Freelancers are sort of like nomads. I never know when I will be returning to a certain neighborhood so while I’m there I like to use my time wisely. When I found myself scheduled to work at the Anthropologie in Rockefeller Center this past week, all I could think about was my proximity to Kinokuniya, [...]

Speaking of softies, this new and improved version of my Big Breakfast softie is shipping off to Seattle for the Seattle gallery show Plush You!
The food parts are the same but I added a softie plate and bowl and made a much more complicated coffee mug. It’s hard to make all of these things to [...]

Ok, first of all, I just want to say that I loved all of your comments. If I could give out seventeen copies of Softies, I would.
But you know, it wasn’t up to me: Mr. Loveforever read and re-read your comments and, after much deliberation, picked out two of his favorite (cue drum roll here):

Congratulations [...]

The lovely people over at Chronicle were so touched by your softie comments that they donated another book so…now I have two books to give away!
Mr. Loveforever will be reading your entries this evening and, in a fair and unbiased fashion, will be picking his two favorites.

This has been a summer of setting the alarm even on the weekends, there have just been so many plans and so many people to see. I love nothing more than having lazy slothlike weekends so I have been craving a slow quiet day like today for months. A quiet Sunday in pajamas with [...]

I am so excited about the new release of Softies: Simple Instructions for 25 Plush Pals by Therese Lasky of the Softie Awards fame! Featuring projects by softie artists from around the world, I love the variety of softies included, from needlefelted bunnies to plaid puppies, sweet amigurumi to one very special alien named Patricia. [...]

Love Forever was named Poppytalk’s Blog of the Week! I am a huge fan of Jan’s blog featuring “the beautiful, the handmade and the decayed” so this is a big honor! Thanks again!

This week I actually remembered to keep my camera on me at all times and boy, was I glad I didn. Maybe it’s summer or maybe it’s that I was actually paying attention but there’s a lot fo great street art in the city right now.

A Marimekko-esque mural at a park on Sullivan Street.

This particular [...]

I have been walking by Vosges Haut-Chocolat on my way to work for many years but after reading a glowing review in this month’s House and Garden in which they referenced a chocolate bar with flecks of bacon in it, I knew I had to go in. I am a big fan of chocolate with [...]

On Thursday evening, en route to meeting a friend for drinks, i finally got a chance to stop into Scandinavian Grace, a fantastic Brooklyn boutique filled with all things, well, Scandinavian. I was really impressed with the collection and the price-points: Northern Europeans seem to have found the magic formula of form plus function minus [...]