Color Codification

I saw this work by Lauren DiCioccio on 20X200 and thought wow, I love it! Unfortunately they are sold out of the smaller print, but I'm contemplating the larger print for Baby C's room. It goes with the striped walls, right? Anyway, the artist calls this body of work "color codification dot drawings." To make each painting, she lays a sheet of frosted mylar over a magazine page, then assigns a color to every letter (numbers are shades of grayscale) and apply tiny dots of paint over every character on the page according to my color-code. Making the paintings is a lot like solving a cryptogram and the result is a legible blur of dots in the form of the article’s layout, a kind of Braille for the color-inclined. Nice work, Lauren!

To stripe or not to stripe, that is the Question

Above are some images I was inspired by and now I've been completely obsessed with stripes for the last few days and trying to decide if I should "stripe out" a wall in Baby C's room. Should I make my lovely husband indulge in my manic-ness about Baby C's room. I'm thinking that it would be on just one focal wall. What are you thoughts????

Be Mine.

J and I aren't big into Valentine's Day because we believe we don't have to have a day to show our love for one another. Regardless, we were in the spirit and individually came to the conclusion that we would make each other something. Interestingly enough, we both created pieces that were framed. Mine Valentine's gift was inspired by this Etsy site and J's was inspired by his fascination with coding and integers. I love how similar, yet alike we can be sometimes. Happy Valentines Day to all my friends and family. May you see love today and always.

Within the code, you can find, "I love you, Winnie." J can be very sweet sometimes. :)

My piece was made from a recycled bible and hand stamped. I love the way it turned out and how the hearts jump out from the black background like butterflies.

Blue Heaven

I totally gasped when I saw this post this morning on decor8. Absolutely stunning, beautiful and color-lustful! Color can make all the difference in the world, can't it!? If I had these chairs, I would design my whole room around them. Yeah for color updating the iconic Hans J. Wegner Wishbone chair. Can't wait to see the other colors that they come up with, 12 more colorways for their 60th anniversary.

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Marimekko Spring collection

I have always loved the iconic colors and patterns of Finnish company, Marimekko. Bold, simple, and always colorful. Check out their latest collection of prints, here. I can't believe I don't own anything from them yet....if anyone wants to get me a gift....this is my hint. :)