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September 10, 2009
Thursday photo assignment: Cube
Hello photographers! Thanks for sending in all your "cube" photos this week. Next week's theme is: "window". You'll have to let me know if I start repeating themes- I'm pretty sure we haven't done this one yet though....
September 09, 2009
Garlands & Weddings
I'm sure this project is already making the rounds on all my favorite blogs, but I wanted to share this DIY garland idea from Anna Bond at RIFLE (one of my current daily reads) for the wedding website Once Wed. I'm a sucker for tissue paper flowers, and love how she incorporated leaves made out of sturdy green paper to turn them into streaming garlands. This Saturday we are headed to our friends Jen & Josh's wedding, which is sure to be a gorgeous DIY bonanza. Jen has been working non-stop for months on custom EVERYTHING, and I can't wait to see how it all turned out.
Speaking of weddings, our 5-year anniversary is coming up in a couple weeks! Ah, the memories... here is a little snippet of our celebration at the Log Cabin here in SF.
Happy 09.09.09!!!
I am embracing the hype and loving how this day has turned into a Beatles holiday! My big question (which is actually an appropriate "this? or this?") is... which remastered set do I really want- mono or stereo?? Decisions, decisions...
September 08, 2009
It Is Happening Again...
Please join us this Thursday evening for a very special event! Our friend Shawn Creeden, whose amazing bat paintings, soft sculptures and embroideries were featured at the inaugural show in the shoppe gallery space two years ago is coming back to curate a group show entitled It is Happening Again: Eternal Recurrence and the two year anniversary of the Curiosity Shoppe.
The show includes work by the following artists:
Sarah Burke
Aidan Koch
Israel Lund
Melinda Melmoth
Bruce Paulson
& Joel Statz
Opening reception:
Thursday, September 10th, 6-9pm
at the Curiosity Shoppe
855 Valencia Street, SF CA 94110
Hope to see you there!
September 03, 2009
Sea Knob How-To Video
There are only 3 more days for you to come see Lisa Davidson Wissink's amazing Sea Knob in person, and lend us a hand in weaving the longest, heaviest piece of rope in the West! Lisa stopped by last week and we made this little rope weaving video for you all to enjoy.
Thursday Photo Assignment: Twist
Hello hello! What marvelous "twist" photos! Next week's photo theme is: "cube". We set up a new email address for blog-related stuff so if you can remember, please email your photos to: smartsandcrafts@gmail.com before next Thursday if you'd like to participate! Photo assignments should (and hopefully will) be posted at 1pm PDT every Thursday. Thanks everyone!
Herringbone Ceiling!
Feeling inspired this morning by the amazing frame-corner sample ceiling by builder Dan Phillips in this NY Times story. So brilliant and gorgeous!!!
September 01, 2009
Design Glut Yack Fest
On our recent visit to New York, we had the distinct pleasure of spending some quality fun time with the lovely ladies of Design Glut. They're an amazing design duo, you may recognize their ingenious light switch and outlet covers from our Shoppe...Click here to check out the interview we did with them in which we spill our guts about the joys and sorrows of running our own business...
August 31, 2009
Our Awesome Customers
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We'd say that a good majority of our customers have tattoos. And sometimes they have tattoos that are remarkably similar to items we have in the shoppe, like the Polaroid camera and old school bike tattoos pictured above. How cool is that?
August 30, 2009
Lucky Bidder
When we were in NY, we found out that we were the lucky silent auction bidders on this beautiful sewn piece by Thomas Campbell. We picked it up on Friday, wrapped it up in our trusty Pendleton blanket and brought it home. It has been our dream to have one of Thomas' paintings forever, and I can't wait to find the perfect place to hang it in our apartment. Hurray!
August 27, 2009
Thursday Photo Assignment: Little
These "little" photos are sooo cute! Thanks everyone! (Lise- your kitty picture cracks me up every time I look at it.) Next week's theme is: "twist". As always, email your photos to info@curiosityshoppeonline.com before next Thursday if you'd like to participate. Sorry I haven't been able to post these at the same time each week- between our weekly Thursday book project meetings and our trip to NY, it's been a little crazy! But starting the week after next, I should be back on track with the 1pm post time. Hope everyone is having a great Thursday!
Inspiration
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I used to have this Kate Spade ad pinned to my inspiration board, and I found it again yesterday morning while flipping through some old image files. Then....
Derek spotted a 1950's hospitality cookbook at a vintage furniture store yesterday afternoon and snapped this picture. I love seeing where peoples' inspiration comes from! And how crazy is it that we happened upon both of these images in the same day?
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