Just some dumb pictures I took with my phone on one of yesterday's dog walks. I always remember how much I like San Francisco when the sun is out and it's glowing like crazy in between the apartment buildings ...

The weather this week is planning for sunshine and warm days - which is perfect (to me) and I can't wait to wear that white dress everysingleday.

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The World of Interiors: The Last Taxidermist in Paris

"There is an elderly gentleman who has been coming here since he was 13. His mother gave him his first Bombyx butterfly for his first communion. He says he feels immortal when he comes to Deyrolle, because nothing has changed for over 100 years."

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Personal scans from a January, 1985 issue of World of Interiors.
To read the full article on Deyrolle, please visit my flickr

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Back in San Francisco - I left slushy, snow clouds for a week's worth of rain drops... And now living vicariously through pictures of poppies and ranunculus and geranium leaves from my Studio Choo class arrangement.

PS I think due to the crummy weather it's time for a flea market sale in the shop.. Today and tomorrow, please feel free to make an offer on anything that catches your eye!!

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Studio Choo Spring Flower Arranging Class

The Sunday before I left for my East Coast trip I had quite the proper CA send off in the form of flowers!

Meggy is one of the sweetest people I know and I feel really lucky that I was able to take a class with her and the sweet gals of Studio Choo.













So happy that Meggy snapped some photos while the class was taking place... it was a pretty perfect way to spend a rainy Sunday morning!! And here's Alethea and Jill's blog post of all the arrangements from the class ... I wonder if you can pick me and Meggy's handiwork out from the bunch?

I took about 50 zillion photos of the flowers when I got home - so, there's more to come!

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Alice + SF

Cell phone, lomo, disposable camera, and photo booth pics from Alice's visit to SF the other week!

Wishing I could time travel back to that day when Alice had In-N-Out for the very first time (ever), we sat in the sunshine and drank mimosas and ate macaroons and french fries, AND went to Bourbon + Branch for cocktails.

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2.6

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I leave tomorrow morning for another 2 week visit with family in MA and I'm doing everything I possibly can to avoid packing. So happy to be able to see my niece and nephew and to celebrate my Great Uncle's 95th birthday - but so sad to be going from temperatures in the 50s/60s to 30s/40s... truly wishing it was May instead of March !

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Fox Totes!

Very excited about two things:

These Libris Lunaria Fox totes, that I've been wanting to make since we opened the shop in the fall!!! I'm a big fan of tote bags and it's awesome to be able to make my own! Fingers crossed you'll take to them kindly - I'm hoping we can eventually make more bags with different images - like - astronomy and sea creates!!!

And then there's also the strange acquisition of these practically perfect (to me) sailor jeans via an unassuming army surplus store in Berkeley for a cool 15 clams... I've been trying to find a pair of sailor jeans since 2004 and I think the process of trying on so many pairs that wouldn't even get over my hips made me come to hate pants and jeans. When I lived in Burlington, VT I'd go to Old Gold and grab stacks and stacks of denim. I'd try on 4 pairs of the same size and each one would fit differently - so I decided to call it quits and gave up the hope that I'd ever find a pair that met the following criteria: fits in the waist, looked okay through the hip, and weren't flood pants. These are almost perfect except for a few nitpicky things - but I'm happy to have some measurements to go off of to buy more and more (on ebay?) because they're the perfect solution for short blouses!!

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Wearing Ashley's perfect straw hat on an afternoon window shopping trip with her to Union Square!

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