If you've read my blog for very long you know that Tom and I both have a slight obsession with New York City. Manhattan to be specific. The West Village to be more specific. Between Horatio & Perry and 8th & Greenwich Ave. to be completely ridiculous. We try to go a couple of times a year. When we are really lucky we get to dog sit
one of our former foster dogs and that is pretty much my idea of Heaven. When we aren't there we look at real estate and dream of renting or buying a tiny apartment within the above mentioned few blocks. I am about to admit how incredibly dorky we really are - when we have a day or so to ourselves we will actually hole up in our bedroom and pretend it's our NYC apartment (Tom quite possibly will kill me for sharing this). But it is, in an odd way, like a mini vacation. And from doing this I believe whole heartedly that I could live with Tom in 350ish square feet and be not only content, but quite happy. Don't believe I could do it? Buy me an apartment and I'll show you! I'm up to the challenge! Seriously though, if it weren't for the matter of 12 dogs and a cat we may have actually given this more serious consideration. Anyway, a girl can dream...
Over the last couple of trips Tom's developed an eye for spotting any and all graffiti with the word LOVE in it. It's actually amazing how many there are. The 5th one over, the triple LOVE, that tagger has put his or her "love" all over the city. Sometimes one "love" sometimes three. We saw them everywhere, on buildings, in the middle of the street, on fire hydrants. They were super cool.
Not sure if it was him or me that said
"these should go into a necklace" but I Love, pun intended, the series. It's inspired me to collaborate more...in fact I've hit up a good friend from college who lives in Poland now to start a project together. He is a
bad ass painter and he and his wife are making
crazy cool jewelry in Warsaw. So these little necklaces are the start of a new
collaboration page on my website...hopefully just the beginning...
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