P.S.-Pooh Says...
"What day is it? - 'It's today' - squeaked Piglet. 'My favourite day' - said Pooh."- A.A. Milne
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February is a strange knitting month for me. I am looking toward spring but not quite ready to cast on just yet and at the same time I am ready to move on from the bulkies. What's an itchy sheep to do??? Cowl Up!
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Quick, loopy,wrappy, happy and oh so useful--even on a warmer day when I may not wear a coat I pop on a cowl.
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The other thing I love about cowls is no matter your knitting mood you can cast on and be done quickly-
You can choose to KISS (keep it simple ...)
... Play with Stitches
...Toss in Some COLOR
...STRIPE it Up
...Open it up with graceful LACE
...or Get your CABLE on!
Cowls of course are also a fabulous way to use up some stash--you know my stash theory-make a hole in it--go fill the hole :) For some of my Favorite ways to Cowl UP-Come Visit Winding Yarn
"You do live very well don't you?"
"No complaints"-Thomas Crown
This week I ran across an article celebrating Faye Dunaway's 70th birthday. Included of course were images from her role in director Norman Jewison's
The Thomas Crown Affair, 1968 . A sparkling sexy and stylish film about a bored playboy millionaire who lives for the thrill, an uncharacteristic but yummy role for Steve McQueen. Thomas Crown pulls off a bank heist and the banks' insurance investigator, Faye Dunaway, goes after her man.
McQueen and Dunaway have a chemistry that film legend is made of , the air simply crackles between them.
Their chess game is perhaps the most talked about scene but for me it is their early morning stroll on Beacon Hill.
Go for the story, and Steve's eyes of course, but stay for the style...and of course the clothes
photos from
IMDB
Ever since I can I remember I have been drawn to color. To this day nothing makes me smile more than a HUGE new box of Crayolas...except perhaps wheels and wheels of paint chips...or maybe bolts upon bolts of fabrics...then of course sitting pouring over wallpaper books is a perfect rainy afternoon activity for me. Whenever I want to cheer myself up I head to a yarn shop--not simply because I love playing with skeins of cashmere, mohair,alpacas and cottons, but also because a really good yarn shop has cubbies of color and anyone who has seen me at play in a shop knows I am always in search of just "the right" shade of...and I can be seen carrying around a skein just because I want the color!
This week I fell into the digital age's version of a Crayola Box- Design Seeds. This glorious playground of everything color was made for me to move into--gorgeous "mood" boards coupling wonderful images with color chips that demonstrate how colors play and work together.
Each board is a new inspiration and I found myself digging through my yarn bins to pull skeins to match some of my favorite palettes discovered on Design Seeds.
The site is a joy at every click. I love that you can search for palettes by color value-find a chip and slide the R G B arrows to intensify or cool the chip you love then click on it to see wonderful inspiration boards using that color, pairing it with colors that play happily with your color choice. My favorite way to search on the site is by Theme--explore the color palettes by seasonal inspiration, celebrations of the everyday or by nature, travel, edibles, crafts, vintage... there is color at every turn in our world and design seeds celebrates that in such a wonderful way!
Of course we see color in our gardens and nature...
For me,however, no matter the weather or where I wander I view the world through a color wheel-even the quiet has depth and tones.
Spend some time on Design Seeds and I promise you will see everything around you in colorful new way!
“By producing my textiles abroad, I get to become a minor character in the lives of the people I work with, and I can take inspiration from what I see and do there. I go to their weddings, celebrate their festivals, I get sick with them, I develop relationships with the people who are teaching me. When you look at my textiles, its like you’ve been on the world tour along with me.” John Robshaw
I adore a room filled with fabulous pillows--Pillows as comfort we all know about but pillows as design and art can help define a room.
I first saw John Robshaw's fabrics at
Calypso St. Barth and immediately wanted to pack my bags to discover the inspiration for the crisp colors and bold prints. It is
John Robshaw's painted pillows, however, that I want to collect like jewels and toss on any drab chair or sofa I encounter.
The painted pillows are inspired by his travels to India and Asia, where he now produces his fabulous block print textiles, are just the type of pillow tosss I love. Each is pillow is handpainted in Jaipur on cotton linen fabric and no two are alike.
Hop on your favorite elephant and
Come Visit A Well Appointed Life for more of
John Robshaw's Pillow Talk.
We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives... not looking for flaws, but for potential. ~Ellen Goodman
What a strange week the first week of the New Year is! You have to plug your brain back in from months of Holidaying and deal with all that you said would get done "After the Holidays". January means literally tossing the old year in the trash. I sent 2011 and all those days of appointments and meetings and the "everyday" into the recycle bin. With the 2011 datebooks and calendars gone so is another year of my life and I cannot help asking..."What did I do with all those 365 days I was given?" "What can I do with a fresh batch of days, how can this year be different?" Hitting the restart button on your life is the definition of the month of January. January itself doesn't help much! It is cold, it is bleak, it is snowing, it is icy ...The news can scare us back into our pajamas, and rather than a revolution in our life we just need a hug! How to balance the opportunity of the New Year with the inclination to stay under the covers??? Baby Steps! January can actually be useful, but you cannot ask too much of a month that is the month with the number 1 in front of it, so use these days to make an EASY transition...and try to do it with style!
I love calendar shopping...I often don't know what day of the week it is as schedules pile up and the blur begins but I can stop, breathe and look at it all one day at a time, week at a time, month by month and realize OK, I have my bearings-now move forward! Of course Calendars with Style are on my wall ---Come Visit The Shopping Bag Chronicles for Calendars that help slip into 2012 with a fashionably well dressed look at a whole new year! You have 365 days after all to get it right...Happy New Year!
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