Science of Summer

Posted by Kerstin

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:

Havaianas

+

 
margarita

+

Neil Young's Harvest

=

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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[wide open spaces]

looks like we're gonna have the same summer. i can't wait!

[Ann]

hello, is anybody in here?

I miss my bluelines!!! Please, inform how we can help.

[sami k]

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*

[Sarah]

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.

[chachaduloup]

The magazine is gone so have a little heart. Redesign and build it up all already!Don't let it die.

[humblepie]

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.

[lauren]

did you guys just give up? get fired? seriously.... a hungry dog is an angry dog.

[L]

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?

[Christine]

What happened to the updates on here? Am I the only one not seeing new posts?

[Brooke Stewart]

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)

[michelle]

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!

[Ashley]

Kiss My Face SPF 30 Sunscreen

Reefs

A guilty pleasure girly-book

[sami k]

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

[Will]

plimsolls

underwater love (smoke city)

a salad of spearmint, flat leaf parsley and feta cheese

homemade lemonade

sunscreen

[Angela]

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.

[Kelli]

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.

[Daisy]

YES- I am right there with ya sister. Perfect!

[Rebecca]

mahi mahi tacos

bellinis

Jack Johnson's "Belle"

and a beach pedicure!!! (walking barefoot in the sand)

[Karen Lee]

Add Sunblock to the first entry and thats my Kit!!

[Jenni]

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).

[Hardboiledegg]

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!!

[lynbird]

Havianas, SPF 70, cold Blue Moon and Jimmy Buffett's "Living and Dying in 3/4 Time" on vinyl.