The Creative Cookie

The Creative Cookie The Creative Cookie, founded in 2008, is a boutique sewing studio founded by Lesley Ware author of several activity books about fashion, sewing, and style.

Based in Brooklyn, New York.

Easily inspired.Tonight it was Harvey Redding’s work, WITNESS, + an evening of art + film IRON | FEATHER w/ my friend Je...
09/15/2026

Easily inspired.

Tonight it was Harvey Redding’s work, WITNESS, + an evening of art + film IRON | FEATHER w/ my friend Jeff Vicente ❤️✨

I took all of my New York reflections + made them into something I could hold ❤️Easily Inspired: New York Reflections20 ...
09/13/2026

I took all of my New York reflections + made them into something I could hold ❤️

Easily Inspired: New York Reflections
20 years. A collection of essays, photographs, lessons + little pieces of a life built in New York City.

Edition of 20, printed + hand-bound by me.

Because apparently writing all of it wasn’t enough. I had to publish something too 😆✂️📖

I took all of my New York reflections and made them into something I could hold🫰🏾❤️Easily Inspired: New York Reflections...
09/13/2026

I took all of my New York reflections and made them into something I could hold🫰🏾❤️

Easily Inspired: New York Reflections
20 years. A collection of essays, photographs, lessons + little pieces of a small town girl’s little life built in New York City.

Edition of 20, hand-bound by me.

Because apparently writing all of it wasn’t enough. I had to make something too✂️📖😆

Tried to enter September gracefully.Swipe for reality… 😂
09/09/2026

Tried to enter September gracefully.

Swipe for reality… 😂

09/02/2026

20 years in New York City 🥳🗽❤️

New York Reflections 07: Fashion (!!!)

I had to end w/ fashion.

When I was younger, I used clothes to figure out who I might become. Now, I use them to celebrate who I am.

20 years later, I still get excited about getting dressed. I hope I always do.

Seven reflections. One week. Twenty years of becoming!!

Here’s to what comes next, xo 🎉✨ (shout out to JRAT for designing amazing dress/work of art that I will be wearing somewhere soon 🤩)

New York, somewhere along the way/beginning 💗I’ve always loved getting dressed + I still have those shoes 😂Clothes have ...
09/01/2026

New York, somewhere along the way/beginning 💗

I’ve always loved getting dressed + I still have those shoes 😂

Clothes have helped me play, experiment, express myself + sometimes figure out who I was becoming.

20 years later, I still get excited about putting together a look! It’s actually gotten easier ✨

Tomorrow: one last New York reflection. 🎉

08/31/2026

20 years in New York City🍎🎉🗽

New York Reflections 06: Survival + Ambition

Survival has meant different things during different chapters of my New York life (luckily I’ve only been attacked once).

I’ve learned how to adapt, change course, make a living from my ideas + keep going when the plan stops working - ugh

But one thing hasn’t really changed: my ambition (thank GOD).

I still have dreams so big they scare me a little.

Maybe New York taught me how to survive. But ambition is what keeps me from settling for the hard type of survival.

Things New York taught me - ahhh ❤️

08/30/2026

20 years in New York City ✨🎉🗽

New York Reflections 05: Creativity

I didn’t move to New York to have a creative career. Somewhere along the way, I picked up a camera, started a blog, made a zine + kept going 💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾

That curiosity led to writing, teaching, books, making, art, design + sew much more.

20 years later, I realize creativity isn’t just something I do. It’s how I like to move through the world - what I wear, live, eat, breathe, etc .

Maybe that’s what NYC taught me: you don’t always have to know where something is leading.
Just keep following your curiosity…

Oh the things that this city taught me while dodging all the rats 🥹✨❤️

08/29/2026

20 years in New York City 🎉🗽

New York Reflections 04: Love + Loss

Twenty years is a long time to love people + this city .

There have been marriages, friendships, family, collaborators, unexpected connections and a lot of goodbyes 🥹

I care deeply about people. I think I always will. + I’m learning that loving someone + having them remain in your life aren’t always the same thing.

Maybe some of the most meaningful relationships aren’t meant to last forever.

Things New York taught me ❤️

08/28/2026

20 years in New York City ✨🎉🗽

New York Reflections 04: Creativity

I didn’t move to New York to have a creative career. Somewhere along the way, I picked up a camera, started a blog, made a zine + kept going.

That curiosity led to writing, teaching, books, making, art, design + so much more.

20 years later, I realize creativity isn’t just something I do. It’s how I like to move through the world.

Maybe that’s what NYC taught me: you don’t always have to know where something is leading.

Just keep following your curiosity…

Oh the things that this city taught me - ahhh + ugh 🥹✨❤️

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