Cal Crary

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The BK

Here are the journey snap shots of todays epic adventures:

Brooklyn Lover

I have been trekking it around NYC for 4 days now - and all 4 nights I have come home utterly exhausted with swollen feet. So many things I would like to do it's hard to stop.

So today was another Brooklyn day - I tried tackling Atlantic Avenue because it has my most favorite antique shops, but blast! They're all closed on Mondays - I'm such a sucker. Here are a few of my favorites - some were open, some not.

City Foundry - CLOSED

So sad because they have my absolute favorite collection of over priced industrial lighting - ah shucks

Darr - OPEN!

I think it's perhaps the best edited antique shop ever - reminds me of Edward Allen Poe some how

What used to be Butter, now

Eva Gentry - OPEN!

Even though I liked the name Butter better (I wonder why, fat kid), but I do still obsess over the color palette in here - my ma would be so disappointed if she saw it too because it's got the most beautiful gradient of white to cream and black to gray. She's always given me a hard time for not wearing enough color.

Oh, I would give my first born for one of these leather clutches

Saipua - CLOSED?

They moved and I couldn't even find their new place which was tragic because I do love being in this shop and gushing to who ever is working at the time about just how much I love this shop. They're flowers are transformative - and the soaps just right

Erie Basin - CLOSED

So tragic, because I also just adore it in there

The good and the bad thing about these shops is that physically being there is sooooo much better than what any of their web sites offer, so you really need to go there in person to get the full effect. These shops come highly recommended by your truely

New YHO

New post here - check check check it out

Vera Meat

grrrr - I love and want this but it's $220

See more lovelyies here

She also makes these pretty pieces that I want . . .

Did I say WANT enough times?

maybe it's been too long since I've been in the ocean

ngoc minh ngo

A Vietnamese born (now New Yorker) photographer has such simple lovely images

I want to sleep under that tree

yes please

Matt Shilan

I really love the architectural structure to these drawings - yet in such a blown to pieces frame work

Matt Shilan's work found through But Does It Float?

A new brand (for me) that I just came across on Jumelle - it's called Jackson, Johnston, & Roe.  Only wish it weren't so expensive.

I'm loving this space posted on design sponge . . .

. . . especially the art and wall color

Bhutan

Barbara shard this blog with me and I LOVE this talented travelers drawings/paintings

I'd love to draw like this, and I'd also like to be in Bhutan

Meghan Mcneer

I do love summer, but these snowy shots just caught my eye . . .

by meghan mcneer

I love this drawings by Kai Asseron Nodland - it reminds me of Caroline and New York.  i wish it was a textile, I think it would make a cool bed spread or pillows or something