a studio

i love rinne allen's studio photographed here by rebecca wood for the blog beauty everyday.

peg and awl

some of my favorite people share a sneak peek on design*sponge

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robin macarthur

i was so pleased to meet internet friend, writer, and musician robin macarthur in person yesterday at her vermont home.  she and her husband ty make up the band red heart the ticker.  you can find robin's blog here.

i took a ton of pictures during my visit and you can look forward to these sometime early next week.  i'll also post an interview with her which i can't wait to share.

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tokyo cafe

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farmhouse

avalanche looms farmhouse

KINDRED

jana hunter

AND

at swim-two-birds

sweet space

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color

via relax shacks

Mathieu Gallois in Spaces Magazine

via old chum

caitlin wylde

nice feeling to this place.   

 and i like the artwork a whole lot.

more colors added to the dyed string pile.

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and a longtime favorite enhabiten customer of mine, andrea, started a blog and i gotta say, i'm crushing on it.  

so many images to love.  go here to check it out.

greyish black tinged blue

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good morning my little birdies.  

i only call you this because as i type my front door is open and i can hear birds talking in the trees.  the temperature outdoors yesterday was in the 60s here.  it looks like it will be the same today.  looking out, i see lola roaming the yard, the sun has a hazy early morning glow, the air feels so good and fresh.

again yesterday, i spent time outside dyeing fabric.  this was after i procrastinated a bit and rearranged the furniture.  once i got that out of my system, i completed all my existing orders and then worked on that fabric above.  i'm pretty infatuated with it.  i think i'm making some baskets with this and maybe a bag.

i'm still reading this book my friend jason lent me.  

here's a snippet relating to color quality:

murky.

things wabi-sabi have a vague, blurry, or attenuated quality-as things do as they approach nothingness (or come out of it).  once-hard edges take on a soft pale glow.  once-substantial materiality appears almost sponge-like.  once-bright saturated colors fade into muddy earth tones or the smoky hues of dawn or dusk.  wabi-sabi comes in an infinite spectrum of greys : grey-blue brown, silver-red greyish black, indigo yellowish-green...and browns: blackish deep brown-tinged blue, muted greens...and blacks: red black, blue black, brown black, green black...

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aren't those color names great.  and funny.  i smile each time i read them.  it makes me think of the previous me who studied painting.   and now the current me who plays with fabric dyes.  we are funny human creative creatures, aren't we?