tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32943713902127176602024-03-04T21:46:39.061-08:00Modern BohemianA blog to discuss the beauty and joy of design (inside and outside), architecture, textiles, re-cycling and re-using and how they relate to our lives.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06502671356101077673noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3294371390212717660.post-79741290818652080082013-04-09T19:27:00.003-07:002013-04-09T19:27:26.264-07:00Chiaroscuro...... black and white fabulous..... .<div class="separator" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">One of my favorite color schemes is Chiaroscuro or shades of black, gray, creme and
white. I am thinking of crisp black and white ticking pillows on a
white linen sofa, faded ink stenciled on old wooden shop signs, faded
black and white toile curtains or even the crisp beauty of a Swedish
seaside cottage stained with that ubiquitous black stain and then
trimmed in crisp white. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I love the way the color scheme
works with old metal, glass wear and wicker. I usually stick to
interiors but couldn't resist this image of a pair of fabulous black and
white stripe palazzo pants and fabulous sandals and gotta love the grey nail polish...... very chic.
If I had another life it would be in a chic black and white house with
no color at all, it obviously won't be this life because I love color
too much, but if there is another go around..... maybe.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Isn't this stunning, love the New Yorker print too.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Love the Scandinavian vibe here, especially the old weathered wood beach chair with the crisp new ticking cover.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This looks to me like a refurbished church or school, love the black and white with the worn wood.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Fabulous vista. I love this glimpse of that black dresser through those fabulous doors and a glimpse of a grey linen pillow in the foreground.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I wish I could do this, and resist putting color in there.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I wish I had styled this, I wish I owned this, I want to see this image every day in my house.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Can't you just imagine the snow piled up outside and curling up here in front of the fire.... and someone teaching me to knit.!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">There is nothing I would change here, love the sleek, modern chair, fabulous ceiling fixture the warm rug and all the different black and white themes.</span></td></tr>
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OK, so hope that this snaps everybody awake ...... gotta love black and white fabulous!!<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06502671356101077673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3294371390212717660.post-49400615410206074312013-03-27T19:22:00.000-07:002013-03-27T19:26:08.195-07:00Spring on Gabriola....<br />
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this is my favorite season of the year... and just as well I love
yellow. As daffodils are one of the few flowers that the deer don't
eat, I have lots and they are naturalizing like crazy. Here are some
images of pots on my deck and my "very natural" garden, mixed in with
some beautiful images from Pinterest including tulips. Tulips are my
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">flower, and just
because the deer won't let me have them in the garden doesn't mean I
don't have them in the house all through February, March and April...</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Christine</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Details of the above basket, a lacy fern, double primrose, tiny narcisus, an alpine tulip and a candlestick primula tucked in the back hiding from the deer.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">T<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">his is a pot on the back deck filled with blue scilla, tiny narcissus and a variegated ivy.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Detail of the above, I have had this beautiful rusted ball for many, many years.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Pretty double primroses, a graceful grass, tucked into the moss in my favorite pot.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Looking across the "lawn" moss, daffodils amongst the native ferns.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This vase comes out in the spring to hold daffodils from the garden and dark blue anemones or hyacinth when I can find them. The color is perfect for the vibrant spring blooms</span>.</td></tr>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06502671356101077673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3294371390212717660.post-87522590293492880792013-03-27T12:09:00.000-07:002013-03-27T12:09:20.521-07:00Riff on the Crate and Barrel ad for spring.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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was a picture of a kitchen, or a part of a kitchen and was lovely in
the classic rustic, French way with polished stone floors, white plaster
wall, freestanding fittings in stainless steel and timber and lovely
rustic beams. Now you can see this image a million times, a million
ways, but what made it pop was the jolt of color in the middle of all
the neutrals. In this case it was an indigo blue painted wooden chair
and a napkin and carafe with just a touch of that same blue. Just a
small amount of color but it made the image pop.... So I went looking
for some more examples of this idea and here is what I found. I hope you
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This fabulous bedroom from another of my favorite
blogs Belgian Pearls belgianpearls.blogspot.ca was what transported me this morning. From the
grey and green of the west coast of British Columbia to "the idea" of
another world somewhere east... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">But then really this room could be anywhere. There are so
many influences here. Quite honestly it was the Suzanni textile used as
a throw on the bed that did it for me at first, but then there is that
tile floor and an actual window over the bed , which makes me think
that it is French for some reason. But then you look at those fabulous
light sconces and the rug on the floor and I want to think it is in
Marrakesh or somewhere exotic and beautiful. But the wallpaper, beams
and and Chinese chest, not to mention that big white radiator make me
think that this is probably the bedroom of some well traveled Brit or Scot. </span><br />
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it is - it is heaven and I want to live in this room.....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So that's done it for me. I am now lost
in a world of beautiful exotic textiles and my plans of creating pillows
with appliqued sail boats is going right out the window ...... I will
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Christine </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I clicked on one my favorite blogs this morning and what did I find
but beauty, inspiration and a antidote for a grey, gloomy west coast
day. My French Country Home at http://myfrenchcountryhome.blogspot.ca is
one of my favorite blogs and Sharon Santoni did not disappoint me
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Christine<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Sometimes I can be drawn into a story by just one image, or sometimes it is even a word. This week is was the word Aalamwaar and the story is Aalamwaar Textiles. I am going to quote from the website here as they can explain their work better than I can.</span><br />
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<span class="aalamwaar">"<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">AALAMWAAR TEXTILES</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> is a social enterprise that specializes
in handmade clothing and home furnishings. Aalamwaar's priority is to
preserve, document, sustain and promote traditional textile-making techniques
in India. By employing grass-roots artisans, Aalamwaar aims to
create livelihood for indigenous craftspeople and their families as well
as to preserve hand-dyeing, hand-block printing, hand weaving and fabric-painting
arts in India. Aalamwaar uses only natural fabrics, which
are carefully sourced from NGOs and small producers throughout
India. Empowering women by teaching them skills is one of our objectives" </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This beautiful word Aalamwaar has it's origins in the indigenous language of south India and has been synonymous with social enerprise in this family for many generations.Viji Reddy and her sister Archita Reddy are carrying the family tradition forward with the creation of Aalamwaar Textiles where their gorgeous textiles and accessories are made. If you go to their beautiful website http://www.aalamwaar.com you can see for yourself what I am talking about. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I found this website through a wonderful blog called An Indian Summer" http://anindiansummer-design.blogspot.ca and all the images shown here are theirs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It seems such an obvious
thing that we support businesses like this where so much is gained by
empowering people to not only use their expertise to support themselves
and their family, but to share with us the riches of their traditions
and their beautiful work. Enjoy and pass along...</span><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06502671356101077673noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3294371390212717660.post-25747469953674863842013-01-17T14:14:00.002-08:002013-01-17T14:14:14.282-08:00Wabi Sabi...... Perfect Imperfection.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A sense of style..... what does that mean?</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">For me the Japanese phrase Wabi Sabi says it all .. "perfect imperfection".</span></b></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">When I think about
stylish and beautiful interiors; and exteriors for that matter I am
always drawn back to images that are softly worn and ever so slighted
dilapidated. I would also use the word "decayed" but unfortunately that word scares some
people. </span></b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Perfect imperfection.... as in everything you need in a kitchen, blending worn materials, function and beauty.</span></b></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span></b></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span></b></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span></b></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">That
feeling I have for things that are as beautiful as they are useful. Think of an
old beach cottage anywhere in the world, with the flaking white shingles
and pale blue painted shutters and trim. Or the softly, almost
incandescent plaster walls of a French or Italian villa where the layers
of chalk paint have worn away to create almost a fresco-ed effect. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">There is a sense of self assurance as well as that enigmatic sense of
style, that comes with effortlessly combining old and new, quirky self
indulgences with reverence for objects that show their age.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A perfect example of
carrying this off is the blurring of the boundaries between inside and
out. I love seeing this done in any room. It is so much more
interesting to see a beautiful old French Canadian kitchen chair warmly
showing it's years of wear used as a bedside table; or a funky, metal
patio table used as a side table next to a chair pulled up to the
fireplace. Who needs all sterile "built in" kitchen cabinets when you
can have a dresser filled with crockery and glassware and a beautiful
old wooden table piled high with all the "encroutement" of daily life (<span style="font-size: xx-small;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">please pardon m<span style="font-size: x-small;">y</span> French if the spelling is not correct). </span></span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Here are two stunning examples of just that confidence and style, pulling it off in spades. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">But
lets face it we do not all live in a converted barn in the south of
France or a seaside cottage on an island in Sweden so we have to
re-create the ambiance for ourselves. So we do what style savvy people
have done through the ages, we take what we can afford and mix it with
what we know to be beautiful, blend it with good practical use and we
will come up with own own version of Wabi Sabi .....</span></b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">There are a minimum of 6 re-purposed objects in this beautiful room not counting the structure itself..... sublime</span></b></td></tr>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">These beautiful images were courtesy of Pinterest....... of which I continue to be an addict.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Christine</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This was the event</span>, <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">and these were some of the creations generated by the event. Once again Mariko and Bryan at Feedlot Studio on Gabriola came up with a wonderful idea and followed through with it, creating a wonderful opportunity for all of us to showcase our wares.</span> <span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The weekend was a great success for all of the artists and artisans as well as a big success for the Nanaimo Art Gallery.</span><br />
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image Mariko used for the ad postcard I created a group of pillows
especially for the show. I was especially smitten with this beautiful,
chiarascuro image so I created a pillow in it's honour. </span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">As it was a winter show I
decided to use some of my vintage woolen blankets and a vintage (very
moth eaten) Hudson Bay woolen coat. I then decided to stay with the
idea of Drift, and create images of things drifting such as the sailboat
drifting through the ice, the hot air balloons drifting in front of the
snow capped mountains, the maple leaves and the French school girls
drifting around underneath their huge umbrellas</span>.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I have never done anything like this before so it was an adventure, but I discovered I loved the creative aspect of it. I had to find the image, draw it onto a piece of cardboard and then cut out the template to trace onto the blanket. Many layers of different stitching in a variety of colours brought the image into relief.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Well that is enough for one year. Happy new year to everyone, and may we all go on to a joyous and creative 2013.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Salute.... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Christine</span>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The pillow case was made from a vintage RCMP blanket and the icebergs and boat were pieces of another beautiful, soft white wool blanket.</span></b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Hot air balloon drifting in front of the snow capped mountains.</span></b> <b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">(still available)</span></b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The basket and balloons were highlighted with coloured beads.</span></b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This is the most beautiful pastel stripe blanket, envelope design with opening at front.</span></b> <b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It is a huge 26" x 26" gorgeous, curl up with a cup of tea pillow.</span></b> <b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">(still available)</span></b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Vintage Hudson Bay coat made into this gorgeous 26" x 26" pillow.</span></b></td></tr>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06502671356101077673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3294371390212717660.post-89154259106732673022012-11-25T23:14:00.007-08:002012-11-25T23:14:53.655-08:00Ooohh dear it is almost Christmas....<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Hello and almost merry christmas to all.... In the interest of full disclosure I am a merry christmas person, not a happy holidays person. By that I mean that I am a big believer in real christmas trees (the recently chopped down ones that is) not pretend ones, beautiful hand made christmas decorations as well as a few cheezy ones that have been either made by the children or given to us by the children over the years.... they are all treasured, even if they don't make it out of the box every year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">My favorite decorations are the "demented teddy", the christmas fruit and veges and the red bicycle. The demented teddy is my particular favorite because it drives my son crazy. I brought it into our christmas when he was about 8 years old, and why not? It is a teddy wearing a red and white nightdress, so cute! My son has called it the demented teddy ever since; I tried to make it the tree topper one year, but that did not go down well, now we use a big red and white bow.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I have really no explanation for the christmas fruit and vegetables, it just seemed so sweet to have a pretty christmas pickle, cherry, apple, pea and corn hanging on the tree. Same goes for the red bicycle, it is red, and it is a bike and it has a string so you can hang it on the christmas tree, what else do you need?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So I guess it is obvious that I like to have a little fun with christmas. I spent so many years getting stressed out by it, trying to do it all perfectly, spending way too much money, trying to get the traditions right, even though they were not really not my traditions. I grew up either sweating through a huge, hot meal in the middle of summer, dieing for it to be over, or at the beach, eating sandy seafood and drinking syrupy soft drink..... this was after opening dozens of snowy scened wrapped christmas presents at 5am in the morning with my little brothers. I look back and can't believe how understanding my parents were, getting up at ridiculous hours of the morning to watch us rip those presents to shreds. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">You can bet I knew what they all were anyway, as I spent the 6 weeks up to christmas carefully searching the house for clues, carefully prying up sticky tape to look inside packages and make sure everything that I had asked for was there. How I found out that santa was not who I thought he was is a pretty ironic story actually. We usually drove the 1000 miles to Queensland in Australia to see my Nanny and Poppy at christmas time, and after the absolutely joyful reunion I was helping my dad unpack the van. I lifted up a blanket I was not supposed to and there was a little girl's dolly cradle, with beautiful hand made blankets, pillows and sheets tucked in all around. The thing was, I recognized the blanket fabric immediately and knew it was for me. Amazingly I kept my mouth shut and said nothing to mum and dad, but sure enough there it was under the christmas tree with my new and much beloved dolly Rhonda tucked in warm and cozy in the 102 degree heat of a Queensland christmas. I couldn't tell you what my brothers ever got for christmas, as I was a typical kid completely absorbed in my own presents.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I know it is almost christmas because I participated this weekend in a wonderful christmas artisanal fair here on Gabriola. It was held in our local senior centre, which was just the right size with lots of light, and a small group of artists and artisans. Seeing as some of these people are heros of mine as they do the most beautiful work and make a living at it on this small island, I was honored to be asked. I am going to include a couple of them in each of my blog posts in the next few weeks, so check them out if you can. I would encourage everyone to check out Tammy Hudgeon's beautiful glass work at www.tammyhudgeon.com and Laura Hanford's stunning silver jewellery (actually it is not jewellery it is silversmithing at it's finest) at www.moonshinesilver.com . I am sorry if silversmithing is not a verb, but you know what I mean.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I am going to include a few beautiful christmas images that I found courtesy of Pinterest and a beautiful Australian blog La Maison Boheme. I would like to think that I would use some of these ideas, and I do plan to..... if I can ever get past my typical red and white Swedish christmas traditions. I just love the whole, evergreen boughs, red and white checked ribbon, wooden apples and lots of candles thing.... but I will try harder this year to do something different..... and keep you posted. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This is sublime, all it needs is a demented teddy in a red and white nighty...</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I am definitely going to create this one</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This is definitely a North American christmas, mine's the red one.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This I would SO do, if I had a gray velvet sofa, yes definitely...</span></td></tr>
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<br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Merry almost christmas....</span> ChristineAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06502671356101077673noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3294371390212717660.post-40408915369269008272012-10-17T20:14:00.002-07:002012-11-08T10:04:18.502-08:00Encore Une Fois<br />
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About two and half years ago my good friend Barb Rutherford and I were sitting around in my back yard wishing and dreaming about having our own "shop" and how wonderful it would be. We envisioned a place to display and sell all the the stuff were accumulating in our houses and storage spaces: old wicker furniture, pictures, buckets, lovely old worn china and most of all textiles. If only it were possible but with her living in Victoria and still working part time and me living on a gulf island. a ferry and 2 hour drive away it just was not going to be.<br />
So we started to figure out how we could do it in a "pop up style". Maybe we could have a sale once or twice a year, bring everything together at her beautiful Arts and Crafts house in Oak Bay, Victoria and invite people to come and shop. It seemed like that would be doable, so we decided to just do it.<br />
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Well Barb went home to Victoria and chatted about this idea to her friends Fran Fettig-Winn and Patti Wells, two very stylish and talented ladies in the world of vintage and upcycled design who thought that this was a great idea and loved the idea of being a part of it. Encore Une Fois was born. Barb came up with this wonderful French interpretation of "once again / one more time" and we jumped right into our first sale for that Christmas. Between the 3 Victorian friends they had a pretty substantial friends/family email list, and our house show was a huge success. Patti has been a vintage and all things beautiful collector for many years and had a garage full of containers filled to the brim with glass ware, silver, paintings and china, small pieces of furniture, jewellery and textiles which she had sold in her beautiful shop in Oak Bay - Manilla Tag in another life.<br />
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Fran is a craftswoman and needleworker of great skill and style who makes tea cosies which are works or art as we well as pillows, aprons and childrens dolls. She is also a collector of vintage ephemeria and had an overflowing crafts/sewing room which was crying out for a bigger outlet.<br />
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So between the four of us and a few wonderful friends we did Barb's house up as a boutique with each room displaying our home made and found wares, it was beautiful...... and a huge success. We have gone on to do another Christmas sale last year, and a spring/summer outdoor sale this past June, each of which has been a great success. We are in the throes of getting our next sale ready for early November and looks to be better than ever with people looking forward to bringing their friends and family to early shop for Christmas or just for themselves. Here are a few pictures to tell the story so far<br />
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So if you would like to join us on November 6th in Oak Bay, Victoria Encore will be presenting it's Winter Sale. If you would like more information you can go to Encore Une Fois Community on Facebook or drop me an email at christine@modernbohemian.ca.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06502671356101077673noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3294371390212717660.post-79486381680711820822012-10-16T20:22:00.002-07:002012-10-16T20:22:52.161-07:00I am calling it the "great room"....<br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">October 16th, and a beautiful Spring day here on Gabriola..</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">After much thought and referring to the wisdom of my style icon Kathryn Ireland, designer, author and all round creator of all things beautiful, I have decided to call our main floor the "great room". </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">After all it is not just a big room, it is the room where everything happens. In the morning we start out the day with coffee, magazines, papers and crossword puzzles and at the end of the day we come together for a glass of wine or gin and tonic and review the day before starting dinner. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">At one of the room is our sitting area which snuggles up around the wood burning stove. This is definitely my favorite area of our house, as it is light and bright and cozy and open all at once. At the other end of the room is the kitchen and dining area, although I have serious problems with the expression dining room, we don't dine, we eat here! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Because there are so many windows in the space and it is south facing there is lots and lots of light; which when you live in the middle of a forest in the northern hemisphere is a good thing. We are actually surrounded by other properties but because there are so many trees and you would never know it. That being said, it is lovely to live in a quiet, secluded neighborhood with the beach and fields with horses and cows just down the road, knowing that our neighbors and friends are not far away for impromptu cocktails and games of street hockey.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">As you can probably see this house is a "timber frame" house made with fir grown and milled right on this island. It sits on a cement slab which has thermal floor heating, and that with the wood stove makes it lovely and warm in the winter and lovely and cool in the summer. We bought the house when it was only a year old, and still sitting in the building site surrounded by blackberries, weeds and wild brambles. The floor hadn't been finished, and I had a picture in my head from an Australian design magazine of a deep, ocean blue which would ground this huge, two story room. Fortunately we did the floor in the middle of a beautiful July summer and could put everything in the house in the front yard including the tub, fridge, stove etc while the very labor intensive, time consuming and stinky process took place. A week later we were able to move everything back in just in time for my mum to visit from Australia. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The woman who built the house had a very spare, chiaroscuro esthetic which I admired a lot, but I just cannot resist colour for very long, especially red. Eventually the whole look came together, calm white walls, dark blue/black floor with a motley blend of comfortable furniture, artwork, salvaged treasures and my beloved blue and white collection of pottery and china. The red antique dresser filled with our everyday china was from a farm in Saskatchewan by way of Fort Langley.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The side table beside the white, slip covered (with painters drop cloth) sofa is a vintage Singer sewing machine base with my husband's teenage skim board screwed to the top. It just is one of those things that you carry around for years, because it is so pretty and he made it himself, and all of a sudden you think of the perfect way to use it.</span><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06502671356101077673noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3294371390212717660.post-88711176895281540072012-09-30T17:06:00.001-07:002012-12-27T11:39:25.344-08:00Beaufiful Autumn days on Gabriola and the art of rubbish pit exploring.....<br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>Learning curve announcement</b>, "must include pictures of what I am talking about" when doing a blog post. Also must re-assure everybody that the pillows you see here <u><b>are for sale. </b></u> If you go to ETSY and go to Modern Bohemian Design you will find my shop where you can buy most of what you see. Sorry about that, and many thanks to my dear friends for pointing out that the omission. Note to self, double check next time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It was great to get such lovely feedback from all of you, thanks so much, and if you would like to share some pillows stories of you own, I would love to hear from you. Here is a couple of pictures from the "great/big" room where we spend so much time. The photo to the right I did in my last post, I will do some more next time, for now I want to share some outside photos I took last week. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This past Wednesday was a beautiful
early autumn day (my Australian roots are showing - it is still autumn
to me; which brings me to the beauty of some words. Autumn is definitely
one of the most beautiful and evocative words I can think. Pillow, chiaroscuro, the
word "<b>bella</b>" spoken with gusto and joy, and the word <b>joy</b>
itself.... so many words are just a "joy" to use). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Anyway while taking
some pictures of newly completed pillows , I decided to be a stylist for
the morning. So I actually ran around setting up a photo shoot on the
deck, which led to taking photos of all kinds of things out there. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I am including some for you to share and get ideas from. </span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This beautiful little summerhouse you see below is where I do my sewing and is just steps away across the deck from the house. I am very lucky to have a creative and handy husband and my summerhouse/studio is just the latest of many beautiful buildings and rooms we have created together over the years. The windows are rec-cycled from a neighbor's renovation, the beautiful old door was on the property when we moved here and the beautifully aged ceder we salvaged from a fence from a previous house. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> The fence between the house and the summerhouse is made of pieces of painted driftwood and decorated with all kids of beautiful rubbish.</span><br />
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my dad. The apple has not fallen far from the tree as far as I am
concerned, as the only person I know who loved a junk pile more than me
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I grew up in a small, rural community in southern Victoria in Australia where some of the properties were very old and the way people disposed of their rubbish was to throw it in the "pit", which was a big hole in a back corner of the house yard. So you can imagine the treasures thrown into these pits over the last hundred and fifty years. Broken china, beautiful old bottles in colors of blue and mauve and wavy shades of white, rusted iron work and gorgeous old tiles.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">On returning home for a visit the first thing I would do after having that blessed hot shower (after 24 hours of traveling), would be to go outside to Dad's shed. He,like all Aussi boys had a great shed, with all manner of interesting junk and treasures piled up and stowed away in old drawers. Just watch out for the spiders! And I mean spiders, big, brown huntsman spiders which "won't hurt you, they just eat the flies" and beautiful, but lethal little treasures like the red back spider. Too bad about that, because that red cross on the black body background could be fabulous. Anyway I digress. There at the end of the bench was a big box with all the things Dad had dug up for me to take back to Canada.<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span></span><br />
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went old tiles, fragments of beautiful old ornaments, glass bottles,
pieces of broken china in blue and white and one lucky year lavender, a
tiny child's tea set, pieces of rusted iron and some beautiful old pieces of cutlery.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This lovely piece of old cast iron and the candle holder on the driftwood bench below are both from my dad's pit.</span><br />
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Hope you find some inspiration in here, whether it be to make a pillow, go for a fossick on the beach or dig around in your own favourite junk store or "pit", Who knows what treasures or plastic super heros are out there waiting for you.<br />
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It means going back to that question I asked myself 2 years ago "what do you want to do?'<br />
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For the first time in my life I was actually able to answer that question with certainty, I want to make pillows, beautiful, soft and fluffy pillows. I want to make those pillows from re-cycled (or up-cycled) fabric, and I want them to be filled with brand new down/feather inserts, so when people pick them up they don't want to put them down. In fact my favourite thing to hear at a market is "can I just curl up on your display ... please".<br />
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Over the next few weeks and months I am going to explore the world of pillows, sharing photographs of some of my own and finding some beautiful images to share......<br />
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