proenza schouler's 2010 collections are still really perfect

Just a reminder.

Good work, boys!

loosely related and kind of late updates

First up!  We are thrilled that people loved the Feelings banner pins by Thora Ford, so we restocked them and added a Witch pin as well, a couple of which we've already shipped off to Australia.  My personal recommendation is combining the two for the message "Witch Feelings" but they're cool separately, too.  Also, Carly made the shop look nicer yesterday, so you should look at it if you are like me and get excited when a website changes its layout. We're still working on making it a bit easier to navigate, but I have faith that we'll figure something out. 

I have also updated my Etsy with a new color option for keychains - bright, bright blue, because it's the very best color.  And I'm offering 15% all month with the code JUNEGLOOM because why not? I have a few other new things to add in the works (dog keychains!) but like honestly who knows when I'll get around to it.

And! Cut Path has a new-ish stockist (is it still new when it happened a couple months ago? yeah, sure) - Myth & Symbol in Houston.  I'm really happy to have stuff I've made sold alongside some of my favorite designers working nowadays - Rachel Comey, Dusen Dusen, and Samantha Pleet to name a few.

They also host workshops, and will have one later this month with Houston Zine Fest, which you should go to if you're in Houston. I went to a zine making afternoon hosted by Houston Zine Fest a few weeks ago, and it was  super fun. I tend to let myself be too much of a perfectionist when I start making a zine, which means that they end up never being completed, so it was nice to just not worry too much about the finished product and just put something together really quickly and leave in the mistakes.

Here are a couple photos swiped from Houston Zine Fest:

Mine, about my depressingly dogless existence.

Everyone's!

thoroughly digging right now: bluish edition

LAURA BIRD

I recently came across the Etsy of illustrator Laura Bird and I want all of her hand painted totes and ceramics.

SAD SONGS

Okay, I'm always all about sad songs, but here are a few that have been ripping my heart up lately.

I don't know that I would have pegged Usher to be an artist to so clearly drive home the feeling of total loss (despite previously gifting us with excellent sad songs like "U Remind Me" and "U Got it Bad"), but whenever I listen to "Climax", I feel completely gutted and put it on repeat. 

Every once and a while, I'll go on a major Broadcast kick, and I'm on one now and "Goodbye Girls" is my favorite Broadcast song.  I like my music to be either super angsty or catchy as fuck (best when both are combined), and so sounding pretty is rarely a priority.  Broadcast manages to go 3 for 3...though perhaps "haunting" is a bit more accurate than "catchy" and cooler, anyway. 

 

I attended exactly one real college party when I was in college, and it wasn't even at the college I went to and I spent the better part of it huddled in a corner bonding over Sandy Denny adoration.  At some point, I should do a proper rundown of my favorite troubled folk goddesses, because there was a time in my life when that was the only thing I ever wanted to talk about.  

LOTFI

The Pacific print from Lotfi's Spring/Summer collection is very good and I totally love the idea of having a pretty dress that reminds me of going to the ocean since I will not be spending time with a clear blue sea any time soon.

MY DIRTY DUMB EYES

Earlier this week, I got suddenly, violently ill.  It was gross and painful and once the worst of it had finally passed, I looked in the mirror and upon seeing my sunken-in eyes and scraggly mess of hair, assumed that I lost about 20 pounds in 24 hours. Realistically, though,  it was probably only like 13 pounds.  To make myself feel better, I picked up a copy of Lisa Hanawalt's brand new book, and it was absolutely the right choice.  Though I certainly wouldn't say that you need to (perhaps overdramatically) feel like you narrowly avoided death to enjoy it, I'm sure my state of delirium added to the experience.  I'm on the mend now, and I fully stand by any work that begins by positing the question "What do dogs want??" and recommends training goats to be pickpockets.

happy memorial day

Happy Memorial Day! iIt's nearly summer and finally feeling that way here in Texas. Every day for the past two weeks it's been at least 90 degrees with a heat index of ~104 and it's rather fortunate that I recently found the perfect denim shorts for an Austin summer. I've been busy with a few other side projects that have been sucking up all my creative energy and time but I'm very excited about sharing them with all of you when there's a few more concrete details. Until then, I leave you with a mini warm weather mood board and wishlist.

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old things

One thing I've been working on every once and a while for the past few months is helping my mom get the house I spent most of my childhood living in ready to be sold. We were never really a family that throws anything out, so a lot of it is simply just sorting through everything that's been collected over the years and figuring out what to do with it all.

The whole thing is totally mirroring where I am in life right now.  The last couple years have been a weird transitional time for me, which began with a lot of strong nesting instincts that went away very quickly.  Now that I kind of feel like I have a decent understanding of what I want and what I should be doing to get there, I'm evaluating everything I have/think/do and deciding what stays and what goes, which is emotionally exhausting and sometimes exhilarating.  

It's been nice finding some things I really like now that have been tucked away in boxes for years...celestial candle holders, ceramics my sister made as a kid, stones that I don't really understand the purpose of but like looking at. Knick-knacks like that are nice finds for someone like me who has no business buying homewares right now but can occasionally be cheered up with a decorating spree. 

Blue petrified wood encapsulates everything about my aesthetic preferences and world view right now, so it's cool to have a little piece of my own. 

Not sure when my sister made this, but I do know that she wasn't old enough to spell her name correctly.  Totally into this smiley face with no mouth that she signed all her ceramics with, too. Or is it a button? WHO KNOWS! (She definitely doesn't remember.)