A short'n'sweet Foundry Family hot-take love-letter to a single, perfect object/item/obsession. This week, 100 Words On... the joy of a new calendar as a celebration our opposing impulses.
Good gifts fit the people that they are given to. They correspond to a quality in their natures or a bit of their personalities. And a bit of yours.
Gift-giving is matchmaking.
Every single Friday The Foundry Home Goods contributes 5% of our total sales to a different community-nominated small-and-mighty cause. THIS Friday we're multiplying abundance with MATCHING DONATIONS to any of our past Giving Friday recipients—no purchase necessary. We're calling it: Giving B(l)ack Friday.
While the Maitre d' and Head of House might swear by tower of starched, pressed, and pristine white linens standing by as the gold standard for well-laid tables we have a *dark*horse contender for most beautiful + versatile linens: the non-white napkin.
A mummy in a torn up tablecloth (above), a mime in our mother's Breton stripes, a ghost in an eye-holed sheet, a fairy princess in a flower girl dress reimagined with the addition of coat hanger wings, a "bag of potatoes" made by sticking our legs through...a bag of potatoes. We were the kinds of kids who made our Halloween costumes from whatever was around.