new and old

Our Brussels sprouts have sprouted.

And I scored a strange old chair from the sidewalk. Short back!

pet library chairs

Link: Makezine

sound sculpture

Matthew Plummer Fernandez has made a chair sculpture based on sound.



Thanks to information aesthetics.

how to make a table

I really want to make a table like this. I've been wanting to make furniture for so many years now.

I feel a little lame saying it again, but here I go -- I just don't have enough time these days to be creative. It's sad. Maybe I'll hole up in winter break and make furniture and knit legwarmers???

best furniture at the crawl

Sanguinetti A! and I went to the St. Paul Art Crawl last night. We came across this gem of an ottoman in Kevan Wellington's studio. He found it in the Mississippi River and it took three people and a pulley system to hoist it up to his fifth floor living space. It was dusted with a delightful blue that didn't come out well in the photo. Those are Sanguinetti A!'s great socks in the background.

paint

Today I painted one kitchen chair "sun" yellow and my steamer trunk "apple-a-day" red.

Laurie's been wanting one chair in the house that is yellow. Whoever feels sad can sit in the yellow chair, she says.

The steamer trunk is big and old. My mother bought it for me as a kid for a toy chest. Now it's so red, so so so red, I can hardly stand myself. I'll stock it with art supplies after we move this Friday.