MP obsessions: Making Me Blog

I am obsessed with my new Making Me blog!   I love tumblr's gorgeous minimal themes...full of stunning eye candy from all over the web and beyond.  Color study mood boards with art, fashion, craft, type, photography, beauty...whatever inspires me.  It makes me feel great to make and even better to view!  Have fun perusing! 

To add to my obsession, I could not stop there.  I made a blog for my 2 little girls too, Bb+Bo.  Eye candy for kids!  Color studies again but this time with puppies and kitties and sweet treats and all the things that make them go "ooooh I want that!"  

And just when I thought nothing could be more fun than Pinterest!

Follow me and keep up-to-date on my eye candy fun!

MP Finds: Virtual Shoe Museum

I love shoes.  I have always loved shoes...from as far back as I can remember.  Not an uncommon obsession, I know.

Maybe since I left the corporate world and started my own little studio or maybe since I've had kids and now have to schlep here, there and everywhere, is there no longer the need for high heels and fancy cool footwear.  For a long time, I stopped even looking.  Why bother?  

I realize that I may be practical now but I can still dream and appreciate the beauty of a spectacular pair of shoes!  I stumbled across this awesome site, The Virtual Shoe Museum, founded by Liza Snook, which has a wonderful and very amusing collection of shoes that run the gamut.  Wearable gems...non-wearable beauties...one-of-a-kind art pieces...off the wall...just plain silly.  It's all there and super fun to peruse.  

MP finds: Anne Lindberg

 Thread is an unbelievable medium.  Anne Lindberg has an amazing installation going on now at The Bemis Center for Contemporary Art in Omaha, Nebraska from January 13 - March 31.  Just cotton thread and staples.  wow.

I happily discovered this artist via Pinterest via a cool art blog called The jealous curator.

MP finds: Design-seeds

Page after page of awe inspiring eye-candy...Design Seeds is a wonderful site with daily posts filled with glorious and truly inspiring color palettes.  I need a daily fix.

Jessica also offers a series of books (old school and ebooks) available on Blurb.  

Great work Jessica...and thank you!

Inspiration . My Pom Love

Well I am a little embarassed to admit that I did try Martha's PomPom and my first try was actually quite bad!  I am proud of my craftiness and was shocked that it was ugly enough to crumple up and begin again!  I guess I did not pull gently enough to maintain some of the folds so it turned into a wrinkled mess!!

All the more reason to admire how gorgeous Pom Love's work is...as well as the stylists over at Martha Stewart!

My second round of poms turned out great but completion was cut short when my girls insisted on them as their new bouquets. They were thrilled!

I am having thoughts of how this can be transformed into something bigger.  I am seeing masses of backlit poms hanging from my office ceiling.   Or a sea of them forming a beautiful undulating texture on the bare wall behind my press.  hmmm....

i'm off to try some things.  

i'll be back... 

MP finds : Pom Love

I stumbled across these sunny, cheerful paper pom-poms and I think I actually drooled!  Puffy, paper things just make me melt (and of course drool too)!  Find these and many many more by PomLove.  They even have sweet little mobiles for baby too.

or...you can also try it yourself...I think this is the next project with my girls...pom-poms by Martha

Inspiration . All-year Rings

Paper sculpture is so fascinating to me.   I can't even remember how I found this artist but love what she does with a simple sheet of paper.  These are All-year Rings by Tithi Kutchamuch.  All rings are cut-out from a single sheet and represent each month's flower.  Check out her other work too...very clever.