Category Archives: VOYAGES

Sweet Violets

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Earlier this month, we took a journey up North, where it is still spring. Little green fiddleheads are just starting to poke their drowsy heads up from the dark earth. The air was sharp and green, the black branches of all the stonefruit trees heavy with bright blossoms. Here in the South, it is mostly [...]

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Mardi Gras Madness

Friday, March 4, 2011

We’re in a mad flurry of sequin sewing, trim-gluing and puppet-building leading up to Fat Tuesday, so I had better share this rundown of pictures from last year’s big day now, before I get buried up to my neck in sparkles and frippery! I can only pray that we are blessed with such weatherly perfection [...]

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Krewe of Eris – Lux et Voluptas

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Last year, the annual Krewe of Eris Parade fell on Valentine’s Day, making for a mighty romantic and randy procession. The official theme was Lux et Voluptas, or Light & Pleasure – but I think most of us couldn’t help getting a little crazy with the love + hearts. I mean, when else do you [...]

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Big Blessings Poppin’ – The Devil Can’t Stop It!

Friday, February 25, 2011

It’s almost that time, y’all… My mind is already there, steeped in chicory, dusted in powdered sugar. Hungry for those sweet faces I ain’t kissed in so long. My heart quickens up when I think of riding down my old bumpity streets, turning onto Piety and seeing my favorite tulip magnolia shivering with blossoms. Ready [...]

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Sylphide Treasures – Gypsy Honeymoon II.

Monday, December 13, 2010

This flock of blue morpho butterflies seems to be exploring… Gypsy Honeymoon is one of the special spots on my list of pilgrimages whilst visiting San Francisco. I met the ravishing owner, Gabrielle Ekedal the first time my grandfather and I dropped in, and we instantly felt a deep kinship. She is a very magical [...]

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Maraschino Honey

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

★ This interview with Patti Smith in Japan just rocks my world. She is so raw, and unafraid – totally unfiltered, totally high. This world needs more role models like her. “I might be 31 years old, but I’ve just begun.” She is forever my hero. ★ This incredible interview with Sleazy is prefaced by [...]

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New Orleans Hallowe’en

Thursday, November 18, 2010

Before too much time escapes through my glass, I must give you a little peepshow into the depraved and delightful scene that was our New Orleans Hallowe’en. It was actually a shockingly mellow night, aside from the total shitshow that was Frenchmen Street, where hordes of rat-like zombies swarmed around canisters of nitrous, falling over [...]

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Magic Windows #19

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

“I alight at Esplanade in a smell of roasting coffee and creosote and walk up Royal Street. The lower Quarter is the best part. The ironwork on the balconies sags like rotten lace. Little French cottages hide behind high walls. Through deep sweating carriage- ways one catches glimpses of courtyards gone to jungle.” – Walker [...]

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The J.B. Blunk Residency

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Back in September, when I was visiting San Francisco, I had the opportunity to experience a very magical place, high up in the green hills of Inverness: The J.B. Blunk Residency, which is sort of a secluded zen fairy cabin-haven for craftsfolk and artists, and all sorts of interesting people. We had the luck to [...]

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Sur la Plage

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

It’s quite amazing what a week or so away from your everyday life can do for one’s perspective. I always return from my travels newly inspired, and oddly even more in love with home, and the city I live in. I’ve always been the kind of vagabond that likes knowing I have a bed, and [...]

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