Amazing accessories and more will be in store this week. Mostly collectibles from the 70s and one of a kind. Grabbb one. And thank you Cheryl Spanish for your equally poetic translation. If you come back to the store the cuff links are waiting.
And then some. I turn to Mary Oliver’s poetry a lot, now that I’m not in school and school no longer reminds me how to read. School now reminds me of why I didn’t break the rules sooner. Maybe one day I can write again. Here is a poem of hers, for those of us [...]
… but how then do you explain why shops exist round the year? We obsess over the vintage we sell and try to keep a running ‘documentary’ of all pieces but sometime we miss and they go off with someone – no photographs and soon they’re forgotten… Today I sold a beautiful burgundy cheongsam lace [...]
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
There is a garden in my head that I’d like to plant into the store. Because of this I’m awake too early in the morning after only a few hours of sleep. I can hear the birds calling and the sun slowly roasting this Tuesday. When the garden is better transplanted, I’ll post up photos [...]
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Charles Bukowski, Pablo Neruda, Virginia Woolf’s short fiction, a Daniel Johnston book, a quick history guide for graphics, A.A. Milne and a couple of other poetry books – these are the books we have sold randomly. When the tenants upstairs moved away, we recycled some of their old cupboards into a mini bookshelf, fit for [...]