Kenneth Jay Lane at La Grenouille and NEW SITE!

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Our majestic mossy knoll scene for the event at La Grenouille celebrating "Fake Jewels, Real Glamour", vintage pieces from Kenneth Lay Lane.  The whole event was hosted by Yoox.com.  For more about this, check out our feature in the NYTimes!

All photos from fashionindie.com

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In the meantime, here are some treats I brought back from California last weekend.  Artichoke foliage!  A massive invasion of wire vine!

ACE Hotel.

 Flowers and decor for a party at the ACE Hotel earlier this month, with bands from Elan Artists.   100 Layer Cake co-sponsored the party and worked on styling with us as well. Props like the toy truck below came from our friends at Modern Anthology.

Wild spirea, thistle, andromeda, jasmine and more.

Photos by Jonathan Hanson of Shane Carpenter Weddings

For Jean

 The most wonderful dutch tulips, called "Leo."  Grevillea foliage, my favorite.  Kumquats.  A giant taffeta ribbon. This is for a glamorous woman.

 Diana models.  

 For the court, Japanese narcissus, camellia foliage, fritillaria, and a "flame" french tulip.

The other Emily...

I am terribly late in mentioning this wonderful thing, maybe I'm bashful.  The fabulous Emily Evans Eerdmans came and visited me and then went so far as to write about me and my flowers.  I am over the moon to have caught her eye.  You can read what she said here, and perhaps catch a touch of Eerdmans fever as I did ages ago- I was especially drawn in with her description of a mad cabinet-secretaire in cork, pictured below.  The visit may have been a harbinger of some VERY INTERESTING PROJECTS which have cropped up since that we'll try try try to photograph and include here.  It's looking like we'll have an amazing spring.  Thank you, Emily.  I look forward to making you lots of beautiful things.  Here is a virtual bouquet for you for starters.

 Photo by Josie Miner

 The mad cabinet-secretaire in cork:

 Photos by Emily Eerdmans.

Below are some hints regarding the above-mentioned VERY INTERESTING PROJECTS.  More to come soon.

Photos by Emily Thompson.

Enter Eros.

With his huge hammer again Eros knocked me like a blacksmith

and doused me in a wintry ditch.

-Anakreon

Be Mine, AMK!  XOXOXOXOOXXOXOOX!

VDay 2011

Come get your Valentine somethin' special... I think a peeping Tom already got this one.
Small $65/Medium $95/Large $145.

Photo teaser for the great wedding of 1/29/11.

Ferns, bark, mushrooms, moths & beetles, andromeda and more more more.
Hooray Ted & Geremy!
Photos by Kathryn Kuczynski

Cockatiel in cork

 

hmmm.  maybe Meyer Lemon Baked Alaska?

Winter Antiques Show.

Fighting flamingoes

 

Pink Flamingo:

3/4 oz. Apricot brandy

2 oz. gin

dash of grenadine

3/4 oz. lime juice

Fill a mixing glass with ice and add all ingredients. Shake and strain into a glass.

Let me know how it is.

Long trail and my thumb.

Garden roses, jasmine, clematis, ranunculus,  coque tail feathers.

Salad.

This bridal bouquet is entirely edible.  Black radishes, chamomile, nasturtiums, olive branches (with olives), huckleberry branches, sweet peas, laurel (bay leaves).  We'll do this again in the summer when we have lot more materials to choose from.
A recipe would be redundant, I think.  This was inspired by another very magnificent (and personally relevant) "boil & eat" bouquet from last May.  Perhaps I'll publish that one soon.

A Swamp.