Domestic Images Inside Out

Accidental Mysteries does it again. What could be more of a domestic image than this? Woman, high heel shoes, and bones. Strangely unsettling, but beautiful. Too bad her apron doesn't show. I bet a string of pearls would have shown up nicely.

Who Could Resist Super Yarn?

I noticed this company and these beautiful colored skeins in the Facebook adverts this morning. I guess those ads are good for something, then, even something beautiful.

Cascade Superwash Paint. A great name, too, for a lovely thing.

Thank you Apple Yarns of Bellingham WA.

I plan to blog every day, now, about the progress on my thesis. Not about knitting, but sort of about beauty and the work of women's hands.

Wish me luck.

Amazing Finds of the Week

A beautiful site. Just lying in wait. Something I've been waiting for. A beautiful sight.

The Domestic Soundscape is out of Oxford, and I haven't even begun to discover the depths of this woman's ideas and images. But who can argue with a hand knit Sonic Death Monkey?

And who knew there was a Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture?? I shouldn't be surprised that it's in the UK. Thanks for being out there for me to find.

Now back to my thesis (talk about a major distraction!).

Drastically Odor-Free Laundry & Ten Frugal Tips for the Laundry Room

I heard this gorgeous phrase, 'drastically odor-free laundry' on the radio today. Here's the story, from KQED's The California Report, if you want to listen to it yourself. All about Borax and Ronald Regan. Amazing. (The photos are from Wikipedia, thank goodness for them.)



And, if that weren't enough, I also found this website: Old Fashioned Homemaking, Traditional Values for Modern Homes. And this beautiful phrase: 'ten frugal tips for the laundry room' -- who wouldn't love that alliteration? And when I tried to copy a photo from the site, the site politely thanked me for not copying. A polite website, with pink roses, about laundry and home values. I can't decide if I should laugh or cry. What do you think?

We do need a photo, though, to give you the idea. So, here's a similar hat photo (click for attribution).

Patchwork Suit

This is delightful. Thanks for Accidental Mysteries for pointing out Joshua Lowenfels' wonderful collections.

I wonder how happy a person would feel wearing an outfit like this?

Teapot Watching You

Fornasetti Teapot

Germany
1996
Manufactured by Rosenthal.
Printed to underside: marker’s mark and “Fornasetti/Jahres-Teekanne 1996”

A Laundry Folding Robot

Is such a great idea, and this video is so so funny. I'm not sure I understand the point of the exercise, because it doesn't seem that they actually built a robot, only made a movie of an animated one. But what they heck, it's fantastic. The site, Boing Boing, has some cute stuff going on, too.