Modern Thanksgiving Garland
Pink painted acorns?! I’ll take them!
nature
Mika Aoki’s Blown-Glass Sculptures
Mika Aoki makes glass art inspired by mold spores, viruses, plants, life, and death.
Mad’s Mouse House
There is nothing cuter than teeny tiny things, with the exception of teeny tiny things IN A TREE. Maddie Chambers created this amazingly detailed and beautiful tree dollhouse she dubbed Mad’s Mouse House and it is something to see. It even has electricity and a teeny tiny Oriental rug. Seen on Apartment Therapy.
Birch Tree Lamps
A Bit of Bees Knees featured these really rad room-changing lamps made out of beautiful birch trees by design company Bleu Nature. The DIYer in me is inspired to craft with nature this weekend.
Natural Dyeing
Book Review: Harvesting Color by Rebecca Burgess Review by Meara O’Reilly I recently experimented with using the oxalis plant (more commonly known as the weed sourgrass) to dye some towels a bright yellow. It was such an easy and rewarding process, I wanted to look around and see what other colors might be within reach! This book […]
A Real Tree House
Building a gorgeous little treehouse home around a tree.
Balanced Stones in Running Water
Our own Mark Frauenfelder discovered the work of Boulder, Colorado interventions-in-nature artist Mike Grab in the best possible way: He happened upon one of Mike’s sculptures, in the wild, soon after its completion. Simply put, Mike Grab balances rocks, one on top of another, in flowing water, with no glue or other means of support apart from gravity itself.
