Loving {Forever}: The Blues

Denim, blue jeans, dungarees, chambray. Classic and distressed, patched and stitched. It never gets old.


on left: textiles by Maki Yamamoto                            on right: Madewell Rivet and Thread collection

left and right: Liberty for AG

Kathryn Clark's foreclosure quilts

on left: Chimala denim workshirt for Madewell          on right: a perfect Canadian tuxedo


image from 45rpm Spring '13 lookbook

on left: great outfit from A Portable Package     on right: distressed denim from Kapital

Paneled shirt by Folk, available at the Joinery

on left: another image from 45rpm Spring '13 lookbook   on right: Mikaela on Stockholm Street Style

Richard Haughton / Food Photography

We're having a heatwave in Philadelphia and I don't plan on using our oven again until September. These artful food photographs by Richard Haughton make me excited to eat my veggies!

Susy Pilgrim Waters / Illustrator and Designer

My pal Susy Pilgrim Waters is one talented lady! She's a textile and print designer, illustrator, painter and product designer to name a few. And, she's the illustrator of a new gorgeous children's book called Grandma and the Great Gourd: A Bengali Folktale. She and the author Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, will be signing books on May 8th at 2pm in the beautiful New York Public Library. Here are a few of her illustrations from the book:

Denise J. Reytan / Jewelry

Berlin artist Denise J. Reytan makes the most fantastical jewelry I have ever seen. Check out lots more on her website here.

Colorful Scenes From My Sunday

My sweet Sunday so far: lounging in bed, working on lots and lots of crafty projects (quilts! keychains! papercutting! pajaki!) and organizing my jewelry. Later, there will be kebab eating, a nice long walk and then Game of Thrones!