Spring at Anthropologie

Wow, here we are, it's March. I have had no time for shopping, window or otherwise! What with physical therapy for my shoulder, helping hubby with the business, and a lot of other busy stuff. Well, I was in Anthropologie withdrawal, so I finally made it downtown last week. They were still working on their new displays so I didn't get too many photos, but will show what I did get. This is the downtown location in Austin.

Entrance bench.


Window from entrance side. If you can't tell, these flowers are made of the paper covered wire hangers.

Window from Lamar Street


Look what those clever people did with Japanese masking tapes! Top section of glass door cabinet.

Lower section


Cool houses and pillows


Speaks for itself..fabric jewelry. Love!


These were little bits of wood blocks and scraps, painted...so clever. Hard to tell from the photo, the dimension. If the tall hubby had been with, I might have had him take the photo, straight on.


That's it for now. Check back tomorrow for my week-end trip to San Antonio, and you guessed it...Anthropologie!

Away Too Long

I've spent the last few months in a lot of pain with rotator cuff problems. I pretty much had NO movement in my arm/shoulder without severe pain. I finally had surgery October 13th and have been recovering since. Physical Therapy is a neccessary evil, and it does help. There are still a lot of things I can't do yet, but can lift my arm above my head at least.

Not much artsy stuff or photographs of late. I was able to play with some of my tapes and even acquire a few more rolls.
Here's one little sampler that I put together in a book I'm dedicating to tape play.


I have a few other pages in various stages, and I'm still on the lookout for more tapes to add to my collection. Don't know why, but all this tape makes me smile. And I need more! Tape and smiles!

Tape and More Tape

7 Gypsies Brand tape


I got a few new rolls of tape this week. I really love the red and yellow polka dotted one. It has a splotchy hand painted look. I am driving myself crazy trying to round up all the different tapes I have bought. My bad habits keep me searching for stuff all the time. I will grab something and take it into another room to use, then instead of taking it back where it came from, I will lay it down right there. Then it gets covered with something else and then it's lost. I keep thinking there is a ghost in this place, who keeps hiding my stuff...especially my Tim Holtz tape. I bought a package of the tissue tapes, brought it home, put it aways somewhere, then couldn't find it. I thought maybe I had just thought I bought it, so I bought another package. Now it is missing..never opened, never used. Grr...
This tray shows just a few of the ones I am trying to keep together, and several of the ones that I thought were there, are missing.