When I was a kid my mom grew an amaryllis every winter. I like to carry on the same tradition. I’m sure that to many the type of person who grows amaryllis in their home is the same person who lives with 6 longhair rescue cats (and sleeps in the bed with them), watches [...]
I took this shot last summer. I was walking along Michigan Avenue and came across this monarch butterfly. It was floating around on the breeze and occasionally landing on the blooms of various flowers growing in the sidewalk planters. I stopped and enjoyed a few moments of it’s playful antics, took this photo, and continued [...]
This beautiful mass of flowers hangs in the windows of the newest Anthropologie in Block 37 on State Street. They are made of plastic bottles and cups which have been colored and cut into a multitude of different shades and shapes. It encompasses two floors of windows, forming a gigantic circle, and is truly amazing. [...]
It’s almost here! The most romantic day of the year… Valentine’s Day. We’ve just updated our site with a special Valentine’s Day page where you can easily order your sweetheart an elegant arrangement.
You may notice we have a love of all things grey here at epoch… and I personally have a serious obsession with grey felt (and apparently shopping). I can’t remember how I stumbled across Hard Graft. It may have at one time been on etsy.com, but no longer is. I have drooled over their felt and [...]
A friend of mine emailed me this link a week or two ago. http://www.bonnenuithome.com/ I have a tendancey to not really look at emails… so I flag them and get back to it later, which happens every couple of weeks. Not so great at the email thing. Anywho, I finally went to the link today [...]
A couple of years ago I did wedding flowers for a girl, Carrie, who works in the store next to ours. I really dug her style!. Since then epoch moved locations and I hadn’t seen her in a while. I stopped by recently and she gave me a card for her jewelry business. I was [...]
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I came across this on one of the dorky blogs that I read daily. Yes! I like reading about technology and other such nerdieness. Anyway, this post was taken from another blog…. and now here it is here on our blog. Artist Macoto Murayama created these fantastic illustrations of flowers, focusing on the geometry and [...]
