So Sylvie

New Vows & Devotion

I vow to transcribe and photogenically share some of my interior design jobs in this new year. I know I have been the lazy blogger. I thank you kindly dear readers for visiting from time to time and through the years. I will devote myself to YOU -- well some of the time, heh. More than this past year let's say.

Memories - by Elsa Mora

Expecting - by Elsa Mora

I started off 2009 with a post about Three Graces Gallery that included the work of Elsa Mora, a multi-talented artist from Cuba. She is among other things a fantastical illustrator. Prints of her work above can be found in her Etsy shop.

Her papercuts are otherworldly -- nightmarish and delicate all at once. If Hieronymus Bosch had tried his hand at papercuts this is a glimpse of what might have resulted:

 

 

AND she does these amazing porcelains!!

AND these!!

 

AND this!! - just over two inches:

 

AND beautiful things available at her new online store:

Read more about  Mora here.

 

"See" you all in the new year! Cheers!!

Mid Century Mod X-Mas

Browsing around the web I found lots of fun mod Christmas designs. On the San Francisco Craig's List I found these two shimmery aluminum trees. They're the kind that come with a revolving multi-colored floor light:

Pom Pom detail of second tree:

 

Here's a mid century modern gingerbread house, originally offered at Williams-Sonoma, but might not be too difficult to replicate:

 

If you're not into winging it you could get free plans to make this one from Hometta:

 

A modern take on vintage bottle brush miniature trees (7"-11" tall, Garnet Hill):

 

Speaking of bottle brush, this 58" tree by Kuno Prey for Unica Home, is made from real household brushes:

 

Here are some sweet miniature chairs made into ornaments, from  Shag Mid Century Modern:

 

I love these hand-embroidered felt ornaments by Angie Davis of Byrd & Belle:

And lastly...some of you may know Nashville's Eartha Kitsch from Flickr (you should if you don't). Well she won the holiday decorating contest over at No Pattern Required with her Aluminum tree, complete with colored light wheel:

For more Christmas goodness check out Eartha's Etsy. Cheers!

Seeing Red.....and Pink, and Salmon

We are lucky to live near Cabrillo College. Especially for their Horticulture Department. For the Fall semester the students have grown some amazing varieties of Poinsettias.
Marcel and I paid a visit:

 

 

I could go on and on with many more photos. The lighting in here is incredible. In fact the air and the lighting make me want to live in a greenhouse. So rejuvenating. Mind you, I realize that Marcel looks forlorn in the photos, but in reality this is his calm, zen plant face. He's really in heaven.

I want to give a shout out to Ernie, Dylan and Andrew of the gardens. "Bonjour and good cheer!"