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DIY Art & Coasters
I wrote a while back that I was in the market for some coasters. Well…I took a lunch break and popped over to Patina in NE Mpls and came across this Charley Harper Memory Game that consisted of small 2″x2″ tiles of different Harper prints and paintings. I thought to myself, “Putting the tiles together [...]
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Tags: art, charley harper, coasters
In the Details: Coasters
We are nearing the end of our two year Major Project List, with only a few DIY home renovations left (like sanding the front porch floor…more to come on that later). I am (finally) getting the point where little things are on my radar. And by little things, I mean really, really little things. Like [...]
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Tags: anthropologie, ten thousand villages, veer, etsy, coasters
A New Obsession: Gardening
This time last year I was planting Karl Foerster and Little Bluestem around the perimeter of the house, and in the front boulevard. My planting was not lacking imagination – rather, lacking confidence – and I was comfortable staying pretty minimal; I also planted a 5′x5′ vegetable garden that quickly spilled out of it’s wood [...]
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Tags: fire prarie, karl foerster, little bluestem grasses, perennial bed, vegetable garden
SUSHI: Last night Frank took me to Koyi Sushi Too, and it was good sushi, you know, for the Midwest. Really good Gyoza. The interior looked sort of LA-ish but had these kitschy little items like fake rice in a mini bowl and random porcelain cats scattered throughout the restaurant. And they had Frank Sinatra [...]
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First Finished Quilt
After making my first quilt, for my mother, I got to thinking about the second quilt. Over the last couple of months, I began picking out fabrics and sought out other quilts (as previously posted) for design ideas and inspiration. Though I hadn’t really planned on finishing it (and in retrospect, shouldn’t have though it [...]
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Tags: Crafty Planet, Glad Creations, quilt
More on Modern Quilting
The Modern Quilt Guild has had a recent online conversation about what constitutes “modern quilting” by looking both at what we consider traditional quilts, and asking other quilters how they define a modern quilt. I love that this article points out what is considered modern, is indeed what was contemporary at the time it was [...]
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Tags: quilting, anthropologie, modern quilting, urban outfitters, modern quilt guild, idreamofquilting, elizabeth hartman, gee's bend quilts
Make! Paper Craft Elephant
Thank you to How About Orange for posting, and Curiosity in Portland Oregon for making. Watch the video “From Flat to Flight” and download your very own easy-to-assemble-highly-cool elephant (download on the right hand side). He looked a bit lonely, so I added in the zebra from the back of the latest Anthropologie catalog.
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Tags: curiosity, elephant, make, paper_craft
