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Inspiration (Thankful)

23 Friday Nov 2012

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We spent the week celebrating, adventuring and eating great food with good friends.  We are feeling thankful for healthy families and how lovely it is to see the little ones merge into the family of old friends.  I hope you are all had a wonderful Thanksgiving!  Here are some Instagrams from the week:

*The Costume Room Beside the Stage (Full of magic vintage costumes, at this amazing place.)

*Ada, Breakfast

*Spread at Scratch Bread (Some of my favorite baked goods ever, conveniently and dangerously just around the corner from us.  The Bourbon Wheat bread is insane.)

*Cat Tails for the City Girl

*Fruit in Chinatown on Thanksgiving

*Beautiful Gummybears, Chinatown Ice Cream Factory

*Salted Caramel Hot Chocolate with Homemade Black Pepper Marshmallow, Scratch (Way too good to share with the kids.)

*Vintage Ballet Poster, Big Indian Springs (Home to a ballet school in the 1960’s.)

*Big Indian Springs

*Beaded Charms, Chinatown

*Thanksgiving Leftovers, Nha Trang  

*Decorating the Stage, Big Indian Springs

Have a wonderful weekend!

Inspiration

16 Friday Nov 2012

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Instagrams from the week:

*Crepe Paper Poppy (Secret birthday makings, post to follow soon)

*German Glass Glitter Stars (Post also to follow soon)

*Josie in the Park

*Josie at Dance Class

*Ladybugs and Coloring in the Park

*Crepe Paper Anemones

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02 Friday Nov 2012

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Instagrams from the week:

*Mermaid on Cousins’ Porch
*Huge Tree Down in Brooklyn
*Josie in Aunt Sandy’s Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing Costume
*Too Many Days Spent Inside

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19 Friday Oct 2012

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Instagrams from the week:

*Walking over the Williamsburg Bridge

*Pictures (made with these awesome stickers)

*Sister Picture Made from Color Chips (Ada cut and taped and Josie colored)

*Butterfly Girl. (Technically it is no longer butterfly season around here, but the girls play with this net constantly)

Have you ever noticed how when you start thinking about one color or shape you see it all the time? I always love when a group of similar things ends up in my bag at the end of flea market shopping, or how colors and lines repeat through Instagrams from the week…Makes you wonder what other beauty you would see more of if you invited it in.

Have a happy weekend!

Inspiration

12 Friday Oct 2012

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Instagrams from the week:

*Knitting Ada’s Mermaid Costume

*Flying Josie

*Reading

*Sleepy Baby Feet

Have a great weekend!

Vintage Treasure

08 Monday Oct 2012

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Finds from a recent visit to Tinsel Trading Company in Manhattan.  Tinsel Trading is a magical place that has been run and owned by the same family for generations.  Their story can be found here.  They have the most amazing selection of vintage millinery flowers, trims, buttons…I designed many projects around Tinsel Trading finds when I was in fashion school and I used to visit often for inspiration when I worked in the city.  There is a huge set of drawers in the back of the store filled with an ever-changing array.  This visit it housed unused paper labels, cardboard animals and new old stock of red paintbrushes among other things.  I love wandering in without a specific project and letting the treasure speak to me.  I have yet to bring Ada, but Tinsel Trading is pretty much a crafty four-year-old’s dream.  Here is what I found:

* Reproduction French sticker labels.  (We will use them for jams and gift labeling).

* Vintage silver ribbon.  (Waiting to trim a package).

* Vintage gold stacking beads.  (I am thinking these would make a pretty necklace mixed with seashells we found this summer for Ada’s mermaid Halloween costume that I have been knitting).

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06 Saturday Oct 2012

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Instagrams from the week:

* Antique Lace, Metropolitan Museum of Art.

* Bathroom, Red Rooster Harlem

* Cy Twombly Detail, Metropolitan Museum of Art

* Sleeping Child, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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28 Friday Sep 2012

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Instagrams from the week:

* Treasure Drawers at Tinsel Trading Company.

* Halloween Production at Nap Time.

* Silver Ribbon, Tinsel Trading Company.

* First Pony Rides at Sun High Orchards.

* Wool-covered Fountain at Bryant Park.

* Vintage Flowers at Tinsel Trading Company.

Have a wonderful weekend!

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21 Friday Sep 2012

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Instagrams from the week:

* The Season’s First Pumpkin
* Tomas Saraceno’s Cloud City at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
* Pillows, Vintage and Ikea
* Ada’s Installation: Osage Orange, Chartreuse Yarn and the Horse

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14 Friday Sep 2012

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Instagrams from the week:

* The Lotus Pond in perfect bloom this week, Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

* The Kids’ Wet Chalk Drawing, Fort Greene Park.

* Daddy’s Birthday Cupcakes from Baked.

* Josie at the Koi Pond (shouting FISH!), Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

We had the most perfect week of weather here.  We felt lucky this week to be starting school, eating some last summer ice cream, wearing new shoes, celebrating a birthday, learning some new words, seeing old friends, watching one of our tomatoes finally change its green skin, looking forward to the seasons ahead…have a wonderful weekend!