In awe...

I met up with an old friend that was in town to go to his girlfriend's MFA thesis project.  Luckily, I was able to join them at the end of her AMAZING show.  It will be hard for me to truly express how awesome her work is.  But I will try...

First - check out the work of Margaret Kimball here.

For her project she sent out these pretty invitations. 

Guests took part in a scavenger hunt that ended with drinks at Gentle Ben's in Tucson. Any project that ends at a bar is genius in my opinion.  

While on the scavenger hunt, participants found pieces of her art and put them in this 

cute bag. 

 When at the final location -  the pieces fit together in a puzzle to create these lovely drawings.  Go here to enlarge her work to enjoy them in more detail.  

The Everything will be alright Project - a great mantra for any graduate program...

Thank you Margi and Brian for the invitation! 

Mirror Mirror On The Wall...

This is lovely and I like it. That is all.

[via: Urban Comfort]

Oui Oui

My [talented] roommate Ben Knight recently visited Paris for work (I know, all expenses paid trip to Paris? I have the wrong job I think sometimes). He is a filmmaker & photographer - and only brought his iPhone with him on his trip. No other camera. Crazy? Maybe. Look at what he did with his iPhone though. Since you all aren't friends with him on FB, you don't get to see all of his pictures - featuring a lot of your typical Parisian shots (Eiffel Tower, Louvre, etc). You get to see MY favorite of his images - the more obscure images.

So I leave you all with these to drool over for the weekend. Makes me want to visit Paris all over again.
Swoon.

NYC in pictures

A few photos from the NYC trip last week.  Happy Friday!

 

 

 

 

 

End of the Day

I cannot get enough of this song by Doug Paisley (or the entire album). 

Steamboat Studio & Such...

I am a lucky girl to get to visit MCB's folks up in Steamboat on occasion. They live in a wonderful historic house downtown. While that is fine and lovely - one of my favorite bits about visiting their home is the back cottage. This is where we sleep while in town visiting. This is also where the new studio/workshop is housed. So, I get to drool over all things crafty during my visits. One of these days I swear I will have some private lessons by these amazing artists. For now, let's just go on a little tour of the studio together...

Molly Wilson is all things artistic. This woman is crazy talented. And guess what, I can't even link you to a site. Not Etsy, not nothing. Everything she does is one of a kind and is amazing. This is her work table. If that typewriter goes missing one day, I may or may not have something to do with it. Just saying.

So inviting. I just want to do something here. While Molly's current medium focuses mostly on block printing & mixed media pieces...she can draw, paint, etc. Yep...multi-talented that one.
Side note: she can also make a mean lampshade.

The press. Love.

Stacks of work in progress.

Some of the finished items...together in a collage.

So, as if that weren't enough, Von Wilson is a blacksmith (chiropractor, unicyclist, banjo player, father, husband, coffee roaster, you name it - all around Renaissance Man). Von's shop is in the downstairs portion of the back cottage. The utility of it all is such the antithesis of the daintier art created upstairs, yet it all works together in harmony perfectly.

Anvil. Awesomeness.

I wish I had taken more photographs of Von's work, but I didn't - next time. The thing of it is, it is the little touches around the house that I find the most intriguing. Like the sliding door railing here & the handle with the finger pull. I love the way it makes the everyday just that much more beautiful.

I am sure to have more photos on subsequent visits...how can I not?

Two Things...

1. I want to go back to here. There's a lovely beach at the bottom.
Promise.
A little bit of heaven.

2. All kinds of truths. Do it.
[via: Miss Moss]