local artisans...

a lovely collaboration between commoner films and milk bar magazine, featuring the process and inspiration behind melbourne-based 'pot black ceramics'...

i try to buy locally when possible, both food and handmade goods, and this year my sister and i also began to sell our prairie seed cloth goods (handmade from mostly recycled textiles, also found locally) at our neighborhood farmer's market.  

not only is it a wonderful experience to be surrounded by such a community, seeing and talking face to face with the people buying and using your pieces, but there is something so uniquely satisfying about making pieces with your own hands, seeing them lovingly used by your neighbors, and then putting your proceeds back into the community... 

by purchasing from local farmers and artisans - produce, bread, and cheese to give you sustenance for the coming week, soaps and cleaners for your home, or meaningful gifts for family and friends...  or by visiting the independent coffee shops and restaurants down the street.

happy tuesday 

september at home...

a few images from around the house, for september...

some fun, original paintings i found at the thrift store.  the quaint city scene pictured above, and another portrait of a bearded man, further down (i mean, who could pass up a beard painting!)... that one was actually unfinished, and was painted atop another, earlier portrait of a woman, which you can still see when you turn the canvas upside down.  it's funky and i love it.

i found this red, wool, navajo rug a few months ago, while out thrifting with my sister (i think this was right before she gave birth to my niece, tessa!)... it fits perfectly on my white trunk (my grandfather's war trunk, which he later painted white to use as a toy chest for his four children), which is sitting as a coffee table in front of my daybed.

recovered the lamp shade in this recycled red and cream toile (was once a bed sheet), and found the perfect red and cream antique plate at the thrift store to hang on this wall as well... when i get around to it ;)

my sweet niece... now two months old

happy monday

raindrops...

{ 'raindrops' ; alittlemuse }

perfect for this rainy day... 

makes me miss those days i nannied in brooklyn >>> 

romps down streets.

and stomps through puddles.

and socks soaked over the tops of galoshes. 

and squealing. 

and slippery chases through the drizzly park fields. 

and heading back with loud songs sung, to forget the damp.

and steaming, warming drinks. 

and radiators hissing as you clamber up the stairs.

happy thursday

this week at home...

a few photos from home this week... and, yes, i've switched every room in the house around.  the living room is the bedroom... the bedroom is the office... the office is the living room.  exhausting.

this move was initiated by a morning in which i awoke with a sudden, fevered (and was also literally feverishly sick at the time) desire to change everything about.  after two crazy hours of moving all of the furniture from room to room... tada! fortunately, it turned out that i was pleased with the end result.  for now.

the beautiful pillow my mom made for me, as a christmas gift this year...

speaking of christmas gifts... the gorgeous 'tree of life' that my sister designed and hand stitched...

happy monday

east atlanta village farmer's market...

our labor day in atlanta?  pouring rain, and blowing winds, and darkened skies, with a dash of thunder claps and lighting flashes thrown in... and finally, FINALLY, cooler temperatures!

but here are some images of sun, and heat, and hula hooping, and goat milking, and cheese-making demoing... from the fall from summer festival, at the east atlanta village farmer's market

the hula hoops were courtesy of rebecca deshon (pictured above), of hoopessence...

my nephew is quite competitive (which may possibly be a family trait), and felt the need to attempt to master every possible hula hoop move in the span of ten minutes

we stayed to watch a cheese making tutorial, courtesy of decimal place farm (a.k.a. goat cheese deliciousness!)

and i picked up this sweet seagrass basket, to carry everything home...

happy monday