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Maybe a late birthday present for myself is in order.

Filigree Ring, Galactica Ring. Imogen Belfield.

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Inspired in part by this collaboration, this is the direction my home is taking. Raw/colorful/handmade. Photos soon.

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ROLU with Timothy Eric Carlson.

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I have new digs.

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Moving has been hard, lots of changes in life, but there is a bright ray of sunshine…new digs means NEW FURNITURE PROJECTS!!!! This is the dining/work table I built for myself a couple weeks ago. Still grappling with some of the logistics, I have McCobb style stools that work for now as seating, but I have moved them against the wall because I hate the messy verticals I get when they are under the table. That industrial lamp is great, but all wrong in that corner…that will change too. And heaven help that horrible linoleum (solutions forthcoming!!). But the table was a success and it was, in all, pretty easy and cheap to make.

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I used two steel sawhorses from Home Depot , 3/4″ birch plywood top from Mr. Plywood  cut to size (love those guys) that I stained black with Minwax Ebony. I just used one coat because I wanted to still be able to see the grain patterning, then I did a final coat with Land Ark oil and a little Feed N Wax for a deeper sheen on the finish. I drilled 4 sets of holes over each sawhorse, then used some leather strapping I had lying around to tie the table top to the base. Voilá!! New industrial table for under $100. As a friend said, it’s “like a construction worker with a warm heart.”

Happiness.

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Baker Tent/Explorer Tent. Made by the awesome Beckel Canvas company. (Which happens to be right down the street from my house!)

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Anthropomorphic pebble figure. Limestone. Israel. Neolithic period. Late 7th millennium B.C.  Via.

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Something Close To Nothing (Prince). Hand embroidered with silk thread on cotton canvas using heavy chain stitch. Moricor/Maricar.

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Alright, alright…Sit and Read, you win. Greta rack, for Neighbour in V.B.C.

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ZigZag Prototype, Gerrit Rietveld, 1932.

 

 

 

 

These have potentially been blogged to death but yeah, LOVE. By Faux Real. (Available in Portland at Stand Up Comedy.)

I’m all pumped up that the couch that I made late last summer has been posted as a DIY tutorial by Design*Sponge. You can see all the details here, and see more of my work here.