Treasury Mad

So I've been going crazy with the new Treasury East on Etsy.  What a great way to 'filter' the shopping experience for other users and let's face it - it's just addictive to page through (kind of like sitting down to read magazines).

I've curated the following... grab a cuppa:

• Industria 
• A Rose by Any Other Name...
• Poetry in Motion
• Tea in Style
• Could This Be Love?
• Ladies a Plate
• The Pony Express
• Gold Treasure Treasury
• DEATH
• Handmade Home

As Featured in Handmade Spark

 Thrilled to be featured in Handmade Spark today! See #6, below:

Handmade Home

Check out the list I just created on Etsy: Handmade Home.

Ideas

Always be passionate about ideas and communicating those ideas and discoveries to others in the things you make.  Charles Eames

High Impact Easy Dress-ing

Keeping in Simple

There is time for work and time for love.  That leaves no other time.  Coco Chanel

Workroom Revamp

I've decided if I'm spending this much time in my studio, I need to enjoy looking at it... so I'm completely revamping my workroom.  Starting with walls and floors, then moving to storage and office.  Here are some design spaces I like, for a kick start:

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Ponder This:

Only the individual taste, in the end, can truly create style or fashion, since it is not concerned with following in the wake of others.  Hence, whatever an individual taste may choose, be it a stepladder or a wicker basket, it must always be based on deep personal choice, a spiritual need that truly assesses and gives value to that particular ladder or basket.  The beauty of these things is somehow transmitted through the personality of the one who chooses.  It is in our selection, after all, that we betray our deepest selves, and the individualist can make us see the objects of his choice with new eyes, with his eyes.

 Thank you, Cecil Beaton