We are so excited about our Good Alice and Naughty Alice dresses. Here are photo’s of the (wrinkly) samples that Mr. Flowers (finally) brought. We are planning on releasing the two dresses as if they were a limited edition book, making only a certain amount of each. The dresses will be signed and numbered by [...]

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As you know, tonight is our play. We’ve been obsessively preparing, testing, painting, hanging (Walter…over and over…to get it right…he thinks we are just torturing him) so everything will come off without a hitch. Our Aunt Min works for a company that delivers body parts in coolers and she managed to secure us some dry [...]

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Elizabeth sleepwalks, it’s the truth. She also mumbles and makes dramatic pointing gestures while asleep which we find delightful and she finds, when told at breakfast, mortifying. This band came to her in a walking dream. Over and over she mumbled Noir du’Soeil, Noir du’Soeil. Elizabeth, off as she is this week googled and found [...]

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Drawing © Sarah Pomegranate
A sketch for an illustration for Nancy Baker’s new book that Sarah is illustrating.

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Thank you for all your concern, yes, we found our mother. She seemed off-put that we would be so concerned. We will remind her of this when we fall off the radar for a few hours one midnight.
Please, mark on your calendars, although we completely mistimed the full moon – and we should of known [...]

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Today feels like summer is ending. For the first time in days it hasn’t rained and it’s Sunday. We’ve got our balcony door open and the breeze is redolent with that melancholic end of summer smell accompanied by cicadas and crickets. (and a thousand lawn mowers)
We’ve been listening all day to Salyu singing Joni Mitchell’s [...]

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Although, as you know, we’re stuck in summer jobs and rarely leave the house anyway, if someone would like to take us to New York next month we wouldn’t say no. Why you ask? The Museum at FIT of course. They are staging the Gothic: Dark Glamour exhibition. Now we do tend to avoid anything [...]

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Our father gets angry when people email him while they’re on vacation. He cannot understand why anyone would go away, and yet still be in touch. “Be unavailable for at least two hours every day” is one of his many mottos, “leave an air of mystery.” Keeping that in mind, we are trying to be [...]

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Let’s talk about naughty books shall we. My sisters and I have had a love of Victorian naughtiness, especially read aloud, since our early teens. It is just so much fun and just so naughty. Our first introduction to lascivious literature was the classic My Secret Life by Anonymous. I found this weighty and quite [...]

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