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for my friend violette’s birthday party…the theme was corsages. of course, a little competition inspired us to go above and beyond.
some other entries:
- a car-sage! (painted on the hood of a car)
- a brussels sprouts on the vine-sage
- a loteria-sage
- oyster shells-sage
further photo documentation at laurendarling’s flickr! click the photo…
I love milk-based scents.
Costume National’s new 21…
“The 21 notes include: bergamot, saffron, cumin, milk, orange blossoms, pepper, cashmere wood, royal jelly, moss, clary sage, patchouli, olibanum, amber, sandalwood, oudh wood, cedar, vetiver, tonka bean, vanilla, labdanum and musk.”
Wonder where in NYC I can give it a whiff?
It’s the fashion issue, which I realized on getting halfway through thinking “why are all the articles this week about things I really like?!”
Link to an excerpt from a great piece about Bill Cunningham, the original street shooter… reg. required to read the whole thing.
Turns out that he started out as a milliner, as did Lanvin and Coco Chanel (as I learned a few pages along in the Alber Elbaz profile)…very inspiring.
Also I am in love with this blog: www.jcruel.wordpress.com!!
Tomorrow, Sunday I’ll be joining some fab indie designers at
JUXTAPOSE: Fashion Rendezvous & Trunk Show
March 1st 5-9pm
@ the Brooklyn Sanctuary
778 Bergen St. btw. Washington & Grand Ave.
C train to Clinton-Washington Ave
Come check it out, it’s super informal and there will be snacks etc.
I found this site – Save the Pink Bathrooms.com - via Apt Therapy yesterday!
I had no idea my crazy pink bathroom had a posse. I painted the doors and trim black when I moved in a few years ago, and re-painted them a dark stone gray recently (though the black was still working for me!) I have also found, after much experimentation, that the only color that goes with this intense pink (and often a lot of it, in a tiny room) is RASPBERRY.
I did find an awesome Lilly Pulitzer-esque vintage stitchery in those colors with some kelly green foliage and frame, and a great cloth shower curtain with raspberry/pink graphics… it only took like 4 years of thrifting!
My very talented friend Jean has cooked up these gorgeous liquor cabinets out of vintage suitcases…can I move into one? I’ve been in a few NYC apartments that were smaller…
I was very good through the holiday season, waiting patiently for after-holiday sales and now they are here…
unfortunately nearly everything I want isn’t marked down, but that’s to be expected as I have an unerring knack for picking out the fanciest item on offer.
right now:
Marimekko’s fabric repeats on sale at Always Mod…
Rebecca Minkoff’s Wine/Bread Bag (love this!!)
Marimekko’s Kaivo towels – so 70s! I have matching Vera pillowcases from that era. These would look great in my Pepto-pink tiled bathroom.
a posse of friends and I met in new orleans this winter to bike around, look at the Prospect 1 art biennial, and eat (and eat and eat). special props to willie mae’s scotch house whose fried chicken is just as good as legend has it.
taxidermied albino squirrels painting portraits, branches covered in b/w text, flying fish delivering postcards…an all-white marvel of surrealist whimsy.
if you are in NYC this winter, go behold Bergdorf’s windows!! whole dresses of feathers and flower hats (a lot like mine)…so fantastical. I want to move in. more glorious photos here
well, not the barbie part…
amazing!!
my other current obsessions:
- Twin Peaks re-airing on the Chiller network! although sometimes it’s so scary I can’t sleep 
- L’amuse hard salty cheese, wow.
- collecting vintage ornaments…
