here we are documenting our favorite things >
It’s about timeless* pieces,
restructuring, upcycling & customizing what you have**
+ exploring exciting findings*** that make you more content.
AND FEATURING PEOPLE WE ADMIRE 🥰
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* non-disposable, precious, lasting, sustainable - you name it - with value in it (emotional, material or imaginary)
** YES, you have enough already.
*** new & vintage jewelry, t-shirts, tableware, gadgets, breathing techniques, reading material, and places for fly-fishing.
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EMBODIMENT PRACTICES are good for better intimacy, openness of the heart and clearer thoughts that guide you through life.
Metaverse is the buzzword for the end of 2021. What happens with it, we will see. We are treating this concept as a vehicle for curiosity, magic, well-being and other things related to imagination and intentionality. It’s a space for you being you. In our reality it has tons of emeralds, love and we call it MAGICVERSE because why not? >
Amazing Kara Walker talks about her creative process. Go to minute 4:40 to skip all the “please switch off your cell phones” part >
4-WEEK-STYLE-YOGA class is finally here > we will be hanging upside down and doing fashion forward dog poses with flea market twists. You will see some cool new sides of yourself surfacing. Come to sweat, to have fun, be weird and to reprogram your sartorial thinking >
June’s edit rolled into July (thanks Mercury retrograde) > on curiosity, fabrics that have weaved-in transistors + excitements & downsides of eye rolling. This time we talk ABOUT OPENNESS. Don’t forget to do rope jumping if you want to wear your heels again. Plus 56 inspiring things to touch - look at - or think about (edit JUNE 2021) >
ARE YOU GOING TO MARS WITH ME
PIET OUDOLF genius touch: landscape architect who will make you fall in love with dry bents, patches of untamed greens and innocent wild flowers. Once you see it, it will change your taste for ever. Watch this >
JUNETHINGS // explaining styling process >
END-OF-LIFE DOULA IS ALSO THE FOUNDER OF SOUL’S SKIN >
& HOW SHE COPES WITH HER OWN FEARS
Dorothee Perret interview with Henry Taylor in Purple magazine >
NEW INSPIRATIONS &NOTES ON
INCREDIBLE BEAUTY OF EVERYDAY MOMENTS:
SARUNE ZURBA PHOTOGRAPHY
DALGONA MAGIC >
SUMMER DRINK #1
BEST HOME BOOK 2020 if you are keen to start renovating, by Athena Calderone >
FOR YOUR MOM: YOU CAN BUY SOMETHING, YOU CAN MAKE SOMETHING, YOU CAN WRITE SOMETHING. JUST DO IT <3 ///
[extended*] till Mother’s day 2021 - because we love our moms so much…
Little Marni and her mom influence - with their energy and styles >
TWO NOVELS FOR MAY >
BY ERA LITERARY YOURS
REPURPOSING: let’s recycle all five of your wedding dresses!! Just kidding! But we better start saving the planet from textile waste by rewearing clothing that’s hiding in our closets instead of buying tons of new things.
August turned into November and we are finally done with the newest edit on BEING WEIRD (NOV 2021)>
I remember being caught in a sudden rain that evening (this is Paris in 2007) - alone - yearning for someone to share this beauty with me - white chestnut blossoms covered the pavement after the storm stopped. The exposition I saw was called THE AIR IS ON FIRE - and I felt it with all my body. Something was on fire. Honestly, I don’t know why I have waited until June 2021 to design something that’s purely and intentionally feminine. But I hope you will love it as much as I do. Our collection links birth-death, creativity and other traits attributed to the feminine principle >
ERA’s books on openness: one portrays intimate fragility, the other burns with destructive desire >
Brilliant intimate moments of returning to your childhood with photographer Jenny Hueston: “I am always looking for pictures that capture the moments that feel like old memories of mine mixed with images that break away from those memories to the present day town that I only know as a visitor.”
A Lithuanian wandering the world: Juste Kostikovaite discusses her quarantine, art, and old socks >
We invited seven people we admire from around the world to share their ideas of what they would love to give & to receive for upcoming holidays. And what’s their wish for 2021. “A meteorite casually named after your sister (no need to officialise it, just use your imagination and draw one) or a tie-dye blanket from recycled cashmere?! Feel the warmth of upcoming holidays, even if you are emailing a scanned do-it-yourself card.” // image: this is on my wishlist. A plate with Marlyn Minter photograph purchased will feed 75 homeless New Yorkers affected by covid-19 @nyhomeless
The photo was taken in September 2000. That minute is a long time gone. All zones of comfort are stepped out of. Unfamiliar is so intimate to me now. I still fear things but have a joyful enthusiasm about it. AS WELL as writing on them: here is my September 2020 edit >
Just in case you missed this: we changed our name to JUNETHINGS >
EMILI VESILIND on self-isolation, family, artists she admires & jewelry business >
JUNETHINGS // OUR WEIMAR BEADS COLLECTION >
LET’S REORGANIZE YOUR CLOSET:
JUNETHINGS styling classes >
WRITER CHRISTINE reads Angela Lansbury out-loud in her Highland Park backyard. Her baby daughter Romy occasionally tears a page out of it >
MOST VERSATILE PIECE IN THE MILKY WAY GALAXY >
EASIEST BANANA BREAD: with two old bananas >
IF YOU WANT TO BUY JUST ONE DRESS FOR THE WHOLE SUMMER > all-round, comfortable, elegant + ready to go when you are >
FEMININE - a state of mind or simply looks? Through my work and life experience I distilled 5 main ingredients. In addition, how being a touchy-feely four-year-old can shape your career; how your grandmothers’ fundamentally opposite personas impact your essence, and how to find love by mixing fragility and strength (edit APRIL 2021).
DARNED MEMORIES >
Era reviews for us > “I’ve just finished reading the 2020 winners of the Booker Prize and The National Book Award for Fiction – and still can’t recover myself from the thought of apples and oranges, which, despite their differences in color and texture, might actually produce the same savory taste.”
UNIFORM + OTHER GOOD THINGS
(edit FEB 2021)
“A cut flower’s life span is about 10 days and it evokes the sense of wonder for the time we do have,” says punk florist Makoto Azuma who sends his arrangements to the space (EXOBIOTANICA, 2014). // Watch Alison Klayman documentary to learn more >
Marvelous adventures of JAMES TURRELL: “every evening we unfold the light and every morning we fold it back to return the blue to the sky.” This magician studied mathematics, perceptual psychology, geology, astronomy, art and got a pilot license at 16. Flying Buddhist monks out of Chinese-controlled Tibet in the sixties was, he later explained, his way to find "some beautiful places to fly." Even if people said he was probably working for CIA. Watch him explain his lifelong Roden Crater project >
APRIL letter to JUNETHINGS fans > “even with plenty of fancy cookbooks around, I ate yesterday’s food”
APOTROPAIC MAGIC and basically anything else you want >
ONCE UPON A TIME: CHRISTO about their work > “it is freedom. Freedom is the enemy of possession, and possession is permanence.”
WHAT’S ON SALE
(A LOT OF GOOD STUFF)
ONE DAY AT THE TIME : our new birthday mantra helps to live your life in a more meaningful way >
BOOKS FOR JUNE
ERA LITERARY YOURS STRIKES AGAIN >
BECK’S LOVE OF LIFE &PEOPLE
AND THE STORY OF THIS RED DRESS
SERPENT
COLLECTION
STACK YOUR LUCK >>
JUNETHINGS SELF-ISOLATION SERIES > shot and modeled by Bojana Tatarska Dauvers, at Chateau Marmont in LA.