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pretty pretty pretty

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 10:00:05 -0500

pretty pretty pretty

beatpie: Marc Jacobs & Wassily Kandinsky

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 23:30:44 -0500

beatpie:

Marc Jacobs & Wassily Kandinsky

designersof: Judgy Owl by Sebastien Millon

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 23:27:39 -0500

designersof:

Judgy Owl by Sebastien Millon

I love the colors in this photo, and the texture of the icing is...

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:47:34 -0500

I love the colors in this photo, and the texture of the icing is gorgeous. Also, I’m coveting that wooden pedestal.

sheepishknitcrochet: Blankets via Bleubird Vintage

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:46:00 -0500

sheepishknitcrochet:

Blankets via Bleubird Vintage

I basically love any drink that requires its own glassware...

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:42:00 -0500

I basically love any drink that requires its own glassware (copperware). What a diva.

hugeinjapan:

Drinks Tonight: Moscow Mule

One of the best things I got for Christmas was a set of copper mugs specifically meant to serve Moscow Mules. They’re pretty great, but you don’t need the fancy mugs to make them.

You will, however, need:

2 oz. vodka (or gin, if you’re randy)
1 oz. ginger syrup (recipe follows)
Half lime, squeezed
Seltzer, tonic, club soda (anything with bubbles, really. We’ve used Sprite before)
Lime wedge

Mix all in a copper mug or, failing that, Collins glass. Garnish with lime wedge.

Ginger Syrup:
(Usually, Moscow Mules — and their close cousin the Dark & Stormy — are made with ginger beer. I find that ginger beer quality varies widely and while I like the rustic, rural kick it imparts with the dark rum on a D&S, I think the ginger syrup is a better route for the clean profile of vodka)

1 cup sugar
1 cup water
2 knobs of ginger (or more to taste) sliced

Combine the water and sugar and bring to a boil. Add the ginger and reduce the heat to a bare simmer. Cook 10 minutes, remove from heat and let steep until it reaches room temperature. It will keep in the fridge for a week or so, but it’s not likely to last that long.

boston: JOANNA WEISS On ‘Downton Abbey,’ downward mobility in...

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:14:18 -0500

boston:

JOANNA WEISS

On ‘Downton Abbey,’ downward mobility in period garb

- In politics, we don’t know exactly what to do with rich people. But when they turn up on “Downton Abbey,” we know precisely what to do: Watch them flounder, and feel better about ourselves.

This is a Blog of Soviet Postcards

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:13:24 -0500

This is a Blog of Soviet Postcards:

I’m a postcard fanatic and have a collection I’ve cultivated since childhood.

I’d love to have a hideaway like this. I’m also...

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 22:56:53 -0500

I’d love to have a hideaway like this.

I’m also checking out the stripes on the pillows. I’m such a sucker for stripes.

“Tides,” Odegard I was looking through old interior...

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:02:00 -0500

“Tides,” Odegard

I was looking through old interior design magazines and spotted this gorgeous rug in Domino c. 2007.

Odegard is part of the Rugmark Foundation, which campaigns against child labor.

This simple, restful design has me obsessed. I have a stash of Eco Wool that I’m thinking of knitting into a sweater with a similar stripe pattern.

For those of you who were also madly addicted to the sadly short-lived Domino mag, you will be thrilled to find it online.

designersof: Do I need to say anything more? No, the poster...

Sat, 07 Jan 2012 12:29:24 -0500

designersof:

Do I need to say anything more? No, the poster says it all.

Find me here: http://sohoruby.tk | http://thedsgnblog.tumblr.com

My secret love of vintage craft books stems back to my...

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 22:32:00 -0500

My secret love of vintage craft books stems back to my childhood, when mom had us rummage through her school library’s discontinued pile. I had a bright yellow craft book from the ’60s that walked me through carving designs in forest mushrooms and making potato stamps. I loved that book, and many others after it. It is very satisfying to renew the ideas in old books.

My latest acquisition is from 1976 Japan and I can’t wait to learn to knit and crochet again through the technicolor illustrations. I’m sure I’ll learn something new, because if I know anything about old books it’s that they hold some kind of forgotten brilliance.

Basic Crochet & Knit from Ondori Publications

austinkleon: Ronald Searle, Les Très Riches Heures de Mrs...

Tue, 03 Jan 2012 23:23:16 -0500

austinkleon:

Ronald Searle, Les Très Riches Heures de Mrs Mole

47 jewel-like drawings by Ronald Searle made for his wife, Monica, each time she underwent chemotherapy. On New Year’s Eve 1969, Monica Searle was diagnosed with a rare and virulent form of breast cancer. Each time she underwent treatment, Ronald produced a Mrs Mole drawing ‘to cheer every dreaded chemotherapy session and evoke the blissful future ahead’. Filled with light and illuminated in glowing colours, the drawings speak of love, optimism and hope. Like the mediaeval illuminated manuscripts such as the 15th-century Les Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, to which the title of this book refers, the 47 drawings are on an intimate scale and were never intended for publication.

When asked about the drawings, Searle said, “I have only my talent for drawing, so I drew.” Here’s a little more about them:

Prior to the cancer shock the couple had bought a decrepit house in the south of France and, despite her illness, Monica continued to devote her time making this house a home.

Devastated with his wife’s diagnosis Ronald did the only thing he knew how to do to cheer her up. .. draw.

Before every chemotherapy session he gave his wife a painting. Monica was depicted as a mole, a very happy mole celebrating life in their new home. (The Mole idea came after their discovery of a large celler that they made into a cosy room)

‘Everything about them had to be romantic and perfect,’ says Ronald. ‘I drew them originally for no one’s eyes except Mo’s, so she would look at them propped up against her bedside lamp and think: “When I’m better, everything will be beautiful.”

Searle died last week at 91.

(Images via bluedoorbooks)

This is so touching.

Short Rows in Knitting

Mon, 02 Jan 2012 21:06:14 -0500

Short Rows in Knitting:

This is one of the best pictorial explanations of short rows I’ve seen. It even includes a tutorial on Japanese short rows, which I plan on mastering this evening for my Brownstone pullover.

GANT Rugger Fair Isle Scarf at Park & Bond

Sun, 01 Jan 2012 17:46:45 -0500

GANT Rugger Fair Isle Scarf at Park & Bond:

I’m majorly craving to knit fair isle these days.

Informative, and also strikes me as a future tattoo.

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 00:02:00 -0500

Informative, and also strikes me as a future tattoo.

Somebody tell me where I can get these shoes. Socks: also...

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 23:42:00 -0500

Somebody tell me where I can get these shoes.

Socks: also inspiring. Lately I’ve had an urge to knit colorwork. Yarn remnants make fabulous, scrappy socks…

This interior looks so calm, cozy, and warm. I love the print on...

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 23:18:45 -0500

This interior looks so calm, cozy, and warm. I love the print on the wall—makes me crave Christmas knits.

The colors, the mood, I love it...

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 10:00:06 -0500

The colors, the mood, I love it all.

thiscitycalledearth:

sandman-kk:

by Atelier Olschinsky, Belek.

Today I might be wearing

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 11:37:27 -0500

Monkey socks, my chunky Quoddy boots, pants, a dress, a shirt, a sweater, a Bandana Cowl, and a Snail Hat.

I might also look like a crazy knitter.

I love chilly weather.