I want to live here!
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.
Monday, August 31, 2009
Too scared to scoot!
I loved having a scooter in college and often yearn for the zippy freedom and low gas mileage that those days held. However after stopping to assist in a scooter vs. road accident yesterday I think I may put the scooter fantasy on the back burner.
Driving down the street in my not so zippy red van I happened upon an man and his scooter sprawled out in the middle of the road. While another car had already stopped they didn't have a cell phone and seemed to be in a state of panic. I donned my super hero cape--jumped out of the car--called 911 and held the man's hand until help arrived.
I realized my dreams of a red vespa instead of a red van were one blown front tire away from it being me sprawled out on the concrete. I think I will re-think the scooter thing. I might be wimpy but I will be intact!
Saturday, August 29, 2009
I Love Jeff Lewis
I was so wrapped up in old episodes of flipping out that I almost burned the bread I am making for church tomorrow! If Jim doesn't find a job I wonder if I could work for Jeff Lewis? I have a pretty thick skin--I mean my husband is from Long Island, how much worse could it get?
upstairs, downstairs
I am thrilled that Maggie is allowing me to use her room in her absence! Not only have I double the square feet of my studio and gained a great view of the neighborhood (just call me Mrs. Cravitz) but I get an added workout everyday running up and down the stairs. After my summer of sin I will still have to put in my gym time to undo my holiday damage but my new bi-level studio status may just make it a little easier.
let there be light
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Friday, August 28, 2009
Back from hiatus
After a summer of galavanting I am finally home! It has never felt so good to have my feet firmly back on North Carolina soil. I could however do without the NC humidity! If you scroll down you will see some yet to be edited photos of our worlwind tour of the Pacific Northwest. Yes, that is Edward Cullen-he tagged along as we are such a glamorous fun group of girls.
Elizabeth and I are gearing up for our mid-September trunk show. I feel as if I am playing catch up for a summer spent outside. I am trying to bring all of the ideas that have thundered through my brain in the past couple of months to fruition. This has been made a little easier as I have moved the sewing sweat shop upstairs to Maggie's bedroom now that she is away at school. She however doesn't know this yet so I will have to let you know how that goes. I am headed up there now to finish a couple of aprons and bring a monster to life. That is right after I take the dog for a walk! Summer isn't quite over yet!
Elizabeth and I are gearing up for our mid-September trunk show. I feel as if I am playing catch up for a summer spent outside. I am trying to bring all of the ideas that have thundered through my brain in the past couple of months to fruition. This has been made a little easier as I have moved the sewing sweat shop upstairs to Maggie's bedroom now that she is away at school. She however doesn't know this yet so I will have to let you know how that goes. I am headed up there now to finish a couple of aprons and bring a monster to life. That is right after I take the dog for a walk! Summer isn't quite over yet!
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
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Monday, July 20, 2009
Sunday, July 19, 2009
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