This will be my last post until I touch ground again. Leaving for six weeks is a huge deal to me. I'll relax once I get there but right now I'm stressed. As of yesterday I wasn't even sure I had found a house sitter. I hope to take pictures in NYc and Paris even though this is no gift to you because, lets face it, my pictures suck.
To leave you with images pretty enough to last a few days, here is the phenomenal work of artist Kate Carlyle, of Mustard Seed and Moonshine.
Dishes inspired by nature, good enough to eat on everyday and to serve as museum pieces down the line.
Here is what Kate says:
"We are a studio in Cape Town, which I started in 1992 with one person and it has grown very organically into 34 people with almost no turnover of people at all ……….so all the people who started with me are here still. We all have a passion for flowers and everything is based on the botanical form…….in fact as a little girl I was incredibly fortunate to visit the Harvard Glass flowers (my father was a scholar for a year at Harvard until we returned home here to SA)and I remember being completely transfixed by these fantastic feats in glass and minute details of nature."
Delphiniums
Irises
How unbelievably pretty, a whole collection of ramequin-flowers!
Seriously, I want to have nothing but flowers in my cupboard now.
I dig her way of doing business. Art, a lot of heart and passion, a commitment for her enterprise to be a home where employees can grow and blossom, and an eye for excellence. That's one great business model.
I feel a bit lost because I have not been reading your blogs for days. What's going on out there in your worlds? Next post will be from NYC if I survive the next 48 hours.
Whoa, those are amazing!!
Have an awesome trip. I can't wait to hear about your NYC adventures!
Posted by: crafty fanny | July 03, 2009 at 10:32 AM
i LOVE those!!! i would take those ramekins and friggin' glue them to the wall in that cool spiraly way. yes, i said glue.
Posted by: my favorite and my best | July 03, 2009 at 11:35 AM
Lush, I really enjoy the collections of colours and variations on a theme.
How sweet that her childhood memory informed her future! Imagine if he had taken her to see engine parts or something.
Posted by: Clarity | July 03, 2009 at 01:48 PM
très joli blog , avec de très jolies photos ,de très bon gouts merci laetitia
Posted by: laetitia | July 03, 2009 at 03:01 PM
Lovely.. so inspirational... how exciting you'll be in NY soon! the preparation before departure it's always quite stressful, this that and the other... but i am sure you'll be fine once in NY! Let us know!!
Enjoy it!
Posted by: Caterina | July 03, 2009 at 03:31 PM
Bon Voyage- Have a great time everyone...........
Post Pictures..........
Posted by: Dayna | July 03, 2009 at 06:07 PM
Oh my God. Be still my heart. Those dishes are AMAZING AMAZING AMAZING. I don't usually really care all that much about DISHES, but those are something else.
Have a great time in NY!! I am so jealous!! :D
Posted by: muralimanohar | July 03, 2009 at 10:33 PM
AAAAAAW these are just so pretty. Have a great trip..take care!
Posted by: Trishie Koh | July 05, 2009 at 10:58 PM
cornine comes to the east coast!!!
Posted by: nadia | July 06, 2009 at 02:45 AM
....now in the east. have a good time..GREAT time.
Posted by: anrosh | July 06, 2009 at 09:06 AM
I echo: waiting to hear that you've made it to NYC. I'll be there at some point in July...but I don't know if you'll be there or off to France by then.
Posting every day so you know where I am, bella.
xo
Posted by: Susan | July 07, 2009 at 06:34 PM
I would be forever grateful if you took some photos of Central Park. F.L.Olmsted was my ggguncle. Hope you are well. Thinking of you...I really would have housesat ya know..
Posted by: Liberty Post Editor | July 08, 2009 at 07:25 AM
There are so pretty , thanks for sharing
Posted by: le petit cabinet de curiosites | July 09, 2009 at 06:11 AM
You could probably put these in a garden and someone would be hard press to tell the difference.
Oh so lovely!
Posted by: Charlotte | July 10, 2009 at 11:24 AM
I am crazy for teacups, and these just jump off the page. How delicate and gorgeous :) Garden chic at its finest :)
Posted by: MichCherie | July 10, 2009 at 12:45 PM
Oh my gosh -I have seen your blog.. I actually saw this blog earlier and loved it...these products are sold at Bergdorf Goodman on the 7th floor - you must check it out BG is the answer to all girls/women's wildest dreams who love to shop and love all things devine...
Your Chelsea Neighbor again
Posted by: Chelsea Neighbor | July 10, 2009 at 04:58 PM
How lovely! Those flowers are such intricate works of art.
Posted by: Deidre | July 17, 2009 at 09:33 AM
These are beautiful
Posted by: Human resources management | July 20, 2009 at 06:17 PM
Kate's work is amazing. I have bought some of it for gifts, but unfortunately i don't own any myself - yet!
Posted by: Freshly Found | July 23, 2009 at 03:17 AM
"Seriously, I want to have nothing but flowers in my cupboard now".
this is the first time that somebody is using the word "cupboard" in the US. Is this a french/english thing ? i grew up using this word , hence was curious
Posted by: anrosh | July 23, 2009 at 06:58 PM
these 'flowers' drive me crazy...in an insanely good way.
Posted by: torina | August 18, 2009 at 02:15 PM