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Dunk me.
Our signature candle line now comes in a luxurious velvety matte black vessel, and we can't stop oohing and aahing, and now I've turned my eye to a larger vessel...a luxurious velvety matte black bathtub. Oooh, aah!
-Leigh
photo via DominoA tisket a tasket.
On a winter's night.
"During the winter of 1940-41 he & Katharine read Little Women aloud. Andy called it their after-dinner mint." - from The Story of Charlotte's Web
Have I shared this here before? Quite possibly!
-LeighBaldwin, and Bob, and how to feed yourself.
During lunchtime, I like to read an article, usually about literature, at the very least about someone who would make an excellent character in literature. LitHub obliges with a daily newsletter with always one, sometimes more, articles that can be consumed in less than 20 minutes and leave one feeling the good sort of full, to balance out the gluttonous sort of full you might feel after eating an entire The Big Italian (minus the meat) from Saltie.
Today's read, an interview with Raoul Peck, director of the new documentary on James Baldwin, I am  Not Your Negro.
-Leigh
James Baldwin and Bob Dylan, circa 1961Saipua, a love letter (again)
Having our own flowers from the farm in the studio every week this summer was an overwhelming experience; and it's hard for me to find words to describe it. It is as if I could eat the flowers, like I wanted to be alone and ceremoniously stuff them in my mouth or spread them all out on the floor, arrange them all there and then lay down in them. Working with the farm flowers is a strange sensual and heightened experience; they are plugged in.
http://journal.saipua.com/A habit.
I've been chain-smoking slim novels lately. I closed So Long, See You Tomorrow and opened The Accompanist (in English, not French as pictured above, I can barely make it through a Dr. Seuss in French, no more). The key to maintaining this healthy habit is to have a stack of options on the bookshelf, and to make as few plans as possible.
-LeighKiki in kitten heels.
I hope her hair is wrapped up in a white towel, and there's a room service tray laden with coffee and toast.
-Leigh
Kirsten Dunst in Dior mules via InstagramA Note on Pinky Rings
You can in fact wear jewelry on your littlest finger. The memory rings we’re known for can double as your pinky stack or for an unexpected punch, try a sized down signet ring.Dress me like a practical woodland nymph.
I'll wear flats, all the better for chasing love-drunk fairies around the forest. Look #32 from the Dior Couture show is a spiritual sister to the vine-covered Versace (Gianni-era) dress I dreamt of for the prom I didn't want to go to (still have the clipping of Kristy Hume wearing it in a dossier). Midsummer Night's Dream, Francesca Lia Block interviewing Tori Amos for Spin, Disney's Sleeping Beauty, Cecil Beaton's portraits of his sisters, Childcraft edition of Stories and Fables, we are the sum of our enchanted parts.
-LeighPunch-drunk love.
The doldrums of the year is always the time that I crave citrus and fragrant blooms and lipstick roses and hot pinks and brightness and pools of light. It's a nice time to generate frothy, ebullient love.
You are Magic card by Banquet Workshop, new at Catbird and catbirdnyc.com.
-Leigh
