by Sue Schlabach | Sep 10, 2016 | Autumn, Design, homepage, In the Studio, Paintings, Summer
Here’s a little weekend watercolor applied over an ink drawing I did a while ago. It’s part of this collection if you’d like to see more. Wishing you a happy weekend and some creativity or exploring on your horizon. I am painting and sewing this...
by Sue Schlabach | Dec 21, 2015 | Artisanal Living, Design, Scandinavia, Vermont
A few weeks ago I was invited to journal for a week as a friend of Gudrun Sjoden, the Swedish designer whose art, home and clothing lines epitomize everything I love about design. Her art is infused with color, pattern, whimsy, beauty, ethnicity and a nod toward...
by Sue Schlabach | Mar 28, 2014 | Color, Creativity, Design, Interior Design, London, Vermont
I feel well familiar with whiteness right now. Our landscape remains monochrome, blanketed with snow. But I leave for London tomorrow where the grass is green and the air is mild. Mild never sounded so good. I’ve been remiss in writing about an afternoon I spent...
by Sue Schlabach | Feb 14, 2014 | Artisanal Living, Artists, Creativity, Design, Paintings
In the continued quest to think about how to creatively cover my thrashed, but cozy, feather-filled couch, I came across the artist Heather Chontos’ canvas painted throw. That’s inspired. Heather writes and occupies a sublime spot in Portland, Maine. I...
by Sue Schlabach | Feb 6, 2014 | Artists, Design, Natural World, Vermont, Winter
2014 is marching onward. Here I am in February watching the light change and finding myself cleaning the house with spring on my mind and snow whirling outside the windows. My daughter turned 12. We are on the verge or acquiring a horse that needs a home. Life is...
by Sue Schlabach | Nov 20, 2013 | Artisanal Living, Creativity, Design, Eating and Cooking, England, Friendship, London, Travel
London, September. Bonnington Square was lit dimly by streetlights as we left the busy roads near the Vauxhall Station. Sara described it to me on the Tube, and here it was, as though she’d conjured it. The corner Italian deli, the little restaurant where they...