December News and a Fast Sale for the Food Bank for NYC

I just sent this out so I figured I'd put it here too:

-Exclusive bonbons are up on the Fab.com site for a quick (but potent)flash-sale, today and tomorrow only, so hurry over...

 to see, click here.

 -The beautiful new Etoiles du Monde and the Gem Clouds collections are here just in time for the holidays.

We didn't join in on Cyber Monday

so we could give you and the Food Bank for NYC

some extra love on Thursday and Friday: 

Take 25% off most of the delectables including new pieces*
on the Bonbon Oiseau website

Thursday, Dec 1st and Friday Dec 2nd ONLY.

Just write BON DECEMBER in your subject line for the discount.

25% off the proceeds from this sale will go to the Food Bank for New York City which will be matched in December for a total of 50%, all from you...

-Bonbon Live:

We're happy to be back at the

Brooklyn Flea for the holidays

 with aprkling new collections & some old favorites in the

beautiful One Hanson building in downtown Brooklyn

10am-5pm Saturdays and Sundays

Dec 3rd & 4th

Dec 10th & 11

Dec 17th & 18th

Also, some weekday/night shopping from 2pm-9pm:

Friday Dec 16th

+

Wed & Thurs, Dec 21st & 22nd

click here for a map & directions

Some More New nessses

This sale on fab is on fire. 
Anyone want to come and help us pack these sexy new boxes?

Every Bonbon has a Silver Lining in Vermont

cloud necklaces from the
"Every Cloud Has a Silver Lining" Collection

C l oud Earrings

It was so nice to show Nadia my new collection in person. We both immediately took out our cameras. The above are mine, inspired by the light in her incredible kitchen. But to see things through her lens was a dream come true. Hopefully she'll show her's too!

I have been wanting for a while to take better photos of our collections and to be able to organize them onto a new website that better tells our stories and shows what's really going on in our pieces and collections and our life in this amazing world of design, making, art, fashion. I am working on that project now, on this new and improved path.

Hey Susy, Love Bonbon

Somehow in my busyness I not only missed the prettiest part of fall, I also missed this from one of my very favorite blogs and people, Hey Susy...It was written on November 2nd. I am very flattered (and very behind in visiting). I love Susy's impeccable taste and the collages she puts together on her blog are incrawonderful so I am doubly flattered. There is something so gratifying about kind words and thoughtful reviews like this that make doing this work really really worthwhile.

And Cindy just told me we were mentioned on Style me Pretty yesterday as well. I was wondering why I'm selling so many money clips and new pieces for Fall. THANK YOU with all my bonbon love Susy and Carrie...

Spring Collection Up, Up & Giveaway and a Special Valentine Recession Special

Finally the Spring Collection is up: www.bonbonoiseau.com. I just have to give away a little Valentine to celebrate! So leave me a comment...tell me what you think and you'll be entered to win! We'll end on Sunday Feb 8th at midnight and declare a winner Monday February 9th...

Maybe your little Valentine?

Photos by some very talented photographers:
stills by Amy Sahba, model shots by James Knudsen

And a Special Valentine Recession Special Sale: Any of our bonbons (necklaces, earrings bracelets!) with lockets are 30% off until February 10th. Spread the word about our Valentine Recession Special on your blog and be entered twice! (Thanks to Vana for that idea!)

Memories of China, a Twelve Year Cycle and a Connection Made

Lunar New Year celebrations in Yangshuo spent with a few new friends
who had been working in China that year.

China, February 1997: It was also Chinese New Year and also the beginning of year of the Ox. Some celestial spirits are aligning or maybe it's a lunar blessing--sometimes with a collection I have an outright idea in mind, sometimes I let the materials and my inspirations lead me where they want to go--I think as this new collection evolved over the weeks, its feel and elements and colors remind me of that trip I took, like parts of a dream: of blossoming branches and saplings brought from the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain to market, of celestial patterns on the backs of Naxi women's coats, colors of rich green mountain teas and herbs, bright yellow mustard flowers, rosy winter camellia buds and crimson monk's robes, sparkly himalayan snow and the still deep black night skies with a million stars.

Three Pagodas on the way to Dali

The village of Dali.

two little ink paintings from that trip with my signature chop!

I spent an incredible month there, in the deep south in Yunnan Province with a foray into Guanzhou to see the beautiful village of Yangshuo. From Kunming I took a long overnight train ride (where I learned how to play Mao's favorite card game and the word for apple in Mandarin: ping-guo) to the lovely carst-y hills of Yangshuo for a week and then back to Kunming, then by "sleeper bus" to the pretty town of Dali with it's mustard fields and art center and finally the ancient village of Lijiang at the foot of the furthest eastern Himalayas, the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, where I traipsed through the New Year's Plant Market, met Naxi elders, and finally met Dr. Ho and the monk who protected a very scared tree...Chinese New Year celebrations were subdued compared to the big events that happen outside of China. At the time all I saw was a lot of doorways dressed in red messages for the the new year and one lonely old dragon suit (with four legs) from a train window. Oh and the random firecracker show here and there...

Naxi women of Lijiang

The old village of Lijiang during the Lunar New Year, year of the Ox

The New Year Sapling Market in Lijiang
was going on just as I got off the bus.