the local: color texture

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02 June 2010

praha church

vernacular texas church architecture / design at it's best ,,, with a dose of creepy.

22 April 2010

spoonflower is an amazing website a friend of mine told me about a couple of years ago where you can design your own custom fabric and have it printed ... awesome, right? well, textiles turned into paper, and long story short, some fabric that I had printed from spoonflower just lay in a drawer. it wasn't perfect, the design needed to be tweaked, but I got a hankering for sewing a couple of days ago and made some cute drawstring lunch/snack bags out of it ... you can never have enough snacks and ziplocs just don't do it for me.

I see gift making in my future ...

by the way, HAPPY EARTH DAY!

29 March 2010

before and afters | part II

so, long story short, I've always really, REALLY wanted a garden of my own. a true, blue, going-out-to-the-yard-to-get-a-jalepeno garden. I had one with my parents, but that was years ago, and now that I live in a house that actually has a yard ... well let's just say the time had come.

after spring started to show up around here, I decided that I'd take a gander back into said yard (to my credit, this garden area is separted from the house by an enclosed deck and therefore we never venture back there).

WOW.

let's just say the weeds were the size of small-medium sized trees and let the pics do the talking.

the first photo is showing the weeds ... and the small chunk of area to the foreground is the dent I made in the weeding the first day (two hours):

this is the second day (the newspapers are to help the killing of the weeds)

third day ... some progress is being made if I say so myself

this is after six days and copious amounts of help ... yay!

this photo doesn't show the enormity of the final pile, but you can see a pile of about a quarter of the weeds

so the seeds have been planted and we're so excited around here ... there'll hopefully be some photos of seedlings soon ...

a new favorite

03 March 2010

07 collage_mixed media

06 collage_mixed media

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24 February 2010

04 collage _ mixed media

23 February 2010

03 collage _ mixed media

22 February 2010

02 collage _ mixed media

19 February 2010

01 collage _ mixed media

okay, so who didn't love making collages as a kid? the sticky glue fingers, the scraps of colored paper all over the place...the holey magazines that would make everyone angry...!

anyway, I thought I'd revive that zest by doing some collages of my own, say a collage per day? starting next week? (let's see if I can stick with it...)

here's to collage week next week with a collage I made just for Friday (click on image to enlarge)

...have a good weekend! *by the way if you haven't already, you should leave a comment/rating for me here

18 February 2010

aa...aaaaaaaa

I've been on a London kick I guess .... it is pretty awesome, what can I say.

what type are you? (via poppytalk)

04 February 2010

project

started work on a new project and the prototype is underway as we speak ... sometimes the residue is just as interesting or even more so than the final product.

uppercase

30 January 2010

nostalgia

Lamhe, one of my favorite films growing up, came out when I was 10 years old. I've been thinking alot lately about my cultural past ... thank goodness for Netflix. Even though I'm not Indian, we sure danced the heck out of all these awesome songs at my sister's wedding.

Sridevi, one of the most beautiful (to me) Indian actresses of all time and Anil Kapoor starred in it ... weird storyline, but then again, it is Bollywood.

more to come on this front ... a wonderful Indian blogger