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A recent trip to a friend's house motivated me to take a pottery class. You can make some awesome things — like the beautiful vase I saw at her place — and from what she tells me, it's fairly easy. It's going to be a messy fun time, so I needed you to help me figure out a 'fit.
I started you off with this J.Crew Morning Glory Art Tee ($42). Let's see all your Fab ensembles!
Look #1, created by cake16, is incredibly fun. Great punches of color.
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A recent trip to a friend's house motivated me to take a pottery class. You can make some awesome things — like the beautiful vase I saw at her place — and from what she tells me, it's fairly easy. It's going to be a messy fun time, so I need you to help me figure out a 'fit.
I'll start you off with this J.Crew Morning Glory Art Tee ($42). I'm hoping the artsy vibes will spread into my fingers.
Let's go Fab Finding. Be sure to come back and tell me your Fab Finds are up, or just tag your Fab Finds with Pottery Class. Now, you can build outfits by creating your very own widget of clothing items. We have everything you need to build outfits, and you can use your Fab Find bookmarks, too. This is an even better way to put together an entire outfit when completing your Fab Finding missions. Learn what a Fab Find is and how to make one. And here's a detailed explanation of bookmarks from GeekSugar.
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Pottery takes direction from the South as Caroline Reehl, an artist living in Alabama, fires up hearts with her lovely ceramic vases. Each pretty piece showcases roses or lilies at the peak of their blooms, which she calls a metaphor for internal strength and external beauty. Metaphorically speaking or not, these vases are outwardly beautiful. The romantic floral works of art are girly in a subtle way, and require nothing more than the perfect spot in your pad to flourish. Reehl hoped to bring a feminine and flirty aspect to each one, and I'm hoping to bring one home in the near future. To see more of her lovely creations, just read more
Here's a post from CasaSugar Community member EarthPlusArt from the Lovely Little Vignettes group:
The area between my dining table and breakfast bar needed a little style. So I put together some pottery and glassware with one of my botanical photographs in an upcycled frame made from a used kitchen cabinet.
Have you arranged any vignettes of your own lately? Be sure to post photos and tales in our Lovely Little Vignettes group!
I just came across tattoo artist Paul Tillman's Irezumi dinnerware collection (available here), which seems to be inspired by Dutch delftware with traditional Japanese motifs, and am noticing a trend. Delftware, as you may know, is the blue and white pottery and tin-glazed pottery that originated around Delft in the Netherlands in the 16th to 18th centuries. The ceramics had a white glaze that was typically accented with blue floral and pastoral imagery. But these days, the latest trend is to take that signature blue and white palette and kick it up a notch by injecting it with more contemporary motifs, or in some cases, use ceramic delftware to make unusual items — like a computer.
Lovegrove & Repucci's Urban Delft for Areware (available at Unica Home) gives the conservative Dutch pottery a grittier edge by bringing graffiti into the mix.
See five more of these modern delftware designs when you read more
I'm a sucker for vintage glassware and pottery, so these reproduction milk bottles ($30) are right up my alley, having been hand-cast from antique half-pint glass milk bottles. They remind me a bit of Jonathan Adler's Druggist Collection, with their smooth white surfaces and cheeky printing.
These reproduction milk bottles are from Etsy seller Alyssaettinger, and were modeled after bottles from Concord Dairy. They stand at a diminutive four inches tall, perfect for displaying summer blooms. You can also pop them in the dishwasher, which is always a plus.
If you're wondering where Jonathan Adler got his inspiration for his Utopia series, or where Tord Boontje got his taste for saturated colors and fanciful flora, look no further than Danish artist and designer Bjørn Wiinblad. This midcentury ceramic artist set up his own studio in 1952, and continued to reproduce his designs through the 1990s.
Much of his work is inspired by the fairy tales of fellow Dane Hans Christian Andersen, who wrote such well-known stories as The Little Mermaid and The Princess and the Pea. Starting in the 1950s, he produced silver, glass, furniture, and ceramic designs for Rosenthal Porzellan AG, and also designed posters, costume and stage designs, tapestries, and textiles for hotels and restaurants across the world. His work is particularly popular in Japan.
To see more images of his work, and to find out whether or not his work is a good investment, read more
