food & places

My time in London has come and gone way too fast. 5 weeks, 2 suitcases, and 4 pounds later, I am headed home. Yes, despite walking all over London & Paris, the camembert, scones, & chocolate teacakes took their toll. Last night I packed for my return with Julie & Julia playing on my laptop, a glass (make that bottle) of French red, a bowl of olives and, of course, a couple of chocolate teacakes. Watch the movie if you haven’t already (it's sweet & has beautiful takes of Pari & YUMMY food in it ...basically, the chickest flick ever) and, besides the food and the French architecture, pay attention to what’s hanging above the bed in Julie’s apartment. They are framed antique handkerchiefs of different states & I am longing for them to be framed in my apartment …the North Carolina & New York ones, that is. One question: why is it that the Iowa hanky is only $30 and North Carolina has to be $80?

cheers to London!

& see you tonight, America!

xo, em

keys & birdcages

James Klein and David Reid of ceramics design firm KleinReid have created an absolutely stunning array of whimsical yet seriously stylish pieces that I die for!

After falling in love with the KleinReid vases (which are much too much for my student budget), I discovered that they also make adorable mini ceramic pieces that can be hung from a necklace ...fun! If you know me, then you know that I have a knack for necklaces and a weirdo obsession with keys ..so I immediately fell in love with this one:

Oh, and they have some super great prints too ...another one of my bizarre obsessions, birdcages:

to spend a few minutes checking out all of their handmade wonders for yourself, click here

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uno, dos, trays

just how small is a typical new york apartment? so small that if a girl wants a simple little tray table, she can't have it ...because there's nowhere to put it! it's cute though, right?

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