#favoritethings

I love photography-- so this month I'm collaborating with the talented Miranda Wendorf on a photo project called #favoritethings, which is just that: some cool photos of my favorite things in the shop.  I'm posting a pic a day on Instagram, but here are a sampling of last week's favorites in original format.  Enjoy!

P.S. We are officially on our Holiday Hours!  MON-FRI 11-7 and SAT-SUN 11-6

#favoritethings #1: my bench in the early morning light.  Can't imagine a better place to create.

#favotitethings #2: Miranda layered up with Stendhal from New York.  Love the gypsy inspired textures against this chambray.

#favoritethings #3: Petite rings from San Francisco designer Christy Natsumi.  Guiding star and Tenderhearts.  Catch her sample sale this upcoming Sunday, December 8th

#favoritethings #4:  The stunning work of SF designer Kirsten Muenster.  She hand crafts each link in these oversized chainmaille beauties.  She also gave us some stunning one-of-a-kind rings, necklaces, and earrings made from semi-precious stones.  

#favoritethings #5: Voce Keen rings for the goddess/witch/rock n roll vixen in you.

#favoritethings #6: The limited edition Chain Scarf by Boet of Portland OR.  Designer Emily Bixler only makes a handful of these puppies each year, we have only one left until next year.  Plush scarf with heavy chains that warm up against your body. 

#favoritesthings # 7: The Fishbone Earrings by Sarah Swell.  The perfect blend of feminine and edge.

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Insta Love // Installment Three

As you may know, I love Instagram.  I love seeing the creative ways people approach their photography, and I tend to follow a lot of artists and creative types.  It's an inspiring little thing to do while I have some down time.  Here are my favorites this week:

1// @sarahswelljewelry  [Oakland, California based jewelry designer. Precious metal treasures made by hand-the real deal.]  I love Sarah.  Not only as a friend, but I totally admire her as a fellow jeweler and she has a killer Instagram feed.  I mean, come on, look at her signature Fishbone series, it makes my heart skip a beat every time.  We carry some of her work at Crown Nine, they really are little treasures.

2 // @avfkw  [Textiles. I love them. And food. And plants. Natural dyes too. Preferably made in the USA.] Kristine is the shop owner of A Verb For Keeping Warm, an amazing Oakland store for knitting, dying, spinning, quilting, and all things textile.  I love Kristine's feed because it's full of dye vats, shiburi, and the behind the scenes on how fabrics are made.  

3 // @justinhager [Get at me.]  Justin is an artist, I especially love his hybrid posts.  They are so perfectly wrong, a grafting of two unlike units of pop culture into one hilarious mash up portrait. It kills me every time.  Other favorites: Danzig with Wolves,  NWA Team,and Little Wayne'sWorld... and pretty much all of them.

4 // @waywardspark [Off-grid forest living, beekeeping, goat milking, barbecue baking, organic farming, woodworking, and raising two cute kids in rural Western Oregon.]  Pretty much sums up how my fantasy life is being led.

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