LA BELLE BALEINE: TEXTILES & COLOURS

weave work by Erin M. Riley via Gretchen Jones

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A break in the groove, about a year long. What have I been doing with my time? Not this.

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"I made this crib note during my freshman year of high school in order to cheat on a Biology exam."

v. This Long Century

Amanda Ross-Ho

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Totokaelo

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{Arielle De Pinto}

{Ambit}

{Light Vision}

{v. Miriam B. Maguire}

{Scissor Sisters}

2/7/11

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I mentioned yesterday in a regular post that I am a huge geology geek.

Last spring when I was pregnant took a geology lab course in rock &

mineral identification. Even when I was 8 months and ready to explode

I still went in every Wednesday and sat in front of a nice tray of things

like pyrite. Man, I love pyrite. Anyway, the post yesterday reminded me

of it and I started looking for things made of the fools gold. Which made

me start looking for things made of sequins. And so on... I feel like I had

to share, in case you thought this was inspired by a certain football team.

True Glit Treasury

2/4/11

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interstellar saloon

sri threads

2/1/11

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Because winter can suck the life out of your soul, sometimes it's all you can do to keep from smothering yourself with your pillow while you're trying to stay in bed all day (by the way, to all of you who can still, sometimes, stay in bed all day --- EAT ME), I've been constantly looking for some way to cheer me up and feel like I'm getting something done. Even if it's accomplishing tiny, unimportant tasks.

This here blog is something I like to look at and imagine I came up with it myself, as a quiet and simple way to unwind and feel like my proverbial "artist pen" is still wet with it's proverbial "creative ink."

She may have created Color Collective "as a designer's resource for color," but I like to go here to unwind a little and enjoy the view. Lauren Willhite is just so good at pairing nice photos with their palettes.

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color collective

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via ancient industries

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Farmer in the Dellow.

Treasury for a Blue day.

I just love this stuff, and the color. Please check out these shops,

because this definitely isn't all the Wonderful they have to offer.

spiro creations / artquirk / the light fantastic / A to Z / up in the air somewhere / natural selection

/ dull diamond / cottage farm / solstice home / stavri / purple deer vintage / amanda kindregan /

seesaw vintage / placed / jdensing / etaletc /

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i want one. yes, please.

mother's atelier

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fieldguided

Urban Legand

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unknown source

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v. Nothing is New

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Thwarted by Anthropologie again. This pretty little thing isn't available anymore, but I'm going to go ahead and guess it was...$160? $200? What do you think?

v. Miss Moss

Solsticehome

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typical weave, atypical place.

source, where you can learn this and others.

1/18/11

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Wallpaper (samples above) is one of those things you try not to think about if you rent apartments. It's really tempting, though absurdly impractical for people like me to wallpaper anything.

It's also one of those things that smells of financial stability. I'm not sure why that is. Perhaps it goes hand-in-hand with the notion of standing still - not running from place to place. Or, you know, involving yourself with landlords and security deposits.

Still, I've started a Someday Collection that might actually get used when we settle down. Someday.

Here is some more wall paper I will never afford.

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