Since I've been posting daily on TWT, finding an adorable shop online has become as exciting as walking by one on the street. I peer into the shop's virtual windows, nose about its virtual shelves, and read the "about" page as though I were asking the store clerk a few questions. Hmm, in re-reading that, I'm noticing it's a bit depressing; it makes me sound like I'm a little hermit with poor social skills.
But that's just too bad, because today I found an amazing site called Brook Farm General Store, and I just have to tell you about it and show you some of the wares that I'm dying to get my paws on in real life. The actual store is in Brooklyn, right under the Williamsburg Bridge, and the next time I'm in NYC I'm definitely going to stop by (more after the jump).
One of my favorite items the store features are the Postalco Notebooks above. I love the colors and sizes they come in; I'm always on the hunt for a great notebook in which to jot things down.
I'm also lusting after this Linen Day Blanket for my new place that I'm moving into in September. Don't you think it would look adorable on a couch in the attic apartment of a little Cambridge pad? I do.
Who doesn't love beeswax and tealights? Clearly these Beeswax Tea Lights are doing something right if they combine two such awesome things. I'd like these for my apartment, too, come to think of it.
The scuffed up nature of this DNTX Tote tote-ally (har har) appeals to me. I'd love to shove everything else in this post into this bag and walk off into the sunset, a little bit hipper.
But if I'm walking into the sunset, I'd probably get a bit sweaty; better bring along this Sea Salt Soap to make sure I stay fresh. God, that was a bad joke. I don't even know if it was a joke. But it was certainly not a great sentence.
Moving on. I just had to include these Tin Tin books, because it just proves how awesome Brook Farm is; any store owner with the smarts to carry these books is a store owner who knows what's up.
And now, a little story:
When I was little, I had a stack of these Tin Tin comic books (if you could call them comic books; they're much more elegant). Unfortunately, they were all in French, so I had absolutely no idea what was going on. Perhaps my parents, who are fluent in French, Italian, and German between the two of them, were trying to do me a favor by getting me books in other languages. Or perhaps someone gave them to us?
Either way, I was a stubborn little thing, and refused to read or speak anything but English. That stubbornness, or reluctance, or whatever it was, totally sucks. Because now I couldn't talk myself out of a paper bag in any other language for the life of me. Even six years of Latin seem to have fled from my brain the minute I graduated form high school. But the one part of the books I could truly appreciate were the pictures and the covers, which is why I'm drawn to the shot of the five books above. And seeing as though they're in English, I could actually read them.
The End.
Anyway, aren't these things just adorable? Which do you most want to put into your virtual tote bag?