this morning grabbing a cup o' joe i glance down at the style section in today's NYTimes, and noticed the new uber urban trend of wearing fur hats and fur boots, as well as, bulky sweaters with fur vests instead of a coat in the winter which they describe as now being too cumbersome! hey, try dragging this thing around town! when i was at a stylish event last year in new canaan i must have seen 7 women sporting this confusing trend. i cannot figure out for the life of me how this look works. the times (the voice of "reason) explains that the look was pulled from the ski slopes..but if you ask me it is more from the lodge rather than from the hill...can you imagine trying to move in one of these things? oh..and best of all..every time i look at the ladies in this "IT" look i can't stop thinking about satyrs and cave girls. really!! i am so confused..is this cute? no i say, put that thing down girls!
when i was a girl i dreamt of owning a store that would sell striped things, particularly the classic french fisherman's blue striped shirt audrey hepburn (and picasso, and coco chanel, and, and...) wore. i loved marimekko everything, but i thought i would do them one better. as i have mentioned on this blog before, i never got over my striped shirt craze, and this season i am sporting 3 in my closet! on top of that, i have always been obsessed with vera neumann, and had another dream of one day being just like her..to the point that my friends made fun of my signature, and would imagine my signing just "jill" in lots of other media. this week i discovered a delightful website Chance which has both the shirts AND vera scarves! imagine?! and the colors are so anally perfect..with only red white and blue pieces shown.. they also have a section of the blog called discoveries..which is super charming and includes lovely photos, and videos of things the owners are fond of. these are in a portrait section.. and the music video below is from the norwegian band Kings of Convenience..so cute!
this weekend my daughter thea and i watched exodus, otto preminger's classic, starring eva marie saint and the forever wonderful paul newman who is looking amazing in this flick. as a kid, i could not get enough of this magical actor, and it wasn't hard because he was in everything. butch cassidy, the sting, cool hand luke... i will never forget the summer his daughter lissie and i became buddies at camp, and he (gasp) spent the day hanging out with our cabin. that was just the absolute end all. well..watching the movie with my little girl, i mentioned that people had always said that my dad resembled paul very much. but by the movie's end, thea turned to me and said.."you know who he looks like is DAD!!!" it seems that i am surrounded by paul newman's dopplegangers. who's complaining?
it used to be that we listened to tapes at the studio, but that was a looong time ago. then it was cd's, but in a very short time no matter how many we bought we had the same favorites and inevitably we listened to cat stevens or abba every day! now i am so happy to have found pandora, a website that lets us listen to a variety of music. based on one or two suggestions, pandora will give us new stuff all day. so right now i have on "usher/rhianna" radio. i like a disco beat for energetic work. when i go home we listen to "pink" radio, as my kids love her..and then we change to bach radio for a calmer environment. give it a try..you will not be sorry!
we reluctantly sold Lawrence's magnificent bowl to a client yesterday. it is 21" across, and this makes it a verrrry large thing. i am so glad i took these pix before we said goodbye because it was just so perfect, and we don't know if we can make another one! adios amigo.
today i thought i would share how a pattern possibly gets developed in our studio. above is a photo i took the other day of a wall in our 'hood. i scanned the photo..cropped it and started to play around with the shape. here it is just stacked together, and below i have given it an outline and a border. i want to play around with it a bit more..but this is a beginning. let me know what you would do with it!
this morning grabbing a cup o' joe i glance down at the style section in today's NYTimes, and noticed the new uber urban trend of wearing fur hats and fur boots, as well as, bulky sweaters with fur vests instead of a coat in the winter which they describe as now being too cumbersome! hey, try dragging this thing around town!
when i was at a stylish event last year in new canaan i must have seen 7 women sporting this confusing trend. i cannot figure out for the life of me how this look works. the times (the voice of "reason) explains that the look was pulled from the ski slopes..but if you ask me it is more from the lodge rather than from the hill...can you imagine trying to move in one of these things?
oh..and best of all..every time i look at the ladies in this "IT" look i can't stop thinking about satyrs and cave girls. really!! i am so confused..is this cute? no i say, put that thing down girls!
