Yes, and yes, this is my mishima weed vase from a few weeks ago, albeit glaze fired. It turned out pretty well, in my humble opinion and is a technique worth further exploration. Since I’m a visual person, I don’t like visiting blogs without photographs, so I threw this one in so that you have something to look at until new work arrives.
Some of you may know that I live in a quasi turn of the century vintage home in Denver, Colorado. I say quasi, because my husband and I basically bastardized the poor cottage a couple of years ago in order to carve out additional square footage for our small family. It blends well into the neighborhood and it does retain it’s vintage charm inside and outside, but it’s been changed way too much to achieve historical status protection. What you may not know about me is that secretly, I would like to live in a modern prefab minimalist home like something you find in between the covers of Dwell magazine. I’m always inspired by the clean lines, funky furniture/accessories and the re-use and purposing of common materials that I find featured in Dwell.
On Saturday, I was thumbing through the July/August issue of Dwell and came across a little blurb about some cardboard furniture. It piqued my interest enough to actually visit the website that was listed in the magazine. How often does that ever happen? Turns out Swiss architect, Nicola Enrico Stäubli, designed a line of child size furniture using regular old cardboard. He is offering the patterns free of charge from his website, Foldschool. The former landscape architecture student is me is excited to make some for my daughter. One of my favorite things to do while in school was making models and this reminds me somewhat of that activity. I wonder if these patterns could be translated into adult sized models? It’s a project for the future, because I have a lot on my plate right now - but I’ve been eyeing some mattress sized cardboard boxes currently sitting in the alley behind my house that I just might have to save!
Meanwhile, Diana - aka The Lone Beader bestowed me with the “Rockin’ Girl Blogger” award. Thank you and much obliged! I won’t bore you with a long acceptance speech. I am to pass this on to 5 other rockin’ girls out there in blogger land that have never received the award.
Drumroll please…
- Chi aka Peppa’s Studio
- Janet over at A Planet Named Janet
- Even though she’s been absent awhile, I love W.J.’s fractal digital images at Art 166
- Heather at Bad Kitty Art Studio the inspiration she provides
- Paula at Manning-Lewis Studios
I could add many more terrific bloggers to the list, but in the interest of time, stopped at 5. Recipients, please bask in the glory and pass it on if you feel moved to do so.
~Cynthia
