Oh, I couldn't resist. This is one of the new miniature gardens at my favorite creative nursery. I've been getting a ton of emails lately from readers wanting information on the best plants to start one so I thought I'd share a new website I've come across while searching for garden miniatures last week called Two green thumbs it's very resourceful!
If anyone out there has created a miniature garden that they'd like to share, please do send me a photo, along with your first name, and what area of the world you live in (state & country). I'd love to add it to the miniature garden inspiration web gallery I'm working on, with a link to your website. *** If your interested, please send to: kathleen (at) liquidskyarts.com***
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Two fun contests are being thrown this summer, with the chance to win things by two very fun independent designers. To read more about them, take a visit to Sweetpea's of Junque Revival, and Rubber-sol a.k.a the Paper Princess.
posted by Liquid Sky Arts at 9:48 AM
6.14.2006
Inspiration 11
I'm completely smitten over Grainne Morton's one-off jewelry designs (found recently via Julie of handmaidby).
She begins by collecting obscure and miniature objects which are both formed and found. The found materials can include pressed flowers, old buttons, shells, pebbles, sea glass, printed tin and graphics/print. She complements these with formed elements creating handmade objects such as enamel work, miniature drawings and punched metal shim. These are then grouped into collections and housed in handmade boxes.
There's something so complex about old objects, they always leave traces of memories even when they aren't your own. I really love how each piece of Grainne's is steeped in found nostalgia.
Romantic. Melancholy. Delicate. I love the contrast of the finely cut imagery against the unsettling messages found in his pieces... peer in a little closer and look and then look again.
To see & read even more about Ryan's work take a visit to Paul Smith (via ulla).
Yesterday the most inspiring gift arrived from one of my new favorite creative artists on the net Anahata of Papayalicous and Anahataart. After my post about the little garden studio, we had discovered that we both had been on a lengthy search for gauzy lanterns. Through a few emails, a surprising coincidence came into play and she was able to find a source for them. As an AMAZING gesture she sent this package as a thank you!
From the moment I laid eyes on this box, I felt like I was walking on a cloud all day.
I couldn't stop beaming over the piles of colorful cards, tags, mail art stickers, soulful collage backgrounds, and posters. All made with love by the wonderful creative mother-daughter duo, who are the genius behind Papaya. It's so good, you feel contagiously snared into wanting to create something just as beautiful yourself!
My favorite part about keeping this blog truly is the brilliant people that I've been lucky enough to meet along the way. Thanks so much Anahata... I cannot stop smiling over here!
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(*edit* Here's the correct link!) These gauzy lanterns are now available in various shapes and colors through Anahataart for anyone else who's interested... Hurrah, the search is over!
Don't they look dreamy?!
Yesterday I nearly flipped when I came across this article about one of my local gardening muses. She has sparked so much imagination to everyone who visits this creative gardening nursery... these photos are of two of her miniature displays there. They really are like perfect little worlds.
For further outside inspiration from another Wee garden, which includes some very helpful miniature plant lists for beginners too.
Here's a pic from my own mini garden, also lovely yet random: my new favorite apple, bird, and flower mugs, the backdrop blue of our garden, and my springer spaniel Jerry doing his loungey dog thing. He truly knows where the good life is at!
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Also just in time for summer lounging, a fun new collaborative music project is under-foot at Under A Pink Sky.
