Jan 12
Originally uploaded by Dancing Crow.
Real pennies and dimes, little wooden wheels, and a couple of buttons. I have this incredibly cool punch from a couple birthdays ago (my amazing husband! I adore him) that has enough leverage to punch holes through nickels. A Roper Whitney No 5 Jr. hand punch. I love that I can make dangles out of almost anything that I can punch holes in. Although some materials work better than others. Shells sometimes punch well and sometimes shatter. Glass always shatters. Rock doesn’t work at all. You can see what I have always wanted to punch holes through so I could sew them onto things! Or string as beads.
Today I walked into Ikea for the first time ever. It was kind of cool, and profoundly overwhelming. I am thankful I had a good guide and friend, and we packed snacks. Mostly I looked at things, and thought about exactly how small our house is, but I have some concepts for the closet finally, and a bunch of things to think about for the rest of the house. It is important to get stuff OUT of the house first, and then organize what is left.
It reminded of the old Design Research stuff in Cambridge in my youth, that became (I think) Crate and Barrel. It is nice to have scandinavian design for cheap, and while it is true the stuff may only last for 5 years, at the rate life is changing, that could be a good thing, right? I mean Whoo hoo!! New furniture in 5 years! Could work. The alternatives are expensive new, expensive antique old (which makes me so nervous to use it I can hardly breath) and cheap old which frankly is what we have now and I am sick of.
But I digress.
Lee Thomson 