c a l a v e r a s & m a r i a c h i s
angelika and I headed down to the british museum for day of the dead celebrations yesterday, complete with marching mariachis and aztec folk ballet. we made appropriately macabre skeleton masks with the kind of generous sequin quotient required to put a smile on the face of any self-respecting 5 year old girl. so when i passed magma this morning, I couldn’t resist splashing out on redstone press’s set of giant postcards of cal

a n t h r o o p e n i n g
so much excitement for the big event of last friday — anthropologie launch on regent street… this store with its quirky folksy homewares and threads is officially one of the most thrilling transatlantic exports i can possibly think of. the anthro store on broadway @ 16th street was one of my absolute fave stop-offs in the brooklyn days so i could hardly contain myself and had to head down to the london store the minute the doors opened. i tried to act all restrained but i managed to steal off with a frankly glorious zingy green and gold tea-set (well, an extravagant 2 cups and saucers at any rate…so it’ll be tea

a w e e k e n d i n v e n i c e
emerging from the vortex that is the national theatre… after another two-show saturday of Our Class it’s been a lazy sunday morning catching up on all my favorite blogs, namely, Decor8, Poppytalk, Design Sponge, Oh Joy, Tea for Joy, Wee Birdy and, my new find, India Knight’s Posterous.