Here's a few more from Boise, Idaho

All of the Anthro stores are doing a huge Cork project for Earth Day. They had just started installing the one here. There was a sign in the window explaining about the sustainability of cork forests. We were fortunate to meet the Visual co-ordinator as she was beginning to work on it. She was sweet and lovely, as was everyone we spoke to in that store. Lisa told us she had attended the grand opening of the Domain store in Austin. I really like the way their employees get to travel to diffferent locations to help out. They all seem to know one another no matter which location they work in.

Click on photo to see larger, hopefully it can be read.


Lovely Lisa in the window. See the threads? She was going to be attaching corks to all the threads. I wanted to go back in a few days to see it finished, but alas, we ran out of time.


Evidence of being there. Me and the Hubster in front of a giant mirror.


Art in Public Spaces. Downtown.

Tourist Site:Anthropologie

On a recent trip to the Pacific Northwest to see family, we managed to sneak away for a short while to feed my obsession with Anthropologie stores. Fortunately I had already done my research and had the addresses of three stores in the areas we were going to be. My photo skills were really challenged on this first one. Wish I had better ones to show, but I forgot to use the flash in most of them. Sometimes the flash causes glare, but without it...well, you'll see.

This set was all taken at the Boise, Idaho store.

Window display, paper flowers on real branches. Flowers were cut from book pages and assorted tissue papers.






Giant basket full of scarves.


This is Frank. He was patiently waiting for someone while they shopped. In talking to him, I found out he had just moved to Boise from Houston. He was happy to meet some other Texans. He was a really nice guy.


This wall behind where the registers were, was the most awesome thing. The photos do not do it justice. It really blew me away. It was made of the spines of old books, and squares cut from aluminum soda cans. I think some of the squares were other metals too, can't recall exactly all of it.


It had an undulating curve about it where they made it dimensional.


I hope if you click on the photo to make it larger, you can see where they stapled the squares together.



Some of the longer strips appeared woven, but a lot were just squares stapled together. If I remember correctly the background was either canvas cloth or maybe burlap. Wish I had written down what the girl was explaining to me. I really wanted to take this piece home with me. If I could have all the stuff I see at their stores, I would just be living in an Anthropologie warehouse! And my gal pals could all come live there with me.

New Anthropologie Eye Candy

My silly, frivolous escape from the horrible things going on in the real world. If only for awhile. A walk through the Anthropologie with my camera. The Domain, Austin, Tx.

The seawall display at this one wasn't quite as elaborate as the one in San Antonio, but still nice.




These flowers were made from torn strips of heavy watercolor paper.




Park bench and pots


Nice cupboard with recipe written on papered inside.


Cute plates


How about having this wall of metal boxes for a huge room divider?


Sleep shirt. Love this bird on a wire fabric.

Never Enough Anthropologie

The Shops at La Cantera is the location of this Anthropologie. When I got there I realized I had neglected to download my camera card, and didn't have an extra. So I was madly trying to delete some photos so I'd have room for Anthro photos. Didn't get a lot of shots, but I will be going back there for sure. Hubby and I will be going to San Antonio more often this year.

Wooden Hangers and Clothespins form these flowers. Aren't they delightful?



Looking from the indside out, across the courtyard. I really like the silhouette of these, even though the photo is dark.


A very cool display made of cut up blue jeans, with some succulents planted in a few of the openings.


Hubby noticed this and really liked the woven burlap on this wall, which was also covered in burlap.


Bunnies, oh my!


A gorgeous sea wall theme, with fishing nets. This photo does not do justice to how wonderful this was.

On the left wall behind the boat, this corner had colorful cups attached to the net. Looked like beautiful fish just brought in from the sea.


This is Lindsay. She welcomed us to the store and was so sweet and kind to us. She showed us a lot of new things they had gotten in. We also chatted about visiting different Anthro stores around the country and even around the globe. How where we go on vacation depends if they have an Anthropologie store there! I hope she doesn't mind this photo, she was running from me when I tried to snap an earlier one, but she did pose for this one. Thanks Lindsay, for all your help.

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!

Window Shopping

WEST ELM
Corrugated cardboard everywhere. In packaging, ornaments, display. I tried to talk them into selling me one of these giant chandeliers.


Book pages used for display, in garlands, flowers, covering branches, etc.


Wooden Pallets, in the middle of the room, with ornaments displayed on them.


Giant Acorn ornament, had to have since I collect them. Every year Hub and I buy at least one new one, so this is the one for 2010.


Lots of nice gift items in stationery, Lomo cameras, and a ton of items that come out this time of year. Of course these caught my eye. Buckets of Japanese masking tape. I used every bit of self-control I could muster. I only bought 2 stacks, green and orange.


FREE PEOPLE
This is a store that has amazing accessories, and jewelry. The clothing is mostly for teenagers in size OO though. Very nice Christmas displays. I really liked the decorated twigs and their boxes were all industrial Kraft color with a light brushing of gesso over them. Also this tree on the wall, made with a lot of found objects. Reminds me very much of the trees my Mother and Aunts used to make with costume jewelry on velvet and then framed them.

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!