show and tell

I have lots of pretty little things around the house, and I thought I'd share a few with you. Please bear with me if this becomes a regular "feature" because I feel pulled in that direction as of late. I wish I could offer you a cup of tea and a scone, and lead you from treasure to treasure, but I hope the pictures will suffice:

These are some tiny little soda-fired ceramics I bought this past summer at the Bucktown Art Fair. The tallest one is maybe three inches high. I usually feel like I'm cheating on Melissa when I buy pottery from other artists, but she doesn't do soda firing, so that minimized the guilt (a little bit).

I got the porcelain branch vase for Christmas this year. It was one of the items on my wish list from Doe. The little stoneware vases were the result of a made-to-order trade I did with Melissa, and I filled them with really pretty moss (on the left) and an awesome venus fly trap. Oh, how I love a carnivorous plant! The coaster is one of a set of four I bought at an art gallery in Minneapolis. Melissa found it on one of my little side tables and shrieked that it was a "TILE OF BETRAYAL!" Ah, that Melissa...

This is my little family of gunmetal mushrooms. They, too, were on my Christmas wish list. I can't believe I never showed them to you. I love them tons.

Well, I'm "auf" now. And speaking of which, don't miss Project Runway tonight (I'm guessing Rami will go to Bryant Park with Christian and Jillian). Your thoughts on the matter?

xoxo

** edited to add: I can't believe the artist of the little soda fired houses found this post, but it was somehow passed along to her. I'm so grateful because I couldn't find her name (it's Julie) or her business card, and I didn't know how to find her. You can find her work (and now I can, too!) at design-realized.com.