The Red Shoes is a relatively new favorite of mine. I saw it for the first time two years ago at the urging of my nearest and dearest, Ginny Branch Stelling. Ginny knows what’s up when it comes to beautiful old movies so when she speaks, I listen. The Red Shoes is a 1948 British…
murphy bed illustrations via murphy bed company history After my very first past & past column back in August. I had some requests to address the history of the Murphy bed. It’s only taken 6 months and some nudging from Grace – but here’s some insight into the Murphy bed! image from the Decorator and…
today’s biz ladies post comes to us from lauren venell of biz miss. last month, lauren contributed a post on how to accept credit cards at your business, and this week she shares with us some helpful tips on how to properly charge for your services and goods and get that money flowing! in an…
image via wikipedia today’s city guide belongs to beautiful madrid, spain and comes to us from freelance journalist kristen bernardi. kristen is based in madrid and has written for timeout madrid, fodor’s guide to spain, spain magazine and expatica.com, so she definitely knows her way around this exciting spanish city. today she’ll be sharing great…
this pretty book jacket and bookmark series has already been on a few blogs, but i couldn’t resist sharing it here because they’re too darn cute. d*s reader anna sent a link to igor “rogix” udushlivy’s beautiful bookmark/jacket designs after seeing them on booklicious. all i know is that i NEED that bunny eared copy…
good morning! i thought i’d start today with a little garden/backyard eye candy from stylist and art director, heather chontos. heather is sharing her lovely home with us soon, but today i wanted to share some photos from a gorgeous outdoor shoot she styled. i’d like nothing more than to start my morning with a…
I thought I’d share a quick, behind-the-scenes of designing and printing a letterpress product. SIMPLESONG is home to two (soon three!) printing presses including a Golding Pearl (c. 1906) and a tabletop Chandler & Price Pilot (c. 1940). I occasionally use metal or wood type but primarily use photopolymer plates allowing me to print pretty…
Thanks to Jodi Murphy for including Design*Sponge in a Gentry Magazine story about DecorMetro.
imagine that there was a beautiful shop that was more like a gallery, and every three months would take on an entirely new theme, no detail would be left untouched, a 10-color color palette would be chosen, and everything inside would be curated to match. even the color of the front door would change. well,…
lauren naimola has been shopping for vintage clothes since high school. her etsy shop, dear golden – has allowed her to put all those shopping hours to good use and practice must make perfect because she sure finds some cute things (let me just say, if you wear a 6.5 or 7 shoe size, you…
photographer max wanger, and his lovely fiancee, margaux (who works for giant robot magazine and shoots with max on the weekends) searched for over a year before they found their bright & colorful 1940s art deco apartment in west hollywood. now, after 5 very busy months of work and travel, it’s finally starting to come…
as a non home-owner, i spent a lot of time thinking about the day we’ll finally have a house to call our own. no one to tell us what we can and can’t do to walls, no one to tell us to turn our music down- just a space that’s truly ours. until that day,…
artist anneke van bommel recently debuted a series of cutlery at radiant dark in toronto, as part of the international design show weekend. working with abandoned cutlery, anneke repurposed and transformed each object in an effort to show that simple change can affect our impression about whether an object is collectable, disposable, temporary, or lasting….
Our 3 year-old son started pre-school in the fall and I quickly became aware of the need to figure out what to do wit the artwork he brought home on a daily basis. I thought I’d share a few things we do to keep it clutter-free but still display and appreciate it. Hang on Ikea…
good morning! i’m still riding a gardening/flower arranging high from yesterday’s herb flower class at saipua, so i thought it would be fun to start the day with these beautiful packaged seed sets from the balcony gardener. owner isabelle palmer sells all sorts of beautiful garden tools, plants, window boxes and pots for the garden,…
Thanks, Grace, for inviting me to guest blog! I’m thrilled to be here. I’m Suann of SIMPLESONG Design a small design and letterpress studio based in Northern Virginia. This week I’m going to share bits of my favorite things including letterpress printing, minimalist design, and a couple of kid-inspired posts as much of my world…
phew! it’s friday and i am ready to take a little break. this weekend i’m taking an “herbs: in the garden and in floral arrangements” class at saipua, so i thought i’d end with a pretty picture of the flowers i got last week from nicolette’s flower stand in williamsburg. i’ve been trying to track…
Many of you may not know that living in Italy is bittersweet as far as food is concerned. Great Italian! Not great choices for other types of food! So I am always on the lookout for great recipes to bring that diversity to my life. This week’s recipe for Vietnamese Spring Rolls with Hoisin Peanut…
image sources, clockwise from top left: cook almost anything, home orchard society, mpezalla, backyard critter habitats, comcast forums, ashley english, ventnor permaculture I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the birds and the bees. I mean that in the most literal sense, not in any corporeally suggestive one. I’m wrapping up a book on beginning…
i can’t resist a good paper installation, so i was really excited to see an email from artist francisca prieto in my inbox last night. francisca has a new show at the jaggedart gallery in london showcasing some truly beautiful folding work- using both the written work of shakespeare (below) and folded envelopes (above and…
