December 2009
1 post
Eng. Presentation: Decade Highlight
Grunge
Nirvana
Courtney Love+Kim Gordan (Sonic Youth)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dL0iAXUatdY
Kurt Cobain About a Son
Nirvana’s Nevermind
Pearl Jam
Pearl Jam’s Ten
Post-Rock
Slint
Slint’s Spiderland
Talk Talk
Talk Talk’s Laughing Stock
Indie Rock (Lo-Fi)
Neutral Milk Hotel
Pavement
Pavement’s Stephen Malkmus
Alternative...
November 2009
3 posts
It's chrrrreestmas it's chrreeestmas
Time for the Wish List!
(1) HG Well’s The Outline of History; The book that started the drama between two of my favorite Edwardian Authors. MUST HAVE. However, I’d love to have any of the literature of the other Big Four of Edwardian Letters also, that is: Hilaire Belloc, George Bernard Shaw, and G. K. Chesterton.
(2) My favorite artist is Edward Gorey and I love collecting the...
cue Paul McCartney, it's Chrismas time again
Hot Buttered Apple Cider
http://gonewengland.about.com/gi/o.htm?zi=1/XJ&zTi=1&sdn=gonewengland&cdn=travel&tm=18&gps=318_564_1004_580&f=10&su=p284.9.336.ip_p531.50.336.ip_&tt=2&bt=0&bts=1&zu=http%3A//www.floras-hideout.com/drrecipes/recipes.php%3Fpage%3Ddrrecipes%26data%3Df-j/Hot_Buttered_Cider
Baked Goat Milk Brie with Cranberry Sauce
...
room inspiration: design space
i’ve been ignoring my little tumblr as of late. been busy busy busy.
but here’s a pretty office space from one of my favorite internet reads: http://www.mintdesignblog.com
after all this time, im still a sucker for paper hannnnnnng.
read mint’s entry here :http://www.mintdesignblog.com/?p=3037
October 2009
54 posts
DIY: Design Sponge Best Of
I don’t remember exactly when I became a DIY enthusiast, but it’s something that happened recently && practically overnight. I’ve always been an extremely clumsy person, and growing up I always thought of ’the arts’ in general as being something for more nimble-minded people. My mother was only vaguely interested in learning any sort of domestic craft (she did...
Big Cartel Find: Handle & Spout
(Images via Handle & Spout)
shop here: http://handlespout.bigcartel.com/
*winks,
Lady<3
design inspiration: Sarah Foote
Hey doodz. Need a rad new lamp? Does this inspire you to design your own?
These beautiful ‘Bonne Nuit’ lamps are handmade by Sarah Foote of Brooklyn. Check out the web addy for the contact page.
(via http://www.bonnenuithome.com/)
*winks,
Lady<3
artistic inspiration: justin richel
(Images and work property of Justin Richel)
Perhaps it’s because I’m a clutter bug, but I love stacks of stuff (mostly junk). Unfortunately the thing I’m best at stacking in my home is probably dirty dishes. This gives me all the more reason to elicit glee from Mr. Justin Richel’s fun (and eco-friendly) ‘plywerk’ print panels.
Richel is part of...
Style Inspiration: Nadinoo
Pretty socks && tights compliment Nadinoo’s Fall ‘09 Collection
(Photography by Marlies Dattler)
Click this link to check out more: http://www.nadinoo.com/lookbook-ss09/
*winks,
Lady<3
Room Inspiration: Looking Glass
A Beautiful Photograph floating around the design blogs. Repost of Repost of Repost-not sure on the source.
But I LOVE the idea. We have the perfect mirror that’s just hanging around to do this with.
*winks,
Lady<3
Room Inspiration: NEET Magazine's vortex of Rad
Neet Magazine has given me another reason to go blind by the time I’m thirty. Neetmagazine.com pulls me into the netherweb in a way that only a couple blogs have done before, && most of those probably revolved around Harry Potter.
I had to share some lovely pics that have been submitted for the ‘home’ tour section of the blog.
www.candimandi.typepad.com
...
Style Shake: Paper Dresses
This week to fight the stress of looming exams, I’ve been revisiting a couple books that have collected dust on our shelves. Inspired by Alvin Toffler’s Future Shock (1970), I thought it would be fun to post some of the paper dresses that he mentions as an aside to his idea that “disposable” is the new vogue of the 60s.
I was delighted to come upon this photo of one of my...
Artistic Inspiration: Aili Schmeltz
(Images property of Aili Schmeltz)
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Aili Schmeltz is a Los Angeles based Sculptress and Installation Artist.
She earned her MFA from the University of Arizona, holds a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute and has exhibited widely throughout the United States.
Schmeltz has also been an artist in residence at the Bemis Center (Omaha, NE), Sculpture Space (Utica, NY) , Raid Projects...
Artistic Inspiration: Liu Bolin
CAMOUFLAGE By Liu Bolin
(All Images property of Gugazine via Liu Bolin)
See original posting here:
http://www.gugazine.com/2009/10/camouflage-by-liu-bolin/
*winks,
Lady<3
Room Inspiration: Apartment Therapy Color...
As Apartment Therapy gathers more and more color contest finalists, I have more and more rooms to lust over at the click of my built-in mouse. One of the great things about the contest is that you are looking at real rooms that actual people live in (though they’re probably not as tidy as the pictures suggest); therefore, they’ll typically be more sensible to dwell in with kids and...
Style Inspiration:Modcloth
I finally collected a beautiful, black funnel-neck coat with my handy discount at penneys && so I probably shouldnt have been on the prowl for any more fall or winter gear. However, I’ve been eyeing this trench coat for weeks and weeks. Plus I’m reasoning that-here in Kentucky-I’ll get a little use out of it before it gets too cold && I have to revert to my wool...
Favorite Etsy Alert: System Replication
I love looking for cute items and cute shops on etsy, but I’ve noticed that alot of the items that I have saved into my favorites I really have no intention to buy. Even if I had vast bundles of money hidden away in our closets (and attention burglars, we’re far from it), why buy something when you can make it yourself?
Here’s a list of great ideas that should give you something...
Halloween
So up until a couple moments ago I considered doing would be something of a Dame Darcy Creation for Halloween…that is, dress up in silky, lacy fabrics with a juxtaposition of feminine and ghoulish embellishments. Perhaps, be a living piece of her art and make up a faux-frame to carry along. I love her after all.
(All Previous Photographs Property of Dame Darcy)
However,...
Artistic Inspiration: Martin Sobey
New York Installation Artist, Martin Sobey brightens up the streets of New York City and then photoblogs all about it. (http://beaconart.blogspot.com/)
(All photographs are property of Martin Sobey)
Visit GOOD (http://www.good.is/post/finding-art-in-the-sidewalk-cracks/) for a full interview with Sobey through The Wooster Collective(http://www.woostercollective.com/).
*winks,
...
Artistic Inspiration: Hannah Waldron
(All photographs, prints, and scans are property of Hannah Waldron)
A couple days ago, I came across the beautiful online portfolio of Hannah Waldron, and I loved it so much-I needed to share…
Here’s a blurb about her work, from Hannah’s webpage:
“I graduated from Brighton university in 2007 with a degree in Illustration. Since then, I have been London based, and...
Online Buying Guide: The Cambridge Satchel Company
(Photographs are property of The Cambridge Satchel Company)
I’m not sure if my here-comes-your-man-Man knows I’m lusting for these or not…Michael, im lusting for these!!!…but can school ever be fun again (was it ever?) knowing that these beautiful bags exist and I don’t have one? I don’t think so.
These hand-made, leather bags have been featured in everything...
DIY: Beautiful Present Bows
(Photograph property of howaboutorange.blogspot.com)
Want to make cute almost-free bows to top off a gift? How about a rad one to finish that sweet wrapping paper I told you to buy:(http://dissonantobjective.tumblr.com/post/205214627/a-rap-on-wrapping).
All you need is some junk paper, book pages (oh my!), or magazines, glue and sissors. The bow above is actually a map of Chicago-how dandy!
...
Online Buying Guide: Ruche
(All photographs are property of shopruche.com)
HelllLLLLO Darling! Where have you been all my life!?
So I (finally?) came across a beautiful online boutique with hand-picked items that all have that shabby-chic vintage-feel touch. And wow-o-wow am I excited! The best thing about Ruche is that it’s totally inexpensive…like, we are talking about BLOWING the typical...
room inspiration: 500 days of Summer
(Screen-caps are property of Fox)
So I guess it’s gotten to the point to where it’s lame that I still LOVE 500 Days of Summer so, so much. I mean, I can’t blame it on jumping on the bandwagon too late, as I literally counted down the days until it came out in Indianapolis.
But gosh darnit, I just can’t help it. I love it-everything. Perhaps it was the cinematography, or...
Looking at Music, Side Two
(All images are property of the respective artist. Image scans via http://www.moma.org)
So if you’re hanging round NYC sometime in the next couple months, you should check out the exhibit, Looking at Music, Side Two at The Museum of Modert Art.
Here’s the MOMA blurb:
“In the early 1970s New York was a haven for young, renegade artists, many of whom doubled as musicians and...
Artistic Inspiration: Gerhard Richter
(All photographs are property of centrephotogeneve.ch/)
77 year old, Gerhard Richter presented his collection, UERBERNALTE FOTOGRAFIEN / PHOTOGRAPHIES PEINTES (OVERPAINTED PHOTOGRAPHS) earlier this year at the Centre de la photographie, Geneva.
Richter “invites one to re-define the totality of his oeuvre - which oscillates between his figurative painting (which uses photography as its...
Artistic Inspiration: The Earth as Art
(All photographs courtesy of USGS National Center for EROS and NASA Landsat Project Science Office)
The Earth as Art is an online gallery established in July 2002. The images are taken from the Landsat 7 satellite && the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) aboard the Terra Satellite.
The Earth as Art gallery presents these collections to familiarize the...
A Rap on Wrapping
(All photographs are property of Elissa Barbieri)
Are you into wrapping your lovelies in lovelies? If so, you should check out the beautiful eco-conscious paper wrappings brought to us by Loop. Based out of Philadelphia, textile designer, Elissa Barbieri creates organic, beautiful products that can liven up any gift.
Check these designs out:
Perhaps you don’t like wrapping your...
Favorite Etsy Alert:afternoons&coffeespoons
(All photographs are property of etsy account member:afternooncoffeespoon)
Wow a cute, reasonably-priced vintage shop…and everything’s in perfect condition! There are definitely some finds here. Etsy has ‘handpicked’ several items from this small shop to display on the opening page, and so this account has been unknowingly visited by me many times the past couple days....
Favorite Etsy Alert:Noialand
As a LOTR fanatic, I couldnt be more elated to see the brooch posted by etsy user, Noialand. I can imagine tacking this on my coats and sweaters, annoying my boyfriend, and being the general talk of the town…or maybe just wearing it alot-that’s good enough too!
To buy this beauty, follow this link:
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=31802770.
*winks,
Lady<3
Home Inspiration: Apartment Therapy's Room for...
Apartment Therapy continues their search for Best Color-Designed room. Here’s my favorite entry out of the 10.02.09 submissions.
All photographs belong to Kayla via Apartment Therapy
http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/ny/room-for-color-2009/kaylas-songinspired-bedroom-room-for-color-div-xx-097362
Kayla comes from Cheshire, Connecticut. Wish you were closer, ladyface, so you could...
Style Inspiration:Orla Kiely
All photographs property of Orla Kiely.
Miss Kiely has been bringing fantastic prints to the fashion world since the 1990s. Using her distinguishable, graphic patterns, she creates one of the loveliest womenswear lines on the market. Check out her clothes, accessories, and travel supplies at the official website:http://www.orlakiely.com.
Here’s to replicating some of these looks this...
Favorite Etsy Alert:artenergyalchemy
All photographs are property of myauntdebbiecom on esty.
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=29107
This gal turns your favorite icons into rad jewelry for under 25$. Totally weird. Totally kitsch. Totally my style.
Charlie Chaplin Pin The Little Tramp
Chuckie and Bride of Chuckie Earrings
Crazy Cat Earrings
*winks
Lady
Home Inspiration
All Photographs property of http://www.theselby.com/
The Selby featured the colorful home of Parisienne stylist Elisa Nalin earlier this year. I’m a fiend for home decor ideas and I love rooms stuffed with print and color. Enjoy!
Here’s some of my favorite photographs from the collection.
*winks
Lady<3
Artistic Inspiration: Cserpent
Based on the work of Aubrey Beardsley:
&& Edward Gorey:
is Cserpent,a Melbourne based artist.
Here are some lovely examples of her work which can all be found and purchased at her website:http://www.cserpentart.com
Arent these spooky, Victorian ladies the coolest? Cserpent’s knack at juxtaposing a creepy edge against feminine moods is reminiscent of Dame Darcy, Carson...
Home Inspiration: Apartment Therapy's Room for...
“The first nine entries in this years Room for Color Contest were posted today.”
My favorite of the lot has to be Traci’s Pastel Pop Living Room. Usually I’m drawn to the really vibrant orange and pink rooms, but I love the more subdued use of color in this beautiful Virginia home.
Traci says that her color inspiration for this room was “a CD case from Target. I...
looking for a winter coat on the cheap
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