Life has been a bit hectic over the past week thus my belated Monheagn post. Below is the first collection of my favorite pictures from my little summer getaway off the coast of Maine. Stay tuned for part II and a few stories!
My friend requested that I create a custom going away card for her close friend. This lovely lady is moving from Maine to London so I used vintage maps to create the imagery. A handmade craft paper envelope held it all together.
I am really inspired by nature’s design and what better way to take it all in but by a nautical chart or topographical map?! I’ve played around with coloring in clusters on an old chart with a paint-by-numbers approach.
I want this so badly! A hand illustrated, screen printed map to plot out your global domination! Complete with a tin of pins to mark out your strategy, red to mark your location, blue to mark your next target and black pins to mark the rest. Oliver, Mac and Aaron create their product line YOU AND ME THE ROYAL WE out of Brooklyn, New York. Check out their complete collection here. Absolutely brilliant!
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I must first apologize for the sheer volume of photographs, but I wanted to give you the full tour. The table is topped with a collection of vintage tin cans, paint box and a flour sifter with small painted cakes on the side, on the far right is a collection of old fruit boxes and rocks, yes rocks. I take pleasure in simple things. Above hanging on the homosote board is a collection of some of my favorite photos from the past. Across the window is another recycled sail banner (made with the leftovers from an earlier project.) The Skipjack box I snatched from the recycling while waitressing in Bar Harbor this past summer at The Burning Tree Restaurant. A vintage dresser keeps me organized while an old wooden fruit box holds a few of my favorite books and magazines. Candies from a Russian Market in Boston hold a pinwheel in a glass jar next to the books with my grandmother’s old rotary telephone on the far right. Above the dresser I’ve hung a few vintage maps, photographs and screenprinted poster I bought while at MICA. I am still looking for a stool and am going to paint the old captain’s chair energetic orange. Here’s the beginning! More to come!
(yes that is a crocheted hostess cupcake pin cushion) (I didn’t make it)
the vintage fisherman knome keeps me company.
During my last day on Mount Dessert Island I climbed to the top of Cadillac Mountain (in a car) with three friends. I had gone up the day before and scouted the location for the shoot, it was a beautiful blustery day. Luckily Sunday was much warmer and the winds had calmed a bit. Audrey modeled and Lily and Abbie assisted. The four of us made our way out on the rocks and that’s when the fun began. Here are some of my favorites…
I have been planning a new collection this summer and very slowly executing it. Here is a little teaser with proper documentation to come within the next couple of days!
