Wednesday
Aug272008
silos and watertowers
Wednesday, August 27, 2008 at 2:58PM Art is something, for me, that is very personal. It conjures up different things in different people. I never can predict how it is going to hit me. This is what happened this morning. Perusing the always lovely Design Sponge, I was particularly drawn to a post dedicated to the work of Susan Dwyre of Up in the Air Somewhere. In that post her beautiful dishes and pitchers are the the big highlight. Based on those images I had to see more. Looking through her site...bam! it hit me! I stumbled upon her interpretation of silos and watertowers. I was immediately transported back to my midwest routes and long drives through the prairie. The occasional watertower or silo were the only things that seemed to break up the endless skyline. Seeing them now I feel peaceful and all kinds of nostalgic.
I remember a few years back I was talking to my mom about fantastic mountains and stunning, vast oceans, complaining about the lack of scenery surrounding us and my mom said to me..." It makes me sad that you never learned to love the prairie." Well guess what ma? I think I just did. xoxo


mmm...and go figure this gal is based in the lovely midwest.
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Aug222008
Le Papier Studio
Friday, August 22, 2008 at 2:40PM B's birthday comes around and I get a little note from Ms. Vana. She wants my address so she can send him "a little something." I happily obliged....it arrives and I soon see that the "little something" is not at all little. It is big! Big with sweetness, thoughtfulness, sentiment.
I have been obsessed with the sweet silhouettes created by Le Papier Studio since happily stumbling into sweet Vana's blog a few months back. Once again, I was pleasantly surprised by how quickly I clicked with this fellow momma of a 3-year-old little boy. Her blog became one of those I faithfully visited and looked forward to. I loved getting to know her and her sweet little family. An added bonus was the fact that she had a gift of creating some of the most beautiful stationary and prints I had ever seen. You really should peruse her shop and take in the sweetness.
That Vana, she sent me stationary with B's perfect profile and some special stationary just for me! Why? Because I think she likes me too. Thank you Vana for being a lovely blog friend, and for the most thoughtful of "little somethings."






Lucky B and me:
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