modaspia

one of them anyway ..

new summer time additions to the children’s collection.

a customer in SF (from early etsy days no less) sent me this picture yesterday of her daughter wearing her modaspia blouse.  what a gorgeous kid and i love her room!  this is a good time to announce the new children’s collection is ready.  it should be making it’s way into the shop over the weekend if i can get giulietta to model for me after school today.

i like the postcard new york-based Kosa did using the anjou dress.

i watched melancholia a few nights ago, the lars von trier film with charlotte gainsbourg and kirsten dunst.  it is beautifully shot and emotionally draining.  basically, the end of the world is nigh as earth comes closer and closer to colliding with a small planet that’s been “hiding” behind the sun all this time.  charlotte and kirsten are sisters, charlotte being the “well-adjusted” grown up and kirsten being the one prone to extreme melancholy.  if you’ve seen the film you know the ending is hard to watch.  charlotte tries hopelessly to shield her young son from what’s about to come, carrying him in her arms heavily. crying and falling.  i cried throughout.  kirsten on the other hand is stoic, expectant.  it turned me against her even though i suppose it is in part her mental illness that saves her from the kind of pain her sister endures.  she has always felt alone so ..

i hadn’t seen the movie yet when i bought this magazine a few months ago so i went back to it curious about what she had to say about the film.  especially after a good pal told me about the insane interview the director gave at cannes following the premier.

a little ceramic planter i found the other day.  it reminds me of things my mom had in the kitchen when we were growing up.  very 1970′s.

so hot here suddenly … awoke this morning in the tent with both kids, the dog and the cat!

outside our bedroom window .. what i did instead of working today.

$7 ice creams !

$15 hula hoops!

seeing my old friend lee who introduced jeremy and i one night at a bar in SF.  priceless!