Thanks Brooklyn Flea

                                              

Well this is pretty nice.

I'm Vendor of the Week on the Brooklyn Flea's blog, with a little interview with yours truly and a shout out about our Money Clip/Food Bank for NYC collaboration--throughout December we're giving $5 to the Food Bank from the sale of each money clip on our site or at the Brooklyn Flea. 

Thanks sweet Jane and da flea boys!

Come see us there this weekend and don't forget too about our Sunday at the Divine Studio Holiday Sale. We'll have things there we won't have at the flea so perhaps plan a trip to both that day? heeheeeehee...

Divine Holiday Sale, Sunday Dec 11th

We are going to be at the Brooklyn Flea for two more weekends and a few week days before the holidays begin, including this coming weekend, Dec 10th + 11th!

But something else: I'll also be at the Divine Studio Sale with new and different things than what we have at the flea! Alongside Foxy & Winston, Gleena Ceramics, Sesame Letterpress, Hortensia Handmade, The Wild Unknown, Marcie McGoldrick and many others on Sunday this sale is the perfect one for gift-giving and it's such a beautiful show, in a gorgeous photography studio in Manhattan. It's one of my favorites to do with so many talented makers.

I hope you can try to get to both, heeheheee...

November through December

 Once December comes it gets hectic. We usually don't start to decorate until at least the 23rd. It's been a ritual. We find the last tree no one else wants. We drink something sweet. Jim gets on a ladder to string some lights. I point to the right. To the left. We laugh. I start to get too bossy. Jim has better ideas than me, his Danish DNA, so we go with it. This year I have an urge to get rid of anything holiday-ish that doesn't resonate with me or mean anything to me. 
Jim said, "Even those orange tree balls?"
I said, " Yeah I don't care about those."
He said, "Really? Why?"
Me: "Because I can't remember why I got them in the first place. I think because they're orange, but other that I think I was just desperate for some stuff when I got them." 
He said, "Yeah I gotcha".

I'm in the mood for some new memories, no more schoolyard shit.

la Cuisine, or the Place We Cook

 

A few from the kitchen, the room we disliked the most when we saw the place, with the exposed corner sink, ugly open wood shelves, crazy DIY slate tile counter tops and little storage besides. 

Two months in: A fresh coat of paint, the leftover expedit, the thick shelves from the old place with (the same) metal brackets (that have traveled with us through two San Francisco and three NYC apartments), a shitload of sun-loving plants, some exposed brick--I'm thinking a little pot rack would be good--and two windows one onto the world, one onto a brick wall covered with ivy, we're flying pretty high in the cook's department for the moment.

New Bonbons in time for Anything

New on Bonbon Oiseau

One day sale: You save 25% off(almost*)anything on the site, we give 25% to the Food Bank for NYC 

*sale excludes bridal, headpieces, pins & corsages.

Fab Fingers Nimbly Working

Not a Mother Goose rhyme. These are our best sellers over these past few Fab days. Two pieces already sold out. Only five left of the little crystal elephant. Lots of excitement and fingers nimbly working as are our brains, our neanderthal organizational skills and loads of pretty new boxes on makeshift tables, hallways, spare surfaces... One day one hour left.

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?

Come Over

Here it is. Our new apartment, our work in progress. We are suddenly feeling...at home.
The diamond in the rough from August is now starting to charm us in November. There's still a lot to do.
But I'll tell you, I had no idea how liberating moving would actually be. It kicked everything into high gear, but the slow gear is feeling pretty good. Slow gear feels right at home. You told me that but I didn't believe it. Our friends and family helped us a lot.

I'll start the house tour with the Dining Room. It gets insanely good light. It has a larder.
We painted these floors white. It hosted Thanksgiving. We are slowly hoping for a something big for the wall across from the fireplace. The cats are into being fat all over the day bed. The day bed likes it.

“The autumn leaves are falling like rain
Although my neighbors are all barbarians
And you, you are a thousand miles away
There are always two cups at my table.”
– T’ang dynasty poem

Fab Wednesday

So there was Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, Shop like you're on fire Sunday (I just made that up), Cyber Monday, and as my friend joked, Broke-ass Tuesday. But tomorrow for us bonbon makers all up in here is FAB WEDNESDAY in which we go live on Fab.com for a three day flash sale. Sign up if you ain't already and see the preview!