Showing posts with the label collecting

A Collection a Day Book Summer Blog Tour + Giveaway!

Lisa Congdon's book, A Collection a Day launched this spring and as I mentioned last week in a post, publisher UPPERCASE is holding a mini summer blog tour for the book.  The book which I wrot…

Collecting Collections

Contributor post by Lisa Congdon I'm back this month with an up close look at some of my kitchen collectables. As I mention in my book, A Collection a Day , my favorite collection is probably my…

A Collection A Day Blog Tour

Cafe Cartolina Lisa Congdon's book, A Collection a Day launched this spring and for fun this summer, publisher UPPERCASE is holding a mini blog tour for the book.  It's launching today ove…

Rock Collecting

Loving Cori Kindred's brand new *rock collections* mixed media art that just went on sale Monday in her shop:  http://corikindred.etsy.com .   Cori played off of vintage rock collections by usin…

A Collection a Day Book Launch & Exhibit

Today (Friday, March 18th/11) is the reception for Lisa Congdon's book, A Collection a Day . It will be held at The Curiosity Shoppe in San Francisco, from 6-9pm. See the exhibition (many of th…

Collecting: Class Pictures

Love this collection of vintage class pictures that the folks over at Love It Alot recently hung in the stairwell of their home. Not only a great display but I'm drawn to the different shades of…

Weekend Project: Collecting

Apartment Therapy I love this collection of drawers don't you? (You can read more about them here ). They're inspiring me to collect some drawers of my own. I'm not sure how easy that …

Weekend Summer Project (cont'd): Collecting Nature

Earlier this summer I created a new flickr pool called "Collecting Nature" where I asked readers to join me in uploading all our summer nature collections with the promise that we would m…

Guest Post: Vintage Collections from Hindsvik

Vintage Newspaper Office Signage Hi there! We're Daniel and Valeria from Hindsvik - a shop stocking vintage home decor and furniture online. Since we come across vintage items on a weekly basi…

Top 10

I'm amazed at this collection of ocean pottery uploaded to our Collecting Nature pool this week by Marta Miguel Martinez-Soria . Found treasures. Here is a list of the 10 most read posts this…

Collecting Nature

Cori Kindred If you missed our post over the weekend we're collecting nature over the weekends this summer with hopes of making things from our finds come fall and sharing them here in the blog. …

The Art of the Display: Reinvented Curiosities

Speaking of PATCH NYC (see post below), one of PATCH's designers, Don Carney's illustrations was included in an exhibition this past winter at Le Bon Marche in Paris which was curated by Be…

This Week from Lisa Congdon: Getting Motivated for Creativity in 2010

I am one of those people who always has to have some sort of creative project. For the most part, my creative projects are built into the way I make my living: preparing for art shows, collaborating …

Inspiration: Collecting {friday}

kershlock I missed posting my final write up on collecting this week, so here it is. I decided to go with all the colourful ones and thank all of you who participated by uploading to our Collectors …

Inspiration: Collecting {Thursday}

Cori Kindred Thursday's edition of our "collecting series" this week. We've had some beautiful entries and look forward to posting the grande finale tomorrow. Thank you to everyon…
Subscribe Our Newsletter