Rose Cantine

Recently on Shopplr, the online paper goods store, Felt & Wire shop: www.feltandwireshop.com. Featuring beautiful notebooks, greeting cards, wrapping paper, note cards, and more.

From The Spirituality of Art:
Imagination draws its energy from a confrontation with desire. It feeds off desire, transmuting and magnifying reality through desire’s power. Fantasy does the opposite; it avoids desire by fleeing into a crude sort of wish-fulfillment that seems much safer. Fantasy might be teddy bears, lollipops, sexual delights, or superhero adventures; it [...]

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The documentary “September Issue” about Anna Wintour and Vogue Magazine is coming out at the end of this month. I can’t wait to see it.

I write a weekly article for NBC San Francisco Bay Area news fashion section. This week, it’s about cool luggage. Go to my article about Hideo Wakamatsu bags.
Also recently on Shopplr: beauty tips from Benjamin Puckey, international stylist, on how to contour the face. I know it sounds frightening in a retro 1980s sort of [...]

I wrote an article for NBCBayarea.com about Rickshaw Bagworks, a San Francisco-based company that makes chic laptop and messenger bags inspired by the city’s urban cycling culture.  Go to:
Geek Chic: Laptop bags from Rickshaw Bagworks

I just posted two articles that are related: 6 Mandel, an elegant chambre d’hôte in Paris with views of the Eiffel Tower and a profile of French fabric designer, Philippe David, who designed many of the fabrics used in 6 Mandel.
6 Mandel is an insider tip (from Philippe). They don’t advertise, the site is in [...]

It’s summer, the perfect time to embark on a project that will take two months. The idea is to nourish your creative and spiritual life, and integrate it with your physical health, not just this summer but throughout your existence. Here are my top 10 summer projects. I will talk about each one in greater [...]

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