Please add

Please add this silk scarf ($410) to the list of things I would like to have but will not buy.

Rings and things

I can't pick a favorite.



Don't these pumpkins appear to be lit from within? And/or that they belong in a Dutch Masters painting?

Apple of my Heart

There is only one apple for me, and it's name is Honeycrisp. Whereas other apples are $1.40/LB at the Farmer's Market, the Honeycrisp is $3.50/LB. But it's worth it.

Back to Yoga

It's amazing how one yoga class can put all the thoughts in your head back in a single file line.

Personal Style Rules

Last week's New Yorker Magazine introduced me to Tavi, the 14 year old style blogger. She loves things from the early 90's like Courtney Love and Sassy Magazine. She's pretty cool.

Check out her blog: www.thestylerookie.com

Purging > Hoarding = Remorse

Does anyone remember my wooden clogs with long black fur on them? On the outside? Like gorilla feet? I think I must have gotten rid of them in one of my many recent moves. WHYYYYYY would I do that? Did I think that a woman in her mid-thirties would start to feel ridiculous in fur covered clogs? (In related remorse, I know for sure that I got rid of my knee-high white fur aprés-ski boots a few years ago because they wouldn't even fit into my former studio apartment's closet. That came down to deciding between staying in Queens, with more closets, and keeping the boots, or moving to Manhattan. Manhattan won, the boots were tossed, I mourned.)

I am still holding out hope that the black fur covered clogs could be under my bed...but I am pretty sure they are not. Under the bed is for scarves, wrapping paper and old posters. Shoes stay in the hall closet, along with coats, purses and linens.

*Now dig this: When I was looking for the black fur clogs in the closet I came across some handbags that I think I can part with. But HOW do I know that what I get rid of NOW I won't want back in three years!?

Is this how people become hoarders?

I just want my black fur clogs back. I tried to Google a photo of them to show you and there's nothing remotely like them on the whole World Wide Web- that's how amazing and unique they were. All the clogs NOWADAYS have the fur INSIDE. So I had to draw them for you.

*I did note tonight that I still have an insane amount of shoes. Maybe I should draw them all.

Thanks a lot, Sha

Shawna is obsessed with finding a coat made from this striped pattern (remember those? in the 1980's?) and now I see that LL Bean is selling the blankets ($345 for a full), and now I'm obsessing over one. I think it would be cute in my pale pink bedroom. Dang, so much stuff, so little money...

Scalamandre!

I would like to own this bag that is now on sale for $87 at kate spade:

It is modeled after the Scalamandre wallpaper from the restaurant Gino's (on Lexington Avenue) that closed in May after 55 years. I ate there once with Johnny Dunne and our experience inspired this illustration:


I drew the zebras myself and then did a little cut, paste and repeat action. And as you can see from this photo from Gino's (that I just found on the internet), my illustration was not too far from reality:


*Is that Lisa Loeb, dining at Gino's?

Wes Anderson also used this wallpaper in the movie "The Royal Tenenbaums", as you can see here, behind my hero, Margot Tenenbaum:


So should I get the bag?

FYI

Yesterday I sat here and ate a $5 Footlong from Subway.

If...

If I had $299 this furry ottoman would come live with me.

I enjoy this fellow.

Back to Cool

I got these Frye boots that sell for $318 for just $49 at the new Marshall's in East Harlem today:



Ima call these my lucky boots!

Look over here:

This little Bed Bug sniffing dog (from The New York Times) looks like he has the weight of the world on his shoulders. I hope he gets a vacation soon.

I'm trying.

48 hours in Cape Cod, 2010

Bartender Ben let Jenny ring the bell at Old Colony Tap on Commercial Street.


Third annual beach bonfire with Jenny, my Provincetown Daddies Jerry and Richard, and Butchie Boy.


Butchie Boy blur, with Grandma Helen in the background.


Jerry makes a great fire.


Two Cookies in the Cape. See you next year!