Last spring we started stocking Sue's bowls. Then this past December we expanded the line to carry her creamers, small jugs, salt cellars, wide pasta bowls, side plates, dinner plates and cups.     Then, this past weekend Michael and I set aside a couple hours to take pictures of them. Sue's work makes taking pictures easy. xo, N       ______ We're updating this coming week, watch for new items (and new shop photos) at 6pm EST on March 5th! Sign up for the list here. Like us on facebook, follow along on instagram and check out HG around the internet, here.                       Photos: Michael Graydon + Nikole Herriott

  To me, the best kind of cake marks celebration. Big or small, it's an exclamation point on time well spent. Nostalgic and celebratory at once.   I don't know why exactly, but this one, the chocolate chip mint, (recipe below) makes me feel ten again.     With a fondness for swing sets and birthday parties and backyard pools. For watermelon slices (with seeds) and summers gone by. For punch through straws and cheezies in a bowl. For paper plates and plastic forks and eating lunch outside.     And for cake, simply for the sake of it. xo, N       _________ [amd-zlrecipe-recipe:19] Photo by Michael Graydon + Nikole Herriott, food & recipe by Tara O'Brady all for Kinfolk Magazine

  We worked outdoors most days in January. In low sun and long shadows and perfect shades of blue. Among palms and bananas and really green trees. In weather that in Toronto, we only get at the very start to spring. It was the kind of time, around the kind of people, that make it easy to be grateful. xo, N           ___________ This photo. These boots. This is the best honey. These are some of the prettiest salt bowls. I'm into these polish colours. I like the looks of this room. The photo doesn't relate per se, it's one Michael and I took a few months back, but that I really love. You can find the mustard in this shot, here. And I'd like to eat this for lunch.

  We went to France a couple months ago. It was when summer had turned to fall here but when it was unofficially still lingering there. When the afternoons were almost warm enough for sandals but the nights chilly enough to turn on the furnace.     There was a fireplace in our kitchen and a ghost in our bedroom. There was taxidermy in our living room and fish pond in our front yard.     There were friends and meals and many bottles of wine. There were markets and broncantes and numerous trips to the grocery store. There were oysters.     There was the best yogurt I've ever had (Sweden & Beijing run close 2^nd & 3^rd mind you) and some of the best cheese. There were croissants and religieuses and a good lot of canelés. There too, was a truckload of Rosé.       And perhaps most exciting of all, there was baguette delivery and hunting for hare. The latter, something I've always dreamt of doing (more on that soon). And the former, somehow one of the the best surprises to date.

  There were roadside stands selling cepes, old men selling honey, and chickens with their heads in the grocery store. And hands down, there were the most beautiful butcher shops on earth.       There was cognac and chocolate and the kind of magic that only comes from getting lost. It was amazing.     xo, N               Plus, a few things I like: this table the second photo in this post the the wall in this photo this situation these scoops this hair red and pink together and this sweatshirt                             Photos: Michael Graydon

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