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Moving Day!

Well, the day has finally come when I can show you what I've been working on over the summer, and into the fall. My new Susy Jack* website is now live, and starting with my next post, I will have a new home for my blogging, also.

Starting on Monday, I'll be posting over here at my new blog, exclusively. I'm thrilled to finally have my blog, shop, and studio in one venue. I hope you'll come and visit me often... I'll be posting more of my own work in style, pattern design, product design, and lifestyle, and of course, waxing poetic on paper clips and top hats, now and then.

See you on the flip side...

Can't wait.  xo! S

 

SUNDAY IN THE PARK { with madeleines }

Ever read Faust?

Me either. Well, I skimmed it in college.

I was inspired, in my own Faustian way, after having a Madeleine as a snack last week, to create this little feel-board. Simple things, they bring such joy!  So does lots of butter, apparently.

Trusty Apron Here

Bag Here

Great Little Dress Here

Lovely Bicyclette (the cork handles are a stroke of genius!) here

Parfum here

Recipe...HERE!

THE FINER THINGS {food, photography and recipes!}

I've been trying to find the perfect time to post about the wonderful food and photography blog  Bread and Honey  by Summer Allen-Gibson of Design is Mine and photographer Alice Lynn Carrier ...anyway, I found a reason serendipitously, when I was looking up new work by photographer Francine Zaslow to show here, today.

Long story short, I have worked with Francine... and she was one of our favorite photographers to work with, a pioneer of the soft, luminescent product photography that was later made so popular by the likes of Martha Stewart and Pottery Barn. I always loved her work in which food...organic farming, local cuisine, and culinary delight were frequent themes.

So, while I was searching, I came upon another post about her work over at Design is Mine, and I realized that Summer is a fan of Francine's, as well. So...here they are together...small world!

Visit the amazing photography that Francine shares on her site, then head on over to Bread and Honey to see real action in the kitchen and get some great recipes, with beautiful step by step photography...and personal insights into the making and enjoying of food...I owe my boyfriend Cheese Fondue...and I'd also like to take a second to thank Bread and Honey for giving me some new ideas of what to dip in it...other than bread! Enjoy!

CHOCOLATEERS {mast brothers chocolate}

There are very few things that I can think of that would be worse than finding a beard hair in my chocolate bar. UNLESS it was one belonging to a Mast Brother.

I'm completely smitten by this entire venture...the idea of brothers making chocolate, the old-timey, old-neighborhood, joint-venture quality of the way they express their brand, and the fact that in order to enjoy this, one doesn't have to go far...at least not here in NYC.

This is the NYC that I love (well, along with the rest of it) and that also, seems to be where the future mindset is headed in general. Soaring gas prices, random bits of machinery in our pet food, and a lack of knowledge about who is making or where is inventing what we're consuming has got many of us down as of late. It's great to see people like the Bros. Mast --with a smart, local, hearty business model-- re-introducing something as simple as chocolate. The lovely packaging (which makes me think of old tenement wallpaper or letters stashed away in a lost suitcase) is a stroke of brilliance, and really helps to explain where these guys are coming from in more ways than one.

A wonderful gift...these are obviously bites to be enjoyed, savored, and special. I've been wanting to post about these guys for a few weeks now, and was just reminded when my friend sent me a link to The Unfancy Food Show  taking place in WBurg on June 29th. Thanks Jesski! Ladies...Gentlemen...adieu.

Mast Brothers Website
Mast Brothers Blog