Image via the Guardian

Things that are striking my fancy this week:

• I always have about 10 projects laying around that I have abandoned because I think that they are “not good enough” (not counting the projects I’ve sketched out but am scared to try because they will not be perfect). This perfectionism streak is something that I have been trying to work on and Tara’s post on Scoutie Girl this week about Perfectionism is a Process is now in my rotation to read when I’m headed down the perfectionist path.
• A few years back I discovered salted caramels and they are delicious. My Baking Addiction posted these Vanilla Bean Caramels with Fleur de Sel this morning and the next dinner party I go to I’m offering to bring them as a thank you (hint, hint).
• These Pac-Man snow ghosts popped up a couple times this week in my RSS reader and each time they appeared they made me giggle.
• This YouTube piece about Scott Schumann, aka, The Sartorialist, came across my RSS reader this morning. I had not heard of him before, but he’s an ex-fashion industry guy turned street photographer. I popped over to his blog and poked around for about 20 minutes and was really impressed with the images I saw. However, the reason I am sharing this is for a quote that he said during the YouTube piece: ”I just started doing [photography]… The way I do it is just the way I do it.” This really resonated with me as someone who has no traditional training and just figures things out as I go along.
• Finally, the image posted above is one of many of the gorgeous images that are part of a new book “The Ruins of Detroit” by Yves Marchand & Romain Meffre. The Guardian posted a gallery of images from this book and the images are a powerful voice to show the decay that the city has undergone over the last decade.