oh, this old house?

just a few places i could spend some time in my imaginary home.

 

images via things that inspire, delight by design

fred shand, quilter

just the other day i was talking to a friend who quilts, and she mentioned that she is growing a little tired of her regular angular designs and expressed her desire to explore some more organic, free form shapes.  i, myself have never done any sort of quilting, but i can really appreciate all the work that goes into each one.  i know it’s no simple task… people spend months on a quilt, sometimes years.

a few days after speaking with my friend, i saw these by fred shand, an english artist that anthropologie is featuring.  definitely not your typical quilter, she uses a variety of methods from silk-screening to painting to sewing and quilting in order to make each one-of-a-kind piece.

 

fred shand.

blue with a twist of orange

this would be a great place to drink your coffee every morning.  these pictures, taken from a home on an island off the coast of italy, just call out my name.  i can hear it now.
oh, just that shade of blue with the pops of orange.

yes, i think i could live here.
that would be alright by me.

pictures by adriano bachella via style files.

a shed of one’s own

after you spend some time sharing a workspace with young art school kids, you dream of your own room where you can make your own mess, and don’t have to clean up theirs.  this has been my life for the past year, and such my dreaming process.  you really don’t need a huge space, a small shed would do just fine… cue my discovery of said delightful small space on tales of a junkaholic which looks good to me!  while small, it’s still just your own.

fog linen

everyone is all abuzz about japanese company fog linen… and they are pretty wonderful… so i though i would share them with you too.

find them here.

baskets, a collection of

created  by dutch designer piet hein eek, these fair trade baskets were made with with the help of local craftsmen and scrapwood from a small workshop in vietnam.

and they are available here.

via the style files

a bedtime post before bed

it’s time for another roundup of bedroom color inspirations.

start with a base of white. mix in a secondary color. add a dash of ethnic textiles.

and there you have it.

pictures via desire to inspire, unknown, apt therapy , the city sage

who doesn’t love a beach house?

this scandinavian beach house featured in house beautiful would be alright by me.
oh, it just smells of lazy summer days.

designed and owned by one of the founders of ochre, a beautiful housewares store in new york, it only makes sense that the home of harriet maxwell macdonald would be gorgeous too.

yep.  i think it would be all right.

visit ochre

images via house beautiful

mason jar de-light

just when you thought that you couldn’t love mason jars any more, anthropologie figures out a way to make you fall in love with them all over again.  oh those anthropologians! featured in one of their stores, they have fashioned a whole lighting ceiling installation.

thank goodness the people over at design*sponge have scaled it down to a more manageable project to do at home.

get the full instructions on their post, here.

via apartment therapy.

on my last day of french class

on my last day of french class, i am going to post something not about french at all…. but rather, about the chalkboard in my class.  every day, this odd inexplicable satisfaction comes over me with the sound of the chalk on the chalkboard, and even more so… stay with me on this, this is going to be a weird one… they joy i have when my teacher erases the board completely before moving on to the next exercise, no stray marks or words left behind. right in the middle of learning l’imparfait tense, my fingers start aching with the desire to draw on the board.   luckily, i am able to hold back, but only with the promise that one day i will paint one of my walls with chalkboard paint, and draw away to my hearts desire.

and that, is perhaps the long and very odd connection as to why i am drawn to these two pictures.

oh, and they’re pretty too.

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unknown, maison-couturier