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Nifty people doing nifty things to their homes:
How To: Build Felt Sliding Doors, via Apartment Therapy
Bunny Garland made with candy wrappers, by Bloody Bunny
Wonderful cupboard make-over, by Yvestown
Personalize your Ikea furniture with a little help from Ikea Hacker
"Early in the morning on the first of may 1982 we began to plant a two-acre wheatfield in lower Manhattan, two blocks from Wall Street and the World Trade Center, facing the Statue of Liberty.
The planting consisted of digging 285 furrows by hand, clearing off rocks and garbage, then placing the seed by hand and covering the furrows with soil. Each furrow took two to three hours.
Since March over two hundred tuckloads of dirty landfill had been dumped on the site...Tractors flattened the area and eighty more truckloads of dirt were dumped and spread to constitute one inch of topsoil needed for planting.
We harvested the crop on August 16 on a hot, muggy Sunday. The air was stifling and the city stood still. All those Manhattanites who had been watching the field grow from green to golden amber and gotten attached to it–the stockbrokers and the economists, office workers, tourists, and others attracted by the media coverage–stood around in sad silence. Some cried. TV crews were everywhere, but they too spoke little and then in a hushed voice.
...The idea of a wheatfield is quite simple. One penetrates the soil, places one's seed of concept, and allows it to grow, expand and bear fruit.
...After my harvest, the two-acre area facing New York harbor was returned to construction to make room for a billion-dollar luxury complex. Manhattan closed itself once again to become a fortress, corrupt yet vulnerable. But I think this magnificent metropolis will remember a majestic, amber field. Vunerability and staying power, the power of paradox."
-Agnes Denes
"Wheatfield–A Confrontation"
(1982)
New to the shop:
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Box of Love comes with 16 thank you flats or everyday flats (your choice), 24 love notes and 16 envelopes all packaged nicely in a hand silk-screened box. The love notes are perfect to place on a pillow or a special someone's lunch bag.
Some of my Flickr favs:
sleeping pooch
et tirer les rideaux
beautiful intereror
hopeless romantic
kitchen love
inside
a quite day
We have a new member to our family. Her name is Sadie and is very mischievous.
"Any incentive to paint is as good as any other. There is no poor subject. Painting is always strongest when in spite of composition, color, etc., it appears as a fact, or an inevitability, as opposed to a souvenir or arrangement."
Image: Sidney B. Felsen, "Rauschenberg," 1991
Words: Robert Rauschenberg, Untitled Statement, 1959
"The Doge (Mocenigo) needed a church so as to be able to have a monumental tomb built for himself, the church (San Staë) needed a saint so as to be able to be built, the saint (San Eustachio) needed a miracle so as to be pronounced a saint, the miracle needed a stag in order to be seen, and we built the garden for the reindeer.
The visitors lie on the bed above the doge’s gravestone, and the garden thinks for them."
Falling Garden
San Staë church on the Canale Grande
50th Biennial of Venice, 2003
BY: Gerda Steiner & Jörg Lenzlinger
VIA: Oh Joy
Some wonderful reproduction vintage patterns for winter wear:
Ladies' Fur Trimmed Coat
Circa 1929 (pattern uses fake fur)
Ladies' Coat with Pin Tucks and Godets
Circa 1929 (shown in image above, my favorite coat)
Set of Ladies' Capes, Muff & Collars
Ladies' Three-Piece Ensemble
Circa 1934 (with cross-buttoned cape)
Ladies' Hat, Collar, Purse and Gloves
Circa 1934 (*my ultimate favorite*)
