Prunella Prunella

Prunella Soaps. I have been following them since I started my tumblr, I Spy Design and looking at Etsy and everything else. I adore their packaging and now....NOW!....I am enjoying their wonderful scents as I won a delightful sampler of 12 delectable and darling cakes from Melissa Blake's blog So About What I Said ! Prunella soap is all natural vegan soap made utilizing the old fashioned cold process method of soap making. It's made in small batches with simple, organic ingredients in downtown Portland, Oregon. Soap Maker Janelle Anderson says, "Prunella (Princess Prunella...to be exact) was a nickname given to me by my mom when I was a little girl because I would stay in the bath too long...my fingertips would turn to "prunes!"" This is the photo on their Etsy Site that I fell in love with, gift soap favors.:

Here is my Prunella Prize!

Check out Janelle's blog cool jane and Facebook to see what she is up to with other products and ideas. Thank you Prunella! Thank you Melissa!

Golden Spider Silk Cape / Exhibitions & Galleries / Happenings / V&A Channel

Simon Peers and Nicholas Godley discuss Golden Spider Silk from Victoria and Albert Museum on Vimeo.

The Courage to Say No

Ordinary People: The courage to say no.

The photo was taken in Hamburg in 1936, during the celebrations for the launch of a ship. In the crowed, one person refuses to raise his arm to give the Nazi salute. The man was August Landmesser. He had already been in trouble with the authorities, having been sentenced to two years hard labour for marrying a Jewish woman.
We know little else about August Landmesser, except that he had two children. By pure chance, one of his children recognized her father in this photo when it was published in a German newspaper in 1991. How proud she must have been in that moment.

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Senrinomichi

Following the triple disaster that struck northeast Japan on 11 March, countless people in Japan and elsewhere wondered what they could do to help. It was in this spirit and at this moment that we created the Senrinomichi blog, with an immediate objective to share information about charitable initiatives in support of the direct victims of the earthquake and tsunami. On June 11, Haruki Murakami made a truly magnificent speech upon receipt of the Catalunya International Prize. This speech crystallised what we thought about 11 March; past, present and future In the weeks that followed, our energies turned to ensuring that Murakami’s speech could be read by as many people as possible, in as true a form as possible, as quickly as possible. To do this, we created the multilingual collaborative translation initiative Planting Seeds Together. The speech has been translated in ten languages, which to date have been read by 20,000 visitors. Through this, Senrinomichi has built great links with many new friends in and outside France. Through these links, we have come to understand that as well as the “visible” victims of the earthquake and tsunami, there is a whole population whose lives have been changed to a greater or lesser extent by the nuclear accident at Fukushima. We believe that it is important to provide a voice for these victims of an invisible threat, and most particularly so for the people of the Fukushima region, who are most directly affected and whose voices are being silenced for reasons which are easy to understand and which must be combatted. Senrinomichi has evolved and will continue to evolve. We have many ideas for other actions, and all that is lacking is time! Our Facebook page is complementary to the blogwww.senrinomichi.com. We hope you will visit both, as well as the Twitter page we just opened.

Tango. ad lib. I watched this 4 times.

The Craft of Letterpress Intoxicates Me

Upside Down, Left To Right: A Letterpress Film from Danny Cooke on Vimeo.

Murmuration

Weightless

Fashion Week Spring 2012

New Girl in Town

Vera Wang RTW

Ralph Lauren Mini Me

3 generations of Missoni women

RTW Launches at TARGET

Valentino and Anna Wintour

Oscar de la Renta RTW

classic, elegant and ochre

NAHM RTW

Bill Cunningham between shows

Diane von Furstenberg RTW

and always, the absurd...

flesh flaps

Perennially Young Betsey

Anna

source: WWD except for the back of Anna's Head: Calvintage

Simply Delighted

Finally, European Design for Americans without the Painful Price Tag

Public Bicycles

Surprisingly affordable!

PUBLIC Bikes: Design Matters from PUBLIC Bikes on Vimeo.

I Spy Design

I Spy Design

a new Tumblr

by

antonnia

Found Haphazard Composition

Epiphany

It's time.

I thought I could shut the door

and never look back.

Trying to reinvent myself has been a journey.

I thought I could walk away from my art and design talent.

I cannot.

I cannot stay away.

Everything I do is done with a demanding pull towards the aesthetic.

The more determined I became to leave design,

the stronger the importance of balance, details, nuance and beauty became.

So I did reinvent myself.

Not in the direction I was coercing the chart of my life,

but into a more cohesive and focused sense

of who I am.

My love.

My talents and gifts.

Turning my focus back to my passion

can only bring success.

An unlikely Diversion

For the last 48 hours, early in the morning with coffee, midday with lunch or coffee and in the evening for dessert I've been conquering the phenomenon of, don't cringe,

Angry Birds.

Yes.

Me.

I've been obsessed.

I've completed 3 levels with my ample share of 3 stars.

My jaw has been clenched and my arm muscles are sore from power mousing.

I'm happy to say that I'm through with this game now.

I don't have to go back and re-do games to show that I'm a 3-star only player.

I was a player.

I started the conquest minutes after a certain cute and geeky guy down the hall showed me what he was doing.

I was curious because there were these screeches and nature sounds followed with explosions echoing down the hallway.

"Hmm....I see",

I thought to myself,

"It's that game that the in-people play with their i-phones. Hmmm."

It's available with Google Chrome?

Oh.

I have that.

"Hey can I have a go at it?"

Reluctantly I had my 'go' without any tutoring

(a sure- fire invitation to fail and then leave him alone).

I failed and quickly left the room and

high tailed it down the hall to my computer to download the game.

History.

It was fun.

I'm done.

While searching for a video to upload I discovered that there are more levels...

UH OH.

Trellis Print: It's still going on...

When I read this installment from House of Fifty:

House of Fifty Blog: Does This Signal the End of the Trellis Print?:

"For years the trellis print has reigned supreme in the world of design. And why not! It is simply a stunning pattern that has been used to e..."

I just had to write about Tech Candy.

Invented by April Mraz and Cherie Stine, these gals have done their research.

They are not only design savvy they are tech savvy.

They know silicon, they know technical specifications, they know trend.

They nailed it.

i-Phone + i-Pad Cases, a cut above.

You need to touch them.

Feel them.

Love them.

Summer as a Kid

When I was a youngster, I was lucky enough to be a Camp Fire Girl. I was very fortunate to go to Camp Niwana and stay in the Gypsy Glen 3 sided cabins. We had the option of Pixie Portions at mealtime if we were picky eaters too. We swam, made lanyards, had a powwow at night, made dreamboats mounted with burning candles let lose on Lake Helena at night. All accompanied with singing. I adored all of the songs, but my favorite was Barges. I loved the harmony.

Car Envy

I saw these boys circling this pristine car in Georgetown last weekend.

The suicide doors and the dreamy crayola sky blue paint color cinches the 'beauty' category.

On my way back down the street I walked on the other side and saw a For Sale sign in the window.

Pasta Dentifricia

I had to start somewhere.

I live to doodle.

I haven't been doodling.

I'm back.

: )

Georgetown Gardens

There is nothing I love more than seeing the creative endeavour of living spaces. As a child, one of the luscious activities my mother would indulge me with was an evening drive through our small town so that I could look at houses (I think this also helped with her little indulgence of Kent menthols). I was in wonderland. Even today I walk my neighborhood, criss-crossing the streets and alleys. Alleys are a voyeur's best friend. I relish the cobbled patios with umbrellaed tables, the pots of interesting combinations of flowers and herbs that I frantically try to memorize and put away. I've been carrying my blackberry around to snap photos of an intricately designed eave detail or an exceptional composition of flora for referral when I'm armchair gardening. So when I finally coordinated my Saturday with a scheduled garden tour, especially one that the whole community of Georgetown was participating in, I thrilled at the invitation to enter front yards, walk along side yards and poke around the back yards of this eclectic Seattle neighborhood.

Some of the pictures I snapped were not officially in the tour.

This artfully decorated heap of sod anointed with Jesus sets the tone for the afternoon.

Buddha...serene as ever.

The snake.

Outdoor living...

Cherub on a window sill.

Composition: Mirror, Rosebush, Pushmower.

Lily is probably one of the oldest residents of Georgetown.

Her yard is a sea of seedums.

I couldn't resist the Carleton Avenue Grocery and stopped in for an ice cream bar.

I spied my friend Rachel in this charming farmette...her daughter Rebecca and her husband nurtured this plot with care.

Beekeeping, chickens, vegetables.

Follow Rebecca's blog: Planes Trains + Vegetables.

I'm a sucker for a red door.

This house is for sale on Flora Street.

Lust.

The only gnome I saw. He was a miniature little guy the size of my palm...

The feeling of this neighborhood was so nostalgic. I felt that I had gone back in time to 1962. There are other little plums to be discovered in this industrial working town.

Stay tuned.

FrenchBlue: Sea Salt Icecream

(picture by Kathy Hackman Pintrist)

I have read a blog from French Blue today that was simply

ENCHANTING.

You must read and experience this scrumptions bit of summer:

FrenchBlue: Sea Salt Icecream