market and Grill on India St. to cook for dinner at our friends’ place.

Yesterday Bob and I returned from a much needed and appreciated vacation in San Diego. We stayed with friends at UCSD (thanks so much Zach and Janel!) and filled our days with all the great things the San Diego area has to offer.

On the first day we walked around La Jolla to visit the Museum of Contemporary Art’s La Jolla location. The image above, from the museum’s web site, is of my favorite piece there. Erwin Redl’s MATRIX II is an amazing installation that invites the viewer interact with light and space. Vistors can walk in/through the 3-d grid of LED lights which is now in the museum’s collection. We ate a great lunch on Prospect St. at The Living Room and the flavor highlight of dinner at The Pizza Port was their very own California Honey Ale and Port’s Porter. I have to say, the San Diego area knows how to brew a good beer! More to come over the next couple of days.

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