Science of Summer
Now that summer has officially started, you are constantly reading about the perfect packing strategy, perfect beach read, perfect hostess gift, etc.
For me, summer is simply the following equation:
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Wherever I go, this perfect storm of essentials instantly puts my mind and body to ease. Come to mention it, it would also make "the perfect" hostess gift. (Sorry, just slipped out.)
What does your summer essentials kit include?













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Posted by: Lotro powerleveling | Tuesday, June 30, 2009 at 05:10 AM
looks like we're gonna have the same summer. i can't wait!
Posted by: wide open spaces | Friday, March 13, 2009 at 05:11 PM
hello, is anybody in here?
I miss my bluelines!!! Please, inform how we can help.
Posted by: Ann | Wednesday, July 16, 2008 at 03:03 PM
seriously - i'm kind of worried now too. i second (third, fourth, whatever) much of the sentiments here. maybe everybody's just on holiday - it is summertime, after all - but with all the crazy hassles that have befallen blueprint over the past little while, this recent lack of blog postage is perhaps cause for concern. are we being phased out, guys?
and heck, if nobody else is posting, i hereby volunteer to single-handedly write the entire blog myself, while doing two jobs and a full-time english degree, no less.
*furrows brow*
Posted by: sami k | Wednesday, July 16, 2008 at 11:55 AM
Am I missing something? What happened to this blog? There's no link or mention of it in the blogs section of marthastewart.com. Is this blog dying a slow, silent death? I hope not.
Posted by: Sarah | Wednesday, July 16, 2008 at 09:56 AM
The magazine is gone so have a little heart. Redesign and build it up all already!Don't let it die.
Posted by: chachaduloup | Tuesday, July 15, 2008 at 04:22 PM
Bueller? Bueller?
Where are you all? If you're short-staffed, e-mail me. Seriously. I'd rather help the cause than watch its neglectful demise.
Posted by: humblepie | Tuesday, July 15, 2008 at 04:19 PM
did you guys just give up? get fired? seriously.... a hungry dog is an angry dog.
Posted by: lauren | Tuesday, July 15, 2008 at 03:37 PM
Come On! I really expected more from Blueprint--instead, we get a poorly designed blog that's updated at random. AND, when it is updated, it's usually just to plug a product or what seems to be the work of a friend of a friend....where's the content that we all came to love Blueprint for?
Posted by: L | Tuesday, July 15, 2008 at 03:24 PM
What happened to the updates on here? Am I the only one not seeing new posts?
Posted by: Christine | Monday, July 14, 2008 at 11:59 AM
Hmmm, I'd have to say mine would include some Baby Powder with Cornstarch to help get the sand off of our ankles and toes (that clingy California sand, you know!) and a mixed CD with The Ventures & Beach Boys!
Lots of orange, too! A little orange swimsuit cover, Stewart's orange pop from a bottle and orange lip balm. (why?? it's just a summer thing, I guess :o)
Posted by: Brooke Stewart | Sunday, July 13, 2008 at 06:20 PM
Bluelines please redesign your blog. It's unnecessarily ugly. The three images for this could easily have been one nice image instead of three average images...That heavy black nav on the right has got to go...I expect more from you guys. C'mon!
Posted by: michelle | Wednesday, July 09, 2008 at 04:39 PM
Kiss My Face SPF 30 Sunscreen
Reefs
A guilty pleasure girly-book
Posted by: Ashley | Monday, July 07, 2008 at 11:07 AM
gosh:
potato salad with warm vinaigrette and fresh dill
led zeppelin II
spf 60 sunscreen
my miami vice-esque white linen blazer, sleeves rolled up to the elbows
at least one day of the hillside festival
setting out to read dense theoretical texts in the name of professional development, and then reading tom robbins' "still life with woodpecker" again, instead
cold prosecco with a touch of cassis, in almost unseemly abundance
Posted by: sami k | Saturday, July 05, 2008 at 04:26 PM
plimsolls
underwater love (smoke city)
a salad of spearmint, flat leaf parsley and feta cheese
homemade lemonade
sunscreen
Posted by: Will | Wednesday, July 02, 2008 at 01:46 PM
LOVE it (and margaritas are so yummy).
Rayban wayfarers, a chic pair of shorts for strolling around the city and what not, Jack Johnson and my polaroid camera are my summer essentials I would say.
Posted by: Angela | Wednesday, July 02, 2008 at 01:31 PM
Paint and clay. I tend to be able to do my personal work more in the summer, and the rest of the year I do art school work. I am a freshman and they only give us a hunk of charcoal and a hunk of clay. If I want color I'm on my own.
ok..that is a slight exaggeration...but seriously...by the time I finish with all the proportion studies and drawing lessons in charcoal...I am ready for paint. I am ready for self drying clay that can be painted and have beads added to.
Plus I can sew in the summer...a luxury, and get the winter knitting done.
That stuff plus a lot of water to drink, and I am good to go.
Posted by: Kelli | Monday, June 30, 2008 at 04:11 PM
YES- I am right there with ya sister. Perfect!
Posted by: Daisy | Monday, June 30, 2008 at 08:38 AM
mahi mahi tacos
bellinis
Jack Johnson's "Belle"
and a beach pedicure!!! (walking barefoot in the sand)
Posted by: Rebecca | Saturday, June 28, 2008 at 03:04 AM
Add Sunblock to the first entry and thats my Kit!!
Posted by: Karen Lee | Friday, June 27, 2008 at 05:56 PM
My essential summer package is a kool-aid mustache, salsa music from the alleys in my neighborhood, illegal fireworks and internet searches on how to remove grass stains (that never really work).
Posted by: Jenni | Friday, June 27, 2008 at 03:33 PM
How many people have Jimmy Buffett's Living and Dying in three-quarter time ?? I do I do!!
I remember where I bought it a small record store on West Dixie Highway in North Miami in 1974 or '75.
How many have a concert T-shirt from a 1976 concert tour I do I do!!
Posted by: Hardboiledegg | Friday, June 27, 2008 at 06:02 AM
Havianas, SPF 70, cold Blue Moon and Jimmy Buffett's "Living and Dying in 3/4 Time" on vinyl.
Posted by: lynbird | Thursday, June 26, 2008 at 04:30 PM