{ what the font? }

{ what the font? }

Image via What the Font?

{ clementine }

{ clementine }

Image via Clementine.

{ elephantine }

{ elephantine }

Images by Jena Ardell via Elephantine.

{ pia jane bijkerk }

{ pia jane bijkerk }

Image via Pia Jane Bijkerk.

{ jeana sohn }

{ jeana sohn }

Image via Jeana Sohn.

{ sweet fine day }

While I'm away, I'll be posting on a few nice places to visit...starting with:

{ sweet fine day }

Image via Sweet Fine Day.

{ new zealand }

A little Flight of the Conchords love today because...I'm leaving for New Zealand in a few hours!
I promise I don't normally travel this much, it just all got bunched together this year. But this one is a REAL plan-ahead vacation involving beaches, fjords, glaciers and mountains, oh my!
This city girl is in need of some fresh air, full report when I get back!

{ hand & shadow }

Stunning screen-printed scarves by Hand & Shadow.

{ new additions }

Finally did some housekeeping in the shop; including the addition of the Dachshund Necklace, Serpent Ring, and Petit Fang and the Petit Peapod Necklaces.

{ crochet jelly }

Will someone who knows how to crochet please make this for me?

{ flowers }

I so love that Steve sent me flowers that day (from sprout!), but what a strange thing to write on a card...I was a little taken aback.

{ paris...part four }

Last bit of Paris...the market.

{ paris...part three }

Since it was fashion week while we were in Paris, we attended Le Showroom, a ready to wear and accessories show with international designers and collections.
While there, we chatted at length with Deb from Bonbon Oiseau, who was an exhibitor at the show and an all-around sweet human being. Since we're both based in Brooklyn, it was nice if not a little funny to cross paths with her in Paris.

p.s. I forgot to mention that on our last morning, we walked along the promenade plantee, the elevated park built on abandoned railway viaduct (hello, original highline)! It runs along the top of those arches in the second to last photo and cuts through the 12th arrondissement. It was also in one of my favorite films, Before Sunset, which is another reason I wanted to go see it.

{ paris...part two }

Now back to Paris...a lovely green Paris.

{ taylor swift wears odette ny swallow bird necklace on oprah! }

Some stills of Taylor Swift wearing our Large Swallow Necklace on Oprah yesterday! It was incredible, we're thinking of changing the name to the Taylor Songbird Necklace since she has been giving it so much love lately!

Images via Oprah. More about the show here on Oprah.com.

{ taylor swift hearts odette...on oprah! }

I have to interrupt the Paris tour because of some pressing news. My friend Karin called me yesterday to say she'd seen Taylor Swift wearing my Large Swallow necklace again and this time it was on television. On a promo for today's Oprah show. Oprah. I think I may have started shaking just a little.

And when I watched the promo myself, and I saw Taylor sitting on the chair next to Oprah, wearing the big bird necklace that I had carved out of wax in my studio, it was a bit surreal and overwhelming.

So today, I will be sitting in front of my TV at 4 pm, just to make sure it's all really happening...


Watch the promo here:

{ paris...part one }

Paris needs four parts. It just does.
We took the speedy Eurostar over from London and were checked into our small hotel in the Marais by the afternoon; where we had a nice view of an airshaft and a sink that refused to drain.
But it was fashion week in Paris, so that was all we could find with such late notice. It was worth it to be in that area, we loved roaming around Place des Vosges, Rue des Rosiers, Rue Vieille du Temple, and Rue Saint-Paul. More tomorrow...

{ london...part two }

A walk through the Columbia Road Flower Market...and a few shots from Borough Market. The fox door knocker was on my favorite door of all time.

{ london...part one }

Just back from London and Paris. In London, we stayed with a friend in the Hoxton/Shoreditch area of the East End for a few days before hopping on the eurostar for Paris. Since we'd both been to London before we omitted most of the touristy things in lieu of wandering around the East End.
A few observations:
1. Borough Market, a giant market of food stalls and vendors) is incredible. I bought a jar of za'tar spices.
2. In fact, they have a lot of markets (food, flowers, knick knacks) and they are really packed (like times square).
3. I wish we had a Borough Market (hate to say it but it kind of kills the union square greenmarket here).
4. I was introduced to a Sunday Roast at the Albion and I have to say I'm in love.
5. Pubs are cozy and nice when it's pouring outside and most will serve half pints so that your beer doesn't warm up too fast. Unless of course it is one that they actually serve warm, which did happen, unbeknownst to me. But then you only have to muster through half a pint before switching to something cold.

{ puppy + poliane }

At Le Petit Atelier de Paris.

p.s. they make lovely ceramics, hope I get to stop by...