Posts by: Erica

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Winden

To support her love of slow fashion, jeweler Rebecca Mapes started her blog To Know Wear to highlight independent designers who value local and eco-friendly manufacturing processes. She recently launched a capsule collection of ever so dainty…

Travel

Hotel Saint Cecilia, Austin

Austin has been on our wish list of places to travel to for years and quite honestly, I can’t believe it’s taken us this long to finally pay this eclectically cool city a visit. If you haven’t been,…

Art

American Textiles

I’ve always been fascinated by the manufacturing process – the maker in me has...

January 5, 2016 4 comments

Annie Costello Brown

It was a pair of oversized, oxidized blue earrings that first drew me to LA based designer Annie Costello Brown‘s warrior-like earrings. Each piece is hand cut and hammered out of burnished brass and silver…

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January 4, 2016

Layered Rugs

I’ve amassed an excessive collection of small Turkish kilims and ethnic, handwoven rugs over the years – all of which are just piling up in a storage closet. I can’t help it, I’m addicted to textiles! And now that…

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December 28, 2015 9 comments

The Big Easy

I can’t remember what inspired our entire family to take Thanksgiving on the road this year, but all of us were thrilled to spend the holiday in New Orleans – a first for all of us.…

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Art

Becca Stadtlander

There’s something about Becca Stadtlander‘s illustrations that seems to fit in so nicely with the holidays. Perhaps it’s the nostalgic folk art influence. Or the fact that each work brings me to the most comfortable and warm place…

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Holiday Traditions

Every year on Christmas Eve, since the year he was born, my husband and his siblings open a single present  – each person receives a small box containing a special, significant ornament. It’s a family custom that has been passed…