We’re having a POETRY READING! Come on over to the shop this Monday the 29th for some oh so lovely post-holiday-poetry from Lily Brown & Joshua Marie Wilkinson. The duo’s passin through town for a conference, and we at G&G are thrilled to hear their work with a little post read wine and hang. We’ll [...]
Entries from December 2008
12.25.2008
Merry Merry!
Merry Happy Hurray! Lots of holiday love and sandy candy canes to all.
Nile and Uncle Bill making all the little ones’ wishes come true on Hanalei Bay.
12.23.2008
Aloha Arlo!
Baby Arlo is here! Baby Arlo is here!
Aunties have received word from Uncle Sam that Arlo has arrived, 8 lbs. 10 oz., healthy, happy, BORN AT HOME, and a boy once and for all! We send our great big congratulations, love, and promises of ever more nursery mural painting to Bronwen & Mickey and to [...]
12.23.2008
Holiday Hours
Merry Merry all!
Try as we might to figure out an elegant solution to keep the shop open during the busiest shopping season of the year, all of us lady shopkeepers decided to dig out and spend time with our families instead. Which means, the shop will be closed from here on out to the new [...]
12.17.2008
Faun Frolic Proposal
This amazing Kate Bush dance video looks like it was made in my backyard—the trees, the fog, the field, yes please. The dress looks like a costume my rogue auntie Barbara convinced my cousins and me to wear for a modernist interpretation of a faun frolic that she staged on my grandmother’s porch c.1991. And [...]
12.16.2008
Shake It, Rule It
Last night I semi-slept through my first full on Bay Area lightening storm. What a thrill! I can’t recall ever having them when I lived in San Francisco. I’m counting it as an added advantage of moving a bit north of the city and outside the protection of the Bay. However, the storm brought with [...]
12.16.2008
Kneass Boat Works
You see here Ruth Kneass hard at work on the beach and then her phenomenal results—necklaces made of washed up treasures, a bit of leather, a bit of enamel, some cast driftwood here and there, and a whole lot of love. Each one of a kind piece begins with a natural form and, dare I [...]
12.08.2008
Shiny Things Holiday Party!
We here at Gravel & Gold do love shiny things.
This Thursday, December 11th, join us in banishing the dark early evening gloom with a little headstrong will to dress in shiny things, gather with friends, and make major merry down at the shop. We’ll provide the rarefied holiday beverages and, of course, spare shiny things [...]
12.03.2008
Intuitive Adult Witch Networking Workshops!
The wait is over. Honey Spell Master Dori Midnight has locked down some dates for her adult Witch School! Yessssssssssss!!! I’ll let her tell you all about it. Be sure to sign up before class fills up!
After many years of teaching Witch School for kids, I am answering the pleas for Witch School for adults [...]
12.02.2008
Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone
Well do we know that awesome very often begats awesome, as can clearly be seen in these terrific old LIFE magazine shots of rock stars at home with their mamas and papas. Of course, the questions begs: Which is the radder of the two generations? Looking at these, I’m really not sure who I’d rather [...]
12.01.2008
Ian Is 2 Months Old
Auntie Lisa and the big healthy little one, duly impressed with Auntie’s powa necklace.
Really, really hot times in my bedroom, just camping out with my friends and Lisa’s rainbow baby blanket.
12.01.2008
Vintage Thea Porter Market Under Threat
A warning to you, eBay seller kerrytaylorauctions of Pall Mall, London UK:
Look at it this way, you can either come down on your starting bids for these bodacious vintage Thea Porter kaftans (and certainly those inflated estimates―in GBP, no less, as though by halving the figure before my currency conversion aversion eyes, I might frantically [...]
