Home Sweet Home

While I was in Florida, Geoff worked non-stop on installing new floors. I'm happy that everything is finally coming together.

We've put a lot of work into the house - painting, renovating, making accessories and furniture or collecting original artwork (from my brother mainly). I personally love looking at other people's homes for inspiration so I thought it might be fun to share mine with you.

1. Large metal tiled frame with recycled mirror, made by Geoff.

2. Ikea chairs spray painted white.

3. I screen printed and hand-dyed this runner in my No.03 pattern.

1. Screen printed and handmade pennants. By me.

2. "The Mocking of Christ" by my brother, German.

3. Handmade pillows. By me.

(I got the idea from a decor book to cover an ugly couch with fabric. Much better than navy leather any day.)

4. My favorite piece so far: Geoff and I designed this coffee table/ bench with heavy metal legs. My father cut and made the metal leg frame, while Geoff stained and finished the pine table top.

5. Geoff's first wood work project - 3 individual pine shadow boxes.

You can barely tell, but I pushed the 3 boxes together to make shift a side table.

1. Original bird drawing by German.

(Expedit Ikea bookshelf sits over top of a vent. Geoff made and painted the block legs the shelf sits on to allow air circulation.)

1. Original painting by German. (Love this one.)

Hope you enjoyed the tour. : )

::: Nathalie

You go brother!

Illustration by German Shible

I have to share this. It's too cute!

I got an email from my brother saying he found a post on his art on Beautiful/Decay.com (as in the magazine). He found it while googling his name. I'm sure we're all guilty of this!

They say it's your birthday... It's my birthday too, yeah

Best family ever! ♥ Thanks mum, dad, Geoff, German, René and Diana.

Walton Ford

I really enjoy listening to artists talk about their work and one of my favorites is Walton Ford. The process and the stories behind his art is so impressive.

This is the one book on my wishlist I hope to get.

Christ

The Mocking of Christ original art by German Shible

My brother just got his proofs from ink & dot studio in NY. The final will be a 11x14 giclee fine art reproduction on gorgeous velvety etching paper. He's placed an order for me and I can't wait to get it.

Just one of those days...

Last month it was my camera and now it's my computer.

My mac stopped working last night. Apparently OSX quit! How does an operating system just stop working?

Anyway - the artist features I was working on will have to be put on hold as all of the pictures are on my mac and stupidly, I didn't back up. You don't exactly think your computer will die from one day to the next. Hopefully the people at Apple can help...

In the meanwhile, I'll leave you all with this really awesome clothes pin installation I found. When things look wary, find something that makes you smile.

Picture source: Renegade Blog

I Want

Thanks Uppercase for my recent obsession with Christopher Stott's work.


UPDATE: Prints of Chris's exhibition this past June can be purchased on his etsy store.

Painting: German S.

I say it every time, my brothers are amazing talented artists! Rene is working on his second video game, while German has just taken on painting as a new medium. Above is his self portrait.

::: Nathalie