Prop Shop

About a month ago Ben and I discovered a gem over in Brooklyn. I had heard about the Prop Shop originally on the Nate Burkus show. Well, we got on the subway and 15 minutes later we were stepping in the Prop Shop. It's on a side street and you must be buzzed in order to see the lovely finds inside. Are you wondering what the prop shop is yet? It's this big concrete room filled with props from movies and TV shows. Once the filming is finished the props go to the prop shop. The props are then either up for sale or to be rented yet again for more film sets. This shop has anything you can possibly imagine! But beware, some of the glass in the shop is "shatter glass" You know when you see those action shots when someone breaks a glass over someone's head? Well, that is shatter glass. So a fair warning of those pretty champagne glasses you're about to bring home. They might be better to break over someone's head than for drinking. We didn't buy any glasses but we did come home with a wonderful and extremely comfy couch. (Multiple naps have taken place over the past month.) So all this to say, this place is a gold mine and you all should visit if you're in the area! You won't leave empty handed.

 I wonder whose wedding cake this was??

 This is now sitting in our living room

It fits perfectly!

Year of the Dragon

It was a pretty low key weekend with the exception of stumbling upon the Chinatown parades for the year of the dragon. I felt like I was smack dab in the middle of China itself. There were dragons everywhere. Going in and out of all the stores, taking "gold" and giving good luck to the owners. And wherever there was a dragon there was a banging drum, or two.  It was fun to see their traditions. We didn't leave empty handed, we returned with our own bag of gold, a 2 lbs bag of fortune cookies!

Spring Trends

This is a bit on the late side but I thought I'd do a quick rundown of the Spring fashion which will run through Fall. These are the main ones but there are those other ones that I'm choosing not to follow, ie mesh, crop tops, etc.  Let's keep it classy. Haha

Color-blocking by Robert Rodriquez

Peplums by Jason Wu

Easy wearable peplum by Alice & Olivia

Pleats by Prada

Drip Waist by Chanel

Floral Prints by Marc Jacobs

Citizen of Humanity

Jewelry Extravaganza

Are you tired of seeing the new collection yet? My intention was not to leave it up there for a week but I have been fighting a yucky cold and haven't felt like doing much of anything lately. The day before I was the lucky winner of "the yucky cold" I booked a ticket to fly down to Orlando to attend Rennigers jewelry extravaganza. Needless to say, I only spent about 2.5 hours looking around before I flaked out BUT came away with some fantastic finds! I'll now be spending my time designing and making new pieces for the website.