SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW.

There is an Indonesian tribal belief that everything a person uses is invested with a "soul" -- that even the most common, everyday object is given a life by those who use and cherish it.  And we agree.

There is something magical about the things that come to us from the past.   One can almost hear the echoes of all those others -- the little boy who loved an old stuffed bear, for example, or the grandmother who rocked her grandchildren in a favorite rocking chair.

This blog is a celebration of how the past interacts with the present -- the things that we love that are new, and the things that we love that are old.   We will share places to go, things to collect, styles to follow that are all part of a non-disposable and cyclical experience, where everything a person surrounds herself with is part of the art of living.

This space will also chronicle anything and everything having to do with our upcoming series, AMBER HOUSE, out this fall from Scholastic's Arthur A. Levine Books. The book is inspired by our own family history, and follows eleven generations of women, from the 1600s to the present.

This first post is dedicated to the lovely and talented Nicole Jaffe, who helped us design and craft this new blog, and to our grandmother, Lori Moore, who encouraged us to try in the first place.