No, this is NOT another picture of my grandmother…this is artist Ria Charisse’s card. And her “Thorny Twig” cast, a present from my friend Bonnie. For years I have been eyeing Ria’s work, I have a piece of her jewelry-but it is the casts that I love most. “The fascination with natural forms continues. After […]
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Look! Our framed Alphabet letters are featured in the latest Land Of Nod Catalog. I love that the stylist spelled out one of my favorite boy names-and then put these on a BINTH Green wall…FUN! ( Thanks Jamie, Lia and Nancy from LOD for letting us use the picture here.)
A New Home…
Our BINTH Single Alphabet Letters have found a second home and are now available at Land of Nod. Where they have joined our Binth Baby Book and the Binth Matching Game. We are so excited. Adrienne Gits, Linnea’s sister sent us these great photographs taken in her son Beckett’s nursery. I think she missed her […]
Binth in the Republic
Well, allow me to bragg for just a moment today…My friend Andrea from Arizona texted me last Sunday afternoon: “OMG. Ur prints are at the Banana Republic Concept Store in Scottsdale.” Really? Next I got a message from Justine, our girl in Manhattan, reporting that our prints are at the Banana Republic in Soho. Wow! […]
“Friends With You”…for when feeling blue
I am a big sucker for yes, polka dots and naturally I am a huge fan of the design group “Friends With You”. Their amazing little objects are sure to at least get a crack of a smile out of me here in dreary, grey and cold Chicago. I am not a serious collector, but […]
Montana “Magpie Toys”
So, here we are in Red Lodge-tiny little town with cute stores up and down Main Street. This one caught our eye: Magpie Toys. Tall building with tin ceilings, shelves stacked high with wooden sculptures and objects, old toys, books, half of them not even for sale. Wooden guns, sling shots, rocks, horse shoe puzzles […]
Montana “The Candy Emporium”
Another Red Lodge store we spent some time in. Well, they had the good black Licorice from Holland, the original, of course I spend some time in there…and went back to for more. Twice. Anyhow, this is heaven: taffy as far as your eye can see, home made fudge and truffles and pralines, candy bars […]