I recently decided to spend a good chunk of my vacation time fulfilling a longtime dream to learn how to make boots by hand, old school cobbler-style. A few years back I found a boot making class in Brooklyn, How To Make Boots From Your Garage, that teaches the method I wanted to learn: the lasting method. I had been dragging my feet waiting for the right time to spring for a week-long course where I’d make a pair of boots…
My baby boy Bear Hunter turned one on July fourth! You can tell by the fact that I’m mentioning this three weeks after the fact that I am not that mom who sends out custom Christmas cards, though I sometimes wish I was. Even still, I wanted to find something thoughtful to surprise my husband on his first Father’s Day, just before our son’s first birthday. I also wanted to have something to share with friends and family on Bear’s…
When things heat up on the east coast, humidity rears its ugly head forcing our faces to follow suit. For reals, I cannot wear more than one product on my face in this inferno.…
You may have noticed I’ve been MIA for the past six weeks. No, I am not writing you from the afterlife, I am writing from my new office. I am so happy to share that we bought our very first home! As fate would have it, the house belonged to a shoe designer and fashion mogul who used it as a guest house.…