Fishs Eddy

Now that I'm officially a New Yorker (or, I live here for good, at least) I have been trying to adopt a more leisurely pace to my city adventures. In the past, I've always followed a pretty rigorous, self-imposed site-seeing schedule, feeling as if I needed to cram as much as humanly possible into what little time I had here. But now that I'm facing years ahead of me instead of hours, I am trying to remind myself that I needn't fill every single second with an amazing, photo-worthy adventure. If you know me at all, you know that's an incredibly tall order for me, but I am trying.

One thing that is actually helping me to slow down is the weather. In the week I've been here it has been Hot (note the capital H) and Humid, and that is putting it lightly. Let me put it another way: on July 4th, I cut one of the the three pairs of jeans that I brought with me into shorts and I haven't taken them off since.

Since I am currently unemployed for the first time since I was 15 (holla at me companies that I've interviewed/applied at!), I spent Friday morning wandering and ended up inside of a Fishs Eddy store, beckoned by their window display of colorful glove molds. I have always loved/collected body parts (is there a less creepy way to say that??) so I had to investigate further.

What I found was a treasure trove of interesting and delightful dishes, linens and housewares — despite not even having a permanent place to stay, I wanted everything. They have teeny tiny glove molds in beautiful pastels, Weck jars in every shape and size and even an entire line of cat-themed towels and glasses.

I could have spent hours browsing their bins and shelves, and I finally had to leave before I bought a hundred things I have no home for, and can't really afford right now.

Now that I'm aware of its wonderful existence (I'm kind of mad at my "friends" who have seemingly known about it for years without alerting me), it will definitely be my first stop upon securing more permanent housing. In the meantime it appears that most of their items are available online, for purchasing or dreaming about, whichever one better meets your current needs.