Two Good Things

1. Today we finally put up the Scalamandre wallpaper that I bought a year ago on Ebay. It is perfect. I've loved it since I was in high school and would admire it on the walls at Gino's, an Italian restaurant that was across the street from Bloomingdale's. Wes Anderson also used to admire it there, and he used it in the Royal Tenenbaums, and now Kate Spade has it in some of her dressing rooms, which is like so many things I love all at once, I can hardly stand it. Except that I can stand it, and I will now stand it every single day, happily.

2. Tonight I went to see Maira Kalman and Daniel Handler at WORD. They read from their new book and riffed affectionately off one another, and were completely adorable. When I said hello to Maira, and reminded her that we'd previously met at BookCourt, she said, oh yes, and then did a hand gesture that clearly meant *hair pouf*, and I died of happiness and satisfaction.

love

Emma