Stephanie Says …

 

an original textile, based on a gouache painting by Stephanie Says

[ if only it were organic ! ]

lost !

from design student, Fuchsia Macaree

do. be.

 

Feeling Far and Away

 

[ Far & Away IX, by Cheryl Maeder ]

in 14 degree Philadelphia, I’m closing my eyes and imagining folds of warm sea water wrapping my sleepy body.

HGTV Open Casting Call – Philadelphia

 

Design Star, HGTV’s top-rated reality competition series, is currently casting for their sixth season and are holding an open casting call in Philadelphia on Monday, January 10, 2011. I thought I would help spread the word to my fellow Philadelphians – we have such great creative energy in this city and I’m sure one of you would be perfect for this program !  According to the casting assistant at CBS, they are looking for someone with “extensive design knowledge, a personality that pops, passion for design, lots of energy and enthusiasm and a clear and unique design perspective.”

Date: Monday, January 10, 2011

Time: 10am - 1pm

Location: Embassy Suites Hotel at 1776 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia

Holiday Party + Trunk Show

 

 

Bario-Neal Jewelry Holiday Party and Trunk Show
featuring Marina Borker Stained Glass and Loop Hand-Drawn | Eco-Conscious paper

T O N I G H T  from 5.30pm to 9.30pm at the Bario-Neal Studio + Showroom[  located at 700 South 6th Street [ the corner of 6th & Bainbridge  ]

The event has been generously sponsored by the Philadelphia Brewing Company. Enjoy snacks + complimentary beer / wine while shopping local for your holiday gifts !

35% off all Bario-Neal boutique jewelry

20% off Loop wrapping paper
[ plus deals on factory seconds + OUR NEW JOURNALS ]

15% off Marina Borker Stained Glass votives and ornaments

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I’m honored to be participating in this event with two fantastic local businesses:

Bario-Neal specialize in making beautiful and unique designs that employ reclaimed precious metals, ethically-sourced stones using low-impact + environmentally conscious practices.

Marina Borker is a local artist whose unique stained glass technique calls attention to the expressive linework of the leading in between the glass to create one-of-a-kind lights + wall-hangings.

Undivided Mind

The Imaginary Foundation recently created a pop-up exhibition called The Undivided Mind at Fifty24SF Gallery in San Francisco. They described it so poetically …

“ The artist and scientist may at first seem strange bedfellows. Of the many human disciplines, there are few that could seem more divergent. The artist employs image and metaphor; the scientist uses number and equation. Art creates illusions meant to evoke emotion, while science engages in the pursuit of empirical verification. There is, to some degree, a physiological cause for this apparent divergence: the two halves, or hemispheres, of the brain.

The right side of the brain is responsible for emotions and intuition, the left for logic and reason. Yet the notion of two brains gives rise to the function of one mind. Perhaps it is this one “undivided mind” that presents a way forward through the monumental cultural changes we now face, enabling us to surf this dynamic moment in history from a platform of balance and symmetry.

This installation endeavors to fuse the aesthetic beauty of art and science in order to create a synthesis of mind, one which is as much rational as it is fantastic. Think of this undivided mind as a prototype of human possibility—an evolutionary signal of convergence, harmony, and accelerated progress. The rest is up to us. “

While I’m not a huge fan of all their work, I do love this simple graphic and the powerful implications behind it.

Love from Lonny

Cobbella, a pattern inspired by the beauty of cobbled streets [ in Italy or otherwise ], is featured in Lonny Magazine’s Eco-Style Gift Guide !

I was so taken by the marbled black, gold + silver Thai paper as well …

urban lust

even though i have a TON to do today, i was stopped dead in my tracks by these gorgeous mixed media drawings by Olalekan Jeyifous. i love the density, the exploration of form and scale and the creamy color palette. from his Urban Growth Strategy series, prints are available in his etsy shop. learn more about the artist at www.vigilism.com.

[ found on  Architizer’s Holiday Gift Guide ]

Oh, Country Living !

Congratulations, Nocturne !

You look good in the spotlight ! To celebrate your spot in the current issue of Country Living, we’re having a Loop Wrap sale – 10% off all our eco-luxe wrapping papers !

coming soon !

new loop is on the wing

visit us on FRIDAY, 03 december
to learn about our new journals and discover our new pattern, Peregrine !

in the meantime, holiday promotions :

Supakitch and Koralie

 

So taken by the making of this mural by two amazing artists. An inspiring way to start the week …

308,160 minutes

 

[ from The Birth Project by  Amanda Greavette, via The Joy Of This ]

308,160 minutes since the arrival of my first child ! how full each moment, how laden. the luster of the ethereal shines through the dust of day-to-day activities, and now, 7 months later, I turn to glimpse a flicker of my life before motherhood only to watch it vanish in shifts of light. I am not a religious person, but creating this new life with my husband is the most spiritual experience I have yet encountered. my consciousness was pushed deep inside my body for 9 complex months, but now with the arrival of my son, it is thrust open into the full space of the day. I am alert to his gurgling sounds, the spreading glow of his smile, the thump of his limbs as he learns to crawl, pull up, turn over, reach out. as he finds his world and makes sense of it, so too am I relearning the contours of my life, my spirit, my goals, my voice. there is no such thing as silence anymore, for my brain is full of train-like thoughts, speeding from the station in many different directions. tumbling with humdrum to-do’s are the larger questions of who I will be as a parent, who my husband will reveal himself to be as a father, and most importantly, how best we can pull and prod Marsden into himself as he grows into his own person.

i wax nostalgic, burst like a blustery wind, ramble like cool water over river stones, grow poetic when I consider the density of time which yet so briskly moves.

stepping into the space

stepping into the black and white world of charlie bidwell today, having been enticed by ok store in LA. i’ve set the entrance screen on my phone to the bottom image, The Nantucket Ferry, so that it feels like I am doing something more soul enhancing than screen staring.

Trend Bible

Oh, being Trendy just tickles ! Loop is delighted to share that we’ve been included in Trend Bible’s Autumn/Winter 2011/12 Kids Lifestyle Trends for the Home!  Poliwog is part of the Polar Expedition set and Eon is part of the Cloud Atlas set.  I’d love to show you pictures, but the Trend Bibles are in limited number and sold directly or via global distribution agents to trade customers only [  £950 each ], so I must keep it a bit hush hush. It’s a happy hush, though !