The day before my birthday, a light fixture fell on my head. My mom was coming to town and I was preparing the futon for her to sleep on, when the ceiling fan decided to wobble out of alignment and to the floor, but since I had just pulled the futon out and was looking down, […]
The last week of January has arrived with a spike in energy. Mercury just went into retrograde, and it has me rearranging and prioritizing things on the home, business and financial front. Teamwork seems to be the theme of the past few weeks. Spreading out responsibilities and engaging experts to assist me has been a […]
When I moved in 2008 I had one big wall that I wanted to turn into a gallery, but didn’t have much art to fill it up with. The vintage walls are also quite “rubbery” which makes putting nails in the walls a tricky process. So the project lingered until 2012, when I started collecting […]
When I first moved in 2007, I knew I wanted to get a new bedframe and do a little jazzing up of the room. I splurged on a faux finish when I got the home painted, and then installed the necessities for sleeping and adorning, thinking I would at some point make a Morroccan themed […]
So I started organizing my home in December, and it is taking much longer than anticipated. “The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.†~ Hans Hofmann This year the physical de-cluttering is also a very intense emotional and mental process. I wonder at the energetic pull of objects […]
“See your surroundings as a channel for self-expression. What can you do to love where you are?” ~ Princess Lasertron I decided to weed out my book cases this week, and it has me on a mad organizing bender. Basically I’ll be pulling everything down on the floor and then re-arranging the books. Prior to […]
… and have a peek (sans spiders and flies). “If you can identify the conditions that allow art to flourish, you can work toward creating equivalent conditions in your own world.” ~Ted Orland, Exhibition 36 Now that my supplies are (temporarily) organized, let me give you a studio tour. The table-as clear as it gets: […]
