Rainy Wednesday.

rainy and cold. lost my wallet. horrible sore throat. and another year older on Friday.

Mom arrives tomorrow, maybe a break in the rain.

I would like to fall asleep and forget about today, and be ready for tomorrow!

I saw red

Waders
Red Drift

Brendan Monore's work has left me speechless. I just ordered the LAST copy of his book on Etsy. It has 176 pages of his work from 2005-2008, a poster and was printed byPark Life in SF. It was only $32! He can also be found here in LA at the Richard Heller Gallery...

He lives and works in Stockholm with his wife and,as his bio states, has a cat named Jalapeno.

January

Hello January. My birth month.

Peter Crawley's stiched illustrations are really cool.

Garland

My Project for Monday. Paper Garland.

Even thought the festive season is over..there is no reason not to decorate the hallway.

I have been wanting to do this for a long time, it really is so easy, I just didn't have the hole punch and was NOT going to cut the paper individually. I saw another post onThe Purl Bee today about felt garland and rushed to Papersource, picked up some paper and a punch and whipped this up in an hour.

My favorite maker of garland (as if there are hundreds) is Sophie Cuvelier in France. Her website has the title of The Fabulous Garlands, which fits perfectly! The pictures of her process and installations are incredible.

Colors used are: soft white, pool, papaya,black and curry. Looks great against the walls which are painted in' Chilly morning' which is a very soft blue/grey almost white..depending on the light. The hallway lights/chains are part of the apartment. They had weird glass covers I removed to update the look. I love the chain and garland together.

Dutch Details

The Dutch. They live and breath design. And now there are more and more fashion designers getting recognized. If you have ever been to Amsterdam you know that there are some of the mot beautiful store concepts. They are heavy on visual displays and always fresh and exciting. Maybe it is the beautiful people, the canals, the flowers in the spring or the red light district, whatever it is they are always creating beautiful furniture, art, and clothing.

Here is a line that is simply called Painted.

This is the new series and here is the description of the line:

'I treasure

Painted by is a series of garments in progress.
Starting points were beautiful antique Bulgarian
family pieces to which different generations
have added new elements.
We were touched by the soul
of these layered garments.

Painted by consists of unique pieces
that have grown from different signatures.
Each piece has been worked on in sequence by
Dutch designers and artisans of nearly forgotten techniques,
that have become precious beyond time.

A story in garments.'