happy sunday

best in show

how cute is uno the beagle?!? how funny are his competitors? love the annual westminster dog show!

happy valentine's day

window shopping

it's valentine's week on bleeker street and i just had to try to capture the lovely windows at marc jacobs. i don't think the detail totally comes across in the pics but these are full on walls of (silk) flowers, happily carrying over to each of marc's now 4 local stores.


which sit just down the block from the mail boxes at juicy and tommy hilfiger's rather stately pink wooden accents...



happy valentines window-or-other shopping!

japanese fabrics at purl

for any lover of fabrics, purl is a must-shop when in new york. fortunately, the little store is so close to my apartment that i can stop in and do whatever you do with your local stores -- buy things you didn't realize you needed. one of the first purchases i made was this bird fabric that turned in to a curtain for a closet with no door.

ah, and now i see the etsuko furuya upholstery weight line is getting bigger, happily in the same color family with some logical options for curtains and pillows:




away from the heavier weights, purl carries a line of super-soft cotton fabrics, kokka nani iro. the watercolor-like prints don't show nearly as well here as they do in person. suffice to say, this top pattern made the lovliest napkins for my friend elizabeth's birthday.



no idea what i am doing with these two, my recent purchases. the top one looks so valentine-sey. i may have to do cocktail napkins for holly's girls' party that night.

reform school rules

ah, thanks to poppytalk for directing me to yet another groovy online store, reform school. they sell lots of cool crafts like posters and cards which i can't seem to get enough of.

i have never bought a guitar post breakup, but, hmm, maybe i should've. i've always fancied myself a bit the rocker chick.




how many butter dishes are too many butter dishes? surely i can fit one more in this bitty kitchen?


nice! had to kick in this cool line of clutch bags made out of skateboards, presumably making them constructed of some sort of fiberglass, but recycled skateboards! back to the rocker chick thing...



and to round out any shopping experience for me, there's plenty of literature. from funky design manuals to classics:

happy sunday