It’s cold! I know I keep posting pictures of warm beverages, but they are a big part of my life at the moment. Warm tea, hot baths, and thick socks. I have been working really hard on creative projects that I think you guys will really dig, but they’re not quite in the ready-to-announce phase. [...]
I’ve been an admirer of Giant Dwarf for a while. I really love this rosette fascinator / headband thing. And now they are available in many colors! I’ve always loved wearing things on my head, so I’m happy that headbands and fascinators and giant hair bows and whatnot are being made all over. {photos from [...]
This is a halloween sweater for a certain little girl who is dressing up as Lucy from the Narnia books (before she goes to Narnia). Her mom asked for help finding a vintage dress similar to this reference photo, and I offered to do the sweater up. The actual dress ended up being purple-blue colors, [...]
Isn’t plaid amazing? I just love it. It just has so many layers of connotation – royalty, heritage, the countryside, schoolgirls, vivienne westwood, 1970s punk rock. And… lumberjacks. How can one textile pattern be so simultaneously prissy and tough? I found this dress on a $10 rack at the flea market. Perfect size, deadstock, still [...]
Although it’s still pretty warm around here, we’re getting into the fall spirit with warm drinks. Caffeine addict I may be, but I also like to stay hydrated while enjoying a delicious beverage, so I’ve been making some wonderful herbal tisanes. I love my glass teapot and cups, a gift from a friend. It’s perfect [...]
I’m starting to bring out the sweaters. I bought that blouse above recently. It’s a nice sheer cotton-linen thing from J. Crew. I got it for $3 brand new because it was missing almost all the buttons (which were really shoddily sewn on), so I replaced them with ruby-colored faceted glass ones. This black silk [...]
I realize I never really finished telling you about Paris. I’ll be writing a bit more about this amazing city in the next couple days. We wandered by the Repetto store one rainy evening, the famous maker of dance shoes and the ubiquitous french girl ballet flats. That back wall is full of pink satin [...]
Our Sunday ritual is a late morning stroll to the local farmer’s market. We start with breakfast from Bakesale Betty (above), or one of several kinds of vegetable tamales (my favorite), or a big samosa smothered in various sauces and chutneys. If we’re up to it, we wait in the long line for delicious Blue [...]
I fell for LiaMolly when I first read their description: “liaMolly is a sweater collection deeply rooted in the culture of knitting and inspired by traveling the globe, discovering magical places, studying fashions past and cultures around the world. Our knits are timeless, meaning we are as far from fashion as we can be if [...]
I love these posters from Nikki McClure, available at Buy Olympia.
