HAPPY 2012

 Absolument!

 found 
 here

Merry Murmuration

Murmuration from Sophie Windsor Clive on Vimeo.

What a spectacular gift.
This is for you, Memee  xo

thank you Sophie
thank you River Shannon
thank you starlings
thank you Nomad Soul

Merry Christmas!

HEY NINETEEN

every year I set the birthday table with candles, funny wind-up toys,
Twizzlers, Cheez Doodles, and many  photographs of the guest of honor.
Today is ELI's 19th (holy moley) Birthday.
Just now,  I grabbed this collage off my bedroom wall..
contact sheets of Eli (almost three) posing.. or not..  for a portrait for Spark.
He brought his tambourine and honey stirrer.
David Caras took these photographs that  I will forever cherish.
I remember that day like it was yesterday.
Happy 19th Year E!

sweets for the sweet

This is easily one of my favorite gifts that I am giving this year.
I cannot take credit for this sweet idea, I found it on pinterest and ran with it.
I come from a long line of ice cream fans and it seemed perfectly perfecto for me.
I whipped up a strong batch of chocolate sauce and found
jars not TOO big ( but BIG enough) to fill.
Added assorted mini candies, gummies and chocolates, waffle bowls and cones.
Packed in a sturdy box and VOILA!
Sundae Box..
JUST ADD ICE CREAM
..YUM!

LAST BLAST OPEN ART

LAST BLAST OPEN ART TODAY 4 - 5:30 

Holiday Greetings to all our Beehive friends!
We're having a last blast OPEN ART this afternoon for kids 4 and UP. 
A dazzling assortment of big hands on
gift making,
printing,
tags and wrap papering,
cutting and gluing,
painting,
glittering,
laughing, singing
and oh..
making ART!
call the studio to let us know you'll be coming over
kids 4 and UP   4:00 - 5:30  $40.00
Beehive Shop here and here

Oh ChristmasTree

We will be putting up decorations on our tree tonight.
We've had it in the house for a week
enjoying its simple presence.
Just  ONE whiff of those needles and
I'm in the Christmas spirit.


 via here

Florence this morning

refresh

                                                      It's been a full week of sweets,

                                        black pepper and citrus is a refreshing thought.

                                                              image by ME, here, now.

Moving Drawings

I know this is going to make a lot of you laugh out loud,
I mean really and truly  O U T   L O U D .
And THAT is exactly what I needed to do RIGHT ABOUT NOW.


 brill brill brilliant work by Lilli Carre    Thank YOU.

paper mache owls
wood and wire sculptures

tile frames with colored pencil drawings & collage

paper chains

painted wood sculptures

boys in scarves

                                                                   It's Friday...I'm in love.
                         

                                                                             from here

every little day

for reals.
from Twamies

Button UP

In the midst of putting finishing touches on pillows for my SHOP

I came across these gems. 

Buttons from my Aunt's sewing kit, which is filled to the rim with all 

sorts of notions and potions.  

I couldn't resist sharing, however, I do not think I will use these quite yet.

I have memories of spilling my Mom's button collection 

( a coffee can covered in white contact paper with pink tulips) and spending time sorting the buttons by color and size. It's  fun to grab a handful
and let them slide through your fingers. 

Or find them sewn in a tidy row on a vintage card, wrinkled and worn but still intact.

Wood and Wool Christmas

The count down begins!

 Christmas trees made by Wood and Wool Stool.

And, if your heart desires, can be printed with holiday text.

 I've eyed her work before and continue to admire it from far far away.

                                                             

My heart desires one of these. 

yessirree. bring it. please.