"If you love it and it's beautiful, it goes with anything else that you love and is beautiful."~Betsey Johnson
Our neighbors garden bench, 2004
I'm posting pictures today (below) from an old HGTV episode that focused on fashion houses. Betsey Johnson's eclectic home style really left an imprint in my mind...I just adore this woman! I think people too often focus on what everyone else thinks a home should be (like what they see in catalogs), and not enough on what best suits that person. Your home is an extension of your personality, and it's totally alright to use something as unconventional as beautiful lingerie and vintage dresses in lieu of curtains if you want to!
In the same vein, well kind of..... I somehow landed on the court tv channel last night, and got sucked into watching a new program called House of Clues . In this show ordinary people compete to see who can uncover the most about a stranger as they go room by room in their home. I don't know why I am so intrigued by other people's clutter/possesions...but this show deeply fascinated me. The woman whose house was featured had a faux Christmas Tree displayed year round in her living room, a huge collection of mona lisa's, and crazy 3-D assemblage paintings of well known subjects like "the last supper" scattered all about the house.
You can kind of play along as the contestants scramble about trying to put together clues from the homeowners possessions. Which got me to thinking about all of my own crazy collections. If it was our house that these contestants were riffling through... here are a few key things that might give away our combined personalities .
(I'll let you make your own assessment!)
1. The first thing I'm sure they'd notice would be the excessive amount of asian parasols hanging from the ceilings and lying on bookshelves. (We even have a parasol mobile hanging over our bed!)
2. Next would be the overpowering presence from our menagerie of pets. ("Jerry" & "Freckles" our 2 dogs, "The Imeldas" & "cornelius�" our 4 parakeets, 2 (really huge) gold fish named "Vincent-Van-go-go-boots" & "Goldie Hahn" & their friend "stripe" the algae eater and then let's be careful not leave out that darned water turtle we recently inherited named "milkshake" too. )
3. The horrifying (for me anyway) fact that there are so many scattered unfinished DIY projects all throughout the house!
4. Original Artwork adorning the walls from contemporary Artist Itzchak Tarkay, Christina Hankins, a few small artworks of my own, and quite a few signed photographic prints from up-and-comers (One of my favorites is an artist signed edition photograph of Melora Creager of Rasputina wearing a corset and bloomers whilst holding a parasol!) .
5. An extensive collection of Chinese lantern lights.
6. The mixed up blue & white china patterns in the kitchen (if it's blue and white, then it matches!)
7. The room of media of which I sit in at this very moment. From floor to (almost) ceiling are vinyl records stacked in rows and on the opposite wall are the 4-ft. row of cds. (compulsive music buying whores, yes we are.)
8. Art supplies scattered about...drawers filled solely with decorative papers....stacks of home & garden design magazines....
9. A very OCD arranged garage...every tool has its place. Yes, indeed-y.
10. framed vintage photographs from both of our families. ( I have more of a penchant of taste for the vintage ones over the new ones)
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Tomorrow we're going to go see a long awaited Rasputina Recital....I'm so excited.
Corsets, Bloomers, and cellos...oh my!!
posted by Liquid Sky Arts at 7:32 PM
5.23.2004
Visit the new faerie garden gallery. (Photos taken at my favorite local nursery, May 2004.)
Elsewhere, other things of note:
Check out the Passepartout project .
Snapshots that were taken on the 30th of April, 2004, at exactly 3:30pm (Greenwich time) from everyday people, no matter how they looked, no matter what they were doing ...real and authentic snapshots of a precise moment in everyday life, all over the world.
Create your own Mr. Picassohead.
(& while you're there.... see my own inner picasso)
Guilt free listening (& collecting) of new artists & independent music at Better Propaganda
posted by Liquid Sky Arts at 9:49 AM
5.19.2004
My name is Marc, my emotional life is sensitive and my purse is empty, but they say I have talent.~ Marc Chagall
� Christina Hankins, 2004
The past few days I've been working on updating my sister's webpage , calendar of events (blog), and business cards. (This is the other card design, I made for her that she didn't end up picking.)
Lately the weather has warmed up quite a bit, and the feeling of summer is in the air. So much so that I have devoloped mad crushes on summer dresses I've seen here and there. These "sandpiper", "water color", "sunday driving", & "applique" dresses have definetly struck my fancy. I've also been eyeing this funky pink seatbelt bag that I recently saw in an issue of readymade.
Houses are really bodies. We connect ourselves with walls, roofs, and objects just as we hang on to our livers, skeletons, flesh and bloodstream." -Leonora Carrington, The Hearing Trumpet
I took an excessive amount of photographs today while on our neighborhood garden tour (89 to be exact. Digital cameras are lovely things, indeed.) . My head is swimming with ideas, there was so much creative energy afoot!
I really want to get a copy of Mysterium Zine's issue #4. It has a section about garden journaling which really struck my fancy. Which reminds me that I still am in heavy need to snatch up some skeleton keys for my windchime project. Ebay hasn't been nice to me lately...I keep getting outbid.
On a completely unrelated note: grow a brain is another website I've come across recently. I love these sand sculptures....they are too amazing.
