What We Love Today: ManiaMania for Catbird

Today, we love the belated snow. The Cat Cave faces the Williamsburg Bridge, and its red steel frame is finally coated in a dusting of white. 

We also love that our dear friend Melanie of ManiaMania has done it again, and created a wondrous necklace exclusively for us. The Ritual is a triangular pendant with seemingly mystical properties. A single champagne diamond hangs suspended on thin chain over an open pavé arrow cradling the most glorious rose-cut diamond stunner. How does she do it? We're spellbound. 

The Ritual Necklace, exclusive to Catbird, is available at the storefront and online meow! 

What We Love Today: John Derian

Summer is in full swing. We bet you have weddings, birthdays, graduations and many barbecues to attend. Be the best guest and gift the hostess one of these neat John Derian decoupage handmade glass catch-all dishes and trays. 

See all John Derian objects we carry HERE.

- miss anna 

What We Love Today: Party time, excellent.

Congratulations! Hear-Hear! Felicitations! Hip-Hip Hooray! Salut! Best Wishes!

Sparklettes, Moon & Stars Prize Ribbon, Deborah Lippmann, Dorothy Parker Flask, A Tiny Celebration, Royal Rose Syrup, Whistle Keychain.

What We Love Today: Antico Frames

Are you rearranging everything in your life this spring like me? These sweet little frames are great for desks, bedside tables or in a cluster on your wall.  Fill them with your college polaroids, vintage photo's and snapshots of your dog.


Available in 3 inch square, 3 inch round, 4 x 6 inch, and heart shapes.

-miss anna

Hello perfect gift!

I can literally count six people I would give these perfect little notebooks to. Easy, pretty and useful - the trifecta of gift giving.

xo

Rony

Pair of Rifle Rose Notebooks, $10

What We Love Today: Rose et Feuilles de Menthe Chocolate Bar

You're my dream chocolate, you gorgeous, complex, sensitive, tempestuous beauty, you.

-Leigh

Rose et Feuilles de Menthe dark chocolate bar, $6.50 in store and online 

What We Love Today: Grey Garden Perfume

For the lady who likes it spicy, mysterious, musky, sexy, decaying, rose-drenched, and a little off. This is for the alley cats, the late-night jazz records listeners, the bad girls in black.

I'm in.

-Leigh

Grey Garden Perfume, $120 in store and online

What We Love Today: Lapin Bunny Bag.

Hello, my little love! I waited for you, and waited for you, and now you are here, and every time I see you, I smile. I hope to sling you around a Claire Vivier duffle bag real soon. Or maybe a Mayle leopard bag! It's 5:07 pm - no more decisions today.

-Leigh

Lapin Bunny Bag, $34 in store and online in beige and white

What We Love Today: Small Things in Other Small Things

I have some serious hoarding tendencies. My poor little 5 year old son has inherited this unattractive trait - I noticed it yesterday when he refused to throw out a very ripped, crappy Thomas the Train birthday hat. Oy. Sorry kid. The best I can offer you is to teach you the joy of sweet, little containers in which to contain your treasures. Hoard away.

xo

Rony

Little Bear's Cups, $16 - hand made exclusively for Catbird

What We Love Today: Nova Chakra

I am a perfume commitment-phobe. I have never even come CLOSE to finishing a bottle. I mean not even a tiny bit. The second I bring one home, I get all wishy washy about it. I have maybe 6 or 7 perfumes at home, each one looking about as full as the day I bought it. But then... I met Nova Chakra. Maybe it's the deep, sexy, mysterious scent. Maybe it's the really easy roll-on (I am a little spazzy with sprays and use them the same way I did when I was 13 - spray in front of me, shut my eyes really tight, and run through the mist - an ill-advised method in my tiny bathroom). This may just be the first perfume I ever finish.

xo

Rony

Nova Chakra, $50

What We Love Today: Cold Bevs

The Lavender Ghost, or, What I plan on Doing When I Get Home:

2 oz. vodka
3/4 oz. Royal Rose Lavender Syrup
1/2 oz. freshly squeezed lemon juice

Combine syrup and lemon juice in a pint glass or jam jar. Add 4 or 5 ice cubes and then the vodka. Shake vigorously and serve straight up or on the rocks. Top with seltzer water.

Or if that's too much work, I may just open a cold one with this cutie opener.

Stay cool Kittens.

xo

Rony

What We Love Today: Watermelon Three Ways

...in a salad with Feta and Mint.

...cut up in stars for the Fourth of July. (I am definitely doing this next week!)

...or sliced in a gold ring.

Digby & Iona's beautiful, one-of-a-kind Watermelon Tourmaline Ambro Ring.

Happy summer, sweaty li'l kittens!!

x

Rony

What We Love Today: Summer Hair

No silly - not the frizzy kind. The messy, clumpy, I-spent-the-day-at-the-beach kind. Except better smelling.

- Rony

Captain Blankenship Mermaid Sea Salt Spray, $22

What We Love Today: Crooked Smiles!

Dear Leslie Mann,

Thank you for buying this single earring this weekend and reminding me how much I love this little fella. 

Also, I thought you might like to know, through ALL of "This is 40" my sister and I could not shut up about how pretty and funny you are (much to the annoyance of my husband). Also, I loooved you as Ms. Foote. Your kindness to Bill seemed very real to me. Do not even get me started on Freaks & Geeks. 

Yours most sincerely and truly,

Rony

Yayoi Forest Happy Face Earring, 14k gold w/ diamonds $220

What We Love Today: Getting Sh*t Done!

I procrastinate just as much as the next guy. Maybe even more. But lately I am flying through my to-do list and emptying my inbox. Maybe it's a memory of past springs causing me to be more efficient so I can... go out and ride my bike with my friends? Or... maybe it's my brand new awesome memo pad from Rifle! 

xo

Rony

Rifle Do or Die Memo Pad, $8

What We Love Today: Avoiding Evil

Given this easy option, I choose to avoid evil by simply slipping on this wee ring, made by one of our favorite favorites. My precious...  Mine is rose gold, and I wear it on my pinky. So far, no evil!

- Rony

Bittersweets NY Teensy Evil Eye Ring $350

What We Love Today: Rosewater Cleansing Gel

Days are longer, dusks are pinker, and I am slowly parting ways with my beloved winter. There are lilacs drooping from a vase on my bedside table towards my pillow, and as it goes for me, this time every year, I'd like the world to smell like roses. And so, I'm cleansing (face and body) with our new arrival, Roberts Florentine Rosewater Cleansing Gel. It's light, mild, and redolent of rose, and the arrival of springtime.

-Leigh
Roberts Florentine Rosewater Cleansing Gel, $18, available in store and online

What We Love Today: Love, Dylan, Holding etc.

I could hold you for a million years. I could listen to this for a million more.

Thanks Bob.

xo
Rony

What We Love Today: Opal Teardrops

Our brand new Opal Teardrop Necklace makes me just a little sad that I only have one neck. (Thank goodness for ten fingers and two wrists!)
xo
Rony

Opal Teardrop Necklace, $256

What We Love Today: DON'T MESS WITH MY STUFF!

Seriously. Don't mess with me.
-Rony

John Derian Letter Tray, $165