Deco Station

Cincinnati has the most amazing train station.
It looks immaculately maintained yet untouched.

fibers

Crochet Squares

Sack of Potatoes Turban by Raymond Hudd

Airstream love

just found out about a vacation spot out west. it’s an airstream trailer park.
genius!

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here is this classic design put to another great use.

This is the rooftop of the Chicago co-working space.

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film star

in 1920’s Shanghai.
I love to get inspiration from vintage images like this.

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barbapapa

rediscovered. they are all over youtube.

fortune cookie ornament

been working on turning my little fortune cookie prototype into a christmas ornament. at first i was thinking of leaving the white wool as-is, but it reminds me too much of a communion wafer. so i tried dying the wool by simmering it in tea, which turned it whole-wheat brown.

perfect for any healthy felted food that i may want to make in the future, but definitely not fortune cookie-color. turns out digible designs knows about natural dying and suggested Chrysanthemum for yellow. i love those flowers because they fit into my whole asian aesthetic. the funny thing is i met a chinese lady who told me that she doesn’t really like to have them around because she thinks of them as being associated with death. just like lilys for americans. i hate that smell.

fortune cookie

i have been admiring the fortune cookies on etsy, ceramic, felted, sewn.
so i decided to try one. grabbed some wool felt from the fabric store,
stitched it up, and threw a little stuffing in.

supplies

got a new supply in the mail today from Contenti. it’s called Renaissance Wax,
and it is used to coat and protect different things, metal finishes being one.
the packaging is so old school.

and i love the wording on the lid.