Daily Blossom

Good Morning!, originally uploaded by katie daisy lombardo.

I love this colorful flower by katie daisy, it feels vintage country, but with a modern twist. It’s so bright and colorful! You can buy a print of it at her Etsy store, thewheatfield. Have a great day everyone!

Daily Blossom

I’ve decided that granny squares are vaguely floral in their appearance and so qualify as a daily blossom .  I don’t know about any of you, but this beautiful blanket has me completely obsessed with granny squares. I now have that as my must-do project of the fall – learn to make granny squares! This colorful creation is by Carina of Carina’s Craftblog. It’s a fantastic source of inspiration and a haven of crafting fun!  I love how her projects seem to be made of a rainbow! It’s really lovely and I know I’ll be making my own granny square blanket and purchasing some of her embroidery patterns soon!

If you’re feeling a bit chilly or in need of a dose of color you should really take advantage of the opportunity to purchase one of Carina’s lovely blankets for a drastically reduced price. Click here while you still can and pick one of her cozy blankets to take home!

Oh, and don’t forget to check out her flickr page and her shops: Etsy, Artfire, and her t-shirt shop!

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More Marie Claire Idees – today a link to the blog.  Even without being able to read much of it, I love to look around and follow links. In a way, it’s like a little present each time you find something fabulous. Some of my favorite images today are the Japanese papers above by Adeline Klam,

this lovely photo of red objects by Marion Tasle,

this sculpture, Le Voyage Immobile, by Guy Mansuy,

and this painting, Approche de Punta Delgada a Bord du Porte Helicoptere Jeanne d’Arc  (I can’t seem to get accent marks – argh – sorry!) by Christian Cailleaux.

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Happy Thursday everyone! I thought for today I’d share this beautiful photo by LeSophie, part of her Love is Everywhere series. Leslie also blogs here and has a portfolio website here.  If you have the time you should definitely visit her sites and check out her work! I made my way to her through a series of blogs, and really enjoyed each step, so I thought I’d share the links here. As you may remember, I recently took an online class, Blogging Your Way, with over 200 talented bloggers as classmates. I’m slowly working my way through all of their sites. There are so many wonderful ones I’m bookmarking, but I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to keep up with them all! So this time around I thought I would start clicking at the end of the alphabet, and get to some new sites that way. I started with When I Grow Up, written by a life coach who, besides some great insightful writing and inspirational art, has the most fabulous alliterative “Clever Categories!” (Awesome Artists, Clear Careers, Colorful Creativity…)  Michelle, the When I Grow Up Life Coach, had reprinted an article by another BYW alumnus, Lolalina, who has a beautiful site you should visit. I was just about to shut down for the evening when I noticed a link to Pecannoot on When I Grow Up.  I haven’t spent much time visiting their site, but thought I’d take a stroll through quickly, before the end of the evening. When I opened up the page I was blow away by the riot of color in the post about Jessica Wilkinson’s Polyvore art. After basking in the glow of Jessica’s collages I glanced at the “Get Inspired” links and randomly clicked on Le Sophie.  Her photos make me so happy! I love the idea of finding hearts in the everyday (fruit, stones, flowers, quilts…). I hope you have time today to click through some of these links, and I hope you have a fantastic day!

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I’ve just discovered Alexander Henry Fabrics. I am completely smitten! Let me tell you how I found them. I was wandering around on Etsy and discovered an option I hadn’t noticed before – Shop by Color. It’s so much fun! The page is full of dots that expand as you mouse over them, and each one you click on pulls up a handful of items with that color prominently in the picture. Once this cluster of colorful catches pops up you can grab the pictures and slide them aside (or fling them completely off the page!) or click on them to enlarge.  While I was playing around I pulled up this picture of an adorable pink elephant in a field of fabulousness (I’m feeling very alliterative this morning, please forgive me!).

A great fabric shop – fabricdivas – has this and so many more prints! After seeing so many of them that I liked were by Alexander Henry, I googled, and am now hopelessly committed to buying some fabric. Now I just have to decide what to get!