tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4056669302820090932024-03-12T22:20:41.558-04:00Your Destiny is Stone GoldenBonbon Oiseauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00217372750598243358noreply@blogger.comBlogger944125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-405666930282009093.post-31064104564770067362015-05-26T09:38:00.005-04:002015-05-26T09:38:59.251-04:00One Awesome Thing<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I began a new project called <a href="http://www.oneawesomething.com/" target="_blank">One Awesome Thing</a>, a side, an arm, a leg, the heart, of <a href="http://bonbonoiseau.bigcartel.com/" target="_blank">Bonbon Oiseau</a>, which is taking a sabbatical from jewelry-making for a little while, while she nourishes another project. I thought this was a good time to revisit here, where so much happened. I abandoned this place, I'm still not sure why. So much changed since 2007, when I started writing here</span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">. Sometimes it feels like nothing changed at all, I just watched other people's lives change while mine remained still. But that's not really true. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">This week, the Deb part of Bonbon along with her stinky little man dog best friend, Pablo fly to New Mexico to a little adobe house </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">on a horse ranch/organic farm </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">where the Chama comes off the Rio Grande. I'm hoping good things will happen there. I am open to everything, along with all my paints, books and ideas.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">One Awesome Thing exists on it's own site with it's own <a href="http://www.oneawesomething.com/blog/" target="_blank">blog</a> and we just put it out there because out there seemed better than all up in here. I am working hard to make T</span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">hings become clearer and as we go, we go. For now, all your awesomeness can be shared on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/oneawesomething" target="_blank">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/wesomethings" target="_blank">Twitter</a> (@wesomethings) and <a href="https://instagram.com/one_awesome_thing/" target="_blank">Instagram</a> with the #oneawesomething and #oneawesomethingproject. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">(by <a href="http://jimbomatison.com/" target="_blank">Jimbo Matison</a>-proponent of One Awesome Thing)</span></div>
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The <a href="http://www.okeeffemuseum.org/abiquiu-tour.html" target="_blank">Georgia O'Keefe house</a> and studio in Abiquiu is an expertly run enterprise in a town where not much happens to the naked eye. This post isn't a travelogue but if you're asking, there are a few things to do in Abiquiu (pronounce like BBQ): you can hike through some gorgeous landscapes, you can hike or ride a horse at <a href="http://ghostranch.org/" target="_blank">Ghost Ranch</a> where Georgia first stopped when she realized she loved this place, you can read or write or set up and paint a fantastic vista, or you can shop at <a href="http://www.bodes.com/" target="_blank">Bode's General Store</a> as though you lived here, where a few wrinkly peppers and hard peaches (with a sign, "DON'T TOUCH IF YOU'RE NOT BUYING", (hell yes I touched) are the only fresh foods in sight for 50 miles... Bode's makes a great green chile cheeseburger. There are a few more things going on in Abiquiu too--a peek inside the church in the old, quiet little mud-walled pueblo, a picnic and a swim at the reservoir and probably two other things, check your "forums" (pronounced FOREARMS)for those. For a visit to Ms. O'Keefe's, which is what all the locals call her,(and which, that added sense of intimacy rooted her here for me, in this landscape and made her everything fall into place in a real way, in a way that only travel and touching that same soil will do), you have to make a reservation way ahead of time and it's not cheap, but if you love her story and her work, minimalist sensibilities and inspiring iconic houses, then you'll do it.</div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I booked our place in the tour a few days ahead, which was pretty out of character if you ask me, from a girl who booked a ticket to Albuquerque one week before, and was standing behind a (pretty fantastic) tour guide at Georgia O'Keefe's house the week after. I don't love planning but I do love efficiency. It was here, at Georgia O'Keefe's house and studio, where, on a 10:30 am tour, </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">no photos allowed on the premises, where</span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> a bunch of kind-faced culture-loving retirees and us--we've never looked so young and ALIVE(!) felt the presence of divinity. That happened to me anyway. I lagged behind, totally illegal on this tour, and loitered, open-mouthed and ogled in her kitchen. It all came to me. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Back to Georgia: her kitchen was left in the same state as it was in the mid-80's when she died and I spied with my little eyes all the tools she used/touched: Revereware! enamel colanders! Pressure cookers, Chemex coffee makers!, the grains she liked: well there are a lot of beans on offer in NM), the placement of appliances and cabinets (our stove is the same stove as hers, don't ask), and most of all, all of her GLASS JARS WITH MASKING TAPE LABELS. In the middle of nowhere, when cars moved real slow, bulk buying was de rigeur, as was canning and seed saving. Jars made the most sense I think, tight sealable storage, what you have is clear as day, right there for the using. </span><br />
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Lingering in that pantry, as the rest of the tour moved along and I was asked to kindly "keep it flowing" by the lady following along to make sure no one put anything in their pockets, I resisted having to move. I felt my own love of glass jar storage make my heart butterflies fluttery. I also loved the plywood tables with tapered saw-horse legs but let's save that for another day. I felt in that moment, that my thoughts put me within the ranks of the great minimalists of American history, a pragmatic and direct thinker. And when I came down from those delusions, I thought this: <b>everything you need peppered with a few things you love should be visible and within reach, and will call out to you to use them, not the other way around. In your kitchen and in your workplace your materials beckon you, but when you need them, they should be staring right back from where you left them the last time. Jars, stones, skulls, feathers. Beans, dried epazote, coffee, cardamom. </b><br />
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<b>A</b>n artist's studio is no different from a kitchen. It's a place where, if creative work will flow, the potential for optimal creativity has to beckon. If your tools and materials needed to make a masterpiece or at least a pretty good piece, are there in front of you when you are looking for them, what a joy to keep working! They call you, no more secrets or time squandering, looking for what you don't have, only peering straight at what you do. </div>
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I decided this: keeping your kitchen ingredients in clear jars is the most satisfying keeping of all. <b>Being able to see and appreciate your ingredients makes for a really inspiring kitchen.</b> And out of a really inspiring kitchen comes goodness, much better than greatness. </div>
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It means getting rid of greasy baggies, crusty paper bags, and dumb cardboard boxes (the ones with the foil insert bags that never re-seal unless you use transparent tape. TRANSPARENT TAPE + FOOD = I THINK NOT, THAT'S WHAT). It means, saving all your pretty and useful jars or using uniform sizes, (we use spent jam and honey jars, sometimes mustard jars, and maybe supplementing with the very attractive and useful <a href="http://weckjars.com/" target="_blank">Weck</a> jars--I super love these). It equals all your dried herbs that maybe you picked and dried yourself, the spices you found on your last vacation (Mexican oregano and dried chiles, Indian jaggery anyone, fresh saffron from a friend in Lebanon, etc.), nuts and seeds and edible flower petals or air dried citrus rinds, all find solace within the transparent walls of these jars and hopefully placed where the sun don't shine, in a cool, dry place, like the instructions always read, and your kitchen will beckon you with ideas. </div>
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Bonbon Oiseauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00217372750598243358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-405666930282009093.post-54536131420059395142013-12-12T11:46:00.000-05:002013-12-12T11:48:03.411-05:00The Holidays Continue on and Smile Therapy, the Beau Ideal<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">We need to be smiling more and finding all the things we are lucky about.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I am telling myself this because I spent yesterday completely stressed out and doing neither of those things.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Someone told me once I take on too much. Someone else told me I really take on other people's stress and worries and internalize it. Someone else told me I need to take it easy and exhale fear.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">What I gather from all of that informative information that other people think is that recognition is step one and smiling it off is step 2. Trying both today and after work is over, which is never over this time of year but let's just call it "over", am planning on a good activity tonight: writing holiday cards. I love that part!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">All this to say is that one of my favorite ladies and her beautiful company <a href="http://www.beauidealeditions.bigcartel.com/products">Beau Ideal Editions</a> is having a sale! Enter HOHOHO25 at check out and receive 25% off all her gorgeous smile-inducing holiday cards and sets! Very happy stuff...</span></div>
Bonbon Oiseauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00217372750598243358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-405666930282009093.post-53302126395418446072013-12-05T13:09:00.005-05:002013-12-05T13:17:54.929-05:00Your Holidays Just Got More Bonbon<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; text-align: left;">We are so proud and happy to be part of this wonderful event: Warm: A Holiday Pop-Up at</span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; text-align: left;"> </span><a href="http://liloveve.com/about/upcoming-2/" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; text-align: left;">Liloveve Jewelry Gallery</a><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; text-align: left;">. It's part of the school where I cut my chops and Caroline's studio and gallery both are swoon-worthy. I'll be bringing my higher-end pieces so you can see them up close and in person and am so excited to show them in such a beautiful setting with such great jewelers, makers and smiths.</span></div>
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Bonbon Oiseauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00217372750598243358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-405666930282009093.post-60391235409093662102013-12-05T11:06:00.004-05:002013-12-05T11:06:52.306-05:00Bonbon's Holiday Gift Guide 2013: Number 1: BUY ART<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I bet recipients on your list would like some real art and books and snarky t-shirts and beautiful jewelry and handmade items that real makers have made with heart. I know I would. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Sold yet? You will be after you see Alexandra Lakin's fantastic fantastical works. We went to art school together at The School of Arts and Design at Alfred University. She was always one of my very favorite artists then and she is still is now. Her color combinations are so delicate and also wild and perfectly suited to her imaginative ways of illustrating these little stories. To me they evoke an imaginary and real sense of earlier American lives, a little wilder and a little more free yet quite bound to the earth. Anyone would be lucky to receive and live with them so without further adieu, I present you with DAY 1 of Bonbon's Countdown to Giving, an opportunity to give and/or own some of the real (badass) art of <a href="http://alexandralakin.bigcartel.com/products">Alexandra Lakin</a></span><br />
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Bonbon Oiseauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00217372750598243358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-405666930282009093.post-66600504623312576742013-11-20T16:17:00.001-05:002013-11-20T16:19:42.446-05:00Bon Thanksgiving and Thanksgivingukkah<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; text-align: left;">Deciding to do more of the things I wanted to do and less of the things I didn't want to do, I realized I was on to something. It started to keep the noise out. And then it really did. And blew up so large that all the </span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">yesses (rather than the no's) became manageable (even when they didn't feel that way) and lovable and staying up late working was easy. And suddenly time opened up. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; text-align: left;">What? Wait. How? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Then there were so many beads and cakes, and Thai take-out containers (as well as roasted chicken bones) and did I tell you I've been volunteering, helping kids who are having trouble reading, learn to read? And taking a landscape design class? It's a lot. But it's all feeding into my master plan: my soul. And my soul is glad the design class is over tomorrow night right before the holiday rush, although it was super fun and I learned a lot!.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">And we're hosting Thanksgiving dinner again, my favorite dinner to cook. We do Fall really well in this house if Jim do say so himself. (I love that man.) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">This week I am in the studio, working with my new Bonbon Girls who will be helping me at our holiday events this season and finishing my final project for my landscape design class which ends tomorrow night. </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">And writing this blog post. And all kinds of other things. Until the hinges come off, it's all pretty good. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Love, Me</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Our <a href="http://bonbonoiseaudesigns.tumblr.com/">Bonbon Oiseau Lookbooking Tumblr Page</a> turned Four today! </span><br />
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Bonbon Oiseauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00217372750598243358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-405666930282009093.post-23918190468198951262013-11-18T12:12:00.005-05:002013-11-18T12:16:53.007-05:00Holiday Season, Why Hath Thou Come So Early in Ten Easy Steps?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Thanksgiving-ukkah comes but once every 6000 years. I seem to have bitten off a lot here at the Bonbon International Headquatres. And whenever the going gets supah supah busy, I get distracted and decide to wing a really unscientific baking session, yesterday's included pumpkin puree, orange flower water and almond/coconut flour. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Then, in the last 24 hours, these ten things happened:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">1. Worked on Bonbons for holiday orders, new methods introduced including beeswax and french knots.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">2. Worked on my final Urban Landscape Design project, the BBG class that the great <a href="http://www.whatpossessedme.com/">What Possessed Me</a> made me take and now I am nervously trying to distinguish between types of big phallus-shaped hydrangea and apple trees that can be <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espalier">espaliered</a>. Thanks P! It's still not finished and is totally unrealistic and not suitable for real live persons (can a human sit on a 9-inch bench?) but I am enriched I guess, and also very frustrated.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">3. Organized my week but then quickly got disorganized in trying to get organized.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">4. Ate 7 of the 12 Experimental Pumpkin-Orange Flower muffins.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">5. Felt sick.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">6. Fell asleep during Homeland. Heard Jim in the background saying things, like "HOLY SHIT!" and "NO WAY!!!!"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">7. Dreamt I left the keys in the car in a parking garage in Southern Laos and then the car got stolen and I had to explain this to Jim and I lied and then I felt even worse and then some adventure ensued and then the cat was licking my hair again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">8. Remembered that, according to <a href="http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/511/the-seven-things-youre-not-supposed-to-talk-about">This American Life</a>, no one cares about my dreams unless it's a shrink who gets excited about "Dream Work". What? What's that you say about boring self-indulgent droning? I CAN'T HEAR YOU SARAH KOENIG'S MOM?!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">9. Made a count down list of everything that needs to get done before everyone comes to my house for Thanksgiving-Hanukkah-Sophie's birthday party. But not a list of what we can and can't talk about.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">So before I begin I will just say, Those Muffins Were Great: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Nearly Impossible 2013 was two full days of full-on amazingness. I am still reeling at having met so many wonderful and inspiring people all in one room. I learned so much and gathered so much valuable information which was perfect for where my head was lurking these last <a href="http://bonbonoiseaudesign.blogspot.com/2013/10/hill-sand-river-in-honor-of.html">last few months</a> but mostly I am still here and even more super ready for everything.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">That's just a few days from now, mes petits darlings so start perusing and deciding and tomorrow I'll give you an idea of where we'll be this holiday season so you can buy them live and in person from us </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">in New York City!</span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><a href="http://www.bonbonoiseau.bigcartel.com/">The Beads</a></span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">(which supports us and also a wonderful organization called Room to Read)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Have you been a modern day <a href="http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/06/sign-of-the-times-look-out-its-instagram-envy/?_r=0">flaneur</a> on our <a href="http://instagram.com/bonbonoiseau">instagram</a>? </span></div>
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Bonbon Oiseauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00217372750598243358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-405666930282009093.post-35681314475849022032013-11-14T12:36:00.004-05:002013-11-14T12:38:08.596-05:00Whatever it Takes and Where to Send Help for Philippines Typhoon Victims<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Click <a href="http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/11/how-to-help-philippines-typhoon-victims/?src=twr&smid=tw-nytimes">here</a> to see how you can help. We gave to Doctors Without Borders. </span></div>
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Bonbon Oiseauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00217372750598243358noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-405666930282009093.post-50457234328375071472013-10-25T11:13:00.002-04:002013-10-25T11:16:58.211-04:00My Cat Stepped on My Face to Get Me To Do This: Nearly Impossible 2013<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">It looked too good to be true. Respected and successful practitioners of entrepreneurial prowess running the show. A chance for enlightenment. Sound advice on how to go forward in my newish <a href="http://bonbonoiseau.bigcartel.com/">bonbon</a> adventure venture in the here and now by sound advice-givers. Other things probably.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">And then I saw this quote: "Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible" -Edwin H. Land</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The I googled <a href="http://www2.rowland.harvard.edu/book/edwin-h-land">Edwin H. Land</a>, then I looked at my calendar. Then I balked. Then I figured out that I could make room for it. I COULD DO THIS. My credit card told me so.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I wonder sometimes what I'm doing here and not there, since my heart has always been stuck there. Bharat mai, mera dil lagtaa hai. I do have a five year visa and a plan for a project. Anyone want to jump on board? Any ideas? Stowaways?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I saw this little poem a long time ago on a blog by one of my favorite humans, Molly, <a href="http://alittlehouseintheclouds.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">A Little House in the Clouds</a>. I wrote it out over and over and gave it to friends and now I love it all over again and wanted to thank Molly. Thanks Molly. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I have talked about this with Jim and with mentors and friends. They tell me it would be a shame for me to stop putting my work out there in the world when I tell them I could just move on. It made me feel guilty, saddened, stumped, cluttered, clouded, embarrassed, ill-defined, supported, confused. </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I got a note from a facebook friend who I've never actually met and I love that that's possible. She told me she works for a non-profit that she loves but while she doesn't make much money, she believes so much in the organization and it's mission, that s</span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">he left her well-paid job to do it (10/17/13 note: she says she actually got fired but still-she didn't go back to some other deadening job, right?)</span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">--now she works another PT job so she can keep doing it. In the same note she wrote:<i> "</i></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><i>I can't wait to see your new collection, I really feel transported looking at your beadwork. I'm glad you do what you do, and feel fortunate to have some of it of my own to wear."</i></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> I told her how much I admired what she had done. I told her I wished I could figure out how to do that and still do what I do. I felt flattered and humbled by what she wrote. And then:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I'm drawing up plans now, focusing on how to walk again and starting down</span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"> a road/entering a door/crawling head first through a window into the next phase of my work. I'm going to start </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> by </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">releasing collections when I want to and not dictated by the fashion year. I'll be </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">expanding what we do which means not just jewelry. Maybe not even just my own work. That will come soon. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Last Friday, on <a href="http://www.un.org/en/events/girlchild/" target="_blank">International Day of the Girl</a> we quietly launched our <a href="http://www.bonbonoiseau.bigcartel.com/" target="_blank">"pop-up" site</a>, with help from fantastic friends, the newest collection of bonbons called <i>HILL, SAND, RIVER</i>, </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">inspired by our last three travels: Morocco, Southern India and Cambodia. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">We'll be donating $5-$20 from every purchase of our new collection to <a href="http://www.roomtoread.org/OurPrograms?chid=71" target="_blank">ROOM to READ</a> an incredible organization whose aim is<span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; line-height: 18px;"> to promote gender equality by supporting girls education throughout Asia and Africa by building schools, buying books, building libraries and in turn, girl's confidence and self-esteem. To support girls education is to give girls a chance to contribute to their communities and the world and eventually this paradigm shift will move and shake a landslide: it will</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px;"> eradicate poverty and create future generations of girls and women with force and courage to lift themselves out of whatever their lives were, and what can be better than sharing in that?</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">So I got to the New Age pet food store in the East Village and get her some bird seed. Neither she nor Nanook, who apparently comes to sit on their huevos too at night (nature's lesson in equality between sexes if ever there was one), neither of them touches the seed and then I start to get nervous I have opened them up to all kinds of predators including but not limited to squirrels, lions, ocelot, and anything else that can get up my fire escape. Doves must be really tough, because no predators came up the fire escape, not even the squirrel who plants his walnuts (his name is Paulie Walnuts) to kill HAbigail or Nanook and scramble or poach their eggs.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">A few days ago and just in time for Mother's Day we welcome to the world Lulah and Horten, named for </span><a href="http://bonbonoiseaudesign.blogspot.com/2012/03/paris-journal-2012-apartment-therapy.html" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: medium;" target="_blank">my friends in Paris</a><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">, Hortensia who passed away in February and her granddaughter who loved and must miss her very much. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">We have given this Spring it's due, full of nature and intrigue and little bits of life, popping out and life-ing up. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">HAPPY MOTHER's DAY HABIGAIL and also<br />to everyone who gives anything of themselves<br />and cares for and about anything at all. </span></td></tr>
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Bonbon Oiseauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00217372750598243358noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-405666930282009093.post-24032330084414314862013-04-30T12:02:00.002-04:002013-04-30T12:03:53.763-04:00Garden Time 2013<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">In the evening, we sat on our guesthouse roof and I thought, how is it we got so lucky and so unlucky at the same time to have so many choices, to have so much, to be so far away from our origins? I fell in love extra-strong that night with possibility, and every day a little more after that, with gratitude for the simplest of what is taken with you, from far away from home, from anywhere in this world. My navigation through the abstract country of figuring out what there is to give, why does that seem so difficult to figure out, what is it and is it enough? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">A new little shop where you can find some very limited edition bonbons. And when they run out, I'll replace it with some new colors, some new pieces. It's exciting. It just launched today, my birthday.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">to win yourself a set of bonbons. You just have to leave me a comment </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">and tell me what your favorite color is out of all the new Golden Lining Necklaces in the Pop-Up. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Instructions are there. I can't tell you anymore. Just trust me on this one. And by helping me understand what colors you like, I also know what new colors to keep going with and maybe which ones not to. Thanks friends. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">For a few days now, I've been under the weather, the weather which keeps changing and holding on to itself. I never worry about winter lasting too long in NY because what it leaves in its wake are the tough little sprouts, who wend their way up no matter what they think is happening up there and they stumble out color and bloom so gracefully, you'd think it was a surprise ballet.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The backyard now, in this still new feeling apartment of a year and quarter, is all the way on the other side of the basement door, three flights down. I was doing laundry the other day and opened the door on it and all these bulbs were psst-ing at me, "Take me upstairs! Let me bloom before your very eyes!" So I did that and look at what happened! I might have missed it otherwise since I don't do laundry nearly often enough.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The rest of the winter we are lucky to have a lot of sun and if I were around often enough I'd appreciate the sunny-ness of it all, producing vines and plants that otherwise only come around in summer. So I am thankful for that when I visit these rooms and these old photographs and our cats and the old pine cones with wintry connotations that I threw out the window hoping they'd assist something else out there, and the blossoms I stole from the garden which quickly blossomed in front of me and us and our Spring-like capabilities. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">We spent 25 days in the South of India in August. We arrived in Bangalore just before dawn, climbed into a taxi and watched the city wake up in the mist, the way it always seems to wake up in India. Misty and with a steady momentum, as if the city waits for daylight all night and without much ado, steps out, no fuss.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">22 hours in the air, a day to recover and then where to head first. There's a silent agreement between us that we feel best in a market so it's where we go with the most excitement, just to get our bearings, where the city finds its soul. Here you can see the necessities of everyday life, what is possible for who and what is not--it's how a city eats, what it wants, the things it needs, who it is. You can tell the hierarchy by its inner circle of prized fruits and vegetables circulating outwards to home stuffs and sundries and puja paraphanelia, to the outskirts where the very poor sell a few small chilies or limes spread out on torn fabric, puppies circulating, cows, motorbikes, rickshaws, taxis, Marutis, very few <a href="http://bestsellingcarsblog.com/2012/05/05/india-april-2012-maruti-swift-4th-model-since-1950-to-rank-1/hindustan-ambassador-india-april-2012/" target="_blank">Ambassadors</a> left.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I guess it's how we get acquainted with a place. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Finally, we are going back to India after many years away to the South, in Karnataka and Kerala where it is the monsoon and lushly green, spices and elephant-y. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Will be gone for almost a month so take care of New York for me friends.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">*Bonbon must stop taking orders after Tuesday the 8th of August so we can properly shut down the studio and get you your bonbon on time...after that no more bonbons until September ok?~</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">pictures 1, 2 from <a href="http://www.thekeralatours.com/" target="_blank">here</a> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">3rd bananas <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/joezach/54030635/" target="_blank">here</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">4th is from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochin_Jews" target="_blank">here</a></span></div>Bonbon Oiseauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00217372750598243358noreply@blogger.com3