Reminds me of someone elses' couch....
Select scans from Zigzag Stitchery (1972). Procured at a church basement rummage sale in Wiscasset, Maine. More here.
Monday, May 31, 2010
Zig Zag Witchery
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Labels: 1970s crafts, 1970s decor, 1970s fashion, crosstitch, florentine, gothic, patterns, romanesque, zigzag stitchery
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
The Best Etsy Store Ever?
Dance of the World by KARART.
Always and Forever by KARART.
Four Seasons by KARART.
Those are not really for sale, but big whoas nonetheless.
She has another store with more ready-made product, like
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Labels: embroidery, Etsy, fiber arts, finer crafts, karart, knitting, macrame
Monday, May 10, 2010
Object of Most Desire
This is a very personal post. I'm going to tell you about what I want most in the world. It is this music box. The moment I picked it up, it began to spiral and hum, is nearly indescribable. Love at first sight. I'm a little embarrassed that my love story is about a music box and not a proper--human--mate; but I can honestly say, I've never felt this way in my life.
It belongs to a friend and is something of a family heirloom. The story is, it was a gift from his aunt's boyfriend in her youth. He begged his aunt to pass it on to him. Apparently he must have felt something of what I feel in regards to the singular greatness of this object.
So I can't have it but I must! Conundrum! Every so often I go on a hunt. I scour the internet for it, or something like it. Custom music box companies do not even offer this tune (it is "Goin' Out of My Head," appropriately). To have a truly custom tune produced is a laborious, thus expensive process. It requires placing an order for at least 2000 movements (the part of the music box that makes the music) and a $6000 deposit and 2-6 months of production. That is only half the battle. Then I must find the spiral mechanism. It is neon, Plexiglas (or acrylic) and gorgeous, the crappy video I am including does not do it justice. It was made in Japan, and that is the ONLY lead I've got.
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Labels: true love
Thursday, May 6, 2010
The Country Bookshop
Poetry, A Modern Guide to its Understanding and Enjoyment by Elizabeth Drew
Foundations in Modern Biology: Adaptation by Wallace and SRB
Better Polaroid Pictures, In Color and Black & White
from Better Polaroid Pictures, In Color and Black & White
Joel and I really fell in love with this used bookshop. Housed on the bottom floor of a tilted old Victorian, across the street from a waterfall, it is a little piece of heaven in Plainfield, Vermont. I found The Story of Lucky Strike here. One of the best parts: all the books on porch are free. And there are hundreds of them. We picked up these beauties from the free zone (mostly to play around with the covers).
See more here.
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Labels: adaptation, better polaroid pictures, book covers, elizabeth drew, harlequin diamonds, life of lucy burrows, modern biology, modern poetry, the country bookshop, vermont
Sunday, May 2, 2010
My Lollipop Girl
1998 Gallimard, Paris / 1961 Olympia Press, Paris
2000 Penguin, London / 1970 Mondadori (Gli Oscar), Milano
1990 Eesti Raamat, Tallinn / 1957 Hans Reitzel, Copenhagen
1981 Gallimard (folio), Paris / 1959b Sur, Buenos Aires
1969 Mondadori, Rome (Poster) / 1994 Companhia das Letras, São Paulo
1973 Transworld (Corgi Books), London / 1974 Altin Kitaplar, Istanbul
1982 Bertelsmann Club, Gütersloh / 1977 Europäische Bildungsgemeinschaft, Stuttgart
Over 150 book and media covers from 33 countries and 54 years, found at Covering Lolita.
Listen to by Bad Manners.
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Labels: bad manners, book covers, lolita, my girl lollipop, vladimir nabokov