In Hakone, Japan, years ago, I walked through the market and saw fish much like this. They were made from indigo dyed silks, some strung on small twigs or twine. From olula se casa.
Inspiration
March 04, 2010
February 18, 2010
If you are a dreamer, come in
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from Lucky Boy Sunday
“If you are a dreamer, come in. If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar, a hoper, a prayer, a magic-bean-buyer. If you're a pretender, come sit by my fire, for we have some flax-golden tales to spin. Come in! Come in!” - Shel Silverstein
this has led to an exploring of writing
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A note from Roger Ebert, who has lost his jaw and the ability to speak or eat to thyroid cancer.
Roger Ebert: The Essential Man at Esquire Magazine
Inspiration
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I love Japanese sewing books. Such clean, well ordered worlds. Fresh and unique ideas. I picked these up at Kinokuniya on Sunday. Can't wait to get sewing!
February 17, 2010
The quest to finish a project
I want to finish one project. One room. The kids rooms are done save
for artworks and lighting, but the rest of the rooms are half painted,
not painted at all, or sorely in need of shelving for storage. We're not
fitting very efficiently or neatly into our home at all, and it's very
frustrating.
So our next room project to FINISH is the Dining Room. It is half painted even though I know exactly what I want to do with it, and we even have paint. The main wall will have a cherry blossom mural showing through a pale greyish/taupe paint, a la Filip Janssens home shown here:
(fuzzy photo snapped off pdf from Domino Magazine February 2009)
High on the wall will be a shelf for Cookbooks and pottery and pictures. I want reclaimed wood for this, and black shelf brackets, but nothing too sleek or obviously purchased from Lowe's, so I have some searching to do for these things. I also have a wall where a cabinet now stands that I would like to add the same shelving style to. Perhaps 4 or 5 shelves on which to put our wine glasses, serving dishes, and other decor that has been boxed away since Before We Had Twins.
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There is, then, the finishing. Two coats of paint on the baseboards, leveling and cleaning the light fixture, installing under-shelf ambient lighting, and a window treatment for the sliding glass doors. But do I really want fabric in my dining room, where yogurt and peanut butter are routinely splashed all over everything?
The Dining Room as it looks now:
Note the fallen cheese, the skewed table, the chairs strewn about. Nothing to do about that.
Garland Wednesday
Not your typical triangular flag garland. Not your typical application.
February 10, 2010
Garland Wednesday
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Jewel tone fabric swatches, not just your average quilting fat quarters.
February 03, 2010
No Time for all these Projects!!
Holy Crap, I just don't have the time to make all this stuff! Made By Joel has the coolest ideas.
January 22, 2010
Smokin' firewood wall
Good lord, I think my heart just skipped a beat. The black walls, the grey flannel upholstery, the concrete floors, and that firewood wall.
Let's also talk about those fat wood shelves on the other side of the room. I want those for my dining room. Where can I get wood like that?
