Sometimes I paint

 

Photo: Shanna Fisher

Photo: Shanna Fisher

These pieces are from my series “My Friends, My Spirit Animals”

 

The Magic Starts Here

 

www.shannafisher.com

What is so lovely about New York in Autumn?  It’s the go back to school feeling, let’s get some work done and buy books and look at the leaves change and thank God the weather is so livable again.  I find myself taking long walks around the city in places I’ve never been before… like the quaint cafes along the streets in the UES and along the alley ways between SoHo and the West Village to stop in Jacques Torres’ chocolate factory for heaps of chocolate and along the water in Williamsburg all the while looking for new product, new gift concepts.

Shanna Fisher came over this last weekend to photograph some stuff for my new “Top Secret Project”… it’s not that secret, it’s just not finished yet… all in good time (last week of November hopefully). www.GraceLockwood.com

 

It took until actually pulling out some holiday decorations (I know – it’s October!  personal shoppers are constantly living in the future!!) to realize how much I love the holidays more in the north east than California.

And as it is the day before Halloween, I live in a city where you don’t really notice the people dressed in costumes… in NYC this could be any day of the year.  Except there’s a prettier background with all of the incredible foliage.