Friday, May 29, 2009
fuchsia
fuchsias
i have a new love for tie dye. as does the rest of the world
dress in the window of Bergdorf's last year
vintage costume bracelet
vintage dress
giant dahlia in the Berkshires
impatiens in NYC
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Brackney, PA
After a few years of not taking the journey I visited my oldest friend Katherine in her country home. It was a wonderful weekend of walks, canoeing, tasty dinners and catching up. We realized that we have know each other for probably 20 years! Crazy!
their house in the woods
hydroponic local lettuce. beauties
new potatos
dinner on Royal Copenhagen plates. tasty!
Otis the new guy
melons
strawberries for pies
Katherine making the deliciousness
pie: strawberries with rhubarb from the backyard
after dinner dance party
I took the opportunity to swing by a nursery and bought dirt, coral bells, hostas, clematis and other pretty plants to brighten up my planter box under my NYC apartment tree. I gathered sticks from my friends property to make a little fence to keep the city pups out. (Picture to come soon. )
Monday, May 18, 2009
color dots
When I go for my morning walk I like to weave through the Meat Packing District and peek in the closed store windows. Auto on Washington St. is packed full of beautiful linens and pillows and their store next door is almost dedicated to jewelry.
I. Ronni Kappos jewelry caught my eye. Colorful and clean smart pieces.
Having studied art history, Ronni Kappos is influenced by modern art and architecture and sees putting beads together as a small engineering feat. All of her jewelry is made with vintage glass coming from the famed, but long defunct, German glassworks in the Sudentenland region of Bohemia. The molds and pigments used in prewar glass production are no longer available, making these beads highly collectible.
secret inspiration: bird toys
I happened upon this website, A Unique Idea when I was looking for leather beads. But look how tribal and summer sweet these little toys are. Yes there is that colored macaroni necklace element to them too but this is the jumping off point not the final design.
(well the first one could be a great bracelet. and the second one and possibly the third...)
The Hispanic Society of America
The Hispanic Society of America is the most amazing museum that no one has ever heard of. And it is just a smooth ride up Broadway to a pretty Harlem neighborhood full of prep school
boys and old ladies. And this little gem of a museum. It is the collection of one man inspired at the turn of the 20th century to create a collection of hispanic arts.
This famous Goya (The Duchess of Alba) is in the good company of Velazquez and El Greco
iron work over velvet on a 17th century walnut portable Portuguese writing cabinet
unknown painter. I love the twin pink dresses.
carved wood life size statue of a saint with skull
the plaza outside the doors of the museum which is tucked in sideways from the street. the sculptures are by the founders wife.
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