Our good friend Toni has been getting Super Crafty lately, knitting new cozies for her Etsy shop, Semina Filligree! We thought you would all appreciate these lovelies, perfect for the cold months, and knit from super soft wool. Her inspiration for this collection includes vintage Chanel cloche hats, as well as Tatum O'Neal's cool headgear in the 70s movie Paper Moon. Love the wrist warmers, scarfs, and capes, too. And– do I even need to say it?– isn't her styling an inspiration?

Toni's Etsy shop is here– go and get these cutie-pie pieces before someone else snaps them up!

From Sasha

Some of you are aware of my keen love of Marie Antoinette (especially as imagined by Sofia Coppola), so we were thrilled to find ourselves in this collection on the Etsy Front Page earlier this week! Love all the other items so much, too. What is it about luxury and intrigue that makes my heart race so fast? I guess I'm only human after all…

From Sasha

Okay, it was only a matter of time before Gossip Girl made it into the blog. Maybe I was trying to keep the lowbrow world of modern television separate from the world of fairy forest folk; maybe I felt you would be confused by my seemingly incongruent obsession with a show about rich teenage prep schoolers in New York City. But then, little by little, I realized– all of you are watching it, too! Ha ha! (And believe you me, that includes Amber here at Violet Folklore… big time.)

For the few among you who have yet to be initiated, I offer an explanation. No, I've never been– or tried to dress like– a preppy, in all of my life. No, I don't watch much TV– we don't even have TV service, and we haven't had it for 15 years. I have missed all the shows that have captivated my peers for the past decade: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Sopranos, Sex in the City. But then along came the show that brought me (and so many of my popular-culture-resisting friends) back to TV land– the utterly obsess-able Gossip Girl. It has a lot going for it: sassy, witty characters, outrageous fashion, steamy love scenes, and the most Jane Austen-esque-cliff-hanger plot twists imaginable on the little screen. For one hour, my brain is on vacation, and nothing else matters except the shifting reputations and alliances of these immaculately turned-out Upper East Siders.  Continue Reading... (619 words + 5 images, estimated 2:29 mins reading time)