Articles from October, 2008
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 [...]
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October 21st, 2008 - posted in
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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 [...]
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October 16th, 2008 - posted in
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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 [...]
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October 16th, 2008 - posted in
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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 [...]
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October 14th, 2008 - posted in
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I love these posters from Nikki McClure, available at Buy Olympia.
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October 13th, 2008 - posted in
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