SERENE MOMENTS
Dear Friends,
With the mind-clearing energy of the Wolf Moon that just occurred, I am feeling a renewed sense of becoming. Generally an optimist, I am, in conjunction, brutally realistic.
Taking time to breathe into these stolen moments, and allowing yourself to exhale, you will find feelings of serenity. Keeping our eyes on the vision of promise, the light of a new journey envelops us. New adventures and new pathways lay out before us, take them without hesitation. Spring is around the corner and beginning again happens. Reset to the rhythm of nature, it’s our best and safest approach.
With love as always,
Janette + the Flora Beauty team
Love Magic Candle
Light this candle to attract and strengthen love. Aids in boosting physical or magical activity. Ingredients: soybean wax, ylang ylang oil, palmarosa oil, lavender oil, geranium oil. 25 hour burn time.
From Species by the Thousands, a Brooklyn-based lifestyle brand founded by friends Erica Bradbury and Michele Colomer in 2005. Both receiving their MFAs in Fine Art from the University of Pennsylvania, the brand is inspired and informed by outsider worlds, the mysterious unknown, nature and folk magic. Making positive energy invoking apothecary and accessories, all products from the line are handmade in NYC.
What We're Wearing...
The Sunday Girl Moonlight Mile Crescent & Gemstone Y Necklace. Create a mystical, layered look starting with this stunning yet feminine crescent moon drop necklace. Sunday Girl: Every piece of jewelry is designed by Amy and is handmade by Amy and her team in Los Angeles. Materials are sourced in both the US, as much as possible, and world-wide, Findings & Stones are hand-selected for the best quality available.
What We're Reading...
France, 1714: In a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets. Thus begins the extraordinary life of Addie LaRue, and a dazzling adventure that will play out across centuries and continents, across history and art, as a young woman learns how far she will go to leave her mark on the world. But everything changes when, after nearly 300 years, Addie stumbles across a young man in a hidden bookstore and he remembers her name.
The Night-In Kit
Set the mood with date night essentials for before, during and after. The Night-In Kit includes the burn in Scent No. 1, organic lubricant, and nourishing pH-balanced bubble bath and body wash... for you or with a partner ; )
What We're Drinking... The South Side
Its origins are subject to speculation. It has been proposed that it gets its name from either the South Side district of the city of Chicago, Illinois, or from the Southside Sportsmen's Club on Long Island. The drink may have been the preferred beverage of Al Capone, whose gang dominated Chicago's South Side. The gin imported by Capone's rivals on the North Side of Chicago was smooth, and usually consumed with ginger ale. However, the gin consumed by Al Capone's gang had a rougher finish, and required more sweeteners to make it palatable. Thus the South Side was born.
The following recipe for a South Side is used by the famed 21 Club in New York City:
10-12 mint leaves
2 ounces gin
3/4 ounces fresh-squeezed lemon juice
3/4 ounces simple syrup
Combine all ingredients except mint into a cocktail shaker, fill shaker with ice, and shake well. Open the shaker and add the mint, leaving one mint leaf around the size of your thumb for garnish. Close the cocktail shaker and roll the mint leaves from one end of the shaker to the other so as to gently release the mint oils but not to bruise the leaves. Strain the glass into a highball glass and garnish with a mint leaf. Cheers!
What We're Playing on Repeat...
In the spring of 1961, the US Government was instrumental in changing the face of modern jazz. Guitarist Charlie Byrd was sent on a diplomatic tour of South America, with the idea that exporting culture could be a positive political tool. In this case, however, it was more a case of what Byrd brought back to America: Jazz Samba. Jazz Samba is a bossa nova album by Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd released by Verve Records in 1962. Jazz Samba signaled the beginning of the bossa nova craze in America. We just love it because it feels warm...
