The lovely Michelle Kaufmann has a nice blog about creating beautiful green items for your home. I have admired this very cool woman for several years now and her business has really taken off. I still dream about visiting (and living in) a Glidehouse or the Lotus.
The beauty of design does not always have to be visual. The beauty of words can have an even stronger effect. Leo of Zen Habits has written a glorious post on the way the work world is changing and evolving. Many of his rules for work have become part of my life instantly, like a religion. His prose flows like a musical river of comprehension, and the ideas we have all had, but have never put on paper (or digitally), come together succinctly.
While shopping for my soon-to-be new car, I have been enamored of the colors and curves of some of my choices. The new sub-compacts (Fit, Yaris, Mini) are like little pieces of delicious candy, ready to be unwrapped. Color will be a big part of my choice.
Yesterday I stopped by the fun and funky clothing exchange and antique shop, Junkee, on S. Virginia Street. It’s such a great place to shop, it’s very burlesque, full of colorful drapes, tassles, painting and poufy chairs. I really hope that Reno decides to block off this part of Virginia and make it the “funk neighborhood” with all the cool murals, tattoo parlors, artsy shops and restaurants. They could delineate the hood with a recycled bicycle sculpture like I saw at Burning Man 2007.
I took a wire jewelry class and made a messy little bird’s nest pin with beads for eggs. The class and even my professor gushed over it so much that I have decided to make them for Christmas and birthday gifts. I did one for my friend Heather for her birthday with a few eggs and a baby bunny.
I really love the illustrations and color of The Fat Finch. Check out the iBride items. Tweet!
I would feel bad wiping my muddy shoes off on this gorgeous door mat featuring my favorite little birds. This mat comes from one of my favorite catalogs, Acacia (A sheltering tree and a source of healing materials and essential oils. Isn’t that beautiful?) which sells natural handmade products for the home and body.
Here is a lovely pink bouquet from AfricanKelli and her motley troupe of blogging friends who have been making my Friday more fun. We all seem to be sharing a brain, since our posts are spookily similar.
I am always inspired by women who don’t go with the flow and branch out on their own lovely trees of life…okay, enough poetry for today.
My mom found this box of chocolate with my name written all over it. How apropos! I thought the logo and the package design was pretty and reminded me of the Tom Waits song, “Chocolate Jesus”. Now, if only someone like Tom would write a song about me…
I remember my childhood being filled with the lovely design of the typical Danish mailbox. I even had a cardboard one as a toy. EveryDay Design celebrates the experience of common design all over the world. I love the idea that you do not have to a design background or be a whiz at Photoshop to really enjoy the everyday beauty that is all around us. I try to think of a world without design and it would be pretty dull.