BORN BRUISED

check out dan's SITE.  pitch perfect selection of music made by some of my friends and beyond....

STREAMS OF...

just a little running tally of things influencing me from all around.  finishing up some orders heading to exciting places.  be on the look out for holiday cards at the SFMOMA soon!

ME AND MY ARROW

harry nilsson said it best!
just when you thought i was maybe slacking on the making stuff to show you, i present, ME & MY ARROW.  handmade wooden decorative arrows with plaster cast arrowheads and hand painted striping.  will be available for sale in the SHOP soon

BEGINNERS

the first movie i've seen in a long time that made me feel something.  everything about it is sad, wonderful and charming in the best kind of way.

MR. SMITH

still so very sad

elliott smith

8/6/69 - 10/21/03

my favorite song of his

and of mine 

ALWAYS CURRENT TO ME

marimekko (the clothing, the lifestyle) was founded in the early 1950's but somehow always seems to transcend time and feel really modern to me. every season they put out a new crop of clothing, fabric and home goods that maintain relevance amongst contemporary design heavy-hitters. i always troll ebay for marimekko vintage dresses and shirts and whatnot, rob and i have a collection of vintage marimekko fabric and i even bought present-day reprints of designs that crate and barrel sells to make curtains for our old place. needless to say, i am a big fan! i am also a big fan of the new clothing options they have done for fall. kicky, little aline dresses and shirts that are modern interpretations of prints from the 70s. i want each and every one of these. you can get them all HERE

SUMMER BUMMIN

seeing as i have spent the last 2 weeks going thru the time consuming process of having a root canal (of which i am still in pain from) i haven't been feeling too inspired. here's some lovely images from around the internet world (forgive me for re-hashing if you've seen them already) soon i will have images of some new work for sale in the shop and just some things i am working on.

images from all over- michael kors resort, proenza schouler resort, earrings from HERE, vases by ai weiwei, scarf by louisa parris etc, etc.

FREJA

there's always something so casual about the way freja beha erichsen takes a photo. i was happy to see, as i was flipping thru some magazines, that she's back in the rightful place of a chanel girl in the fall chanel ads. it was kind of a bummer to see BLAKE LIVELY in the previous seasons' ads. it just didn't make much sense. don't get me wrong, she seems like a lovely all american girl but there was something missing. there's no way she could have gotten all coquettish and feline in a photo booth without making you feel like she was acting. and as much as i hate to use that word cool, freja just seems really cool. james dean style cool. which is rare in 2011.

IT'S TOO HOT

we have entered the hell spot of summer nyc weather

lamp by whippy lamp, uk and poster available HERE

BOSSY-STIR-UP-PANTS

first off, i finally finished bossy pants. and i listened to it on audiobook. which i must say was fun. i am also totally prepared for some backlash here, but i was kind of disappointed. obviously the most important message of the book is to remain true to yourself as a female and help other ladies out instead of the bulls*** competition that a lot of ladies find themselves in with one another. it's hard enough competing with the dudes, but then to have to compete on a whole other level with ladies is exhausting. if we all toned it down a bit we could actually find that we can help each other out a bit more than hurt each other.

and i was really excited for like the first 90% of the book, but somehow it took a wrong turn for the last 10%. i know i have a hard time disassociating tina fey and liz lemon, but when tina fey was doing tina fey on weekend update i thought she was the best. when she declared bitch was the new black with so much assuredness i thought she was genius ( and i don't use that word lightly cuz somewhere a couple of years ago people started using the word genius to describe things like dresses and shoes and i like to reserve it for einstein level importance). when she said that- it was the perfect cutting remark to backlash that hillary clinton and any other lady had been getting/not getting during their political rises to power. and then in the book she dis-owns it by saying she didn't mean it. and that she didn't want to take a political stand and that she didn't want to start something by saying it and bam...no more bossypants.

and then she starts talking about her baby struggles and her nanny/babysitter/caretaker of her child and it got real weird for me. i guess i never thought of her in that way. i understand that she has a life and a world outside of what i have grown to admire her for, but i guess i thought it wouldn't boil down to worrying what to call the nanny. and don't get me wrong-girl built something from nothing (hilarious nothing) and works crazy hours and probably doesn't get paid enough (by enough i mean as much as the dudes) but, she also makes enough money to not have to worry about who's taking care of the kid and paying the bills. i guess i didn't think a book titled bossypants would boil down to such a blasse ending.

so, i'm not saying that i don't still love tina fey. i think she and amy poehler are single handedly responsible for bringing smart women to the forefront of comedy and some of my favorite comedy moments have come from watching 30 rock. but, i guess reading that book made her more human to me, which i should have known she was along.

amazing photo comparison from HERE