beauty everyday. Southern beauty, creativity and food » Athens Art Scene http://beautyeveryday.com southern beauty, creativity and food Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:19:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 support your local artists!! http://beautyeveryday.com/2011/12/09/21092/ http://beautyeveryday.com/2011/12/09/21092/#comments Fri, 09 Dec 2011 13:58:49 +0000 kristen http://beautyeveryday.com/?p=21092

there is lots of great holiday markets going on this weekend!   if you are in athens….come on out or if you are out of town….make a day out of it!  give handmade and local this season!  visit here to see more!

FRIDAY….

field trip pop up shop and big city bread artist market ….5-9pm …… 393 n finley st

SATURDAY….

hollyday artist market at TREEHOUSE. kid and craft ….815 w broad st

field trip pop up shop …..9am-12noon, 393 n finley st, studio c

r.wood studio annual holiday sale …..9am-4pm …450 georgia dr

 

 

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]]> http://beautyeveryday.com/2011/12/09/21092/feed/ 0 country windows http://beautyeveryday.com/2011/11/30/country-windows/ http://beautyeveryday.com/2011/11/30/country-windows/#comments Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:20:13 +0000 rinne http://beautyeveryday.com/?p=20903  

 

our friend hope lives out in the country, across the road from nancy and kat & susan.
we visited a few weeks ago and were taken with her sunny kitchen windows, full of rooted specimens & other findings…

we asked hope a few questions about her house and all the lovelies that line her sills:

- how long have you lived in your house?
one year and one half

- which direction do your kitchen windows face?
South

- did the cuttings and specimens move with you to this house? or did you begin your collection of cuttings and specimens because of these great windows?
Many of the cuttings came with me from San Francisco and some came from Etsy. The rest? Our garden herbs. Because of the windows, it continually grows and shifts.

- anything else you would like to share about your lovely kitchen?
Our kitchen used to be a porch but was enclosed by Nancy and made into a kitchen. (we feel so lucky to live in a Nancy house!) It sank a tiny bit lower than the rest of the house when it settled from it’s move here so it feels like a really special place – the windows, especially. Because it’s sunken only a tiny bit, there is a shift in the architecture that makes the room feel very separate. It’s so open and amazing. Easily our favorite room in the house.

hope is an artist, designer, curator, and writer; her *new* husband Stewart is a stand-up comedian.

- here are some of their upcoming projects:

” I’m currently working on a project about a quilter and freed slave from Winterville named Harriet Powers, who has two quilts in public collections at the Smithsonian and M of Fine Arts Boston. Her grave wasn’t found until the last few years, and we learn more about her every day. Getting ready to exhibit the project at ATHICA in 2012. Also, my botanical drawings of medicinal herbs will be on view at the Botanical Gardens in 2012.

Stewart will be one of 3 artists featured in a documentary about comics who go on the road in late 2012, by Susan Seizer, an anthropologist at Indiana University Bloomington. He’s also performing in Aspen, CO as a winner of the Aspen Laff Festival. “

 

and,
did we mention that hope and stewart just got married? on 11.11.11…

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]]> http://beautyeveryday.com/2011/11/30/country-windows/feed/ 4 holiday crafting http://beautyeveryday.com/2011/11/25/holiday-crafting/ http://beautyeveryday.com/2011/11/25/holiday-crafting/#comments Fri, 25 Nov 2011 12:27:32 +0000 kristen http://beautyeveryday.com/?p=20973 i love making holiday crafts.  this year i have been making some card board wreaths and i love they way they are turning out.

 

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it’s a long process to produce wood fired pots.  first, there’s cutting and hauling and stacking all the wood.  then there’s the making and glazing, then the loading, bricking up the doors, then 6 days of firing around the clock.  but the hardest week of all is the week after the firing is over,when you have to WAIT for the kilns to cool off so you can see the results!  finally the doors are taken down and we can see inside.  everyone is anxious to see how it all turned out.  there’s winners and losers, surprises and failures.  it’s all a continual learning process.   luckily for me, i made out like a bandit with lots of good surprises and great textures and colors.   yeah! RW_unloadingthekiln-2006 RW_unloadingthekiln-2010 RW_unloadingthekiln-2015 RW_unloadingthekiln-2022 RW_unloadingthekiln-2026 RW_unloadingthekiln-2029 RW_unloadingthekiln-2047 RW_unloadingthekiln-2051 RW_unloadingthekiln-2052

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]]> http://beautyeveryday.com/2011/11/17/20912/feed/ 0 fire in the hole http://beautyeveryday.com/2011/11/10/fire-in-the-hole/ http://beautyeveryday.com/2011/11/10/fire-in-the-hole/#comments Thu, 10 Nov 2011 12:46:50 +0000 kristen http://beautyeveryday.com/?p=20852

nothing is as fun as woodfiring- quiet times out in the country.  just you and the crackling fire.  just keep throwing the wood in there to keep it hot.  all that ash is landing on the pots as it makes its way through the kiln, leaving its mark on each pot.  high hopes for the results, but since there’s no predicting the outcome, try not to get your expectations too high!

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]]> http://beautyeveryday.com/2011/10/28/in-trees/feed/ 0 woodfire time! http://beautyeveryday.com/2011/10/27/woodfire-time/ http://beautyeveryday.com/2011/10/27/woodfire-time/#comments Thu, 27 Oct 2011 11:09:31 +0000 kristen http://beautyeveryday.com/?p=20721

i’m making a batch of vases for the wood fire.  i made some really fancy ones i’m super excited about.  lots of birds and flowers.  i still have to glaze them.  we start loading the kilns today.  it’ll take about 9 days to load two wood kilns, then on to the firing!  more pics of that soon.  it’s so much fun to do a six hour shift of stoking the fire, and listening for the crinkling sound that tells you it’s time to put more wood on the fire.

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our good friend amy flurry and partner nikii salk make these amazing accessories entirely from tiny pieces of hand cut paper.    this week, they will be taking their paper.cut.project to NY for fashion week.  they have designed a series of hand cut masks for designer jen kao.  i am sure it will be wonderful and inspiring- i can’t wait to see pictures.

here is a little video that shows how they make each piece.

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]]> http://beautyeveryday.com/2011/09/09/paper-cut-project-meets-fashion-week/feed/ 0 it’s never too hot to knit http://beautyeveryday.com/2011/07/29/its-never-too-hot-to-knit/ http://beautyeveryday.com/2011/07/29/its-never-too-hot-to-knit/#comments Fri, 29 Jul 2011 15:41:07 +0000 kristen http://beautyeveryday.com/?p=19899

in the south the last thing you think about is knitting a sweater or scarf in the heat of the summer.  the other day, my friend gretchen came by my shop and installed a big sweater on our sign.  this concept makes summer knitting a little more joyous.

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