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Little Things: a Celebration of Portland’s Artists and Designers
After being inspired by a trip to Finland, Andrea Angell created her own Portland based shop, Little Things PDX, to celebrate the art and style of her city. More
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in FootwearBucketFeet Shoes: Buy Some, Give Some
Raaja Nemani and Aaron Firestein met in a slum in Buenos Aires in 2008. Two years later, the pair launched a shoe business combining three of their passions: comfort, art and at-risk children. More
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Subverting the Fashion Photo
Who says that fashion photography has to feature scrawny teens and 20-something’s striking a pose? What makes Geraldine shine is her sense of style and her moxie, which really shines in these photos. More
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in Reviews, UncategorizedLove, Learn and Heal with Color Therapy
Recently I mentioned my love for the Daily Om. While I shared a few of my favorite DailyOm.com classes, I’m tuning in again on this topic now to share the most magical course I’ve signed up for so far : A Year of Color Therapy by Tori Hartman. Every week for a year Tory talks […] More
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in Home Living, ReviewsEco-Friendly Fine Art by Sandhi Schimmel Gold
Sandhi Shimmel creates beautiful portraits from upcycled paper that might otherwise go to waste, each made from thousands of unrelated images and text. Assembled like a mosaic, an entirely new portrait, landscape or fantasy image is created from Sandhi’s imagination. She has a natural affinity for color. More
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Duende, as Genius, and in Personal Style
Frederico Garcia Lorca explains in Play and Theory of the Duende, that Duende is the meeting of soul and spirit in a moment of artistic genius. Duende is struggle, the struggle of an artist to channel spirit in creative action from the soles of the feet on up. Duende exposes the divine, within and without. […] More
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in Accessories, Beauty Supplies, Events, Home Living, Natural Beauty, Skin Smart, Sustainable Fashion, Toxic Ingredients, UncategorizedSublime Performance Art, Tattoo, and Body Painting, where Myth meets Ideal as Signatures on Flesh
Personal expression via the skin is a subtle form of performance art. Tattoo or paint on the skin is ageless, marking fertility rights, Martial celebrations, war games, theatrical works, rites of passage, and ritual indigenous celebrations. Today, more than ever before, as portals, these individualist decorative guides offer signs to inner metaphors and generous poetic […] More
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Collage, Cocoons as Glimpses of the Art of Living and Loving
[social_buttons] Constant in life is the collection of moments. We are travelers through layers of mind and spirit with glimpses of love and beauty that nourish us along the way. We love who we love, still, we are constantly in flux as our hearts and universe grows and expands with appreciation of what we have, what is […] More
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in AccessoriesThe Creative Process, Childhood, Cancer Moon, Blue Moons, Opalite and Glass
The blending of old and new in jewelry is a something one can do on a budget. Find pieces of your old treasures and bring them to life again. The center of this piece is an earring who lost her mate. I originally made this earring when one of my sons was about 5 years old. […] More
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Nikki McClure Prints Inspire Imaginative Action to Improve Our World
Above is an inspirational poster print of a paper-cut by Nikki McClure called A New Materialism. Her imaginative creations are the sort that inspire that loving, fuzzy feeling inside. For some time now Nikki has been featuring powerful, yet warm and thoughtful images of every day life, each with a strong verb or phrase that […] More
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Yellow Glass Necklace, Golden Mira
Golden Mira and Yellow Glass Golden Lady lights from centerpoint of one heart, empowered Still Sphinx. More alive; she rides time from galaxies away into a heart of our life. Her horse hidden now Her mask in place. Shape-shifting, Golden her spirit. Juicy glow yellow cut glass, round her neck, in love — we rise loving her. […] More
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Pearls, Moon, Water, and Stone
Fresh Water. One pearl. Desire we all have innately. Two Pearls. Longing for oceanic nourishment, longing for satiation of the senses. Three pearls. Water nourishes the senses, our essence, the sublime. More pearls. The sublime nourishes the spirit and the spirit engages with life. Pearls illuminate our wrist, our neck, but also balance our emotions. Pearls are […] More
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Jade, Czechoslovakian Beads, and Marika’s Necklace
[social_buttons] Czechoslovakian beads, cut glass, and Jade touch the neck of this graced beauty. Healing, restoring, and nurturing balance within the higher vibration of the heart, these stones act as elixirs of peace. This piece was designed to lay near or over the thymus gland. Jade, one of the cooling stones of our planet, is a […] More
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Babbles, Bangles, and Recycled Glass Beads
[social_buttons] Beauty is found in the eye of the beholder. Simply found in the breath of a canyon, the length of the calf, or the treasure one finds on the rack at the local thrift store. Clothes that have become valueless to one offer a new experience to another. Sea glass, all glass, once sand, now more […] More
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Groove into Happiness ~ Dance is a Good Antidepressant!
Dance is a good antidepressant! Studies show dance boosts happiness and benefits overall health by: stimulating the hippocampus, the brain area that regulates moods. sparking new nerve growth in the brain with body coordination. building repeated mental patterns and creating new pathways with each new move learned. relieving and preventing depression with endorphins and releasing […] More
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in Home LivingYurt Living: Interior Decorating Intro
Within the Yurt Living series I’ve dabbled a bit on interiors. Rebecca MacKay’s book, Round Design: Modern Yurt Interiors was acknowledged as the closest thing to hiring a professional. Another book, Add Wheels To Your Furniture For Faster Cleaning by Lifehacker author Angus Kidman, was noted as a good idea. But that was it! I’ve […] More
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in Home LivingYurt Living: Domes, Light, Furniture
I love yurt living. It’s like camping out, — but in a modern, convenient structure. The dome has so much to do with that feeling. As we face the Autumnal Equinox, I watch the interior dome light shift as it does with my landscaping. The daily light beam changes with seasons. More
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Eco-luxury Infant Clothes Design Team: via Hani Hong for Fierce Hugs
Hani Hong is an established graphic designer. With business partner Tina Fusari, she owns and operates Fierce Hugs, Inc. In Virginia. She also happens to own an independent graphic design business. More
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The Urban Zen Foundation
Founded by Donna Karan and Sonja Nuttall, the Urban Zen Foundation has the mission to create, connect, collaborate, and “to raise awareness and inspire change in the areas of well-being, preserving cultures and empowering children.” Being both well-known fashion designers in the US and UK respectively, they bring both credibility and immense skill and creativity […] More
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Pure Bohemian- The Definition of Exquisite
[social_buttons] For Labor Day I thought I would share a little something my mind has been laboring over. It’s called a kilt. I like to call it, a glimpse of heaven. If heaven consists of recycled leather, fabric and hardware combined to make delicious ‘kilts’ in varying colors and patterns, I beg you, transport me […] More
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in Accessories100% Recycled Floral Leaves and Forest Coral Datebooks from Jill Bliss
“Spend a year tickled pink with flowers and leaves native to northern california and oregon, and sometimes found in other parts of the western u.s.“ with the the floral leaves datebook or “spend a year in the forest and the coral…lush green interior pages with 8 repeating original illustrations of all the little details found […] More
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