SWEET LIPS

felt brooch from I Work Artwork

I XOXO THIS.

MAKES ME SMILE.

LIGHT READING

On a recent trip to Waynesville, NC, I spent an hour catching up with shop owner, Etsy seller, and antique collector Kristi Siplon. She treated me to delicious coffee at her little cottage and then we drove over to The Laughing Lamb, her mostly antique shop located in the historic Frog Level section of Waynesville. No sooner had I walked through the door, she showed me the Invisible Bookshelf.

This is way cool! So cool, in fact, that during last week's big spring garden festival, shoppers who came to the festival to enjoy plants and flowers, walked past Kristi's beautiful array of garden-themed antiques and pretty floral china, and went straight for the Invisible Bookshelf.

Each $22 shelf can hold up to 20 pounds of books. The bottom slides into a book and holds it horizontal, and then the back is mounted to the wall. Kristi wants to hang this beside her bed, and stack it with current reads.

A few more shots from the Laughing Lamb........

          

 

 The Laughing Lamb, 24 Commerce St, Waynesville, NC, 28786 828-550-3136

I XOXO The Selby

I go on The Selby and I don't want to leave. It's 10 PM and I'm not ever thinking about my nightly ice cream. Todd Selby's work is that engrossing.

from here

Todd Selby shoots interesting people in their real living and working environments. With a critical eye out for the super-fabulous as well as for the un-grand details -- the details many people (not my friends!) will ignore -- he tells the story.  

 

 

Burnt toast gets as much on camera time as a chic interior.

His documentation of raw unrehearsed moments plus his informal handwritten Q&A's fill me with a great desire to follow my own intuition. I am glad I found Todd Selby while clicking away one night. I hope to meet him in person too.

Fashionably Armed

It all started with this cute crochet octopus from the thrift shop.

 I xoxo its springy tentacles and the relaxed way they just droop over anything. Lately, I seem to be seeing more and more octopi, but I'm editing my list down to 8 -- one per tentacle.

CAB FAYRE's laser cut brooch, $8

Octopus Woman by Minimonos on Etsy, $55

Write in Cafe Press's journal with 1 hand or 8, $11

Devout Dolls 7" wired tentacle OctiPirate, $28

Nauti & Co.'s unisex Octi-T, $35

Goes great with white bikini, $18.95

"Paul", in silver or white, from Made Goods, sits well atop books

wrapping up with Thomas Paul's octopus shawl/pareo, $60