postscript

P.S. Check out the Louisville City Guide on Design*Sponge today!

{by Sabot Images on Flickr--the domed building is where Cory will be working}

This made me very seriously excited.  I almost squealed in the writing center.  That's my town!

Now I'm off to continue packing.  The books I didn't already take back are in a box now.  I should take the advice I once gave to put books in a rolling suitcase, but my rolling suitcase is already full.

for the home

While browsing the internet, I find such lovely spaces.  I imagine what my home could be like, knowing all the while that as much as I love old homes with a wabi-sabi aesthetic, owning one is neither wise nor probable at this current phase in my life.  Still, I do think our someday-home will be slowly but surely filled with found pieces, meaningful art, and plenty of handmade bits.

I'd love to find a piece like this one from CherryMenLove (which my bestest friend Kat shared with me), or like this one, only piled with a soft mattress and pillows and probably covered in books.

{by larajanepark on flickr, who has some other beautiful photos, by the way}

This bed is awfully pretty, too.

{by NathanaelB on Flickr, whose photostream shows some pretty interesting looking travel!}

I'd love a library as well, but with an enormous sofa instead of chair like the ones here (not quite my style, I'm afraid).

{by Stewickie on Flickr}

I'd have a china cabinet full of new pieces like this...

{by Lisa Stickley London}

...and there'd be a bunch of older pieces, like the turquoise pyrex set I picked up at Peddler's Mall a year or so ago, and there'd be the new and lovely set of cups and saucers my aunt gave me at Christmas, and I think they'd all be in something like this...

{by mvwoodworking on Etsy}

I might stick a whimsy shelf like this in a corner.

{by woodcurve on Etsy}

And maybe, just maybe, I'll have a ridiculously gorgeous and perfectly lovely home, if I don't get carried away by a few too many whims and fancies that have no hope of matching (as I am quite prone to doing).

House-hunting tomorrow...I'll let you know how it goes!

Can I live here, though, please?

of styles and bibliophiles

Etsy's The Storque regularly features wonderful artists.  I love the Q and A--this particular seamstress calls herself a bibliophile!  We bibliophiles must always show support for each other. :)

{by Minx Shop. I really love this skirt.}

I've noticed more and more through blogs like The Storque that many crafters and artists not only share a taste for visual and physical aesthetics, but design-influenced taste in books--the thoughtful, odd, novel, innovative, vintage, etc.

In some ways, I see a well-crafted plot much like a well-crafted object; both must have that voice, that style, that unnameable something to set themselves apart as a work of creativity and art.

I also like when words and design merge like so:

{by luna clay design}

or like this...

heheheee...

p.s. check out this link, too: loveliness on flickr