Porter Flea

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of attending Porter Flea at Marathon Music Works here in Nashville. Porter Flea is described as a "modern handmade market", and it was so fascinating being there and admiring all of the hard work, craftsmanship and talent it takes to create unique products, art and shops. Think of a craft fair minus satchels of potpourri and tissue box covers, plus everything awesome ever. I had such a great time!


Another awesome thing about Porter Flea was meeting Kaelah and Mike, and shopping in their Honeybean! I've been following Kaelah's blog for a while, and she was super helpful and sweet when I reached out to her for some information on neighborhoods and such before my move to Nashville. We kept in touch, and I can say that she is just as sweet and great in person. I am so super impressed by the Honeybean Mobile Boutique and hope to see more of that lady soon!

The necklace I bought from Honeybean, which is my new favorite.

Twenty Heads

 

West Vintage Trading Co.

I really wish I was more organized and less shy, and spoke with all of my favorite vendors from the flea. But I am me, and I like to hide behind a camera and snatch a business card. I'm fairly new at this type of thing, so please don't be offended if I didn't credit your work! Just comment or e-mail me if you are or you know who the creators of these marvelous goods are and I will correct this immediately!

Some favorite artists and printmakers from the flea were: Laura Baisden, Emma Klingbeil, Sally Harless aka Sadly Harmless, Cordial Kitten, and the rad people of Monkey Ink Design - Alicia Waters is so talented! I bought a print from Monkey Ink Design that I absolutely adore and is currently hanging on my bedroom wall.



400 Moons had these cool terrariums on display, as well as kits for you to design your own!

Little Things Studio. One of my favorite quotes.

After Porter Flea, we went to Mad Donna's for brunch. For lunch, really, but they were serving brunch and that was great. I'm apprehensive about becoming a "brunch" person. Remember Hannah's break up speech to Adam on Girls? "And it makes me feel very stupid to tell you this because it makes me sound like a girl who wants to, like, go to brunch. And I really don't want to go to brunch." Yeah, ditto. But anyway, there was a Bloody Mary bar and I got to eat fried eggs and salad at the same time, so I was pretty content. Mad Donna's seems to have great drink specials going on all the time, also, so I'll be going back.



All in all, it was a very nice little Saturday. We ended the night with dinner and wine and movies at Laurie's, and today I sat out by the pool for a while. I start work tomorrow! And the rest of the night will consist of me mentally and physically preparing for that. But be sure to check out the Porter Flea website, because they list all of the incredible vendors, most of which have online shops, and you can fill your home and wardrobe with these beautiful, beautiful things just like I have. Have a nice week, folks :)

xo, Corinne

A Photo An Hour

Today I woke up super early, because I promised myself I would. My schedule has been way off since I moved; it lacks structure entirely. I can't remember the last time I've been able to go without working for a month! I do actually have a fun little gig set up for me to start next week at Free People (!!!) and I'm really grateful for that. But I digress. 

Today I was up and out of bed before 8 am and decided today would be better than any other to do a photo an hour project. So that I did, and here it is. :)

8 am:


Neat dresser, messy desk.
9 am:

10 am:

I went on a walk which turned into a hunt for sticks at Edwin Warner park after I ate breakfast and was properly caffeinated. The weather here in Tennessee has been perfect lately. High 70's, no humidity. Perfect park weather.

I wanted to try and stick with one photo per hour, but this was too cool not to share. Tell me that does not look like a skeleton tree hand?!
11 am:

Leaving the park. Stopped home to drop off my sticks, made an iced coffee to go, and headed back out.
12 pm:

For like, half a day I was almost disappointed by Nashville's thrift stores. Then I did some further investigating and discovered this beauty. Southern Thrift is perfect. It's almost like my favorite thrift store (Island Thrift) back on Long Island. Today I found two throw pillows for the couch, two vases (30 cents a piece!), a picture frame to make over, and a really rad vest for over dresses. All for 8 bucks! Thrifting is my favorite pastime, ever.
1 pm:


I always see this wall while I'm passing it on the highway. It would be really great for some sort of photo shoot. Today I was driving around the side streets to get more acquainted with where things actually are here and I pulled up right next to it! It's been geotagged on Instagram as "The Wall of Love", but I'm not sure if anyone actually calls it that.
2 pm:

These are the pillows I found at Southern. Our apartment decor has two themes: "Whatever we want" and "Anything goes" :) The off-white one has a really pretty crocheted design on the front that reminded me a lot of Brigette.
3 pm:

Lunch was Oatmeal Squares (so was breakfast, I can't get enough) and strawberries.
4 pm:

Put those sticks I picked up this morning to good use! Our walls are so bare and I've seen this cool stick art done by Melissa for her sweet baby Arlo over on Instagram. Being that I love nature (hellooo!) and DIY, I went ahead and made my own! I'm going to estimate that with the amount of yarn I used (that I already had on hand from past projects), this wall hanging cost under 50 cents to make. And also I'm obsessed with it.
5 pm:
There's no real photo for 5 pm because Andrew came home and we took a nap. Here's a still from a really dorky "music video" I made for my best friend Amy today to make up for it. We exchanged them, and this was honestly the highlight of my day. I miss her.

6 pm:

Dinner was lemon chicken orzo soup and toast with Smart Balance spread. And a Diet Coke.
7 pm:

Andrew's mom is here visiting pretty much indefinitely, to help out around Laurie's place - given that she just had a baby and all. We took her to McKay's which is a gigantic used book/cd/dvd/electronics supercenter, basically. I walked around with a copy of Franny and Zooey in my hand for about forty minutes, but decided last minute to maybe not buy anything else until I start working again. Oh, responsibility, you're boring.
8 pm:

Nothing really spectacular happened for the rest of the evening. We took Andrew's mom back to Laurie's, finally checked the mail, made snacks and then buried our faces in our respective laptops.

And now I have a sleepy Andrew next to me, probably just dying for me to finally shut the lights off and turn in myself. Which is what I'll do! But this was fun, I think I'll do it again sometime.

xo, Corinne

Glitter Shoes DIY

Hey guys! I wrote a cute little tutorial yesterday for Singular Ladies on how to make your own glitter shoes. The entire process is really fun, especially the end result! You can check out my post here. More to come!

Rewind

craft night last week: bracelet making supplies / wine by the fire
looking really good with ali <3 / finished products





snowed in saturday, so those shoots i mentioned didn't happen (they're rescheduled!). what did happen was me having the house to myself, making snacks and a bed out of the couch, and a full day of netflix instant on apple tv. i finally watched me and you and everyone we know, and it became an instant favorite. a very aesthetically pleasing and soothing flick. i ended the night however with two days, which is a big bummer of a movie starring paul rudd and adam scott. i'm just hoping it's not actually based on paul rudd's life, because for some reason i remember the opening credits stating that the movie was based on true events and the main characters name is paul.

i mean if paul rudd needs a hug, i will gladly give him one.




the babies (andrew's niece and nephew) came over for pizza the other night. we made a big mess of the couch and crawled around in a blanket fort.



finally, we inherited a dog! sadly, andrew's grandpa passed away last week. it's been a real bummer, and i wish i could've met him. the kind of tarnished silver lining here though is that now we get to take care of his miniature schnauzer, zoe. she is ten years old and cute as a button and really timid. i'm planning on winning her over with cheerios and belly rubs.

xo, corinne

That thing you do

I've been working on this scarf for my sister. I'm going to bring it up with me to Albany for her birthday. Hopefully she doesn't read my blog. She barely uses the internet (which is something I can't wrap my head around. A nearly 21 year old girl in 2011 who hates the internet? She's also way more productive than me in other aspects, so more power to her.)

The other day, I had some sort of revelation. I've wanted to start focusing on a craft that I can share with whoever's interested. Crocheting is awesome, and I love to do it, but it's very time consuming and I have to plan gifts about a month in advance. With autumn upon us, I started to think of what I could do with my favorite thing (leaves), and then I realized - hair accesories! Went out to the store that day to buy a hot glue gun, ribbon, and bunches of artificial foliage. Right now I'm experimenting with materials, but hopefully if I work hard enough at it I'll come up with a "product" I'm super duper proud of. I've given three of my starter clips away so far, and the recipients seemed pretty stoked. So, this is something I'm pretty excited about.

Just some yummy brownies I made the other day for Andrew and I.

Last night, something wonderful happened. But I'll have to leave you in suspense, until next time, because I'm hungry and it's time for me to prepare some pre-hurricane Irene meals. Everyone please stay safe and dry! xo