saturday shopping list - january 15th

$40

vintage ticking bolster, by enhabiten

"'tis a dull sight

to see the year dying,

when winter winds 

set the yellow wood sighing:

sighing, oh! sighing.

when such a time cometh,

i do retire

into and old room

beside a bright fire:

oh, pile a bright fire!...

then the clouds part,

swallow soaring between;

the spring is alive,

and the meadows are green!

i jump up, like mad,

break the old pipe in twain,

and away to the meadows,

the meadows again!"

~  excerpts from 'the meadows in spring', edward fitzgerald

enjoying both the privilege of a warm home for wintery days and the dream of warm meadows to come...

{click on the price below each picture to view the listing on etsy, and on the shop names to see what other lovelies you may find!}

$30

ironstone transferware bowl set, from somotherprairie

$14

vintage straw lamb, from shavingkitsupplies

$22

feather vase, by brooklynrehab

$79

 linen pillow with mini ruffles, by fullbloomcottage

$300

d i a m o n d h e a r t  crochet dress, by seedknits

$14

vintage metal water can, from katybitsandpieces

$70

old world rose handstitched journal, by odelae

$17

echelon pillow, by avecdieu

$62

tulip dress... thick linen dress (one size fits all), by cocoricooo

$49.50

antique victoria edwardian striped chambray, from leonasoldelinens

$42

vintage 80s double strap mary janes, from persephonevintage

happy saturday

dave coote and atlanta bartlett...

being homebound all week from this southern snow (snowpacalypse? snowpalooza? snowmageddon?), i've had quite a bit of time to study my home's interior... and, as a result, i felt the need to rearrange pieces once again, or risk going temporarily insane and putting everything i own on freecycle

do others do this?  feel the need to move bits and pieces around (including the heavier bits and pieces of furniture) and regroup items to make them once again new to you... to restore the loveliness you felt for these pieces when the relationship first began?  i'm waiting quite patiently (not patiently at all) for the mail services to catch up and deliver various vintage and antique flower sacks and burlap bags that i've ordered this week (again, a product of too much time locked in the house)... i have pillows to make and chairs to recover

so, as i wait, i felt i needed an infusion of design inspiration... and what an abundance of inspiration i found!  i stumbled upon the wesite of dave coote design  

navigating the pages of coote's work truly felt like an early springtime, barefoot romp through the english coastal countryside... down a path to a light filled cottage, curtains blowing through the glass doors to guide you home.  i felt i could actually smell the sea breezes and springtime blossoms.  exactly what i needed after a snowy, cold week

 and the journey didn't stop there, as i was led through the online boutique, pale & interesting, set up by coote and his stylist wife, atlanta bartlett... with beautiful furniture and home accessories galore:

"Pale & Interesting is the creation of husband and wife team, Atlanta Bartlett and Dave Coote. 
Having each successfully worked in the magazine, photography and design industries for the last 20 years, this prolific couple have been producing books, interiors, furniture, products, sets, magazines features and cabins, both together and individually, that have been highly sought after by those “in the know”. Their combined client list ranges from Laura Ashley, John Lewis and Habitat to Elle Deco, Living etc and Red magazine.

Now, drawing on this extensive experience, they have created Pale & Interesting, an online boutique store, making their covetable style available to a wider audience for the first time.

Pale & Interesting is a life-style shopping experience. Inside this site you will find furniture, accessories, jewellery and books all chosen or designed by Atlanta and Dave, inspired by their love of the functional, beautiful and out-of-the-ordinary. Their philosophy is all about mixing it up, teaming old with new, contrasting rough with smooth and pairing femininity with utility. The look is definitely non-prescriptive, a backlash against against accepted ‘good-taste’ and bland mass-production. Here time worn furniture is loved for it’s signs of wear and tear, handcrafted objects adored for their individuality, utilitarian items celebrated for their functionality and personal touches are considered essential to keep your home fresh, lively and relevant to you."

now, if you feel the need to drool a bit more, you can head over to this duo's studios and locations website, the beach, to meander through several gorgeous english homes... i must warn you that you may want to alert a friend or family member to check in on you, as you will quite assuredly get lost in these pages for hours at a time!

{  all images via dave coote design, atlanta bartlett,  the beach studios, and pale & interesting }

well, i could do this all day, so i'll leave you to it... happy perusing!

and happy friday

a snow day shopping list...

$200

large white vintage wood and wire bird cage free shipping, from theoldredhen

another day nestled at home, the outside world filled with snow and ice (i believe the only way to conquer navigating that road out there would be with a pair of ice skates)....

so i thought i would put up a shopping list today, as i missed the saturday shopping list this past weekend.   my saturday was too filled up with game playing and book reading in pajamas... a post sleepover morning with the nephew and niece

enjoy and stay warm!

$24

syracuse china bread and butter plates, from pineandmain

$70

arzberg china 15 piece service for 4, from ginandrummy

$350

oil painting on panel original poise of the tides, by inapaleplace

$14

retro red and blue wallpaper, from urbanfarmgirlandco

$21

hazel atlas turquoise crinoline creamer, from jaditekate

$55

floor cushion crochet silver gray, by lacasadecoto

$24

antique ironstone baking mold g mt and co, from bigfishlilpond

$465

g e o r g i a  hand draped silk chiffon gown, by lovejune

$20

2011 calendar you customize, by f2images

$72

antique jeweler's toolbox primitive, from nickhaus

$25

antique tin ceiling tile, from simplyobjekts

$24

vintage white cotton half apron with detailed embroidery, from delabelle

happy tuesday






update:   oh yay! congrats to all of these lovely sellers... the shopping list treasury just made it to the front page!

snow day...

"announced by all the trumpets of the sky,

arrives the snow, and, driving o'er the fields,

seems nowhere to alight: the white air

hides hill and woods, the river, and the heaven,

and veils the farmhouse at the garden's end.

the sled and traveller stopped, the courier's feet

delayed, all friends shut out, the housemates sit

around the radiant fireplace, enclosed

in a tumultuous privacy of storm."

~ from 'the snow-storm', ralph waldo emerson

a wintertime snow day...

we don't see too many of those down here in atlanta, so they're rather enjoyable when they do happen.  and unlike in brooklyn, this car dependent southern city essentially shuts down when we see more than a few inches of snow (and if you've ever seen some of the winter weather driving down here, you'll understand that this is a very good thing!)

this is the state of my car this morning... we also received a layer of ice on top of the snow, so i feel it's time to build a fire, put some cocoa on the stove, and pull out the blanket to curl up for a nice day in my pajamas

 "those icicles have been known to kill people!"  ;)

happy monday (and happy snow day to many of you)

listening...

{ 'sparrow and the wolf', james vincent mcmorrow }

from his upcoming album 'early in the morning', which releases later this month...  and in the meantime, you can enjoy the loveliness of his voice here

getting ready to curl up and let the music carry me into pretty dreams 

happy thursday






update:  had to add another lovely video today as well ;)

{ 'if i had a boat', james vincent mcmorrow }

new year...

how neglectful i've been of both the blog and the shop over the last several weeks!  that 'not feeling well' from the last post turned into the full blown flu over the holidays... and now i'm left with the aftermath of exhaustion and bronchitis

in between bouts of napping this week, however, i've begun the sad affair of dismantling the christmas decorations... sad because as soon as they come down each year, i'm instantly ready for spring.  such unfortunate timing that the holiday falls at the beginning of winter :(  

i was quite the lucky girl over christmas though, and received a rather large pile of delicious gifts.  many vintage lovelies to add to my home and carry me through the cold months ahead (including the lovely mirror and cameos in the photo above).  a kindle to fulfill my ever present need for books (with no more space on the shelves to put them!)... this has been quite a useful gift while lounging about with the sicks!   and a whole set of new scissors to motivate my hands to start creating new pieces for the shop!

and i was so excited to unwrap 'the dancer'  (a beautiful canvas print by tushtush, which i had been admiring for a while now).  it was a present from my sweet nephew and niece... thanks to my sweet sister ;)

i've been rearranging a few things again around the house as well, moving my antique trunk to use as an end table for the couch, and bringing in this white trunk (which was my grandfather's war chest) to use as a coffee table

i've been holding on to the rather large vintage embroidery hoop above the couch for some time now, with plans to eventually turn it into a textile 'living wall' of succulents

picked up another chair from the thrift store last month as well (i'm gathering quite a collection of mismatched chairs for that dining table i've yet to find!), which i promptly recovered in this vintage barkcloth fabric

my tree is the last of the decorations to go, simply because i dread both taking down the ornaments and lugging the tree out of the house!  i must do this, i must do this, i must do this...

and speaking of musts,  i really need to make my way back into my studio and begin a stitch fest of new pieces for the shop

and now speaking of shops, we've begun to add new lovelies to the prairie seed shop for the new year... with many, many more to come (and many more pieces to sew!)

 pretty collection of three vintage milk glass vases

 vintage milk glass cake plate

lovely vintage english ironstone gravy boat

a very happy new year to all of you, with all sorts of good wishes for lovely things to come!

happy wednesday