The photo above is from the Pottery Barn "work Spaces" book, from the section on planning a garden workroom. The whole spread is beautiful. I loved the contrast of the worn wooden and metal surfaces against the sleek white enamel pails and containers they used for storage.
Whatever you put outside, has to endure the elements and will most likely look worn out faster than you can blink an eyelash. So I was happy to see that they had embraced the beauty of how things get weathered in the garden.
They had some really clever ideas about taking objects and re-purposing them for storage throughout the book. Which is something I think everyone does, since it's just not always practical to go out and buy everything.
It made me think of this old 7-up crate, that I'd recently used to organize all of my seed packets.
Maybe some of you have some re-purposing ideas that you'd like to share too?!
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Random bits:
There are some amazing fashion history quips written under the comments section of my last post. They were all so much fun to read, I highly recommend you taking a look at them. The one about John Hancock being proud of baring his nice legs, cracked me up a bit!
Laura Kim jewelry and I collaborated recently, she's made some really beautiful Par Avion necklaces with the pendants I made for her.
My good friend Wende's 10 year old son, completely amazes me. He's started his own little business, by making & selling "bag bags" (a handsewn bag to store your plastic bags). $1 of every purchase goes to Heifer International.
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posted by Liquid Sky Arts at 4:49 PM
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