We had to pack in our Brooklyn Flea day when the rain came. Poor damp hang tags, little drops on the money clips and fobs, but I still love how the wet day felt.
Change of climate today, like NY dropped into a cloud forest, cool and misty like the Cameron Highlands, where we spent a cool and humid few weeks one time, drizzly wet like the light rain hours of the monsoon in Mussoorie, gray except for silhouettes of fogged-in hillsides, colorless except for green and the bright orange rust of tin roofs, made brighter by the wet. Fresh green air, cool mossy smells, always damp socks, hair, clothes.
I miss days like today, even when they're happening.
Jim's coming home tomorrow. Finally.
Saturday, June 11, 2011
Friday, June 10, 2011
Tie Clips (This Just In!)
We might be a little late, but Vanessa found some fantastic old stock tie-clips to which we've added the Bonbon touch-four editions of charms we think someone's Dad will love. Or brother. Or boyfriend. We originally only found enough to sell at the flea but now we can offer them, in limited edition on our website too! (ties not included but may I recommend our friends at Sovereign Beck? Theirs is the hot blue one in the middle)To get yours in time for Father's Day you can order until noon on Wednesday.
If you decide to get yours engraved on the back, we'll ship for free (in the continental U.S.) so that you'll have it before Sunday, June 18th, for your dear old Dad. Or brother. Or boyfriend. or best friend.
Every Bonbon has a Silver Lining in Vermont
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.
Thursday, June 9, 2011
Nadia, a Farm and Two Cups of Tea, Part 1
welcomed by a glass of hibiscus iced tea and hours of conversation
the spectacular winding road, view from the house
breakfast, shadows and light
a walk up to the little shack
the magic of watching the light change everything"Although my neighbors are Barbarians, and you are a thousand miles away, there are always two cups of tea at my table."
-Tang Dynasty
When I was a teenager, I found this old saying in a book and wrote it down. I have always loved it.
The life making a blog can bring wonderful things. Through time spent documenting, curating, admitting and hiding, incredible people have arrived, lost and found.
The world created alone behind a screen in the spaces in between other life, has connected me with many many beautiful gems. Nadia is one of the amazing gems, radiant, moving, and honest in her life through photographing and writing her La Porte Rouge. Radiant, honest, moving and beautiful in the flesh, with no computers or miles between us. Something connected us a long time ago, when I figured out you could actually comment on other people's blogs and they on yours(!), an understanding of things imperfect, and the possibility that there is all kind of love looking for you and if you let it find you, are willing to work a little, your life can open up in unimaginable ways.
I spent two happy days at the new farm on her spectacular stretch of mountain behind an orchard, two cups of tea at her table, like old friends, catching up on everything that has happened to us and the possibilities of what could be ahead, connected via a life I had never dreamed could yield such amazing bonds. I am back in Brooklyn, refreshed by her generosity, sweetness and drive to live her dream of a life on a farm, quietly, and share the simple pleasures and complexities too with all of us, inspired, now two cups of tea on my table.
(See Nadia's post about it here)
Friday, June 3, 2011
Honorable Mentions
Marie wrote something so flattering last week, I blushed. I just saw it, late to the party as per usual. Something about dinner with no sharks. I am still blushing. In addition to being an expert in the realm of all things jardins, she is an incredible, nay unbelievable cook. Dinner at hers blow my paltry weeknight efforts out of the water but mostly it is so nice to cook for people who enjoy eating. Oh and she organized the Prospect Litter Mob, article here. Amazing. Hers will be a book I long to have.
And yesterday, Cindy of Quaint Handmade took some amazing photos of my neighborhood after a visit to the Brooklyn Flea. She also took the loveliest photo of some our flea charm bracelets which is so romantic and ethereal, I could look at her gorgeous saturated photos all day but I really must get back to work.
Today, although my honey is gone, I am starting to feel pretty good.
At the Brooklyn Flea
A few snaps of what's been happening in Brooklyn Flea-Bonbon land. This was last Saturday and we are already sold out of most of the new beaded line necklaces in brass~ this means Vanessa is busy finishing off some new ones in totally new H-O-double T- colors this week for flea visitors (so far) only! Favorite of the day is hot pink-red-orange-white.
Did you know that if you wear one of your line necklaces or bracelets to the flea and want to another, we'll give you $5 off. This is why math is beautiful in Brooklyn Flea-Bonbon land.
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