Janelle Lile's Gorgeous Fall Leaves

Janelle's water color work is just the best...the BEST! I've been a big fan for a while now of her beautiful mix of delicate watercolors contrasted with bits of linear graphs and scientific notation. This new series of fall leaves though, wow, I love them the best of all.

[images by/belong to Janelle Lile via her Flickr photostream]

Originals and prints of these beautiful leaves [and more!] available in Janelle's shop...someone give these leaves a good home please? I wish it could be me... [damn the conservative budget I've got myself operating under!]

Heather Jansch

Driftwood sculptures with the most amazing sense of life and animation by Heather Jansch...

[images by/belong to Heather Jansch via her web site]

Found via Handmade Charlotte

Green & White [Friday Flickr Photo Collage]

Happy, happy weekend everyone!

[images by/belong to, left to right, top to bottom: 1) coco + kelly, 2) gretchenmist, 3) SteffenTuck, 4) decorology, 5) dana.barbieri, 6) display lady ]

A thing of beauty...

This is one of those images that I just fall into as soon as I lay eyes on it causing me to drift about mentally, quietly becalmed and strangely happy.

[Image by/belongs to Mlephotos via her flickr photostream]

Do visit Meghan's 'crystal ball' set of photos on Flickr...so magical.

Juri Morioka

Juri Morioka's abstracted landscapes are right up my alley ---colorful, layered and so nicely non-literal without being totally obscure.

[images by/belong to Juri Morioka via her web site]

Kvadrat Clouds

So many clever possibilities inherent in Kvadrat's Clouds! This connecting fabric tile system was designed in collaboration with Rowan & Erwan Bouroullec; they've pulled off such a great combination of what feels like an art installation that has wandered into the context of a comfy modern home...

[Images via Kavdrat's web site]

Simply Hue Feature

Vicki Dvorak has a great blog called Simply Hue, a really lovely place for inspiration and thoughtfulness. Recently she's done some really great 'spotlight' features on photographers and designers and now she is featuring a series of artists....lucky me, I'm one of them!


If you are interested in taking a peak at the little feature on my work go here... Happy Wednesday!

Janet Wasek

Fair warning! Long visual post!

Absolutely stunning photography from Janet Wasek. The most beautiful colors, compositions and context.

Janet is a very prolific artist as well --- and this makes me very happy --- knowing that there is a deep well of her images to draw inspiration from is akin to falling in love with a new author and being delighted to find that they have written many books full of worlds to escape into...magical.

I'd love to know which of her images is your favorite --- mine is 'brown things' --- the first image below...

[all images by/belong to Janet Wasek, via her Flickr Photostream]

Of course you MUST visit Janet's Flickr photostream and browse through those wonderful, seemingly endless sets of magic...

Elizabeth & Lowell...

...we miss you. Come home soon, the chickies need you!

[image belongs to Elizabeth]

Home is where the heart is

This collage tugs pretty hard at my heart because of it's exuberant yet knowing, 'I'm-looking-back-at-my-childhood' lens through which it seems to have been created.

[image by/belongs to Mary Virginia Carmack, via her Flickr photostream]

This is a piece by Mary Virginia Carmack, take a look at her other paper collages here.