my desks

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Thanks Laura for the tag! I tag Aimee, Mieke + Veronik, Brita and Jenny.

1-2) desk at work.
3) desk at home. new studio area is almost ready to work and play in. I'm still in transition and everything is in boxes.
4) old desk with stuff——this was shot prior to paint and insulation.

Fancy Suitings and Trouserings

Always a Step Ahead!

An amazing ledger/archive from a salesperson selling goods from Continental Tailors——Chicago. Found but not purchased at a local secondhandshop.

company

I had overnight at my sister's house last week while her beau was out of town. Here's a glimpse into her incredible world.

boxes and their labels

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text and image

I find these word/image pairings particularly sweet and amusing——imagine this language in contemporary reference materials...
From the Book of Knowledge (1941).

a bit extravagant!

The carpet will run up the stairs to my soon-to-be-ready upstairs. ohlalaaaa!
From Dash & Albert.

dioramas

All taken from the University of Michigan Exhibit Museum of Natural History. !!!!!!!! Oh, and you must check out this amazing flicker site!

-5° F today

Outside today: Our cold but covered park.




Inside today: looking at these playrooms!







Playrooms from Childrens Space's, Molly and Norman McGrath, 1978.

new space soooon!

Finally after six years of slow slow work, the unfinished part of my upstairs is going to have insulation and heat and walls and electricity! Thanks DAD and Big Jay and Tim for all your help! Over winterbreak i'll paint and settle in. I'd like to have wallpaper in the stairwell and these are my picks for today: this one, and this one, and this one. And while we're at it: this for my kitchen, and this one just makes me crazzzzy!

inside scarry—

I just reclaimed my old beloved Richard Scarry's Best Counting Book Ever. Sandwiched between the 70 Seventy spread was a translucent Radio Shack bag with some funny contents: a stack of dried pansies and this drawing of Lowly the Worm—my favorite Richard Scarry character. Mister Scarry kept my imagination busy for a huge chunk of my childhood. Come to find out his wife had the same name as my mother—Patricia Murphy.

creative education

Great signs at the MN Fair Grounds--plus the activity pack that I worked on earlier this year filled with Sculpture related games and activities.

Garden Pack photo taken by Gene Pittman.

Sent Sept. 18, 1943

Pickle Barrell House

I love pickles and I'd love to live in this 16 foot Pickle Barrell! The structure has recently been restored and is now on the National Register of Historic Places. William Donahey—a cartoonist—had the cottage built for his wife to inspire their creative endeavors––it's now a museum.

Make sure to read more about William Donahey's summer cottage and his Teenie Weenies.