January 30th, 2010 by Sarah
We woke up this morning here in Southern Maryland to a gentle shower of snow and less than a half inch on the ground. Over the course of the day, I’ve watched the snow pour down on top of us and the accumulation rise to at least six inches. And there’s no sign of it stopping any time soon. It’s too cold for our heat pump to keep up, and — OH! all I can think of is how many ways I could be much cozier than I am right now.
Here are seven:
Clockwise, from top left: (1) White cable kit gloves with citrine edges from Afra, $26; (2) Flourish linen pillow - Sun from sarahkusa, $58; (3) Block Printed Pillow Cover from Home Sweet, $35; (4) Wool blanket/throw with hand crochet edge from Namolio, $95; (5) Porcelain Tea Light Delight N.1 from Wapa Studio, $35; (6) The Sun Always Shines shawl from Laslo Pezlas, $125; (7) Eco Toes in golden vintage plaid from Infusion, $45
How do you make yourself cozy on snow days?
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January 28th, 2010 by Sarah
Eventually, I figure, it will come. I will discover the secret to just making stuff up and designing it and planning out the production. Jen will get more phone calls or e-mails from me begging to borrow her love of repetitive, tedious projects. And Oomphasis will churn out lots of stuff. To go in the shop, which is incredibly fun to say. Eventually, every few weekends will be like last weekend, when we sat down for a few short hours and made Valentines. (Which will be in the shop as soon as I remember to photograph them by the daylight.)
If you’re thinking that it looks like something designed under the intense pressure of a loyal helper’s eagerness to get crafty, spontaneously, within about five minutes, well then that’s because it was designed spontaneously, within about five minutes, under the intense pressure of my loyal helper’s eagerness to get crafty.
I had a pile of eucalyptus leaves left over from some flower arranging I had done earlier. Eucalyptus leaves are a bit pointy at the ends, and fairly round otherwise. As it turns out, they make excellent little hearts, which, naturally, make excellent, un-red, un-pink, Valentine cards. I like it that way: un-red and such.
I was cutting the stem end off. Jen cut them from the other side and we ended up with a bunch of little leaf heart “balloons.” Silly me; as everyone knows, stems make for far more endearing leaf hearts.
And if you’re thinking that it looks like I still haven’t taken down my Christmas tree, here, over a month past Christmas, I implore you to look again.
Because a Valentine tree might look uncannily similar to a Christmas tree at first glance, but as everyone knows, they’re completely different.
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January 15th, 2010 by Sarah
I want to come clean: I regularly read wedding blogs. Of course, by “read” I mean “mostly just look at photos.” Aside from a general penchant for hyperbole and overuse of words like, “gorgeousness,” “gorgeous,” and — God help me — “lovely,” I find that they’re often a good source of inspiration for everything from graphic design, to interior decorating, to photography.
One such blog, Style Me Pretty, offers a tool for creating your own inspiration boards. For day-to-day design, I keep something more like an “inspiration scrapbook” (I like a hard copy to flip through), but using the SMP inspiration board tool sure is fun. And, as it turns out, it’s exceptionally handy if you’re planning any sort of special event, even one that’s not related to weddings. A special event like, oh, I don’t know…
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