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Lonny Blog!

So excited to be blogging illustrated posts over at Lonny! 

New Lonny!

The new issue of Lonny is out and once again, Michelle, Patrick, Ellie, and team have outdone themselves. They are giving away this original painting by moi. Get over to Lonny for some Fall inspiration!

  

I've been wearing out my espadrilles this summer. My friend Jacqui brought back a few perfect pairs from Paris last year and I've been searching for something similar ever since. I found them a few weeks ago (at Urban Outfitters!!)

There is a tiny shop in my neighborhood called Les Toiles du Soleil which sells espadrilles and striped fabrics that look like candy. The company was founded 150 years ago and still makes the happiest fabrics in the traditional way. I might have to get a couple of the these dishtowels to brighten up my kitchen.

Hello!

Has it really been 2 months?? I have been a busy bee. I feel like the summer is over! Boohoo. Having a girls mini vacation this weekend and I'm looking forward to catching up, barbecuing, and doing a little of this:

I have more summer illustrations over here! 

Hunt Slonem's studio is filled with birds and bird paintings. I want to live there. I saw his bird on The Selby.   

Look at this MJ bag with birds! It looks like it was inspired by the man himself.

Speaking of bird prints, I almost bought this dress at a little boutique off Lafayette Street.

The first time I saw it I had just had a few Moscow Mules from Pravda around the corner, so I thought it best to revisit it with a clearer head if you know what I mean. The print is a knock off of the Miu Miu prints from Spring (which I LOVED). I ended up there the next day after brunch at Essex ...again with a not so clear head (I swear this is not the norm!) tried it on, and was disappointed that it was just 'eh'. Guess I will have to start stalking ebay for the real thing!  

Next time you go to Madison Square Park for some Shake Shack, check out all of the Allium growing in and around the park. Might be my new favorite flower! 

I love the home floor at Bergdorf's. It makes me so happy. Right off the escalator you have John Derian, then a little further down is Kelly Wearstler's little jewel box of a shop within the shop. When I was there last week, I fell in love with the beautiful and glamorous ceramics of Waylande Gregory. See it here. It's a little Klimt, a little deco, a little Hermes-ish. Amazing. You know when you find something that is just SO YOU and exactly what you wish you would have designed in your wildest creative dreams?? I bought this little jade colored box with orange dots and a gold cougar. It is insanely awesome and my new prized possession. 

 

It inspired my little painting below, which in retrospect looks like fried eggs but could be a cute pattern in another color!

Ebay!

I was recently interviewed for The Inside Source, this site that Ebay puts out. It was fun to make an Ebay wish list (with no budget..ahhh) and do the little paintings to go along with it. They have a lot of great interviews with fashion and home design peops..check it out!

Busy Busy

I haven't been around here much....been busy, busy, busy which is great. I was working last night and here is how my 'test' paper (where I try out colors) looked. I kind of like it! Maybe I will put it in a little frame.

Spring!

It was a beeeeaauutiful weekend in NY! I spent lots of time on the roof, walked around the Farmer's Market and the West Village, and had a few cocktails on the Lower East Side. A lovely weekend and I'm sad it's over. I've been buying the $3 bunches of daffodils at our corner deli-I can't get enough of them!

Painting

We're having the apartment painted this week and I can't even tell you how much thought was put into these 4 colors, so I hope it works out! We're taking a risk and painting our hallway black. Hm. Hope that works out too! I'm going for a Ryan Korban thing. All black and white and faded Persian rugs and lots of art in gilded frames thrown in.

We bought this chair for $45 (!!!) at a New Jersey antique store and had it reupholstered in a black and white awning stripe. We didn't even have to change the wood frame, it's kind of a distressed ivory. Now the hunt for a sofa begins...

The Hot Chocolate Festival at City Bakery takes place in February every year. Not that I need a reason to go to City Bakery. They have a new flavor every day, but I stick to classic, no marshmallow. Some people think it is so sweet and so thick that they can only have one per year. I have already been twice this week. Is it bad to forgo dinner for hot chocolate?

My friends know me so well

It was my birthday last week. I'm not sure how I feel about this. But I did get lots of chocolate which made it O.K. First, I went to Fatty Crab with Jen, Kathy, and Audra. The food was great and we ended dinner with the 'Fatty Bar', dark chocolate with chilis-SO GOOD!

Then Liz brought me some dark chocolate with Fleur de Sel from Mast Brothers. It's a Brooklyn chocolate factory run by two brothers. The chocolate was perfect, and the packaging was even better-beautiful handmade paper. THEN there was more chocolate from Jacqui when she, Karen, and Allison took me to lunch. THEN, cadbury creme eggs from my mom. I'm chocolate-ed out (in a good way). It's only once a year right?! (But then there's Valentine's day...and Easter....)

Fashion and Fitness worlds collide

On my way to the gym on Saturday, I saw Grace Coddington walking into a pilates studio in my neighborhood. I love her. If you have not seen the September Issue- I suggest you see it right away- Grace Coddington is hilarious and talented and the most entertaining part of the documentary.
THEN, while at the gym, I had a moment of fashion surreality when Francisco Costa (sitting on the leg raise machine) exclaims "Hi Marc!", at which point Marc Jacobs walks over and says-"Oh hi I didn't see you there!" kiss kiss. Then my head exploded from fashion icon overload.