We are very excited to team up with Elissa from Calico for a simultaneous Calico/ Every Little Counts blog giveaway! Elissa was sweet enough to offer up a $50 gift card to CALICO to be used on a huge selection of amazing vintage pieces, jewelry, accessories, and tees (which just so happen to include Every Little Counts!)
In addition, you can also jump on over to the Calico blog for a chance to win our "A Literate Passion" tank, inspired by the passionate love affair of two of our favorite writers, Henry Miller and Anais Nin.
For a chance to win a $50 gift card, please visit shopcalico.com and leave a comment below with your favorite piece in the shop. You have until midnight on Sunday, May 23rd to enter. A winner will be announced on Monday.
Good luck! xo
Here are a few of my Calico favorites...
(Definitely check the beyond amazing one of a kind necklaces by please + thank you. I am particularly swooning over the one above, but I'm afraid it might be sold out. )
This past weekend was one of those magical weekends that seemed to linger on and on in the most perfect way.
One of the highlights of the weekend was the arrival of the HAUS gang in Brooklyn. I don't know if you remember me talking about Haus, but they are a new shop in Toronto that just so happens to carry Every Little Counts. Adam and I met up with William, Rachel, and Maurizio at the Roebling Tea Room in Williamsburg. We've been speaking so much online and over the phone that it was so nice to actually meet in person. I love them all beyond words. We spent the afternoon talking, drinking, thrifting, and ended with a tour of our studio in Bushwick. I think they definitely need to open up here in Brooklyn because I miss them already.
William looking extra foxy in our "Rescue Me" tank.
The very lovely Rachel.
Maurizio wrapped up in Rachel's scarf. He has the cutest smile and drinks vodka martinis- a man after my own heart.
Snuggling up with William.
Everyone scored something at my secret thrift store.... I will not reveal the name or location. Never!
"For you and for me, the highest moment, the keenest moment is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our mind- and you and I both lose it the same way, by love"
-Anais Nin in a letter to Henry Miller. Feb. 22, 1932
I don't really know where to start here. I've been reading Anais Nin since I was in high school (dare I say 15 years ago?!) I don't remember how I came to hear of her since I have a notoriously bad memory. It may have been after seeing "Henry & June." What I do remember is scouring used book stores in attempt to collect everything I could by her. I have most, but not all of her 7 volumes of diaries, not to mention the "A Journal of Love" series from her diary, and finally "A Literate Passion: the Letters of Anais Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953," which have all become obsessively underlined. I don't think I can really express how influential she was to me- then and now, so much so that I know I can't properly describe it right here. But, perhaps she is the reason why I have a closet full of journals, which reminds me...I should really start writing more.
If you aren't familiar with Henry & Anais, the 1990 film, "Henry & June" is a great introduction. Set in Paris in the 1930's, depicting the intertwined lives of Anais Nin, Henry Miller, and his wife, June. The photos above are from the film, starring Maria de Medeiros, Fred Ward, and Uma Thurman. And the costumes are to die for. Here is the trailer...
Sylvie Vartan was one of the most famous of the French yé-yé girls of the 60's. She had a really interesting life - she was born in Sofia, Bulgaria (where Adam's grandfather is from!) before moving to France, becoming discovered as a teen pop star and marrying Johnny Hallyday, the famous "French Elvis". Adam loves how her career crosses paths with all these great musicans - she toured with UK rockabilly star Vince Taylor, for instance, whose story was the inspiration for David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust, etc. Adam goes on and on if you let him...
There weren't really teen stars there until Sylvie came along. She changed the meaning of a singer in France, becoming known for dancing and singing, which was a big deal at the time- weird, I know. Wikipedia describes her as having the toughest sound out of all the yé-yé girls, but I don't know...she's still sort of sticky sweet to me. For instance, her covers of "Baby, it's you" and "Locomotion"- pretty innocent, but still a favorite when I feel like French pop music. Adam thinks French covers of English/American pop songs are the perfect combination of absolute silliness and absolute sophistocation.
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