This was supposed to be a rant about how April is THE PITS; how it's always WET and STILL KIND OF COLD and GUESS WHAT, GUYS, I TOTALLY HATE THE SPRING - but DC was so beautiful, so warm, so IN BLOOM during the month of March that my little teepee of negativity and SUMMER-LUST (where I usually spend this time of year) has gone vacant. I'm wearing pastels. I'm calling friends to talk about how nice the AIR smells. I'm smiling at (and having polite conversations with) complete strangers. This is outlandish behavior; I'm the DISNEY VERSION of MYSELF; I blame Global Warming COMPLETELY. And by BLAME I mean that if anybody has Global Warming's address I'd really love to send them a thank you note.

And re: THANK YOU NOTES - big, elaborate ones (with extra fancy handwriting) go out to both Liz Gorman and Victoria Milko for contributing their photographs to this April EDISH of No News is Good News. You'll have to click around below to figure out who did what, where (or you can just click that header up there to view the newsletter in its entirety).

Where once I took solace in the inevitability of May, I now plan on REVELING in ALL THINGS APRIL (even the grey parts). I hope yours is swell!

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all photos by Liz Gorman.

Getting to spend time with YOUR LADIES is always a treasure and a delight; getting to spend time with YOUR LADIES over Sunday brunch and St~Germain cocktails - while crafting fresh flower crowns for yourselves, babies, cats, and young ladies you meet while out frolicking in Rock Creek Park - well, that's joy beyond my capacity for articulation.

A special thank you to both St~Germain and Kathryn Bangs.

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Yo, you got a bobby pin?

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Cathy Chung is one half of the creative partnership behind Treasury Vintage, the "vintage and curio" shop voted NUMERO UNO in this year's City Paper Best Of DC polls. As you would imagine, her personal collection of accessories (vintage and otherwise) veers entirely towards ENVIABLE, and when she offered up some of her current favorites for pictures it was DIFFICULT to not FLEE THE COUNTRY with the majority of her THINGS. From vintage hatpins (which she wears all woven through a topknot) to rings and bracelets currently available at the shop, the woman is clearly a CURATOR - a skill she and partner-in-crime Katerina Herodotou are next applying to their most recent brick-and-mortar acquisition (and DC vintage INSTITUTION) Meeps. GET IT, ladies.

hat pins.

bracelet from Treasury's Lithics collection.

vintage coral necklace.

vintage African cuffs.

antique shoe factory pin; oversized pin by Bless; Lithics ring.

rope necklace.

vintage straw boater.

necklaces by Erin Considine, available soon at Treasury.

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April seems an appropriate month to get all WANDERLUST-y, right? My friend Victoria Milko is no stranger to the feeling; at nearly this very moment, she's just disembarked from a several week trip to both Jordan and Lebanon. I asked her to share some of her favorite travel pictures from the last few years of PASSPORT-NOTCHING, and she was not only gracious enough to (make us all jealous and) pass the following Polaroids along, but to include a TRAVEL HOW-TO for the rest of year. Man, I love an overachiever.

SPRING in BARCELONA
PICNIC: In Park Güell.
EAT: EVERYTHING. DRINK: Sangria. 
TO DO: Surf; flamenco the night away. 
BUY: Clothes - the vintage shops here are THE BEST! 
READ: Salinger's Nine Stories.

SUMMER in PARIS

PICNIC: On a bridge.
EAT: Crepes. DRINK: Absinthe.
TO DO: Shakespeare & Co. BUY: Nutella!
READ: Paris to the Moon by Gopnik; Hemingway's A Moveable Feast.

FALL in LONDON

PICNIC: Nowhere. It's too cold.
EAT: Indian food/Dirty Kebabs with locals! And fish & chips.
DRINK: Tea. Then a pint. TO DO: Take a spin on the Eye, then hit the pubs.
BUY: Nothing. The British Pound SUCKS.
READ: Tropic of Capricorn - Henry Miller.

WINTER at HOME/Washington DC

WINTER: is meant for exploring the beauty of your own backyard.
EAT: Pho.
READ: Keith Richards' Life - you'll be inside for A WHILE!

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I have a collection of notes from my Dad. They've come by mail; he's sneaked them into my house when I'm at work; they're notes he's written to himself, that I've found (and found hilarious) and put in my pocket. Occasionally they're informative (Kay is my dog, and yes - SHE PEES) but mostly they're full of INSTRUCTIONS - in fact, this post came into existence after a recent trip to his house, when a piece of tape and a Sharpie told me not to use the deadbolt. I didn't question them for a second.

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