guerrilla knitting

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via birhobi.com

i was just trolling around this morning, and i found this.  definitely an arresting development in the ongoing craze for all kinds of granny chic.  we have a honda fit (not too much bigger than a smart car) and yesterday i bought a bunch of beautiful old granny square throws, some of which slightly fell to pieces when i washed them ... . possibly an exciting new project?! i'm sure the boys wouldn't mind driving a slightly improved honda fit -- ?!

patched perfect

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Originally uploaded by lakbdesign/fergusandme

i was taking a wander through my flickr favorites this evening -- i can get lost for hours; there are so many wonderful things to see and experience - i LOVE flickr -- and i noticed that patchwork and crochet of the most nostalgic kind kept showing up again and again. it's true that design is in a handmade sort of moment, a return, hopefully with longevity, to small batch, unusual, carefully, beautifully made things.
we're really celebrating this brave new world, and i rejoice. won't you join in?

x lynn-anne

sandra monat, and herzensart

 all photos c. sandra monat

 

i discovered these delightfully expressive softies lovingly made by sandra monat just yesterday, and i so wish i'd found sandra and her creations a while ago . . . but you can find them today~ right here

 

 she also writes a gorgeous blog, http://herzensart.blogspot.com/, and has a range of rubber stamps and other yummy things.  around here, we're thinking we might need a bobby, or a viking.  lovely!

all photos c. sandra monat

all photos c. sandra monat

all photos c. sandra monat

Cuckoo clocks - Kuckucksuhren

Cuckoo clocks - Kuckucksuhren
Originally uploaded by *Püppilottchen*

we bought another old cuckoo clock yesterday - i think it's number five! - just at a charity shop, and it's just one of those 1960s or 1970s tourist-y things, but it's so sweet, with a little bluebird. cuckoo clocks are, i admit, a bit overexposed, but i do love them. is it the disney/heidi/ski-glam thing? or just a sincere longing for bambi-esque kitsch? don't know, but do love.

thanks to flickr member puppilottchen for this mosaic ~

salon de paris - just kidding, but oh, i wish!

salon de paris - just kidding, but oh, i wish!
Originally uploaded by lakbdesign/fergusandme

a little closer, a little more saturated.

i got these recycled/reclaimed metal flowers from a bald guy wearing a hawaiian shirt and named elvis - no joke - at the atlanta market. he packed about a thousand of these into a truck and drove it to atlanta from benecia CA. i love the crazy fun people i meet in pursuit of interesting and fun deco things!

salon de paris - just kidding, but oh, i wish!

salon de paris - just kidding, but oh, i wish!
Originally uploaded by lakbdesign/fergusandme

i spotted these in the storage room of one of my favorite country auction houses (warther's originals in walhalla SC) a couple of weeks ago; turns out, they were to be part of an estate auction this past weekend . . . so i telephone bid on them from the atlanta market, and i was thrilled to get them. - they don't really belong in the living room, but they're so perfectly girly - i love them; i'm just enjoying my little parisian fling for a day or two :)

thrifty fun for everyone i can drag along -

you've probably figured out by now that i am, along with any child of mine (or child's friend, or sibling, or my mum, or whomever else i can 'convince' or otherwise drag along) ALWAYS rummaging around everywhere i go for something(s) new/old, interesting, inspirational, cute, evocative, or otherwise not-to-be-passed-up.

this minor obsession generally results in great big piles of great stuff around our house.  i am, however, extremely lucky in that i have a shop to sell these goodies in, otherwise my family might just be calling the producers on that "help! i live with a hoarder!" show . . .

but seriously, how can people part with some of these things?  like, f'r instance, the cool pottery we've unearthed lately:

fun, huh?

you know how when you first notice something out there in the world, you think it must be very nearly unique, because it's so new to you?   well, that's how i felt about this tag sale mustard pot, which i bought for $1.  at home, i had my suspicions about its origins, and i did some quick internet sleuthing and discovered that it's in fact a 1972 scandia planter, by mccoy.  fair enough.  we're using it (temporarily) to hold bananas.

then, lo and behold, caroline and i were mooching about in a country antique mall last weekend, and we spotted the mustard planter's red vase cousin -- a bit pricey at $8, but we went for it anyway, and we're glad, as the two seem to be getting along quite nicely (see photo above) . . . and now, we're wondering what will show up next, as everyone knows good things come in threes -- at least, we hope so --

why don't you give it a try?  maybe you'll find the third cool pot -

at home in june

at home in june
Originally uploaded by lakbdesign/fergusandme

a june roundup -- it was a pretty month :)

monkeytail and wellington, and adam record art prints

we're all very happy to have found these indie-cool, ready to frame prints by Adam Record of Fall Down Tree, available here from australian mom and ever so fun retailer, monkeytail and wellington. easy vintagey chic for your kiddies, no hunt required.

here's teddy's personal favorite; My monster, My friend.

and mine; wierdo dinos.

lovely! we hope you find them funny and charming, too.


happy tuesday!


x lynn-anne

success; i have figured out tumbler

http://fergusandme.tumblr.com

new, fun, interesting stuff -- i hope you like it --

wythe blue room

wythe blue room
Originally uploaded by lakbdesign/fergusandme
where we live, without television and with only the occasional laptop incursion ! . . . . fun, games, and family time. and our favorite colors -- blue, green, yellow, and that blue-green ocean shade that i love.

happy friday!

summer days

summer days
Originally uploaded by lakbdesign/fergusandme

i know i've been conspicuously absent lately. my apologies!
so while i'm finishing up a new post about decorating family spaces, i thought i'd share a few shots of what i have been doing when i haven't been blogging . . . sunny summer memories for a bunch of lovely kiddos.