my new favorite person

nicknames: "schatzi", "bizou"

interests: digging in the mud, racing, long naps

word.

"The best advice I've received is to be yourself. The best artists do that. People look over their shoulders too much. I tell kids that come to Yale, where I've taught every other year since 1978, to find your own way because then you're the only expert. Some people might not like what you do, but still, you're the only expert."

Frank Gehry, to the Wall Street Journal.

san juan inspiration

Color inspiration in San Juan Capistrano last week...

Regalitos

Little and big bowtie ID bracelets...coming soon for sale!

Missing Mardi Gras

I visited New Orleans for the first time this past December and fell in love with the city. We stayed only a few days, but as soon as the wheels of the plane pulled up, I felt certain I would be moving there. After watching Spike Lee's documentary "When the Levees Broke" about Hurricane Katrina (wow), I may have changed my mind...but a part of me is still pining for NOLA.

As a person who loves a good excuse for a costume, I am especially sad to be missing the Mardi Gras. Here are a few ideas I might explore if I were an Orleanian at this time of year (they are costume sketches for Ballet Royale de la Nuit, a 12-hour ballet/opera that starred King Louis XIV):

Source:

Excerpted from the book Ballet de la Nuit (Pendragon Press) featured in April 2010 issue of The World of Interiors

VERY excited for this!

Bill Cunningham is the original.

Coffee or Tea?

These Astier de Villatte cups are so divine. Most everything they do is--check it out.