Showing posts with label Image. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Image. Show all posts

12/28/2012

A new page in the calendar...

Having worked recently on a website I'll share with you shortly, the notion of posting to this blog floated to the top of my list.  I think I still have very little to say that's meaningful, but to distract you from that, I'll try and post some pretty pictures...

Some time about mid-summer, not having my calendar pages for the next year becomes intolerable.  So I haunt Staples until the Day Runner Month-at-a-Time refills are in, and once purchased, begin filling in many of the little boxes.

But then, sometime about October, the blog posts about wall calendars begin appearing, and I start planning my purchases.

Here are the calendars I know will grace my walls this year:


The Collectible Teapot.  I've purchased these every year since the late 90s.  These are the only calendars I can't bear to recycle at the end of the year.  This one lives in my kitchen.


This is a new purchase this year.  It will hang in the bedroom.  I think the cover shot is the best one in the calendar, but it will be fun to see the others each month.  I also might need that dress.


This one is a mini-calendar for my office.  Every year when I see this line of calendars in the store, the images are drool-worthy.  My kitchen does not look like this.


This calendar was an impulse buy from Once Upon A Paper.  It came in the form of a digital download - a 32-page PDF that has the calendar formatted in about 4 ways for your printing pleasure.  Each month is a tree in a similar format to the image above.  I've printed out two months per 8.5x11 page on white card stock, and then an 11x17 poster size for work.  Beautiful!


Which calendars are destined for your walls in 2013?

12/23/2009

Some day it may come to this...

Isn't this amazing:



This image comes from Just Be Splendid via Teaspoon and Petals. And yes, I really love the purple one with polka-dots...

10/10/2009

What she looked like during the day...



Please notice that the curls artfully hide the burn mark on my forehead from a curling iron mishap...

8/11/2009

Did you know...

That Ikea was around in 1965!?!

Images from Enter My Fantasy:



6/01/2009

Bits and Pieces

A few images from the last week:



In my opinion, the picture doesn't do this birthday card justice. It's simple, but cute, and I stole the idea fair and square from a magazine. It satisfies my love of grid patterns and embossed papers (embossed by my very own self).



I finally sorted through all of my fabric scraps, and discarded the two by nothing bits that weren't good for a thing. The remainders just fit into the eight bins I bought (from the Container Store, of course) which fit neatly on my top two shelves. It's hard to imagine how one that hardly sews can end up with fabric to fill eight bins, but there it is. And yes, there is more fabric in my trunk, but I'm afraid to look...



And finally, my rose bloomed over the weekend! I first thought it would be red, but the picture barely does justice to the dark fushia/pink. Dare I cut any blooms to adorn my house?? I need a cutting garden. Maybe next year...

4/05/2009

This would have been perfect...

...if only the person who posted this on Craig's List had responded...


3/24/2009

Look!

I found this site on The Paris Apartment blog today: http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/colors.php

I downloaded this picture:

And got back the photoshop palette which includes colors called trout, dawn, eagle, scorpion, and brown derby.
Hours of fun!!! If only I could download the resulting swatches...

3/12/2009

What was she wearing??



Arthur Fergusson snapped this some time during the first half of this year's Boston Ball (I took the gloves off for the second half). It's a good view of the dress, the current length of the hair (just assume the vast amount of chemicals it took to get my hair to stay that way), and a smattering of the 78 rosettes that seemed to have survived their second washing...

Sure signs of Spring...

Yesterday, as I was walking into Merion Friends for longsword, I spied the first daffodill of Spring, early even for this area. I was so excited that I ran back for my cell phone to capture these images in the now-lighter early evening.



3/05/2009

While March is still in its lion phase, I need a bit of cheering. These three images help qite a bit.

There was a post on the ECD list today and a link to this image of one of Magda's Cake Creations. Yes, it's an edible page from John Playford's Dancing Master open to Gathering Peascods. We need one of these for the next demo team potluck.


I have a folder of electronic pictures called House Ideas. The most recent addition from Kim Vallee's blog is below. This image is the tenth example showing open kitchen shelves that I've saved. It's a sign. Yes, I fear grease and dirt and dust, but I am compelled. There will be open shelves in my kitchen. I feel a spring project coming on. Maybe one of these days I'll go crazy and paint the kitchen cabinets too.



This last is my favorite one, as featured on Oh Joy. Every crafty bone in my body now yearns for masking tape in all of these colors. I have no idea what I would do with them, but it doesn't matter. I want them all!


2/19/2009

Look what's blooming...



As part of my housewarming gift, George gave me a cutting from his purple passion plant. Recently, it started blooming! The picture can't do the fuzzy yellow flowers justice.

More to come...

2/10/2009

The perfect storage solution...

I've been dreaming of more shelving for my craft room of late and recently came across this must-have dresser:

1/17/2009

An encounter with art...



This picture can't even begin to do justice to the sculpture/chandelier/art installation spied downtown today in the Philadelphia building over coffee at the Naked Chocolate Cafe. It's the work of Warren Muller. I love the spirals and scrollwork and the variey of glassware he used - he kinds of items you have at home, or remember from your parents and grandparents houses.

1/11/2009

Flooring of the future??

A reason to break open those piggy banks courtesy of Apartment Therapy on 1/7:

12/29/2008

Down the digital memory lane...

For Chanukah, Deb and Eileen gave Mom a digital picture frame (full disclosure, the holiday is over, Mom has already received the gift, so I am giving nothing away). At first I was unsure of this idea, but to make it instantly useful, Deb scanned in a bunch of family pictures, including some I haven't seen in ages. She slipped a copy of the files in with my present. I offer one of the beauties below:



Here we all are in 1986, the day of my bat mitzvah. I look classic in this photo, with my eyes shut. You can see my dance proclivities foreshadowed in the big, floofy, pink (!) ball gown of a dress I wore (a steal at the now defunct Alexander's). (This dress still exists in my mother's closet somewhere. I think it would fit, but would be very frightening, except for maybe a ceilidh skit. But in 1986, when balls and ball gowns were all about fantasy for me, and not yet a part of my regular life, I adored this dress.)

Deb, I love the pictures! I love that they're electronic, and I can look at them easily at any time, fascinating chronicle of fashion, hair and eyeglass styles though they are. Arlene just sent me two boxes of family photos. Maybe we'll have to have a scanning party...

12/25/2008

In my copious free time...



...I'm going to take up paper quilling. These images come from artist Yulia Brodskaya via one of my favorite design blogs, Oh Joy. Amazing stuff!

12/17/2008

The stove of my future



Courtesy of my sister (who's going to buy this for me, I know she is!), and Williams Sonoma...

12/14/2008

Work in Progress?



As I was walking downtown this afternoon, this door caught my attention...

12/09/2008

Playford Aftermath, Part 2

Tonight was our last Swarthmore class of the semester. I'm so proud of my gang this year - lots of good dancing and the promise of more in the future. A whole bunch came to the Playford ball, including a few who started dancing this semester. Here we all are (Photo: Leonard Lu):




This is a photo of current students, alums, and assorted hangers-on, of which I am one. Guilt by association I suppose...

Rachel Winslow sent me the picture below last night.



This one shows my dress from the back in full length. While the whole dress is great, and oh so purple, it's really the back that makes it. You can clearly see the silver ribbon trim, but not any of the 78 little ribbon roses around the neckline and hem. (Yes, 78. Ronnie, my dressmaker extrordinaire counted).

What's next, now that the ball is over:

-Holiday card-making
-Holiday shopping
-The inevitable dance program writing
-Chanukah party prep!!!

I love the prospect of having some time to do all of the above, and maybe even solve my (lack of) heating problem, and do some house stuff.

Let me know if you want to come play!

12/01/2008

In the center...



I didn't intend this Thanksgiving centerpiece to be red and green - the lady apples were an impulse buy.

This image was my inspiration:



It was more of what I was going for, but vases or hurricanes large enough to accomodate my pillar candles were not in hand, so I improvised.

Note to self, get cranberry vase filler from Pottery Barn during the end-of-season sales in January...