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Posts Tagged ‘ideas about things I would like to make myself and never will’
Always with the cuteness, Color Me Katie! Silhouette portraits
Monday, June 22nd, 2009Project: Scrap cardboard pendant lights
Wednesday, May 27th, 2009
Check out these gorgeous cardboard lights from Seattle collective Graypants! Another design has lopsided, wavy angles. Nice work. They’re all about $250, so out of my price range, but with a compass, a stack of cardboard, and some time on my hands, I feel I may be able to crank one of these out myself. My favorite part is the light design the cardboard guts cast on the wall.
There’s a cool video of them assembling a cardboard chair–from salvaged pieces–here. It seems to go: Cut piece, apply glue, stack another piece, apply glue, stack, glue, stack, glue, stack, press down with something heavy. Repeat. I love cardboard for design work, it may just be my favorite material besides air.
Paper feathers as accessories and house sprucer-uppers
Thursday, April 30th, 2009
Can you believe a set of 3 is only $10? Her blog is called 10 Dollar Drawings, but still. I’m also into her food blog Bread & Honey. A 25 yr old mother, and still she cooks more than me. Sigh. I am lazy.
I’m ordering some and will report back. Etsy is totally my late night shopping network. Thank god I don’t have tv or I’d be up to my ears in kitchen gadgets. Oh wait.
I love construction paper, too! Jen Stark’s paper sculptures
Wednesday, April 8th, 2009I’d like her story: Move to Paris, be a poor art student, buy the cheapest material in the store and emerge later with these. If this next winter is rainy and gross, I may go mad and start crafting intricate paper flowers like this and pinning them all over my walls. Jen Stark’s sculptures:
Painted shoes for my entryway
Thursday, January 22nd, 2009
Add these cheeky references to trompe l’oeil to the list of personal projects I have been sitting on and thinking about and will likely never do. But it’s oh so cute! And I should add that my entryway is a crazy steep staircase where I put a pair of shoes on each stair, like gargoles. Beware the Campers guarding my hall!
I also like the idea of painted electronics and larger items that I don’t own, or whimsical critters that aren’t (thankfully) in my house. A painted gramophone? A mouse hole? A little bat on the high ceiling? Give me a can of black paint and a small brush and I’m off! Who has a steady hand and wants to help?
This is from some dressing room in Paris, I’ve lost the reference.
P.S. I have a real trompe l’oeil project (Franch for fools the eye, an optical trick) that is so tacky you’ll freak. Coming soon.
Yuppie showdown: Design Within Reach vs. MOMA
Friday, January 16th, 2009*I realized after writing this that the true value of this post is the introduction of a new tag, which has until now been a category in my blogroll: ideas about bourgeoising. Welcome to the family, bouregeoising. Ok, onward.*
Three posts back I was debating what shelves to put on the wall that divides my kitchen from my kitchen nook, aka my home office (where I swear I’ll pen some poetry in 2009). As you may recall (what’s that? Oh, you don’t care? I know, but it’s my blog), MOMA has these nifty floating shelves at $15 a pop plus shipping.
Well well, Design Within Reach has answered with this set of five Flying Vee shelves which they call “classics,” marked down from $130 to $79 with free shipping thrown in:
So my yuppie (or bourgeois, take your pick) self is a little torn. Here’s the pros and cons and a teensy confession of the inadequacy of my education: (more…)
Want: Crocheted baubles (and the ability to crochet)
Monday, January 12th, 2009
Here’s another one to add to the ever growing list of Things I Would Like to Make Myself and Never Will (which is now a tag for me to track such things on this blog). Crocheted rings, bangles, and *drool* a choker. $90, $85, and $350, respectively. The balls are created using a plastic ball form, but the bangles and choker have a felted cord as the base, which is then wrapped in crocheted bands. If I could get my act together and learn how to knit and crochet, this would be my first project.
Sunday is supposed to be Craft n’ Drink day with my friends at the Bye n’ Bye, but yesterday we were all too hung over from a naked lady party the night before. (Win: Liz’s dresses. Fail: Sequined black and white shirt with petal sleeves. BTW, follow that Liz link to see Amy in my apartment and me with much, much shorter hair).
These are available at Kjoo on Etsy, and created by Maria Riberiro, who is apparently Portugese and sweet to boot. Read this interview on Resurrection Fern where Maria explains learning to felt from a Martha Stewart tutorial, so maybe there’s hope for me, after all!
Top image from Resurrection Fern, bottom 3 from Etsy.
