From the monthly archives:
I’m up, I’m trying to motivate to pack and organize for our trip to Montana. Instead I’m drinking iced coffee (the ac is busted) and reading the blogs. [bad bad bad]. Loving this Joseph Cornell piece, navigating the imagination. Found on Diana: Muse.
{ 2 comments }
We’re back from Maine — we had a great time in Portland, even got out on the ocean in a schooner of all things! I’m running around today, but just wanted to pop in and say hello and share this lovely illustration from Jenny Bower’s found via cutie blog EmilyAbigail (another Abigail!).
{ 5 comments }
I’ve added some fun vintage brass (a fierce lion!) and some collector boxes full of sea shells plus other funky finds to the shop.
{ 6 comments }
So sweet! Wouldn’t berries look perfect in this? Expensive, but good eye candy: Juliska Revere Footed Bowl.
{ 2 comments }
I’m not doing a year of flowers bouquet this week because we’re in Maine for the weekend and then off to Montana for a week! So, this will have to do for your weekly flower inspiration. This arrangement is from an old MSL and the flowers are foxgloves, queen anne’s lace and the pom-poms are echinops. The white and green makes me want to dress head to toe in white with green accessories (sort of kidding). I especially love the faux-bois vases and scouted a few out below (although I couldn’t find anything with those great mushroom growths!).
VivaTerra, $84 (on sale — used to be $184)
Kgrandey’s Etsy Shop, $25 (for one)
{ 4 comments }
According to the back of this photo, this is “Charles in robe with cup he won in Beautiful Baby Contest.” We’re headed to Maine for a wedding and I’m hoping I’ll have at least one lobster roll. PS, sign up for the Vintage Swap (and thanks to everyone who has already sent me email!)
{ 2 comments }
Apartment Therapy NY linked to my post about finding affordable art on Ebay — whooo hoo! I hope this search helps you find some fantastic vintage paintings!
{ 1 comment }
I love this little summer house — the green vintage table, the red door, the tiny sweet bird door stop. Check out sweet blog 36 Shea for more pictures. Found via Poppytalk, where Jill has some amazing pillows for sale.
{ 3 comments }
I pretty sure I’ve never blogged about a movie before (although I love movies and come from a family packed with filmmakers (4+ at the last count)). Last night I was a little overtired and cranky (yes, like a child) and so we watched Penelope. I was so charmed by this film. Christina Ricci is great, Jame McAvoy is cute and totally charming and Reese Witherspoon (who produced it) is just totally rad and very relaxed. From a design perspective the sets are lovely and evoke a fairy tale perfectly — it seems a bit like living in an Anthropologie world. Ricci’s clothes seem to be completely from Anthropologie and the film is set in a steampunk-esque world of modern technology and old fashioned fashion (but really well done — the whole film is funny and smart and not too over the top). I totally have a thing for modern re-tellings of fairy tales and would also suggest Spindle’s End, Beauty and Rose Daughter by Robin McKinnley, one of my favorite authors.
{ 2 comments }
Do you ever read about something in a magazine (or anywhere for that matter) and have it stay with you? Me too. I’ve been thinking about this article in May’s Domino — where Stephen Shubel used fake boxwood in his back garden. I’ve been wanting to make our long narrow porch a bit more protected from the noise of the street and a bit cooler (the sun beats down on it and that means that while I love to plant my containers we don’t spend as much time out there as I would like. I was thinking that maybe I could fill planters with faux boxwood and alternated them between my real containers. And, as an added bonus it would give some year round greenery to the porch. Has anyone tried this sort of thing in containers? I’m all ears! PS, I found the image via great blog with a great name, Nest Maker.
I’m thinking something like the image on the bottom right, from a UK firm.
{ 2 comments }
So do we like the wide wooden planks here? I think I say hot. via Desire to Inspire, from interior designers BAMO.
{ 15 comments }
This painting, Running Before the Storm, in the collection of the MFA Boston caught my eye today while I was in the library researching — the artist is unknown, and the painting dates from the 1870s. How awesome is the thunderstorm? I used to love to sit on my porch in Vermont and watch storms roll up our valley. The children and the farmer running are almost comical (which makes the painting not quite as scary as it could be) and the horses are so dramatically black and white. Something about the enthusiasm of this painter just makes me happy.
PS: Those of you in Boston, how awesome does the 13th annual French Film Festival at the MFA look?
{ 2 comments }
