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Summertime Routine
Scrubbing with French Girl Sea Polish after exercising in the summer, is one of the best feelings you could possibly treat yourself to. You know when you can't stop sweating, even after a shower? It does the trick! Like brushing your teeth, on your whole body.to-do
1. Find your sun spot
2. Take your shoes off
3. Laugh at your own stories
-Leigh
Jeanne Moreau, via Criterion CollectionGlow from within
You know that breathtaking feeling when you see a color that can only occur in nature? The glow of the sky just past dusk, the crazy oil slick colors in beetle’s wings, the magical depth of flower petals - colors that are rich, vivid, elemental. They glow from within. And you think to yourself “That can only exist in nature. It is impossible to mimic. It is something beyond just ‘color’.”
That is the inspiration for our new 22k Old World wedding bands. The glow of gold as a pure and rare element, with that magical quality that nature provides in her own color factory.
- Rony
A warm-blooded creature.
"Researchers report that the lotus has the remarkable ability to regulate the temperature of its flowers to within a narrow range just as humans and other warmblooded animals do. Dr. Roger S. Seymour and Dr. Paul Schultze-Motel, physiologists at the University of Adelaide in Australia, found that lotus flowers blooming in the Adelaide Botanic Gardens maintained a temperature of 30–35 °C (86–95 °F), even when the air temperature dropped to 10 °C (50 °F)."
Magic flower, magic ring. The Lotus Flower ring by Kataoka is now at Catbird, the Wedding Annex, and catbirdnyc.com.
-LeighThe Three Graces
The sisters Haim, wearing the sisters Mulleavy at the Met Gala, looking awfully like that John Singer Sargent painting of sisters that hangs in the Met.
(This month's issue of Vanity Fair is all about sisters, it's an irresistibly mysterious read for those of us who have none, and wonderfully self-reflective for those of you who do).
-LeighAnother way to bathe in flowers.
It's spring...so Colette:
...in an interview she said that her future projects included, 'flowers, strawberries, and living in a more tranquil universe. - Earthly Paradise, Colette's Autobiography Drawn From Her Lifetime Writings by Robert Phelps
Image: Fantasea by Britta Walsworth
-LeighWhat We're Listening To: Prince
It is a sad day in rock n' roll my friends. Losing another legend like Prince is a little tough to swallow. Luckily, we still have his incredible catalog of music to lift our spirits and have been listening to him all day to commiserate. Here's hoping you get a chance to listen to your favorite Prince songs today, too.xoStephanieWhat We're Giving: Mother's Day
When it comes to gift giving, I always find myself on two opposite ends of the spectrum: scrambling at the last minute to find something that doesn't say, "I picked this two hours ago, mainly because it was what I thought you would hate the least", or planning months ahead, dreaming up ways to find the most thoughtful gift possible. Needless to say, I prefer the latter, but often find myself stumped, wracking my brain for any glimmer of an idea.Mother's Day is still a bit aways, but best to plan ahead, lest you find yourself perusing the wilted bodega flowers an hour before.
Bittersweets L'il ID Bracelet: I gave this to my mom for Christmas, and she has yet to take it off.
Malka Dina Pink Marble Ring Dish: The random swirls remind me of a Rorschach test in the best way possible.
Neighbor's Fig Tree Candle: The most inviting scent that teeters the fine line of masculine vs. feminine.Xo,AlexIt's practically exercise.
I could play a mean game of catch me if you can with my long-haired chihuahua, Teepee, in a hallway like this. We're both relatively short (she, more than me) so this already palatial Parisian apartment would be positively Grand Canyon-like.
-Leigh
Clare Waight Keller's Parisian apartment via Wall Street Journal Magazine
