Posts Tagged ‘seasonal’

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…

Tags: Athens Art Scene, fall, flower arrangement, planted, rinne allen, seasonal, southern beauty, southern living, southern texture, spring, summer, winter, winterville
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outside my studio door

seasonal bloom

October 25th, 2011

here is a sampler of the colors and textures in my garden today:

Tags: fall, flower arrangement, rinne allen, seasonal, southern beauty, southern texture
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stickwork – - – patrick dougherty

homes and habitats

October 19th, 2011

many years ago we went to visit an installation at clemson university by patrick dougherty. (for you old school readers out there, we featured photos from this excursion on ideas for creative living, the predecessor to beauty everyday…)

it featured this woven castle…made from bent, woven, and wrapped saplings, or sticks.

it was to our delight that we recently found a copy of his book, stickwork, while on a visit to terrain.
enjoy looking!

projects

in the country

May 5th, 2011

i’ve always loved embroidery, and i love old heavy linen and old patched up cottons. i finally decide to put them together and do some flower drawing embroidery on the back of an old linen calendar towel.first, i practiced drawing a fig branch on paper. then i drew it on the dishtowel (clamped to a masonite drawing board) with a disappearing ink pen from the fabric store. it disappears in 12 to 24 hours, so you have to get cracking with the embroidery! then i put it in the hoop and stitched the drawing . it was really fun. i have more projects like it on the way.

Tags: DIY, nature, rebecca wood, rustic, seasonal, southern living
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cotton time!

homes and habitats

November 24th, 2010

right about this time you can take a turn down any country road and you are bound to see a field of cotton. each year, i take a little drive to bostwick, georgia where they have an active cotton gin and plenty of white fields to supply the gin with cotton. i love to see the cotton being processed and the cotton by the truckload. it is really quite breathtaking- a true portrait of the south.

Tags: fall, rustic, seasonal, southern living
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goodness grows

homes and habitats

October 13th, 2010

the other day i went to a local nursery in lexington, georgia to get some inspiration and plants for a fall bed. i had been meaning to go here for years and was blown away by all of the sweet details of the place.

enjoy!

Tags: fall, kristen bach, rustic, seasonal, southern living
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single marigold

daily beauty

July 6th, 2010

Tags: flower arrangement, kristen bach, rustic, seasonal
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finding chanterelles

garden to table

July 5th, 2010

this past year we have really gotten into foraging food. the thrill that you get from hiking through the land that surrounds you and finding food that nature offers is priceless. foraging has really connected us to our environment and seasons. it is really quite amazing how much food in our backyards, fields, and forests is edible, and quite tasty!

this summer has been a great year for chanterelle mushrooms. this fungi is easy to identify and there is not any poisonous look-a-likes around. not only is this mushroom beautiful but it is one of the more flavorful mushrooms out there. we have found so many this year that we have dried some so we can enjoy them all year long…..until next season.

click here to read an article in the month’s food and wine about an inspiring forager/chef in california