margo things

brrr

2011-02-06T23:44:00.002-06:00

Soo...the groomer calls & says your pooch is all matted underneath & has to have a "close cut"... & he's going to be very cold. Here was my answer to that...

Not a bad look! I just took an old sweater that I had already felted... cut it to fit, & sewed it together under the neck & belly.

just some pinking shears, some yarn & a big darning needle, & voila.

and I added a bone for a little color on the back...

& to put it on, i just pull it over his newly trim head, & wiggle his front legs through the front opening.

i'm pretty pleased with the results, & mister bean is cozy!

CleverGirlies

2009-09-21T22:36:00.012-05:00

oh my GOODness. i have been absent & remiss, & in that time, several of the lovely women from the wonderful Julie Arkell summer course at Briancon have or have started their own blogs!

i am drooling.
i had to share, immediately.

danielle the wonderful.....(& her frightfully creative daughter)

miz jone herself, who sips chai in Santa Fe & is very good about keeping in touch...

gentle joanna
and her lovely family...

the ever clever taylor who so generously shares color....

rebekka who's photographs make me happier than i can even begin to express....

sam who inspires us all, and set up the blog that we all share, Pantry Violets!

Homemade Circus

2009-07-27T23:05:00.008-05:00

Anyone heading to the Rosen Show in Philadephia this weekend?
Well if you are, then you are in LUCK, because my great friend Tammy is having her debut show there. If not, well, there are other ways to collect her amazing sculptures, wall pieces & general fabulousness. Try her Etsy Shop, Homemade Circus.

ok, i'm back.

2009-07-22T21:18:00.004-05:00

Hello...
Now that I have more blogging friends, I obviously have to step up & actually POST. SO! I promise to. Here are some images from our walk tonight...balmy, nice, a slight breeze, and....Cooper's first puddle!!! (ok, mom was really excited by the fabric on the sofa left on the curb. But I was vetoed.)

Have a lovely evening, all!

perfect thing for a sunday afternoon

2009-02-24T22:09:00.013-06:00

i have a favorite antique-y spot in KC, naturally. It's 4 floors of cramped & creaky stalls in a fabulously shabby old furniture factory. and it's just 2 blocks from the fabulous farmers market, previously mentioned. sunday afternoon we decided to go poke around...as it was a perfect day for it & we needed a family outing.

lookit this! it was a set of hats & a uniform shirt for a long disbanded TWA baseball team. Very fabulous,...love that someone saved it.

plastic everywhere, from plain to multi colored. stacks & stacks.

a floor patch..

who wouldn't want these?!

bright & fun

clean & sophisticated..

something for everyone.

these are what we took home.....

one more great little vignette...

and Cooper even found something he liked!

Not hard to do at the Riverfront Antique Mall. Ask for Donnie, his booth is the best. And if he's not at Round Top, Walnut or Brimfield, he'll help you find just what you are looking for.

New York is a GIFT

2009-02-02T23:08:00.010-06:00

January....Gift Show time.
And I dropped and broke my camera on the way out the door. Drat & double drat.
These are pics, then, from my ancient creaky contract-is-up cell phone.
The snow is white, the streets are clean...for just a moment. I love that moment.
More beautiful fabric from Legacy Designs...hand screened on miles of linen.
Metal 1/2 globe lamp...available soon...
A cascade of simple silky butterflies that just caught my eye...perhaps promise of spring?
Mary Emmerling & Jennifer Kopf...not so ready for spring. But the hats are quite worthy.
And finally, I love this sentiment. A decent reminder lest we forget.

The show was great, full of creative people, not so full of buyers. May we all hold on & stick together through these trying times... and keep inspiring each other.

You ALL inspire me. You know who you are.

i promise

2009-01-05T23:05:00.009-06:00

So i'm behind on my new year's resolution.
Isn't that just like me. I'm behind on my christmas cards & thank you notes too.
But look! here I am, blogging. and that's rezzo #1.
I promise.
I started a list today at work...blog ideas.
There is no shortage. I just have to go on down the list! Easy.

First...before any of that, I have to stop. Breathe.
..and remember a beautiful friend, Rozelle Lentjes.
A ray of pure sunlight, who left us just a few days ago, on January first.
She made it through the holidays with her dear & precious family gathered with her, after a year of bravely battling wicked unfair cancer.
I will be forever grateful for her generous spirit, her creativity, her unwavering faith.
My dear friend Jane dedicated her blog on Country Living to Rozelle, and you can read it here,
IN MEMORY OF ROZELLE.
I cannot say it any better.

Last year Rozelle's beautiful pillows were in the windows of ABC Carpet & Home.
This December it was this angel.

Fitting.

Cherish every moment.
Promise to try.

close to you

2008-11-13T23:03:00.012-06:00

How crazy is it that two girls from opposite continents should meet, become dearest friends, and in the span of 15 years...marry, visit, love, lose, laugh, cry, unmarry, cherish, create, fall, pick up, live in England, live in California, really love,....then both end up....crazy as it may seem, in KANSAS CITY...with little boys just 6 weeks apart? 4 blocks apart?

The English one is the amazingly talented Sarah Lugg. Here on Artslice, is a lovely blog article about her talents. She is modest and amazing and so much more, all wrapped into wonderful. I can't believe I can call her & be in the same time zone, let alone walk over to her HOUSE with my BOY. lucky me.

Vicky is smiling down indeed.

11:11

2008-11-11T19:55:00.011-06:00

So really, the goal of this blog, and what lights me up the most...is to be able to share the work of creative people. I am continually inspired by the talent around me, every day. It's in all of us, you know.

Here, I have a place to share with you posts, people & places that are in my opinion, noteworthy.

Right now in Atlanta GA it's 11:11. and today, is 11/11. So I find it only fitting & perfect to start off the creative parade with one who lives & breathes it every day. To live in & around your work and still love it and know it informs your very being & your livelihood...that's a rare thing.

This is a rare man. A talented photographer who puts his soul on the shutter button. Paul Hultberg. I am lucky to know him.

People who create..in any way, share bits of themselves with the rest of us. I love that. The vulnerability of putting yourself out there is actually giving a gift, a snapshot of who you really are.

Inside.

And here, after an hour of figuring out how to write computer code to get this all to input correctly...it is now 11:11 Central time. Go figure.

And create, while you're at it.

bountiful

2008-10-06T22:03:00.004-05:00

   Cooper and Daisy
   Mummbly
   More mirrors?
One of my weekend necessities her in KC is a trip to the River Market. www.thecitymarket.orgFor us that includes picks from bountiful midwestern farms,..(earlier this summer I was a blackberry-a-holic) breakfast at Succotash, and a veture into the many creaky & deal-filled floors of the River Market Antique Mall.www.rivermarketantiquemall.comThe coors saturday were rich & vibrant, ..turning towards fall. Cooper got a chance to play with a dairy calf, & I came home with the tiniest of fingerling potatoes, sweetest sungold tomatoes, and two garnet colored mums to add to the pumpkins on the porch.
   The weekend wasn't long enough.

far & dear

2008-10-01T22:53:00.000-05:00

Facebook. An element of our times. Can I just say though, how golden it is to find myself chatting away with one of my dearest friends from my days at Cheley Colorado Camps...Thanks, technology. And Trigger Bill.

So, in July our little family moved to KC, Mo...right about at the M on the green map here. I work for Hallmark, officially "Director of Retail Gift". Unofficially, I get to work with several floors of highly creative & graciously dedicated people. As this blog unfolds, I'll speak more about why I do what I do.

For now, I'll leave you with a few shots of where the pumpkins landed, perhaps you'd wondered.

And remember how GOOD it feels to talk to those who mean so much, and how delicious it is when time melts away....

Mills Lake, CO...late 70's

Orange you glad

2008-10-01T00:28:00.000-05:00

Sunday we went to the pumpkin patch...40 acres of lumpy funky gourds & pumpkins smack in the middle of the Midwest. Makes a California girl feel good when she can pile 3 wheelbarrows full of mostly NOT orange pumpkins on her front porch. Cooper loved it. And the cider slushes & home made donuts were...irresistible.