No - I am not out tagging by moonlight. I was asked to paint a chair and side table for the arts council MONTHS ago and of course I managed to put it of until the week I am moving.
I have been toying with ideas of what to do with this chair. It will eventually be auctioned off and placed somewhere around town (like the cow thing in NY a few years back). I had a million fabulous ideas but in the end it came down to having lots of spray paint to get rid of. The movers can't pack paint and I hate to let anything go to waste. Behold---the spray painted poppy chair!
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Graffiti Artist?
The Set
All in all I had a good morning waiting for the movers and praying it wouldn't rain. I should have done this months ago, but it's done now and as we all know - a little procrastination never hurt anyone!
Monday, November 16, 2009
Seperated at Birth?
OK, Lost Star, I think you may be me, two of my favorite things in this photo and one more below confirm it. Wreck this journal is a fabulous excercise book that gets you to do things like literally take it in the shower with you or draw a picture with coffee or chewing gum. And look what is parked right next to the book. Could that be LUSH? Be still my heart!!
Stabilo
These are my favorite pens in the world! When we lived in Germany, they sold them at the Spar (like a 7-11) in our village. One year for my birthday the girls got me every color of the rainbow. Seven years later some of them are still going strong! Who knew I had a fellow fan on Flickr!
Saturday, November 14, 2009
vibrant hues
Welcome to Bradstreet! For a rollicking good time check out Amy's blog at http://www.onbradstreet.blogspot.com/ I have loved peeking around her house on flickr and she was kind enough to share her photos with us. I love the way she uses color and revamped items to create a one of a kind home for her family. Take a peek inside and don't forget to visit Amy at her blog!
evening sun
There is another view of this room below but I couldn't resist showing it from this angle as well. When is dinner?
inch by inch
Just think we are moving into a home where we may actually be able to stay long enough to do this!
comforts
I want to curl up like a cat in the sun on this couch. I love tables that are a little higher like this as a coffee table. They are great for entertaining and can be more of a gathering place for games and snacks than a lower table. I love the mix of pillows, if only my dogs wouldn't think they were beds we would be set!
Amy's eclectic dining room
I love that Amy has chosen what must be the same green for her dining room as we have in ours! I am coveting the orange chairs! In the new house the dining room is very open and I am having fun toying with new color ideas but seeing this photo makes me mourn my green dining room prematurely!
Does that pillow look familiar?
I have found my new winter time hangout. Along with the winter version of my oilcloth Union Jack pillows. You all know I can't resist a twinkle light or a really funky Virgin Mary and I have found everything I need here. It is interesting to compare this to the pared down version of the same room below. I like it dolled up, but the cozy toes in the version below help to bring me right into the room!
Heaven
I could curl up all day here. I am pretending those are my feet and the books in the bookcase are all waiting to be read by me.
Friday, November 13, 2009
It's No Vintage Cabin but it's Mine (for the next week)
Several of you have asked when I am going to post my house on the blog. I took these pictures when we were getting ready to sell the house. I know many of you have seen them on facebook (shameless self promotion is my specialty) but for those of you who have asked, here is my lair.
I Wish I Could Play That Piano!
Here is our living room. I love to sit in here and read. I would love to say I spend hours playing the piano, but that would be Sarah not me.
Homework Central
Here is another big living space. This was my studio for awhile but it is nice to have it back as a dining/study room.
Just Call Me Julia
Here is the feeding station. My favorite part is the small chalkboard next to the fridge where the girl's friends have all left messages over the last couple of years. I am going to take a photo of it and have it framed for the new house.
Hangin' Out
This is where we spend most of our time hanging out. Unless of course I am hiding from the kids in my bedroom. I'd be lying if I said I didn't on occasion have the need to escape the madness!
Thursday, November 12, 2009
The Vintage Cabin
You may have noticed my obession with my latest flickr find "The Vintage CAbin" I wanted to give her a chance to introduce herself, so here are her own words that I poached from her flickr profile. I am hoping to let her know I have been blogging about her house for days but I am afraid she really will think I am a stalker! I don't think she has to worry about that because as far as I know I am not planning on going anywhere near "The Sticks, Canada" which is where she lives anytime soon. Oh, and check out her etsy store at www.thevintagecabin.etsy.com . Now without further ado meet "The Vintage Cabin"
Thrift stores, rummage sales, French Bulldogs, Mid Century design & decor, minimal but modest decor, turquoise, chartreuse, souvenir mugs and glasses, old cars, old mannequins, creepy dolls and all things strange.
That's what I like.
Thrift stores, rummage sales, French Bulldogs, Mid Century design & decor, minimal but modest decor, turquoise, chartreuse, souvenir mugs and glasses, old cars, old mannequins, creepy dolls and all things strange.
That's what I like.
chest of no hope
What a great way to display quilts! I have several graphic Amish style quilts I have made over the years but never really like to see them hanging on the wall. Just a little too Country Living circa 1994 for me thank you very much! I have a lawyers bookcase similar to this one so I just might try it.
I guess I will have to replace the bottom pane of glass on mine where a very large puppy (BusterJack) slid across the floor and crashed into it. I think it will be worth ith though!
Geographicalousness
Well, who know my new buddy TVC is also a Dwell subscriber! Look to the bottom right for confirmation!
Impromtu Gallery
I love this. Rotate the reading and artwork for everyone's enjoyment. My obsession with "The Vintage Cabin" continues.
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Happy Veteran's Day
I always miss being in England at this time of year. I miss Bonfire night, I miss the smell of woodsmoke, I miss the gloom of the shortened days, but one thing I really miss are the red poppies that beak up that gloom.
Rememberance day is a holiday everyone in England is aware of. It seems that everywhere you look, old grandmothers and playschoolers alike are sporting red poppies on their lapels. I'm not sure why we don't give Veteran's day the same reverence here. Maybe it's because America in general was not impacted in the same way by WWII as England was. I could go on and on about these theories of mine but I fear I may lose your interest dear blog reader. I love comparing my actual homeland with my adopted homeland but I realize everyone doesn't share my fascination!
So I what I will share is why Veteran's day is important to me. Both of my Grandfathers were WWII veterans, my husband is a veteran and his father is a veteran. I think of all of the men and women who are in harm's way at this very moment who have earned the right to share that title and I wish it were for a cause as noble as WWII.
My Brisitsh friend Lisa once said to me that she thinks of the Poppy as a sad flower. I see it as a symbol of hope. Poppies can and do grow everywhere in England. They are huge, they are tough and they survive. The poppy is the state flower of my home state of California. They brighten the grey rivers of asphalt highways they grow along. They are happy surviviors.
So on this day, take a moment to consider all of the men and women who have given so much. Think of a small island country full of poppies and what they went through and survived not so long ago. And know that in our own way, we are all survivors.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Monday, November 9, 2009
Constance Classic Caravan Interior
OK this is freaky! My love for Airstreams meets my love for my spiritual home of Snailwell, England. This photo is thanks to snailtrail.co.uk. May I have one please?
Vintage Cabin's Kitchen
You just can't beat checked floor. This reminds me of the one I talked Jim into painting onto our laundry room floor in England. That one was on point though. I wonder if the kitchen in the new house would like to sport a new look?
I thought the other corner was fab!
If there is one thing I like more than fake people, it is letters of any kind or shape (the curse of being a graphic design major/dropout-- unfinished business) but especially in red. I think I may be becoming a stalker!
The Vintage Cabin strikes again!
I am about to become obsessed with The Vintage cabin! I am so happy I am not the only person who likes and names inanimate people/ I love how her guy Henri in the corner looks like my old Ken doll with a new head! I think my Grandma Wilma had those chairs in her living room when I was a kid. I can just see the kidney shaped side table holding a smoking cigarette and cocktail next to them! Remeber kids--don't smoke (although my grandma Wilma is alive and kicking in her 90's now) it WILL kill you!
Color Chaos
This living room is thanks to The Vintage Cabin on Flickr. I LOVE the use of color here and anyone who knows me knows I never met a matchstick blind I didn't like. Even as a little girl I would fantasize about an apartment with wooden floors Turkish Carpets (although I didn't know that's what they were at the time-I just wanted them) and orange crate furniture. I think if this were my house I would have gone overboard and clashed the wall with a purple or orange sofa. Yikes!
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Yoga Teacher's Dream Chair!
Friday, October 16, 2009
Etsy Picks of the Week
I decided on a whim today that on Fridays I am going to highlight a few of my favorite Etsy sellers. In the future I hope to maybe even have a chance to interview them and find out more about their process and why they do what they do. Today, seeing as this idea just came to me I just want to share two of my latest Etsy obsessions with you. The first is "bee things" an Etsy artist that created the beautiful silkscreened images above. I love her use of color and the composition of her work is amazing. It makes me happy just to look at it. I am putting the zebra finch print on my Christmas list for sure! Bee things is based in Dallas Texas and when I checked out the artist's profile there wasust a quote from Jim Henson that I think she has definately lived up to. "My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here" well bee things, I think you have. Visit the bee things shop at http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5456672 You can also visit bee things blog at beethingsblog.blogspot.com
My next Etsy favorite is Michele Maule and her Etsy shop of the same name. She lives in Portland Oregon with her boston terrier Chloe. In her Etsy shop she has mixed media original art pieces and prints. I love her whimsical take on everyday objects and am dying to get a print of one of her typewriters to hang above my recent vintage typewriter find. A quirky perception of life seems to really come through in her art. More of her work can be seen in her shop. http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5088760 You can also find out more about the artist at her blog http://www.how2drawacupofcoffee.blogspot.com/ I hope you take the time to check out both of these inspirational artist and I look forward to sharing my latest Etsy finds with you next Friday! Have a great weekend everyone.
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Words
Words are the same way. As soon as they leave our mouths they become a sound rather than a thought. We no longer have the intent to strike. We have stricken. The words may heal or encourage or inform or they may hurt and slander and villify. The older I get the more I appreciate the art of listening rather than talking. Of being the metal rather than the hammer and of deciding what I want to do with the words that are impressed upon me in life. I can look at them as imperfect and crooked or misspelled. Or I can choose to perceive them as quirky and one-of-a-kind explanations of someone else's outlook on life. I can take them any way I want to no matter what the intent behind them was. I can convert bad into good and good into bad. I am an alchemist of words. Really, when it comes down to it, I am the one who has to live with the words that leave me and the words that enter me and the only words I can choose to process any way I want are the ones that come in. And I welcome them all.
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Trunk Show
The trunk show was a huge sucess. It was wonderful to have so many people come out to show their support. All of our hard work paid off when we the Halloween wonderland we had created was shared with our favorite friends. Even the creepy crawly ones made an appearance!
This was one of the first customers of the day. The poor thing grew tired of waiting for her necklace to be assembled and wasted away to nothing on the porch. At least she had a cute hat on. Check out Elizabeth's pillows keeping Ms Skeleton company on the swing. The witches legs were my favorite. We sold out of both witches legs pillows and Charms. What does that say about our clientle? Or maybe us! Feel free to visit us on http://www.twoelizabeths.weebly.com/ to find out about upcoming events!
Sunday, October 4, 2009
Kitchen looking into butler's pantry
Yes. I thought it was the trunk show that slowed down my blogging pace. More photos from that later. However, It is the fact that we are moving and I am having to sell my house that really has thrown me for a loop! I have been getting it ready to stick that sign in the yard, which we did today. Now I have got to get back to Libby's World and fill my unfilled orders. Thank goodness for patient customers! Thanks to everyone for putting up with the craziness!
Saturday, September 5, 2009
I love these guys!
Two of my favorite men joined forces on BBC Radio One Friday morning and I missed it!! I had it on my calendar and everything. If you have no idea who the cuties above are let me fill you in. On the right we have Chris Moyles DJ extraordinaire and host of the Chris Moyles show every weekday morning from 6:30-10:00am on BBC radio one. Get yourself to a sirius radio and check him out ASAP!
One the left we have Robbie Williams, or the Robster as those of us who are up close and personal like to call him. If you have never had the treat of hearing Robbie then head on over to itunes and download some deliciousness. Make sure to check out a few videos while you are there. Old school favorite right now would be "Radio"-you can't beat beat satanic cheerleaders. Newer favorite "Sin Sin Sin" yes this man does have a HUGE ego! I can't wait to see his new video "Bodies" in it's entirety. Let me know what you think! Have a great holiday weekend everyone!
Thursday, September 3, 2009
The chicken or the egg?
As much as I love the blog "More Ways to Waste Time" this photo gave me traumatic second grade flashbacks. In Mrs. Vasquez's 2nd grade class we hatched chicken eggs and learned about how the chicken embryo developed etc. since then I have been unable to eat an egg unless that gelatinous white stringy thing (I'm sure it has a name) has been cooked to the consistency of concrete. When I saw this photo I almost lost it and I re-affirmed why it may be a good idea to avoid eggs altogether.
There is a happy/sad end to the second grade egg project. I got to keep on of the chicks. He was so cute and fluffy and I named him Clampsys. Then he grew up and became the ruler of our back garden, chasing down anyone who dared enter his domain and attacking with both beak and spurs. One day he was gone. My mother's theory was that the next door neighbors put a chicken hit out on him. Who really knows. What I do know is from the age of seven on I took my eggs over hard.
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