Brown Paper Packages All Tied up with String

This week I had my first order in the shop for my handmade wool slippers and believe it was one of my most satisfying orders out of all of them over the past year. Something about making an item that brings comfort and gives people and item to love daily and wear that makes them feel good. Jewelry has satisfied me in that regard in some ways but it isn't fully the same. I believe that this has begun a new train of thought and is going  to influence my next few items into bring more of  that feeling all of the way around (for seller and buyer). So, thank you Sarah so much for your order! I hope you enjoy them as much as I enjoyed making them:).

Evening Coffee

From where I sit there's a girl in little red heels, long jacket and little brown square frames with a book out in front of her and a pen ready to underline her favorite thoughts found behind the cover and a man who was just got back from India on missions work and has formed a strange opinion of travel and is proud that he hasn't shaved in two and a half weeks exactly, hes obviously been counting although he claimed not to have noticed it. In front of me a half eaten croissant and a second americano among my C.S.  Lewis and Victor Hugo books that pile on my mind as I try to drown out the sound of the man with an itchy beard and a loose mouth about things he lacks understanding for or is a lot wiser than the average bear, he pulls in all the regulars (who arent hidding behind a book) and employees at this fine establishment, as he is in fact one of the ladder.

Glimpse Into my Day

Today's evening snack- spring greens, grapefruit, and asparagus with olive oil, salt and pepper. It's been a productive day.

The Bicycle Project

This is classy. 

                                                                         Good Colors

This copper bike. *_*

  These handlebar grips are available on a fellow etsy shop! - WalnutStudiolo 

I LOVE this bike! (This bike/shop was my original idea sparker)                                                               

T h e  B i c y c l e  P r o j e c t.

A little something i like to call a project. I'm working on getting some pieces to work on my own bike- I have a frame. I know that i would like white and black tires (Road) and leather seat, handlebar grips, etc. The hardest part will be picking a color!! I don't know if i want to keep it really clean looking with white and leather or go with some crazy color... Or a little of both. I like the idea of the top picture with the rims and spokes painted a solid color and the rest of the bike white with a leather seat, its a nice medium.  I have a brand of tires picked out and the grips will be a breeze to cut, dye and sew. I'm hoping to find a seat base that i like and cover it myself. Suggestions on colors? or anything bike related actually..

I'm suuppers excited!! I'll keep you posted with pictures;)

Anthropologie - Spring

This video is beautiful.

This Guy...

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves