Ikea

My office/sewing room is once again in disrepair and in some bad need of pretty storage. So where does one find cheap yet stylish options? Ikea of course! I ended up buying two candy-apple red Helmer drawer carts. Two episodes of Glee later one of them was done.

While in the store I also took a gander at all the beautifully designed objects.

Thomas Paul Fabrics

 Get your fix here.

Design Firm: The MVA

The company I work for is in the smelling business. It's kind of hard to explain so I will let you check it out for yourselves: http://www.fivesenses.com/.  Anyway, for a number of years we have been lucky enough to provide the nasty and distinctive smells for the Soap Factory's - an art gallery in Minneapolis - haunted basement. While there I noticed and picked up their very awesome looking show flyer. 

So yes, my post is now getting to the point.

From The MVA

Etsy

From Annajoyce

How to Design Fabric

Image from Burda Style

Check out this wonderful interview from Liesl Gibson on BurdaStyle.com. She explains her design process when creating a line of fabric. One day I would like to use my mad skills to create something that would actually be used to cloth someone. I justify my ever growing collection of fabric - especially rare vintage fabric - as a designer's resource. Maybe someday I could even do it as a business expense? Or maybe not.