Bespoke Blues

Love these faded bespoke blue benches. They are from the shop Terrain, and being custom made, are well beyond most people's price range. Still beautiful, though.

Uruguay

I was born with a kind of wanderlust that no matter how hard I try gosh darn it, will not be talked into submission. My latest obsession is coastline of Uruguay. And setting up a hotel/boutique. And then I remembered these pictures from The World of Interiors a few years back (Feb 09, I think). This is the residence of the celebrated Argentine chef, Francis Mallman, in Garzon, Uruguay. Pretty much perfect, don't you think?

Now that it is getting nicer out, I'm day-dreaming about ramping up our backyard garden. Things I fantasize about including:

vertical garden panel from Flora Grubb

bistro set in turquoise blue or verbena green

lights from Restoration Hardware to string up along the fence and trees

fire pit from Toast for the toasty San Francisco nights

our meyer lemon tree! (photo by Liz Kuball from 20x200)

Box It Up

I've been working on this box, "Paradise Found/Paradise Lost," for my book arts class for a while. It's a memorial box (kind of like a hardcover book but with a box inside of its cover) to a time and place that I can't go back to. I made the collage of mountains, then built a box around it, framed it with sanded down plexiglass, and then built a case for it. I use the metaphor of finding and losing "Shangri-La" to illustrate the concept of finding and then losing Paradise. It's been fun to work on, and I'm super happy with the result, but man, oh man am I happy to be d-o-n-e! (sorry for the crummy pictures--it's hard for me to take pictures of my artwork for some reason--but you can click on the photo to zoom in and read!)

More Peru!

The Incas were a truly remarkable civilization whose influence is very much alive in the modern day Peru, especially around Cusco. Their work with stones, in particular, is incredible! They built massive structures that have withstood a few hundreds of years of earthquakes--all by fitting the stones exactly to each other without any kind of mortar. The stones are pretty amazing to see, not to mention run your hands over!

Have a wonderful weekend everybody! And a good Easter if you celebrate it. A few more pictures to share next week. xo