Author Archives: Katie

Pit stop at the Grand Canyon

After four great years of living in the California sun, my husband and I were ready to make the big move back east to the Boston area, where we’re both originally from. I had always wanted to experience a cross-country … Continue reading

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New York Public Library: Digital Gallery

The New York Public Library’s Digital Gallery is an incredible resource that places over 700,000 images at your fingertips… which inevitably results in the draining of nearly that many hours from your otherwise busy schedule. I remember my favorite blog, … Continue reading

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Material muse: salmon leather

I tore this page out of an airline magazine a long time ago and upon finding it again in a pile of clippings I had saved, I was reintroduced to the ES Salmon Leather company and reminded what great potential … Continue reading

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Connecting the dots…

I had an interesting train of visual thought this evening as I was shopping the summer sales online. A Leifsdottir maxi dress caught my eye at Anthropologie – not because it was something I would necessarily buy, but because the … Continue reading

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Gallery Preview: Erica’s Wedding

Erica and I worked very closely together on the women’s footwear line at Vans for over 3 years. It’s fairly easy, as a designer, to draw up a lot of options for a project, but Erica always had the tough … Continue reading

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Boucle de Camélia

Spotted this Chanel ad in the latest issue of Elle Decor and it instantly caught my attention. The shape of the ring – part flower, part looping ribbon – looks unattainably opulent, but at the same time very familiar and … Continue reading

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The start of a new notebook…

Each year of art school I kept a notebook (a scrapbook of sorts) in which to hoard away every piece of memorable ephemera I came in contact with. The notebooks are exclusively spiral bound and the pages are filled with … Continue reading

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