HAPPY HALLOWEEN! State Street Pumpkin Carving Contest!!!

I am honored to be the judge of the State Street (btw Bond and Hoyt, Boerum Hill Brooklyn) Pumpkin Carving Contest! Check out the cute BLUE (and red and white) ribbons we will be giving out (judging is tonight, Halloween at 6pm). First place gets 2 tickets to Adams Family, The Musical! Thanks to everyone who came out to the shop today for Trick or Treating, we saw some GREAT costumes! Happy Halloween everyone!!

Paper New York: Build Your Own Big Apple

LOVE this new book! Each page is a do it yourself pop- out project of a NYC Landmark (20 in all). Including the Empire State Building, Chrysler Building (one of my favorite buildings in the world), Brooklyn Bridge (yeahhhh!), the Guggenheim, Citigroup Center (my Dad helped work on this building), Sony (AT&T) Building, Statue of Liberty, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Flatiron Building, MTA Subway Car, Hayden Planetarium, Whitney Museum, Woolworth Building, United Nations Building, St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Rockefeller Center Ice Rink (complete with Ice Skaters), Hot Dog Cart (what would NYC be with out Hot Dog Carts?!), Coney Island Cyclone, Central Park Carriage and a Taxi Cab. VERY FUN! Paper New York: Build Your Own Big Apple– $19.95.

Compost this! AND IF YOU ARE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD, COME TRICK OR TREATING TOMORROW!!!

By special customer request we just got in a great kitchen counter-size composter! Start making your own compost straight away by collecting all your organic waste. Comes with Carbon Filter that significantly reduces any organic smells (we also have extra filters sold separately) which is a much nicer way of collecting it all that I grew up with. We would have a (smelly) little trashcan on the countertop, um- no filters, no nothing- just good old rotting food. Rob always says I grew up living “off the grid” before there was even a grid! Anyway, this is a very good looking composter that will fit nicely on your counter (11″ high) to get you started on your merry composting way!! Composter– $24, Carbon Replacement Filters– $13.50.

And IF YOU ARE IN THE ‘HOOD TOMORROW (10/31) PLEASE COME BY FOR TRICK OR TREATING!! WE WOULD LOVE TO SEE EVERYONE’S COSTUMES AND HAVE LOTS OF CANDY FOR EVERYONE WHO COMES IN DRESSED UP!!!

Time Out New York Loves our Art History Ruler!

Thanks Time Out New York for prominently featuring our Art History Ruler in this week’s Home Design Issue, check it out in the Cool Products/ Affordable Art section-

Need a better look at this cool Ruler? Check it out on our website here, and remember the backside has historical facts about each section of Art History from the Roman days, Chinese and Mayan art, into the Renaissance and Modern Day. $24.

Wool & The Gang Knitting Kits

We have a ton of great new items in the shop right now, one of my favorites being these Wool & The Gang Knitting Kits– complete with EVERYTHING you need to make a cool hat, and its all cleverly packaged in a cool Wool & The Gang Bag. Kit includes: 2 balls of 100% Andean Highlands Wool, 15mm wooden needles, Easy-to-follow pattern with knitting instructions, WATG signature patches, Knitter’s sewing needle. The Lion Zion Hat is an extravagent hat like a lion’s mane. Wear the ZION with your head held high and with all the magnetism of a jungle queen! Oh yeahh honey! Enough yarn provided to knit both short and long versions. Rated: EASY! Available in Sherpa Blue, Sandy Beige and Tweed Grey. Great gift for budding DIYer who wants to learn to knit! $85.

More Obsessions in GOLD & SILVER…

I loved these Totem Stacking Cups when they came in White, but now I am BONKERS for them in Gold & Silver. Fun and function at its finest with the cool mugs in awesome stack-able shapes, great for saving space! Gold and Silver Totem Cups- $68. They also come as BOWLS too- $78. I used them for my jewelry, looks pretty amazing on my dresser if I do say so myself. Two for Earrings, one for necklaces, one for my belt buckles (um, yes, I have a belt buckle collection!)

RIP- Really Important People, Rest in Peace…

Celebrate the lives of these Really Important People who are Resting In Peace with these hilarious pocket mirrors. Bea, Michael, Farrah, Patrick, Billy, David, Ricardo. $8.95 each.

IN LOVE, WISH & CALM- in Lollia Heaven…

We just unpacked a ginormous shipment of lovely Lollia beauty items- they are all soo beautiful smelling and beautiful to look at too! Calm Shea Butter Hand Cream, Wish Shea Butter Hand Cream, In Love Shea Butter Hand Cream– the tubes themselves are soo lovely too! We also have the Petite sizes too (make great stocking stuffers!).

And then there is yummy Bubble Bath & Bath Salts- aren’t these gorgeous containers too?!

Calm– $42.95, Wish Bubble Bath-$49.95, $24.95 Wish Bath Salts , In Love– $34.95.

These little perfume bottles are perfect for your purse or traveling too (.125 oz- lasts awhile!). Calm, Wish, In Love Eau Perfumes– $9 each.

Startling Statistics…

It’s time to get serious for a minute (just a minute!). October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and I read some startling statistics in the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Awareness flyers floating around– EVERY 69 SECONDS, a woman DIES of breast cancer (that is like every minute!). Breast Cancer will strike 1.3 million women this year and kill almost 500,000, making it the leading cancer killer of women worldwide (info from komen.org). Personally I have had 2 family members die of this awful disease and I just want everyone to remember to HUG your loved ones, SHOW them you LOVE them and do what you can to help prevent this and other cancers from taking over. Spread the love my friends!

Bags O’FUN…

Check out these BAGS OF FUN – Outer Space & Dino, for your favorite Spaceman (or woman!) in the making, or budding palentologist. All come nicely packed in these cute cloth bags. Bag of Outer Space or Bag of Dinos– $15 each.