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!

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.

For The Love of Anthropologie

My Favorite recurring fantasy dream, is that I live inside an Anthropologie store. I don't care which one. I've removed most all the clothing, and my art stuff is everywhere. of course I have left my favorite displays, books, cabinets, furniture, etc. and hung a lot of my own collections around. In each of their "vignettes" I have a space for working on art. One for sewing, one for paper, one for jewelry and metal stuff. One for large wood things, stacks of boxes, etc. And of course a big sturdy ladder, for reaching and decorating to the rafters. Ah, I'd hang a collection of chairs from the rafters. This particular Anthropologie store has really HIGH rafters. And very bright lights!

These are the spring/summer displays so far. This is the first one you see inside the front door.


Be still my heart! If it is turquoise I melt. Same pots, different color.


More greenery and a cool wall display.



TEXTURES AND COLORS AROUND THE STORE
Scarves

Lamps

Houseware dept.

Owlies..Oh my!


Dyed, rolled paper


The blue painted wall I always take a shot of. It's a bit ordinary this time.


I love their lampshades. How cool is this one wrapped in twill tapes?