Archive for January, 2009
Image c/o Rintintinneke (from papernstitch flickr pool)
It’s Friday and I could really use the break. This week was very long. I hope everyone has a great weekend. But before I go, I thought I would wrap up with some of my favorite posts from this week…
-Room by Room- The Modern Dining Room: A guest post from Amy of Form Fire Glassworks
-Mini Book Tour: Handmade Nation
-Design for Mankind’s papernstitch Picks
-My interview for Retail Therapy on Heart Handmade: This is from last week, but I still think its cool.
I just spotted this makeover on CRAFT (originally from Instructables). An end table that had seen better days was given a new look with dominos. I never would have thought of this, but look at that funky pattern! I love it.
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Images c/o Zelaya (found via Creativadoration)
Thanks to Janick of Creativadoration (and Neawear), I am now completely head over heels in love with Zelaya, a new shop that sells clothing, bags, and accessories. Everything in the Zelaya shop is simply beautiful. Side note: I am going to freak out if someone buys this purse before I can muster up the courage to spend that much money on a bag again.
Head over to the Zelaya shop. I promise you will love everything!
Eek! The crazy cool school supplies from Present and Correct are making me want to go back to school! These math instrument notebooks would be great for jotting down notes at the office or keep one (or three) by the telephone as an address and phone book.
Keep your books (and paperwork) tidy with these bright and cheery (and rubbery) book belts from the 60s. Only Present and Correct could make me covet a book belt. I mean look at the styling- who could resist?
And this bad boy is crafted from birch with a clean, white ruled edge and a hole to hang it from. I think a whole bunch of these would look great hung up in a grid on the wall. I just love the shape and the white against the woodgrain.
Enormous Tiny Art has some lovely pieces right now. I am completely pressed for words right no. I am just in awe, so I thought I would provide a small snippet from each artist’s statement about their work instead of gushing. After all, who could put it better than the artist’s themselves?
Biology and Oh, Alice by Betsy Thompson
“One of Betsy’s primary goals as a collage artist is to make art more accessible and to engage her viewers, adults and children alike, by drawing them in through the use of color, movement, shapes, and story-telling. Her work is notable for the use of bright, inviting color, creative energy and whimsical imagery.”
Railroad Ave. Laundromat and Wallace and Madison by Stacey Durand
“…These overlapping homes, quirky old seacoast buildings, and urban landscapes have been the subjects of Duran’s most recent work. She is drawn to the layers and clutter and the junctions and connections that these objects create. And in many ways her art making process reflects my strong interest in layered assemblage: through the use of stacked and over-lapping, collaged materials, photocopies, and photographs; utilization of wintergreen transfers and other photo transfer techniques; and the incorporation of acrylic paint, graphite, and charcoal…”
Wing Pile, Spanish Bow Tie and Two, and Giant Swallowtail & Knot by Gretchen Wagoner
“Wagoner’s relationship with nature is what has driven this current body of work. Currently, she is very fascinated with butterflies and knots. Wagoner’s interested in the light, free, delicate yet resilient nature of a butterfly as opposed to the strong, stabilizing mechanisms of a knot. The artist states, ‘I like that they seem like an unlikely pair, although both are used to describe physical characteristics brought on by strong emotional reactions. For instance, having butterflies or knots in your stomach may physically feel the same but evoke completely different emotional connotations. It is these same contradictions and combinations that motivate my process and materials of collage, gouache, watercolor, and graphite’.”
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