love nest

Since I've finally gotten around to doing up our little bedroom, I thought I'd share...

 

These are the pillows I made the other day. I bought the fabric because it was so beautiful--but I had no plans for it. Our bed has needed new pillows for a while and since we can't paint and I need color--voila! Made envelope-style with covered buttons...

This fancy flowery fabric is probably a tad too thin to be a pillow covering, but it was too pretty to resist and I'm weak.

I think the window might need a matching curtain, though, don't you?

I love my vintage telephone. I found this on ebay a few years ago and it works! It's so funny to talk on the phone and be confined to an area determined by the length of the cord--how old-fashioned to sit in one place and chat...

I also bought a vintage jewelry box a bunch of years ago that I just love--it's so girly.

 

Another gorgeous weekend--we must be doing something right. Waiting on Mr. Wood to come home again--he's been travelling a lot lately, huh?

Made a beautiful kale salad for lunch...

Chopped kale, parsley, lettuce, snow peas, red bell pepper, red onion, walnuts, pinto beans, ground flax seed, ground chia seeds, and nutritional yeast with an apple cider vinaigrette and a mug of green tea. Divine.

Also finished a drawing I started last night...

 

(Edith. Graphite on cardstock, 6x8)

I was watching Suspicion late last night and enjoying Joan Fontaine in all these beautiful 40s proper English ladies' dresses and hats and out of nowhere in a dinner scene was this tall blonde woman dressed like a man. She was nowhere else in the movie and then there she was in one scene and said 4 weird things and gave everyone around the table the hairy eyeball and you never saw her again. At least that was my experience of it. But it was really late and she hypnotized me. She reminded me of that large blonde lesbian in Pandora's Box who follows Lulu around at a party--know who I mean? I love her. It was so amazing and weird and it got me really inspired. I got to thinking about old-timey photographs and printed this onto a sepia-colored cardstock and popped it into a black oval mat...

 

(Edith. Print of graphite drawing, 6x8 in black matting)

And it was just the look I wanted. That doesn't always happen but when it does...dang it feels good :) I'm selling these in the shop also. Just 3 for now since that's all the mats I have. BUT--hopefully I can find some more because I think I want to do a whole series of these old-fashioned women in men's clothes. Got some ideas stirring...I also did one in ink, so that will also be something eventually perhaps... One simply never knows, does one?

Hope your Sunday is absolutely lovely...

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Love, love, love the pillows!!! Want to commision some dinner napkins from that fabric--would that work? I would like eight with some button detail. Let me know. Love, Mom

[A VIntage Crafting Fashion Fairy]

Your jewellery box is really beautiful. I bought a vintage telephone a while back at a local market but have yet to connect it up to my line. I must do that soon.

[ambika]

The bedding is so sweet--love the collection of hats--it's all just wonderful.

[Mathyld / encore petite]

I love this fabric & the pillowcases are gorgeous !
I *knew* it reminded me of something !
Now I know !
These colours just scream "Odilon Redon" !
Look : http://www.centre-bethanie.org/images/ophelia_redon.jpg
But not only this one ...
http://images.artnet.com/artwork_images_952_469672_odilon-redon.jpg
and so on ...
x x x
___mathyld___