Goodbye home! Mr. Loveforever and I are off to Madeira for a week of rest and relaxation. Sometimes it’s hard to leave my house even when I am exchanging it for island paradise.
In the meantime, I will have a couple of posts up on the Adorn blog this week. Amazing how that works even when [...]

My friend Lorelei sent me a link to artist Seonna Hong’s work and it is so lovely. I love how moody and slightly disturbing her paintings are and her use of embroidery in her art.

Unfortunately I missed the opening for her show last night but if you are in New York, you can check out [...]

Scottish artist Georgia Russell painstakingly deconstructs old books with a scalpel and transforms them into these breathtaking works of art.

From her CV: “Old books have always seemed to her like sculptural objects which had their own history, representing the many hands which have held them and the minds they have passed through. She resurrects [...]

I was just getting my daily read of West Coast Crafty and saw this amazing new product by Jennifer Perkins of Naughty Secretary Club called Crafty Curios.

Crafty Curios are a collection of all sorts of cool trinkets, jewelry, beads and baubles, packed into a 4X6 baggie to make your jewelry designing dreams come true! [...]

Things are starting to happen around the house. Mr. Loveforever and I have finally decided to stay put in one place long enough to really nest and I have been doing some re-decorating.

Our living room is kind of a joke of a room, just big enough for a couch, a coffee table and two [...]

This past Friday I fled to the Catskills with my ladyfriends for a much needed weekend away. A group of us have been organizing these trips for a couple of years now and they are so much fun. Though we call them “Craft Retreats”, we don’t always get a lot of crafting done.
The weather this [...]

The Adorn ladies and I trekked out to Park Slope for the Lisa Congdon show at Rare Device. We were the first ones there so we had our pick of the twenty special collage packs that Lisa made just for the show, a great buy if you are trying to collect some art but don’t [...]

I am so saddened by the tragedy at Virginia Tech. My thoughts are with the families and friends of all of the victims and also everyone that lived through such a traumatic event. When I was in college, there was a shooting on our small campus and it has been a rough couple of [...]

I got my Softie Awards ribbon in the mail today and promptly pinned it onto my bulletin board! The ribbons were lovingly handmade by crafty superstar Cal Patch (thanks Cal!).
Oh, and I also got a gift certificate to Mahar Dry Goods! Mmmmm…pretty handmade things…

I am so so excited that artist Lisa Congdon will be heading out to the east coast to show her art at Rare Device! Though I have seen her work all over the net and magazines I have never seen the pieces up close and in person.
If you live in the New York area, come [...]