Fave AC travel piece: tagua loop chain earrings

Over the new year I traveled to one of my favorite places on earth, San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina, a lakeside resort town in the Andes where the style is casual and sporty but also stylish. I brought along several AC pieces of jewelry with me, but the one I wore the most was the tagua loop chain earring in ivory. They are so easy to wear and they go with everything...


from a lakeside hoodie...


to a bikini (and smoked trout sandwich)...


to a simple lunchtime t-shirt. Gastronomic tourism at its best!


(they even would have gone with my hiking boots, if earrings made sense in the backcountry)

It's never too cold for farm to table

I recently watched Food Inc. (a bit late I know...) and am loving all things local when it comes to food. So this weekend when I was feeling the mid-winter blues, my man and I decided to jump in his car and take a little day trip to explore NY's farm to table options.

Amanda at Stone Barns Farm in Tarrytown

We set off to Blue Hill at Stone Barns, an amazing working farm (even in the winter!) that has an incredible tasting menu. The catch is that you need to make a reservation weeks or months out, and it costs $85...for lunch! However, you can also just do what we did and eat in the less expensive Blue Hill Cafe on the grounds. It's not as fancy as sitting in the dining room of the old stone farm house, but you still get amazingly fresh food and our lunch cost $13.50 for two!

So if you are feeling cooped up this time of year like I am, head up to Stone Barns, take a long walk through the snow (or mud, depending on how quickly you get up there!) and think about how important it is to know where your food is coming from.

It's only a 40 minute drive from the city, or you can take the Metro North to Tarrytown, and then grab a taxi from the station. It's worth the adventure to get out of the concrete jungle!

Amanda Visits the Andean Collection Warehouse

Hello from the Andean Collection warehouse!

Amanda at our new warehouse

I (Amanda) took off to Massachusetts this week to check out operations at our brand new warehouse. Did you know that Andean Collection is a family business? My aunt Hollis and cousin Dakotah, run our warehouse and have been ever since Andean Collection's day 1 in 2008. Below you can find the charming mother/daughter shipping duo!

Dakotah and Hollis

Dakotah and I are more like sisters since we pretty much grew up together. Our mothers both worked part time at our uncle's hardware store, now called Philips Design (which you need to check out if you are ever in Concord, MA!) and we spent the days together as one big happy family.

Dakotah & Amanda

Of course I pitched in with packaging the orders...

Amanda at the warehouse

...and in between packaging up orders, I had some fun with the colors of our new scarves! I love this new lime version.

Lime Infinity Scarves $58

Lastly, we caught Dakotah as she was busily entering all the orders from ENK. People are loving the new line, and the warehouse is one crazy busy place.

Dakotah in the warehouse office

Just thought you might like to see what happens on the other side of your Andean Collection orders! Of course, you know the more glamorous side, our online shop!

Behind the Scenes Video! Cayambe Photoshoot

Check out our brand new behind the scenes video of our Cayambe Line photoshoot that was shot on location in Las Galeras, Dominican Republic. Our new styles were just launched this week! Click here to view our lookbook (which was being shot in the video) and shop the Cayambe line now!

Fun desert photoshoot!

For the Christmas break I traveled to Bolivia and was fortunate enough to go on a trip to the Salar de Uyuni, the world’s largest salt flat, with my girlfriend and her family. We went on a three day trip through the salt flat itself and the surrounding mountain range, which is absolutely breath taking.

Of course the Andean Collection came with us in the form of our wonderful infinity scarves. At some point during the trip through the Andean desert our van broke down and we had to wait for our drivers to fix it. With the spare time we decided to do a little Andean Collection fashion shoot : )

Rosa and myself showing off our Andean Collection infinity scarves Christmas gifts in lime and berry. Of course we could not do our beautiful model Guadalupe any justice, but we had a lot of fun!

These infinity scarves are also available in forest green, quarry, leaf green, sunset orange and chocolate.