in great clay company: martha stewart american made market

gleena spouted bowls (lower left) are in such fantastic clay company, Frances Palmer and Rae Dunn! Please click here to view the full home decor collection curated by Martha Stewart.

my mom’s table

is always full of gleena. so nice to see it in use when I come to visit, paired with mom’s beautiful linen tablecloths, just the right small spoon for the salt cellar, and of course her delicious food.

happy valentine’s day

should i make my own backsplash tiles...

My kitchen backsplash currently looks like this (just the adhesive left over from when I tore down the plastic crap that was there):

(tea pot by Judy Jackson) many friends like the yellow distressed look, but I am getting a bit tired of it, and have been thinking of getting nice gray-blue tiles, kind of like these from Heath:

and then I realized that I make a glaze for my plates that is oh so similar:

so why don’t I make my own backsplash tiles? in my spare time? I’ll try... because I really like the way the numbers look stamped in. Handmade tiles with stamped in numbers...hmmmm

where does color inspiration come from...

naturally dyed eggs via Martha Stewart

Lake Nakuru found on oddee

Ljusslinga Happy Lights found on darling things

bowls found on amai

pastel paint jars found on vtwonen

bookshelves found on est magazine

tear sheet of ribbons found via genevieve’s flickr

side tables from red

yarn found on quince & co.

macaroons photo by Nicky Walsh

still life saturday with Lerkenfeldt Photography

Lerkenfeldt Photography is located in Frederiksberg, Denmark

despite the super bowl, the nor'easter, the ice storm...

Despite hiked up flight and hotel rates and jammed traffic for the Super Bowl on Saturday/Sunday, the Nor'easter that hit on Monday, the ice storm that hit on Wednesday, the NY NOW Show was really fun. This is because a lot of my current retailers came to visit, and a lot of new stores came to add gleena to their collections. And because I was surrounded by kind, talented, and inspiring artists up and down the isles. I am grateful, though exhausted.

gleena booth 9145, small but functional. the noodle bowls were a hit, and even got made into knitting bowls upon a customer’s suggestion:

knitting needles and yarn from loopy mango, also an exhibitor at the show.

glass wall sculpture by lbk studio

graphic prints by cedar mountain

dragon fruit pin by glitter limes

pendants by pyrrha

night lights by whimsy home

new sake cups and beachstone bowl from gleena

bronze sculptural vessels by branch

large hand-blown glass bowls by sandpiper studio

metal three dimensional letterforms by gauge nyc

chain link fence transformed by the Nor’easter

pendant by Eric Silva

glasses reclaimed from bottles by Nanda Soderberg

tree branches decorated by the ice storm

and then it’s time to go home. see you this summer, for the heat wave.