Thursday, March 29, 2012

Yo Peep This-Easter Basket Ideas




Oh, Peeps. You glorious, flourescent food product. Even when you're days old, harder than petrified wood, fossilized with plastic strands of fake grass imprinted on your forehead, you still make me  smile. I don't even really like eating you. In fact, you make me sick. Regardless, your presence signals springtime, and you make one hell of a holiday projectile. Get that same "PEEPS!" feeling sans fossilization with today's featured chickie babies:

Lavender lemon shea butter felted soap, by Engelfelt $12

Hand-made Madagascar vanilla marshmallow mini stickie chickies: by MiniMEBakery 3 dozen for $12

Felted wool all-natural toy: by BossysFeltWorks $15

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Down the Rabbit Hole



The time has come, my little friends, to talk of other things 
Of shoes and ships and sealing wax, of cabbages and kings 
 And why the sea is boiling hot, and whether pigs have wigs
Calloo, Callay, come run away
 With the cabbages and kings.
-Walrus

I have a few wonderfully Boho friends who with what seems like zero foresight, are able to layer their jewelry like they've been collecting for years and generally look like they just rolled out of Ryan Goslings flea market Moroccan day bed.

This piece by BeautySpot  reminds me of these friends, and belongs draped around one of their tragically hip necks, peeking out from behind a few Roman coins and a braided chain made for them by some poet they knew.

So buy the ticket, take the ride, and swallow hard with this whimsical little necklace.  Beautifully packaged and just $22.  

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Featured Artist: Samantha French


Dive in; Float

At the edge stripes and flags

Coming up for air


Witty one-liners and clever quips aside for a moment, Samantha French is one of my favorite all-time artists, Etsy or otherwise. Her original work is oil on canvas, but for those of us who aren't professional collectors just quite yet, she also offers prints via Etsy.

I personally own two, and I HIGHLY recommend you check out the entire collection at her Etsy shop. I don't often "connect" to the feelings that art lovers often say they feel towards certain pieces, but imagining myself in her underwater scenes is one of my favorite personal pastimes. I've never seen water look more beautiful or want to be in it more desperately. Enjoy!