.essay : market.

eric and i went with his parents to one of our local farmer's markets this past sunday morning.

sadly, we were an hour early! this market doesn't start until ten, which seems kind of crazy.

but, i was very happy to see that the only table that was set up was my favorite one! lucas acres, a local farm, is owned by awesome people. they're always super nice, offer me cooking tips, the best ways to use the yummy things they grow and sell to me. i always buy as many things from them as i can, from my list.

ok, i lied. i don't go to the market with a list. i basically just look around and buy stuff that looks delicious. which is pretty much everything.

anyway, i took some nice market pictures for you guys :)

.sunday reading.

my good friend, matt, linked me to this etsy shop, called nervous system, the other day. i'm so glad he did, too! i love almost everything in here. and i really like that the artists are using science to create art. sometimes i kind of wish i did that.

from the shop announcement:

nervous system creates unique, modern jewelry combining rapid prototyping methods with industrial materials. our work focuses on using generative, computational processes to create designs inspired by nature. we write computer programs that encode a design process that allow us to generate an infinite variety of shapes, patterns, and forms.

so cool, right?

now head over there and check them out!

.vintage.

Told you my grandma was a fox! I love her bathing suit. Especially standing next to that awesome car. Wouldn't it be cool if my family still had that car?

My grandma Betty, my mom's mom, was an interior designer. She always had the coolest outfits throughout the 60s and 70s. I always love looking through our old photos of her. She also was an avid antique collector, along with my grandpa. My family lives in their old house now, they both passed away a little over 10 years ago. The house is filled with amazing things. Lots of Native American artifacts including baskets, ceramic, tools, a peace pipe, masks, all kinds of things. My friends and I always called our loft "the museum," because that's where all of that lives. I definitely think that I have been influenced by growing up around all of those amazing old things.

Maybe sometime I'll show you some of the more interesting pieces.

What cool things did your grandparents have in their home? Were they collectors?

Next week, as long as she's ok with it, a really great picture of my mom when she was younger. Then, we'll move on to my collected vintage photos filled with very interesting strangers!

.hocking hills.

as you can see, we had an awesome time in the hocking hills area of ohio. we pretty much went there to hike, and that's pretty much what we did! there are several, i guess, "attractions" (they're all hiking trails) in the area. most of them are extensions of the hocking hills state park. the others are designated at nature preserves, or something similar. anyway, it's pretty much the beginning of the appalachian mountains and there are a bunch of caves and caverns and beautiful cliffs in the middle of the beautiful forest. this was our second time here and i really wouldn't mind going back every year. i probably wouldn't stay there for a whole week, but for just a couple days (i'd say 2-4) it's perfect.

where did you go this summer?

p.s. happy labor day to my us friends!

.home ground.

your first peek into what i've been working on

:

http://thehomeground.com

hope you like it :)

.open sea.

reminiscing.

this is from the trip we took to maine last summer. i loved that place.

it was kind of a life changing trip. in small ways.

it was the beginning of my senior show.

i will always be grateful to the sea.

also doubles as lovely eye candy, don't you think?

what was your favorite vacation?

.fiber, not fiber.

don't you just want to hug all of these wooly beasts? ok, maybe not the greasy sheep, but definitely the bunnies! two weekends ago (aug 22), i went to the michigan fiber fest. my mom came with, along with my sister and her bf. i didn't go last year, so i was extra excited to go this year! i didn't buy any fiber but i did pick up lots of business cards for future reference. i also got two issues of the magazine wild fibers. it's pretty much like a national geographic for fibers. i've only read a few of the articles, but i like them a lot.

honestly, i love the beasties as much as i love the yarn here. i couldn't resist a few wonderfully textural photos. i do apologize for the poor lighting.

also, whenever i told any of my non-fiber friends about the fiber fest, they thought it was a nutritional gathering. hence the title. sillies!