Their Field Trip

I'm spending an inspiring and relaxing week in Athens and just got back from the Field Trip reception. Sisters Rinne Allen and Lucy Allen Gillis set up a pop-up holiday shop featuring their finds from their travels. As their site explains, it's "two sisters... wandering... exploring... photographing... taking notes… & gathering things along the way."

Easily comparable to a sweet, little Anthropologie, their items range from spoons, to ornaments, rugs and found sketches. Here are a few photos from the opening reception, which was a veritable who's-who in Athens. The shop is up now-December 24th at the Hawthorne House on Milledge Avenue. See their websites for specific hours.

Hello, Athens!

We leave for Athens tomorrow and couldn't be more excited! It'll be nice to be back. Let's sit on this porch for awhile. Let's eat at The National, Clocked, and with The FourCoursemen. Let's have a Pimm's Cup at Five & Ten. Let's get a haircut at Republic and eat popcorn at Flicker. Who's playing at the 40Watt? Maybe we'll get tattoos at Pain & Wonder (don't worry, my dad doesn't read this).

I know all of this sounds like so much fun, but we're most excited about seeing all our pals, whom we miss dearly. We miss y'all so much, we're flying with a squirrelly 1 year old all the way see you.

WE CAN'T WAIT!!

Bird-E Towels

I was talking with a few friends the other days about paper towels. It's a future goal of mine to not use disposable paper towels -maybe it'll be next year's resolution? Susi doesn't use paper towels in her house, so it's definitely doable with a little baby running around.

Don't get me wrong, we not paper towel using fools, we're pretty good about using rags. But we could be better about using napkins at dinner instead of paper towels.

Earlier this year, I came across these lovely unPaper Towels, from Etsy seller AthenaCreates. They are a lovely alternative to paper and I can't wait to start using them! She's done really well selling them, and has changed (and trademarked) the name to Bird-E Towels. She has a great write-up about the towels, including why disposable paper towels are bad:

"What's the problem with paper towels?? The main problem is that the paper towels that most people use are made from virgin tree pulp. That means that trees are cut down and harvested for something that you are going to use ONE time. And then it gets thrown away...adding to the landfill problem. Oh and to make it even worse for the environment, they bleach the pulp releasing toxic chemicals into our environment. (For something that is used one time?!?)"

Check out her shop here. 

Allow Me Events

I'm wildly excited to share the new logo & website that I created for Allow Me Events. Kerri & Co. specializes in event decor and design in New York.

From her About page: "What you see in Kerri is a true respect for her craft. Her innate talent for floral design and décor, combined with her passion for life and work leads her to treat your event as her own, from start to finish."

I had a great time working with Kerri on the new website and hope you'll enjoy it, too.