Banquet Journal

capote

  Found this picture of Truman Capote in Florida in an old sketchbook...  

in the office

Jow's show opened last night at the See Line Gallery in Santa Monica - witty drawings, and I love how they hung the show to accommodate the slightly off kilter proportions of the space.

apartment therapy

Many thanks to apartment therapy and this recent post. The poster is now almost sold out! And while I have two new designs in the works, because of the impending arrival of baby number two, it is...

fashion on the brain

Found this image in a folder hidden in the darkness of my hard drive. From Alexander McQueen AW 2008. Imagine the sound it would make, twinkling around your ears.

rodarte

Beautiful piece in the nytimes today by Susan Morgan, on the Rodarte sisters. A few of their past and present inspirations include: - the “Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death,” Frances Lee Gless...

julie morstad

I've posted Mike Swaney's work before, most recently here on open cool. His show opens thursday at Atelier Gallery, along with new work from the lovely and talented Julie Morstad. These days I esp...

savary

A Viking ship found on a walk in the woods, and two of the many bird's nests hidden in the ivy on the house...

more quilt love

An abandoned quilt i'm revisiting - it seems i can only wrap my head around things in stops-and-starts these days... Eventually, it would be lovely to make something like this with some found quil...

evelyn lambart

For birthdays when i was small, my dad would borrow NFB films from the library and project them onto a sheet hung in the basement, or between two trees in the backyard. I think of them often, espe...

milk maids and grace kelly

Carine Roitfeld and I are once again on the same wavelength. I thought I was the only one channeling milk maid meets Normandy nun meets Grace Kelly for autumn. I love the silhouettes, and that l...