This week we welcome some pretty awesome raw leather accessories from Yue, designed by Sarah Chow, who also collaborated with Ritchie of Triple-Major on Project White T-shirt. I’ve been a huge fan of raw and vegetable tanned leather for ages and these bags are made from some really beautiful hides. Also, in case you missed it last week, we’ve added All for the Mountain, Correll Correll, Dusen Dusen, FAUX/real, Laura Lombardi, Mary Meyer, Miss Alice, Nettie Kent, Osei-Duro, Rachel Comey, reid.dammit, Swedish Hasbeens, and Upstate to the Sale page

I took a week off from the ol’ day job over the holidays, and, um, guys -IT WAS AWESOME. I always look forward to the end of year because I finally get a break and an opportunity to get caught up on stuff. Anyone else do this, too?

Beer and nachos were consumed, loads of tea and coffee was imbibed, new hats were crocheted, my massive 2011 weaving project was (mostly) completed, vintage books were acquired, two books were devoured on the kindle, cookies were baked, prosecco was drunk, documentaries were watched, new things were added to the shop, delicious meals made by Brannan were devoured, the horse was ridden, and lots, and lots of R&R time was had.

And yes, I documented a bunch of this on the blog’s instagram account. Can’t help it. (Anabela (aka Fieldguided) clued me into the PicFrame app that let’s you collage a bunch of photos together, like I’ve done here.) Happy 2012 everyone!

Happy 2012 everyone! I hope everyone managed to fill the holiday season with good food, R&R, and friends. The Shop is kicking off the new year with new arrivals from Erin Considine. We’ll be getting a few other items in this month too, and we’re really looking forward to our upcoming spring arrivals. In the meantime, check out Erin’s latest and our sale page

Scarves are one of those pieces of clothing that I seem to accumulate at a ridiculous pace. I’m one of those people who is constantly cold so scarves are pretty essential. Given our cold weather of late I’ve had scarves on the brain. If you ever happen to check out our Featured page on the Shop, you may have noticed that it changes every week and for the past two weeks I’ve rotated a few of the scarves we have on it. Brannan has the Hemingway and wears it daily, and I can attest to the softness and warmth of the Upstate scarves (flannel!). Anyway, the point of all this blah, blah, blah is to say – check out our scarf selection guys!

In other shop news, while we’ve sold out of quite a few of everyone’s favourites (all Kora pieces are officially sold now), we still have A LOT of good things left. I’m not planning on putting any new arrivals up until after the holidays (anyone else having information overload?) but we had a much bigger influx of A/W inventory this season, so you may have missed some things. I will be adding back a few past season pieces that are on sale next week. Have a great week everyone!

Why yes, yes I am on a tan kick. Looking at my Wear Board on pinterest lately it’s become pretty obvious I’ve a fixation. I think it has something to do with trying to add a little visual warmth to the supremely uninspiring lack of colour in the winter landscape. Whatever the unconscious reason, I’m liking it