It ticks all the boxes when it comes to the perfect paint color, and we can't get enough of it.

I queried "modern quilt guilds" in Pinterest this afternoon and discovered that 30 guilds have Pinterest sites. Each of those sites have various board and many pins. There are a few guilds who are just starting their sites and fewer than 15 pins, but some have as many several hundred to a thousand. If you are interested in modern quilts, fabrics and guilds, you might consider using Pinterest. One of the themes I noticed as I looked through several of the guild sites is the use of circles. If you want to easily go to the Pinterest site with all 30 modern guilds, click this link.

The Society of Publication Designers, SPD, announced the finalists for its yearly magazine design awards. This year's entrants are terrific eye candy. The awards are considered one of the industry's premier laurels. There are too many to list in a single blog post, so we've culled some highlights for you:

Can you dig it? We're taking a look back at interior design from the 1970s, and wondering whether or not we'd be so invested in shag carpeting today.

We've pulled together a sampler of endless stitch-spiration.

Myriam Balaÿ creates beautiful luxurious and minimalist textile jewelry. Her designs are all handmade in France. She uses cotton, linen and silk to create these colorful pieces. They bring joy to every outfit.

Embrace the beauty of autumn blooms. These incredibly inspiring fall flower gardens have us falling in love with nature all over again! 🍁🌼

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Tasha Tudor chose one of the most powerful quotes, as the sign off to her letter writing, Take Joy. . Take Joy. . Did you get it? Had you already had the epiphany? . Doesn't seem possible. Yet it's true. Joy is always present. 'Take', is up to you. . Pic, above, here. . Green Meatballs have irritated me for decades, then this, above. How could I not laugh? Apparently I adore green boxes and wedges. . Recognize the stone path, above ? Variation of the centuries old stone wheelbarrow paths. . Hint of Tara Turf, above, too. Meadows of Tara Turf, pure pollinator habitat. Tara Turf under fruit trees historically named, guilds. Pic, above, here. . Evergreens/trees, meadow, home, above/below. Relationships. Core connections. House to garden, garden to Nature, us to garden, Nature to us. . At the front end, decades ago, I could not be this simple, above/below. Not for me, I was still too special, knew so little, thought I knew something. Now, the garden, above, reeks of sacred & scientific wisdom. A gift from centuries of the best minds. In conversation with us, if we'll listen. . Simple? I see layers of complexity, above. At the front end, for years, I saw none of the complexity. Complexity? Aka, layers of riches. . Pic, above, here. . Squished smaller, the meadow, below, is a brick terrace. Variations on a theme. . Pic, above, here. . Pic, above, here. . In all seasons, below, these gardens delight. Design your garden for February, and you've designed it for all year. No matter the style of your design. . Pic, above, here. . Aside from natural affinities of placement, house to meadow, house to hedges, house to allees, which reign, I assess an odd secondary reigning power. Furniture. Where do you want to sit, where do you want to eat, where do you want to visit with friends, where do you want to nap, where do you want to read....? . Aside from the bonuses of complexity with gardening simply, these are the gardens going full measure, into age, theirs and yours, and into the Great Beyond*. "Three chords, and truth.", as they described early Country music. . If you aren't sure about a garden this 'simple' it's apparent, they allow you to fill in, to a greedy heart's content, with flowers/flowers/flowers. Begin with flowers/flowers/flowers, please do. It's how I get the majority of my clients. . Simplicity of these gardens is a liturgy of Nature, if you see their complexity. Nothing we have to do, everything done by Nature, for us. . "Nothing is ever solved. Solving is an illusion. There are moments of spontaneous brightness, when the mind appears emancipated, but that is mere epiphany." Patti Smith . And I've been the epiphany hunter, for decades, in my garden. . "There’s no hierarchy. That’s the miracle of a triangle. No top, no bottom, no taking sides. Take away the tags of the Trinity — Father, Son and Holy Spirit — and replace each with love. See what I mean? Love. Love. Love. Equal weight encompassing the whole of so called spiritual existence." Patti Smith . And I've broken layers of Garden Design into trinities, for decades. . "Just negotiating zones. No rules. No change. But then everything eventually changes. It’s the way of the world. Cycles of death and resurrection, but not always in the way we imagine." Patti Smith . And I've had decades with little change. Saturday, driving the Blue Ridge Parkway, a World Heritage Site, coming back, Beloved asked which way I wanted to go. Another highway or the Blue Ridge Parkway again. Depths within answered, "What is first will be last, and what is last will be first." Oddly, Beloved got it & he's not normally Metaphor Man. . Benediction, returning, along the Blue Ridge Parkway. . “The grounds for hope are in the shadows, in the people who are inventing the world while no one looks, who themselves don’t know yet whether they will have any effect…” Rebecca Solnit . Hope is like joy, it's always there, if we take. “You too have come into the world to do this, to go easy, to be filled with light, and to shine.” Mary Oliver . We have great help along the way, with unseen partners, heroes, liberators, teachers, lovers, and none must necessarily be human. Gardens do this. Whether you think so or not. . For better and worse, growing up, my dad was an engineer, part of a team of 50 great engineers first to put man on the moon. Will never forget something he said about electricity, "We know how to use electricity, but we don't know what it is." . His lone sentence, about electricity, informs beyond its basics, if you take it to. . Recently, discovering trees use electrical current, no different than we have pulsing in our brain or heart, to communicate, I knew, finally, my communicating with gardens wasn't merely feel-good-mumbo-jumbo, nor one-way. Science caught up, to what Garden Whisperers have understood from birth. . "Yes, trees are the foundation of forests, but a forest is much more than what you see… Underground there is this other world — a world of infinite biological pathways that connect trees and allow them to communicate and allow the forest to behave as though it’s a single organism. It might remind you of a sort of intelligence." Suzanne Simard . From Brain Pickings, "Simard, whose research was foundational to German forester Peter Wohlleben’s wildly popular book The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate, discusses her work and the improbable path that led her to it in her wonderful full-length TED talk: " Garden & Be Well, XO T If you have no time now, mental mark to watch later. Stunning. . A hoot, thinking back in college Horticulture would be rather safe from new discoveries. Dunce hat thinking. . Earlier this month Beloved & I went to Brasstown Bald, highest elevation in Georgia. After touring the museum, I debated speaking to the Ranger about the museum's outdated 'science' of flora in the region. . You know I did. . Ranger's face was frozen at 90 mph wind force. And I had mentally prearranged my delivery manner to him in advance. So. You watch the TED film about how Trees Communicate, tell me how it goes ............................................................................................................ My little story about driving the Blue Ridge Parkway earlier? First time to be in a true forest, after seeing this TED talk, above. Changes everything. How clueless we must be about so much more upon this Earth. . Thank you to everyone keeping up with Beloved. His procedure with chemo beads into the liver cancer zone went well. His liver transplant was delayed a year due to the prostate cancer. He must be clear of prostate cancer recurrence for a year due to immunosuppressants given after transplant. Those drugs make any cancer grow minimum 10x faster. . We're considering this year a sweet spot of time. And it already is. ........................................................................................................................................ * Leonard Cohen.....and the Great Beyond, below. 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I would describe Ipanema as a delectable frozen yogurt. A traditional beach neighborhood with a tangy Brazilian twist.

Embrace the beauty of autumn blooms. These incredibly inspiring fall flower gardens have us falling in love with nature all over again! 🍁🌼

A roundup of amazing backyard eye candy that will be the perfect inspiration for your outdoor spring and summer oasis.

Renee Grau = Toulouse-Lautrec + fashion Artist featured in 100 Years of Fashion Illustration On my library wish list...

Bari of We Love French Knots posted the covers of four contemporary Japanese embroidery books. I got lost in the details for at least ten minutes. Imagine how long I would be on Planet Embroidery i…

The history of large barn paintings in Appalachia. How to make your own and what some of the images mean

Sometimes, in regards to my blog, I want to roam outside of the craft circle and share something I find quite inspirational, entertaining or awakening. This is such a post. It is about our interconnection with nature and that God has provided everything we need to be healthy and cure body ailments - and all that is at the reach of our hands. For me it arrived in the form of a mail and finally I decided to archive it here. Later, while searching the Net I discovered that there is a book by the same name by Herman Uys and the book endeavours to address and remedy the causes of sickness and disease, instead of suppressing the symptoms. I am using just a short extract to catch your attention. The truth behind the words: A sliced carrot looks like the human eye. The pupil, iris and radiating lines look just like the human eye. They greatly enhance blood flow to and function of the eyes, and help protect the vision, especially night vision. As you may suspect from their looks walnuts resemble the brain with the wrinkles and folds of the neo-cortex - there are clearly divided left and right hemisphere, upper cerebrums and lower cerebellums. Research suggests that walnuts may reduce the risk or delay the onset of Alzheimer’s disease.The high concentration of omega-3 fats in walnuts promotes healthy brain function. The tomato with its color and chambers resembles the heart and researches have shown that they are rich in lycopine and are pure heart and blood food. Besides preventing heart diseases, they also prevent prostate cancer, breast cancer and more. Tomato juice can also reduce the tendency toward blood clotting. Onions look like body cells. They help clear the waste material from body cells and along with their relative the garlic are considered cancer fighters. Avocados were used by the Aztecs as a sex stimulant and the Aztec name for avocado was ahuacatl, meaning “testicle”. An extract of avocado impedes the growth of both androgen dependent and independent prostate cancer cells. On the same note figs increase the mobility of male sperm and increase their count to overcome male sterility. Oranges and other citrus resemble female mammary glands. These fruits contain nutrients that are helpful in the fight against breast cancer. Olives resemble ovaries and may help reduce hot flashes in women going through menopause. Research indicates that Olive Oil may reduce ovarian cancer by 30%. This is not all. What about grapes, celery, rhubarb, sweet potatoes, kidney beans and more? They all have their contribution. You just have to find it out. For more raising awareness here is a link

Want to learn how to make natural dyes at home (with items you likely already have?) This guide has everything you need to get started!

Bridget Watson Payne's tips on small-space living — with big personality.

I recently came across Czech illustrator Miroslav Sasek‘s set of reissued children’s travel books and instantly fell in love. After publishing the first of his This Is… series in 1959, M. Sasek continued to capture the essence of worldly destinations like London, Israel,…

Ahhh la dolce vita … C'est le soleil, l’été, les cigales… Plongez dans cet univers de vacances lors de votre mariage en choisissant ce thème !