This post is coming to you today while I sit at my computer on my living room floor! Things are quite scattered around here still... but I've had this post brewing for two weeks now, so it's high time to send it out there into the internet universe.
Please excuse the headless models (we can thank fd's flickr toys for cropping them like that!). It's all about the clothes and fantastic creative minds anyway, on the new season of Project Runway. Top left is designer Santino's old world style, vs. Diana's (top/right) vision of science meets fashion. I'm so hooked on this show, it isn't even funny!
I really admire Dame Darcy's style (row 2) and her ability to work across so many different mediums. From painting a room for Frances Bean (Courtney Love's daughter) to her illustrations for Meat Cake comics, she's simply amazing.
Lulette's message scarves (row 3/left) have been on my wish list for such a long time... I especially love the one that quotes Marie Antoinette saying, "Let them eat cake". Genius.
Many of you that have received snail mail cards & other correspondence from me already know that I love Anne Taintor's collages (row 3/right), their cheeky sense of humor always make me grin!
The colorful photos of interiors on the designers guild website (row 4/left), simply make me swoon. This photo from their Samarkand collection is a great example of their wonderful way of pairing rich textiles in wonderful color combinations.
I love coincidences, they always make me feel like I'm right on track! Joy had serendipitously posted about the gypsy chandelier over at Charles & Marie the same time I wrote about the one that hangs in my aunts house. For those who are interested they sell it online at Dutch by Design. Be sure to check out it's even more dramatic cousin!
I hope everyone had a lovely holiday! We're still getting everything in order here after having to almost completely move everything out of our home so our hardwood floors could be sanded and refinished last week. The transformation is looking amazing... to me our living room has the feeling now of a warm and cozy cafe. To see a small glimpse of what it looked like last Christmas (and the deep green paint that I was really loathing!) click here, here, & here. We have more people coming in this week to finish a few more projects, all I have to say is that renovation is stressful! Last week I went into a mad laughing fit as I was climbing in and out of the house through a bedroom window, it was pretty funny indeed since the dogs and bird cages had to come in and out that way too! On Friday night we stayed up really late moving our furniture back in the house, in preparation for our annual Christmas Eve party the next evening. We went into a bit of a frenzy driving all over town Saturday morning trying to find a last minute tree. Amazingly we got everything done in time, and had a wonderful party. All I have to say is "Phew"!
Here's a tiny peek from our lovely stash of Christmas treasures this year.
All of these were delivered in such colorful & creative packages!
a. Alicia and I did a trade recently, she sent the sweetest sweater stocking from her collection at Rosy little things.
b. My sister sent this adorably packaged Lollia cream along with other "chill out" themed gifts.
c. This clever message in a bottle kit came from a friend that lives in our neighborhood, she has such fun taste!
posted by Liquid Sky Arts at 4:08 PM
12.07.2005
I'm really behind in blogging, since our little world here is all upside down from house renovation. The idea surfaced quite suddenly to finally just cave and hire people to come in and finish all of the woodwork and refinish the floors (for the past few years we've been trying to do everything ourselves, can you see the crazy rollover?). In doing so all of our furniture is getting shuffled around. Our stove is currently sitting outside on the back porch, our couch on the driveway, and next week the computer goes in a box for a few days. I got so excited about the notion of things finally getting finished, that it didn't really occur to me all of the craziness that goes with it! Right before Christmas, all of this is beginning to feel especially insane. When all of this is done, I'll be in such a happy state of mind!
Last weekend we went to visit my fabulous auntie, and just fell in love with this plastic chandelier that she recently bought at a really fun boutique called Marz. in S. Pasadena. We took a visit there and I bought some beautiful screened papers, and a few fun things for our Christmas Eve party's "White Elephant" exchange (White elephant = silly gift). We also took a visit to a really wonderful duo of stores called "The Folk Tree Collection" (Jill just wrote a great piece about this shop and others in the area, you can check it out at: Jill's Living Room), and lastly visited my own little Mecca in the world The paper source where I picked up some lovely photo frame cards with a cute scalloped edge for holiday greetings. I still need to take this years photo, some of you may remember last years shenanigans with my dogs!
Tis' also the season for making tons of sparrow necklaces for special orders. Wow, my huge stash of capiz shells is actually gone! It's been a good past-time for me while of of this nuttiness has been going on at home, I put on my headphones and drown out all of the scraping and sanding sounds and enter my little world of painting, beading and wrapping...not feeling odd at all that I'm doing this sitting at my dining room table outside in the middle of our garden! Even with the craziness of renovation everything still feels pretty good, creating can be such a great escape at times. I'm really looking forward to updating the little wrapping gallery I recently started on flickr once I'm back online. I'll be back soon after the dust settles (literally), wish me luck I think I'm gonna need it!
P.S. Here's a real online treat for you while I'm away! These are two new blogs that I just recently discovered and am so smitten with: {Oh Joy!} & Rosey Little Things.
Twig Wizardry makes tiny furniture out of (you guessed it) twigs. These would make such a fun addition to a fairy garden.
Second Time Cool, was first introduced to me by a post from Karen at Kraf-o-la (she never fails to find beautiful things). It contains more great ideas about sweater recycling, it's still on my wish list.
Sabrina Ward Harrison has such an amazing aesthetic, and is not afraid to spill! I really admire her work.
The season's of cannon falls is a company that specializes in decorating for all of the different seasons. They represent a lot of different folk artists. Right now I'm especially fond of Wendy Addison's sparkly old-fashioned glass mirror glitter garlands. There is an over-sized one that says "wish" for the winter holiday season that I especially covet!
Maggie Taylor is a digital artist that I've had bookmarked for some time now. Her work is amazing. You may recognize this piece from the opening credits of the t.v. show "the ghost whisperer". (If you ever watch that show and see a traffic circle with a fountain in the middle surrounded by a lot of shops, that's my neighborhood.)
Where women Create is a book I've recently come across on the web, now also on my wish list. I love peering into other people's creative work spaces. This book looks so inspiring.
Textile Arts sells wall hanging kits to display Marimekko fabrics as artwork. The finished pieces look absolutely stunning.
