Monday , November 16, 2009
Imaginary Shopping Spree, Spirit Animal House Edition: Melanie Auld, 31 Corn Lane & SwanDiamondRose, Ayumi Horie
Melanie Auld Park bag
Melanie Auld is an accessories designer out of pipin' hot Miami who was on my radar for awhile for her pretty-yet-sharp jewelry -- pieces like her charm hoop earrings or turquoise keychain necklace have plenty of charm, but the designs have enough bite to keep them fun and just a touch funky. (I always like to imagine that people looking at her dagger earrings go, "Oooh, those are sooooo pretty! Are those...[leaning in closer, eyes widen]...daggers?") I was lucky enough to catch a press preview of her fall line, and I'm excited to report that she's branching off into a handbag line, which is just as well-crafted and "ooooh"-inducing as her bijoux. The materials are buttery and posh, the hardware tasteful yet eye-catching and their designs keep in mind how busy city girls practically live out of their bags all day, boasting plenty of pockets and compartments. We are totally stoked because Melanie was awesome enough to donate one of these bags to our charity raffle -- my favorite, the elegant Park bag in a lovely light grey, which has a fancy Chanel-like chain as well as a beautiful design embossed into the body. (The bag itself will be lighter than the one shown below.) It's luxe, posh, gorge and all manner of fashion superlatives, and you'll want to hold onto it for years and pass it down to your future daughters -- that's how bellissima this bag is. You can bring it to fancy occasions, of course, but it's also great to wear out at night with your skinny jeans, cropped jacket and little boots this fall as well. And you can win it for the price of a raffle ticket, you lucky ducks you. I'm totally jealous. (Kat)
To buy a raffle ticket for a chance to win this Melanie Auld bag:
Cures for the bad-bag blues
I need a new bag so bad, so bad. My friend's cat ate my favorite bag (not, like, consumed it whole, but just sort of gnawed on it a bit so it looks ratty and awful), and I tried shopping around for a new one last Friday with NO LUCK. In lieu of trolling the entire scary Interweb for a replacement satchel, for now I'm just gazing adoringly at all the lovely bags that our lovely Spirit Animal House donors are lavishing upon us. Behold, from left to right: SWANclothing straight midi tote by SwanDiamondRose and 31 Corn Lane's Hearts and Horses Shoulder Bag and Squiggle Stitch Shoulder Bag.
I want them all, yet encourage you to try to steal them away from me by clicking on that cute little PayPal button and buying yourself a raffle ticket right this second. Buena suerte! (Liz)
Ceramics of all shapes and sizes by Ayumi Horie
I wish that I was grown-up and rich and successful and lived in a sprawling, haunted, ivy-covered mansion in Savannah, Georgia with two dogs, three cats, Sho, and a pair of impish boy/girl twins (who would always look sort of like this, only more avant-wack). I'm a dyed-in-the-wool Cancerian; nothing in the world is more appealing to me than the prospect of a Southern Gothic palace to call my own. I love fantasizing about how I could apply the principle of Total Design to my insanely sick abode. Eames chairs, baby pink KitchenAid mixer, a library with one of those ladders on wheels, Josef Hoffmann cutlery, a psychedelic bedspread, and, most importantly, kitchen cabinets teeming with Ayumi Horie ceramics. I'd eat cereal out of my rat bowl, light cigarettes with my goat match striker (actually, never mind- I hope I've quit smoking by the time I live in my idyllic Southern mansion), and only ever drink coffee out of my goat & whale cups (as seen above).
I don't know if my Savannah fantasy will ever become a reality, but at very least, YOU might get to live out my ideal coffee-drinking situation. We are so very lucky to have two handmade Ayumi Horie cups that YOU COULD TOTALLY WIN! Ayumi's ceramics are all hand-crafted utilizing a process called "dry throwing" that I will probably never be able to wrap my head around, unless I move to upstate New York and become her intern, something I am seriously considering doing.
Hey, dudes: if you win the raffle and donate your winnings to me, your karma will be off-the-chain AMAZING. Just kidding- it's all for the animals. Give it a shot, brothers:
Tags: 31 Corn Lane, avant-wack, Ayumi Horie, bags, ceramics, Melanie Auld, Spirit Animal House, SwanDiamondRose, Total Design
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I love love 31 Corn Lane!! they rock.
By alita on August 26, 2008 8:59 AM
we do love ourselves some 31 Corn Lane!
xo k.
By Kat
on August 27, 2008 4:11 PM