359 posts categorized "inspiration"

May 17, 2013

The Scarves are Here!

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Oh poor neglected blog. I know I have been ignoring you but I have good reason! So much is happening chez this is love forever. One big, gigantic thing, or should I say two: these scarves. My design partner Lauren and I just launched a print design company called Rue + Jane (named after our lovely grandmothers) and we recntly designed these scarves, now available at Anthropologie!
We are dizzy with excitement, as you can imagine.

April 15, 2013

Denise J. Reytan / Jewelry

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

April 02, 2013

California / Part 3

And now for Part 3, the LA proper additon. I fell in love with the store Dream Collective, the almond milk lattes at Sqirl, and Cathy's lovely home.

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March 31, 2013

Loving {Forever}: Shades of Spring

This Saturday was one of those early spring days in the Northeast, where it's still only 50 degrees but everyone gets delerious and puts on flip flops and shorts. I was still wearing a scarf but I did change my nailpolish from dark plum to lavender.
Spring makes me think of pastel shades, the colors of Cadbury mini eggs and scoops of gelato, crocuses and daffodils popping out of the cold ground, Easter baskets woven from candy colored reeds.
When I was a child, my mother took me to an Easter egg hunt in our local town. Every year, I looked forward to the cupcakes they served all the kids after the hunt: vanilla cake iced with mint green dyed frosting, dusted with green coconut and crowned with three jelly beans. They were these perfect little fantasy birds nests. I thought of them all year.

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Thomas Whiteside photographs Naty Chabenenko (styled by Joe Zee) for Elle Magazine

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Moschino Resort 2013


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on the left: Karen Walker detail Spring Summer 2012   on the right: Encyclopedia of Roses by Yuki Kitazumi
Fd2e64ab4fb428aa3981786d56df2d0dLouis Vuitton Spring Summer Ad 2012 photographed by Steven Meisel

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on the left: Nick Knight melting flora paintings  on the right: J Crew spring presentation SS 2013

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painting by Michelle Armas

February 19, 2013

Maia Bergman / Fashion

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Maia Bergman is a fashion designer who recently graduated from Central Saint Martins. This is her BA collection, a beaded masterpiece of mint, lavender, citron and white. Doesn't it all look like candy? Beautiful, beautiful candy?

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My Books

  • Paper Made!
    Publication Date: May 8, 2012 by Workman Publishing Company

    Also available at
    Barnes and Noble
    And IndieBound

  • Applique Your Way
    Published 2009 by Chronicle Books

  • Creative Embellishing
    Published 2011 by Collins and Brown