billet

another sweet japanese shop. found on bliss. i look forward to mrs. french's i heart monday series.. this monday, jill bent, from 36 shea wrote the post..

absolutely love these pants..

bookhou

i have mentioned bookhou before.. thought i would highlight their website.. again, i am inspired by their beautiful work!!

children's bentwood chairs

hand printed bags

lovely letterpress!!

paint

i ordered some new pigments to make milk paints.. acrylic doesn't feel inspiring anymore.. so thought i would try something different. here are a few paintings i did on paper from a year ago..

linen

mmm.. hemp and linen are my favorite textiles, well, i should include wool in that statement as well.. i often find myself dreaming of linen or hemp sheets..

fog linen is one of my favorite online shops for linen.. i have a linen top from fog and love it! she will mail to the US and is very helpful and gracious to work with! i love how she stamps her linens..

mackenzie frere

mackenzie frere.. this piece... it moves me..

bailey's

a simple fix for a generic pendant.. mason jar.. i took the old glass off and replaced it with mason jars.. first seen in restoration home (recycled home is the same book, different cover), a brilliant book by mark and sally bailey. i own both of their books and are my main resource for inspiration when i am tempted to start rearranging and changing our little home.

here are few photos from bailey's home and garden website..

khadi

khadi, hand spun cotton, hand made clothing.. a lovely photo of mahatma gandhi next to his spinning wheel..

and below, khadi by dosa. beautiful and, of course, inspiring.. i have a few pieces of hers and treasure them..

repeat

speaking of arounna, i bought some fabric of hers to make eliot a quilt. i also have some linen from ink and spindle from fiber organics. the only quilts i have made in the past are small and spontaneous. this time, i thought i would try a pattern.. we'll see how that turns out!

repeat

ink & spindle

one 800 gallery

saw this gallery on bookhou at home.. i am so inspired by arounna and her husband's work.. love this space and this photographer..

worms..

we have worms.. we like to think of them as our pets.. they eat all our leftovers, peels and tons of yummy organic food! we love our worms and love to live as sustainable as we can..

j. morgan puett

artist j. morgan puett preserved her clothes with beeswax when she closed her last new york store. here is the beautiful result..

.. her life is her art.. so lovely and inspiring! below is a photo of one of her stores in 1993

mildred's lane

tents and camps

a peak at an exhibition of eva hesse's studio work... oh, how i wish i could go..

my handspun

just a moment last sunday to spin... here is the result, one skein of wenslydale.. so soft and yummy..

selvedge

i just received my latest selvedge magazine in the mail.. such a sweet gift to find in the mailbox! thought i would share some handmade inspiration... blodwen, a lovely local welsh general store. below are a few items from their online store.

also, one of my favorite artists, tamar mogendorff has generously shared one of her patterns with selvedge readers. can't wait to make that cute chicken (in the second photo below!)

felting

felting with niki and micki. we used wensleydale wool from black pines sheep. lovely to spend the morning, little ones running around, while we laughed and felted together! i usually pick the wool by hand before i spin it and this was so fast and energizing..

niki "picking" the wool..

micki carding

one layer before felting

finished sheet of felt