Wishing all of you a restful, joyful holiday ...
Here's the third installment in my furniture-rescue series (click through to see the Gang-tagged dresser and the Blue Mirror).
Last weekend, I spent many hours wandering the One of a Kind show at Chicago's Merchandize Mart. It's a massive show - big enough for Etsy to sponsor a whole section and still be hard to find. I like the show. I try to attend every year. It's a great place to see incredible jewelry, fine art and high-end functional art from across the US.
Today I discovered The Cardboard Collective. Really inspiring stuff, all made out of this material we tend to drown in... care of Amazon's odd packaging principles. And with the holidays around the corner, here come the boxes! If you have space, hang on to them for next year and create a whole holiday scheme around cardboard! DIY inspiration from:
1. Rust and Sunshine - cardboard igloo tutorial
2. Design Sponge - spiky packaging trees
3. The Cardboard Collective - little button tree
4. A Bunch of Bishops - Simple woven circle ornaments
5. Gusto and Grace - Corrugated cardboard garland
6. Enjoy it (Elise Blaha) - Packaging wreath
7. The Cardboard Collective - Star tree-topper
A lot has been written, and will continue to be written, about the loss of the man South Africans call Madiba, or "Tata". I came of age in apartheid South Africa - I was in my early 20s when this already living-legend was released from prison. Thanks to him, my first experience voting in a democracy was in my own country, along with millions of other people also voting for the first time. Thanks to him, I slowly became "proudly South African" rather than being terribly embarrassed that I was who/what I was (a "white" South African).
It's extremely difficult to capture, in words, the influence this man has had on my life. I'm grateful to have been witness to what he achieved. May he rest in amazing grace.
Last week I showed you what I did with my gang-tagged alley dresser ... here's the next project. A mirror I spotted in the basement "office" of my building's maintenance guy. I said, "wow, that's really interesting - what's it from?." The lovely Macedonian man said "eh, that thing? You want it? It's yours!" I said ... er... um ... well, I wasn't really ... umm... yeah, ok. Thanks. I think?? The thing was a mess. Apparently I'm attracted to messes.
