[dropcap custom_class=”normal”]T[/dropcap]his weekend was lovely in Nw York, a bit hot but not unbearable. My friend Angela and I decided to head to DUMBO in Brooklyn for some brunch and a stroll along the water front. It really is incredible how many neighborhoods have chang
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The Man Repeller—Leandra Medine The Early Years
[dropcap custom_class=”normal”]I[/dropcap] discovered this video online recently and found it refreshingly engaging. In it Leandra speaks about why she started her blog, why she called it The Man Repeller, her upbringing, fashion, and women’s relationship with fashion.
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Rizzoli, Oleg Cassini, and The Wedding Dress, the Next Addition to My Coffee Table Book Library
[dropcap custom_class=”normal”]H[/dropcap] ello all, I am sharing with you today another addition to my coffee table book collection, as my regular readers know, I am slowly building a library of coffee table books to use for my future home. I love buying these books—I get such a rush when I purchase one, l love feeling like a I found a treasure and I get so excited thinking about how I will style them in my space.
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Rifle Paper Company—The Botanicals Collection, a Lovely Way to Collect Your Thoughts
[dropcap custom_class=”normal”]I[/dropcap] know it it tempting to do everything online: read, watch TV, shop, write, but I still like to write things down by hand occasionally. I do work on a computer quite a bit, but when I received these journals as a gift for my Birthday, I was reminded of the joy of doing…
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Artifact Uprising and a Beautiful and Appealing Way to Display Your Photos
[dropcap custom_class=”normal”] W[/dropcap] hen I was in design school the whole carrying around a large black portfolio case was more or less on it’s way out. No one was displaying their work this way anymore, and if you did, you were dating yourself. But this was pre the iPad days so portfolios were still presented non-digitally.
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King Arthur Flour and Some Holiday Cookie Cutter Cookies For You
[dropcap custom_class=”normal”]W[/dropcap] ell this year I continued in what just may become an annual Christmas Eve ritual and I made butter cookie cutter cookies. Last year was the first year I did this, I thought it would be complicated—like you had to be Martha Stewart or a professional baker to pull this off. But it was easier then I thought. I was encouraged after making homemade biscotti which was not difficult either.
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Made By Girl Prints, Paintings and Stationary,
[dropcap custom_class=”normal”]A[/dropcap] couple of weeks ago I attended a fun and fashionable event at the MadeWell store on the upper east side of Manhattan. The event was a pop up store within a store, for the founder and artist of the popular blog Made By Girl which I wrote about in this post. Today I am going to share with you the wonderful items that I purchased that day. I
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Throwback Thursday and a Throwback with Kitty Chloe
[dropcap custom_class=”normal”] H [/dropcap]appy Throwback Thursday everyone! Here is a picture of my kitty, Chloe when she was about six months old. She liked to sit on my desk while I was working and she would sleep with me at night— sleeping on my chest and waking me up in the morning by licking my face. She is more independent now and stays up night looking for mice.
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Garance Dore and The Rifle Paper Co. I {heart} This
A few weeks ago I attended the Open Studio Pop Up Shop for Garance Dore. Garance recently launched a stationary line in collaboration with the super fun Rifle Paper Co. The Rifle Paper Co. has been a favorite of mine for a while now, so when…
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Garance Dore Open Studio Pop Up Shop @ 168 Bowerey in NYC
[dropcap custom_class=”normal”]H[/dropcap] ello all and happy Monday. This weekend I had the pleasure of attending the Open Studio Pop Up Shop for Garance Dore. She was debuting her new stationary line which she created in collaboration with the Rifle Paper Company. It was a cold and very rainy Saturday but I…
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