Hot out of the oven… Warm, warm Biscuit Home loving… It’s Season 2! Our bestie Bailey and her team at Biscuit have been working hard on the launch of their second line of prints and colors for what has become our favorite bedding line. I stole the precious pillow graphic above from Bailey’s announcement post today and now I’m stealing her copy, too. Because what you see above are the newest Biscuit players: Alaina (eiffel towers), Amber (ikat), Erika (stripes), Jenny (floral), Harold (constellation), and Mackenzie (bows) – and some old favorites in new color ways: Pete (plaid), Paul (faux bois), Grace (hearts), Katie (dot) and Joanna (bikes). Sally and I got some sneak peaks early on of the goodness and we’re pretty excited that now all of it is available to buy on the site… I’m thinking that the Harold sheets, an Erica sham, and maybe an Amber boudoir need to come live on my biscuit. What are you all favoring?
…That get me going quite like little gems like this. Stopping me dead in my tracks last week as I was browsing Shopbop’s latest, this Moschino iPhone cover in the 3D form of a duck is everything and a bag of tricks. Thank goodness for people out there who don’t take life too seriously. You go Moschino. And, in reality, yes it is indeed an $85 cover for an iPhone, but I bet it would protect your phone like no other. Check out that duckling grip that would just bounce off sidewalks when dropped. And if ducks in pearl necklaces aren’t your jam, there’s a whole slew of goodies to choose from.
Aside from conversation starter, amazingly awesome tech cases, Molly and I just spent the most magical weekend in Houston with Bailey, Pete, and Gracie and have come home feeling fufilled in the best way possible. That girl is one of the most talented, hard-working, and purely genuine people either of us has ever met and each time we are with her, we feel more and more inspired by what she is doing. Bailey is just one of those people who just gets it, 100%. Life is good with people like her in it. As happy as I am after our perfect weekend, part of me feels a little bit sad to that we can’t be with B every day and see her whenever we want. Is that selfish/weird of me? I have the worst separation anxiety and get pretty emotional when I have to leave amazing places or people. Good thing we already have our next visit on the books.
Sally and I had the same Cath Kidston bedding all through college. The set up consisted of a watermelon pink and white polka-dot duvet, a sky blue bedspread with pinky-red roses and two big euro pillows (one with a pink and red strawberry print and the other with a red, white and blue cowboy print). It was colorful and happy and super bright. And as soon as I moved into my own apartment I said, “I need some neutrals.” I kept the seagrass headboard I had used at school (yes, Sally also had a matching one – we are freaks) and got all white, off-white, and ivory bedding… A mishmash of things: quilt from West Elm, duvet and euro sham covers from Anthropologie. The only color was the tangerine fringe on a small accent pillow that sat front and center (you can kind of see it in this post). When Sally and I moved into our apartment almost two years ago she did the same thing – ditched the Cath Kidston and got all neutral things.
I’m still a lover of neutral but this past fall my bedding was starting to bother me. It just looked so blah and I really wanted to add in some pattern and shots of black – I just had no idea how. After visiting Biscuit when Bailey had the store opening I fell in love with the prints and told her I wanted to incorporate them into my bedroom situation… One trip to Alt Summit and a few back-and-forth conversations about color and pattern later – my bed (and Sally’s) was swaddled in Biscuit loveliness! Bailey thought that since Sally and I still had the matching headboards, we should each have distinctly different bedding; we couldn’t agree with her more. As much as she appreciates whites and ivories, Sally is a color lover at heart (especially greens) so Bailey suggested the Jamie in blue for a duvet and Euros shams with the Chartreuse Boarder boudoir pillows. The overall look is fresh but not at all overwhelming and Sally loves the organic look of the splatter pattern with the crisp pop of chartreuse. For my bed, I told Bailey I wanted to keep things “sans color” but that I wasn’t afraid to mix hues or patterns. She gave me a duvet and boudoir pillows in the Katie Black & White dot, the Paul Euro shams in Taupe, and a Jonathan Adler “Lust” pillow to tie it all together. I am obsessed with the outcome – it was just the shake-up I needed and I’m crazy about simple small dot mixed with the faux-bois Paul pillows.
You spend more than half your life sleeping – so whatever you put on your bed should probably say something about you. I didn’t even realize how hard it was to find unique but affordable bedding until Biscuit came along… It’s like, do you want big-box solutions with questionable quality in comparison to the price tag or something special and amazing? Bailey is such a genius with color and the prints she and her business partner Isobel have come up with are so versatile. I’m also in complete awe of what the company has been able to accomplish in just six months (!). Now the only question is, how many more pillows can I fit on my bed once Biscuit comes out with their next launch of patterns and prints? And another question: who’s bed do you like better, mine or Sally’s?
