Hat tip to The Butter Flying for the idea, but as tempted as I was to buy one of these, I'm struck by how ridiculously easy this looks to make myself. Cut different flower shapes, string together, and hang! Three or four of these, in different sizes, are definitely going in either my bathroom or kitchen.
Posted simultaneously to homing.posterous.com.
I missed it last year. This year I'm definitely going! How funny, it's sponsored by both Etsy.com and Venus Zine, two organizations I wholeheartedly support!
My coworker Sangeetha is taking a ceramics class with her husband. She brought all these little pieces he made to work and a bunch of us got to take our pick. This was one of the last ones left (I assume because it's not "useful" like some of the cups and saucers that other people took), but I love it. It is so weird and fantastic, like something out of a Tim Burton film.
Got this in the mail the other day. Why is it that a quality publication focused on giving practical advice and imparting a real-world style is going under when crap like Glamour and Cosmopolitan is still around?
Check out this step-by-step set of instructions from a 1954 issue of Popular Science magazine. Garry and I used to go to the SFMOMA and joke about how we could make the mobiles we saw hanging there out of some sheet metal and chicken wire.
If you are rolling in $ and want to spoil your kids silly, or want to make them the most popular kids on the street, why not splurge on a custom play- or tree-house from Barbara Butler, who makes a living carving handmade play structures out of sustainable redwood.
