Flags!

A few weeks ago some girlfriends and I got together to do a craft for my friend Andrea's wedding. She's going for a very DIY vibe, and based on what she's told me, it sounds like it's going to be beautiful. I will try to take pictures, but I can't make any promises. But! I did remember to take a few pictures while we were crafting.

my fellow crafters, Moira and Andrea

We made little flags to go in cupcakes and the signature cocktails that she'll be serving. I have to say, they turned out pretty great (please excuse my photos, the flags are nice, i promise)!

finished flags and crafting mess

We wound up starting a little later than we planned due to some slow service at the pub down the street, and by the time we were finished it was well after midnight. It really took me back to late nights toiling away at art school. Luckily we had plenty of good tunes and cocktails, so all in all it was lots of fun. I can't wait to see the flags in action at Andrea's wedding this weekend!

O! for a horse with wings!*

So far I've been a very bad blogger. I've been thinking about it, and I think that the problem might be that I am not a photographer. Many of the blogs that I read regularly rely heavily on photos of things that they've done and seen and eaten, etc. I am also not a graphic designer (as evidenced by the current look of the blog—I'm working on it! UPDATE: I have made changes! Do you like them?), so I've been struggling with how to incorporate the visuals that I would like to have. I don't have a great answer yet. Get better at photography? Perhaps.

In the meantime, here are some cool images from the Kaufmann Mercantile blog. They did a post about the future, as imagined in the past. This is actually an assignment that I did while I was at OCAD; we had to make a collage (which I'm sure I still have somewhere because I'm basically a really organized hoarder). My favorite were the ones about flying. When you think about it, flying is basically a miracle. It sort of makes more sense to just fill giant balloons with buoyant gas and use them to float things around than the whole physics thing that we use to make airplanes fly, so there's a certain sort of logic behind these crazy airships:

"Airship On The Long Course" from here: http://www.paleofuture.com/blog/2007/9/10/french-prints-show-the-year-2000-1910.html

from here: http://www.paleofuture.com/blog/2007/8/4/flying-machines-circa-1885.html

And then there's this, which is just great:

"Flying Police" from here: https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6ZVC86pVgqvdnge9jLQ3ZZK4_Wc0HwVms_AN04HtUiLM3icnTpbhodUa_tLzLDdAiqn2vwN46rcP3RD25CfA8uLULBgBkjLhF5QENheR8Fq95CTZsgoHZArSwO8swc64dgZRStqY8eJX5/s1600/The+Agent+Aviator.jpg

I'll leave you with Edison's Predictions for the Year 2011. Mr. Edison really thought that metals were the future.

*this is from Shakespeare (Cymbeline, Act 3 Scene 2); I just wanted a good quote about flying, and this seemed appropriate.

I guess I'll just dive in...

After months of mulling over exactly what I want this blog to be, I decided should stop thinking about it and just go for it. After all, it's not much of a blog if there's nothing on it. So here goes!

This is my favorite thing that I've seen on the internet today:

from here: http://storageandglee.blogspot.com/2011/03/glass-metal-in-bathroom.html

Vintage mason jars, dark wood, and metal hardware all together? Yes please. I think I'm going to try to make a version of my own. It will go well with the vintage glass snap-top jars that I already use for bathroom storage, and will free up some valuable counter space.

I stumbled across this blog while I was browsing Pinterest earlier, and will definitely be adding it to my rotation. It's full of lots of interesting, attractive storage ideas, and since my place is the size of a shoebox I'm always looking for new ways to tidy it up. 

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