I saw one of these rugs on Design*Sponge today and fell in love. I followed the link to Angela Adams’ website and fell more in love with all of these nature-inspired rugs. They cost thousands and so I am unable to afford them, but, at least due to the internet I can bask in their beauty. Rugs can’t get dirty and require daily Roomba-ing from cat hair over the internet, right?
Oh, this one is by far my favorite and the most fantastic rug I’ve ever seen. It’s from the “Birds and the Bees” Collection, which is a fancy way of saying that the prices are too expensive to list on the website. Oh, to be rich and have an amazing rug that looks like a floor of moss.
This is also from the Birds and the Bees collection, except it is a cross-section of some underground plant activity.
My second favorite is Ocean/Seaglass, chock-full-of-shades of my favorite color, pale aqua. Although the top view looks a little like camo (blegh), I didn’t get discouraged and seeing the bas-relief makes up for it.
This one is called Spike/Pool and named after a maine coone cat. If you don’t know them already, they are the cats that grow to be kinda giant, and therefore kinda more awesome. I often feel like (my) Radar has a little maine coone in him since he is giant, but being shorthaired and having a raccoon tail, I doubt it.
It’s been mostly mild here – San Francisco winters are in the 50’s with a lot of rain. To combat this I required an umbrella, but Brian broke mine last year with a piece of ice on the day the first photo was taken. (I started the snow fight. He retaliated with ice on accident!) As of last week, I now have an umbrella that is tricksy, looks like a parasol but has umbrella underneath. Black lace covers the top, and it has a big point coming out like umbrellas of olden days. I can’t wait to use it in some photoshoot.
It does crack me up seeing people dressing like snow weather here when it’s in the 50’s. Heavy layers, fur hoods, thick scarves wrapped around faces…then again, I am about to go turn on my radiator, I don’t have much room to talk. We have such large windows that it’s almost as cold inside as it is out…
My etsy shop is finally full! Positively fat. Bloated from the 94 photos I got in the mail yesterday. Tired of printing single photos when people want to buy them, I instead got a large batch done. The past couple of weeks, instead of shooting photos, I’ve just been scanning and editing dust/scratches/eyelashes out of almost 60 photos for future prints.
So, if you were looking for a sweet large or small photograph of mine, please look into my store.
From a few weeks ago after thinking I have no talent/no one wants to hire me/blahblah, things have really turned around for me.
1. fulltime freelance work from an old job that I loved!
2. selling large prints at my etsy starting next week
3. wallpapering my bookshelf (types of ferns) and dresser (inkwell pen nibs in red for the top drawers, old Italian alphabet capitals in the bottom drawers.) Turns a simple Ikea piece of furniture into something beautiful. I also added these knobs that look like coated pieces of coral from Anthropologie (that I cannot find on their website)
4. Tim Walker: Pictures, a book for $125, but getting it for $50 on sale at Anthro. Oh yes. Extreme markdown on my second favorite photographer’s book!
5. happy friends
6. drinking champagne on New Year’s Eve
7. large omelets on New Year’s Day
8. good books – The Child Thief by Brom, HI by Ray Fenwick, A Year in Japan by Kate T. Williamson, Pride & Prejudice & Zombies (from Ame), Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits (from Grandma Mary), I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith, Pursuit of Love & Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
9. good music – Ivana XL, Acid House Kings, Taken By Trees, First Aid Kit, The Like, The Smiths (haha which one is not like the others? Sad boy singers in the 80’s versus soft girl singers in the 00’s)
10. FFFFOUND! This site makes my life/freetime.
11. apartment finally replaced our leaking radiator and leaky kitchen faucet! Warm apartment without drips anywhere.
12. My mom was on My Parents Were Awesome! One of my favorite tumblrs.
13. happy cats that sleep next to you and on you all night :)
There’s going to be an article on me sometime in the future for TWIN magazine, whose editor used to be the editor of Lula. (I love Lula. They only do two issues a year for fifty bucks but it is very worth it.)
Some of my favorite people in Lula:
Zooey Deschanel (and with her is Karen Elson.)
By Ellen von Unwerth.
Natasha Khan / Bat For Lashes.
I would love to be a dreamy fashion photographer, I wish I had more training and connections. This may be my first real connection!
Is design right for me? It seemed the probable direction to choose upon graduating from an art high school, when I decided that vocal performance/opera/musical theatre/whatever you may call it wasn’t going to work out, being a professional waiter while waiting for some big break. And then, even though it killed me and made my weight fluctuate, turned me into a zombie, stole my sleep, stole my spare time, I thought I had done a good amount of quality work.
So why is it
SOHARD
formetomakeit?
After having 7 internships at 5 different companies, I still cannot manage to get a job. I do nice work besides pretty photography?
But I just don’t know enough things?
I would be fine just working in a craft store or the library if it were enough to live on, but most importantly, I would be fine living in a tree house surrounded by books and music and access to the people I love. Tree house. Yeahhhh.
(I like these covers, although I’ve read none of them. From the Bookcover Archive.
The rate I am absorbing book pages has greatly increased during times on unemployment. But as my books-to-put-on-hold list of 50+ was accidentally deleted from the SFLibrary server, unbeknownst to me until today, I no longer have a queue of things to read. An endless sad face.
So, if anyone out there in the vast and spacious internet has a book (or long list of books!) to suggest to me, please do so with expediency! I need to do a lot of fun reading over the holidays, as I will be alone with cats for a week. Embroidering. Cleaning my false teeth. Making tea cozies? I don’t even know what a tea cozy is, nor do I really like tea except chai, but the point is that I will be a little old lady wrapped up in a blanket alone except for cats, and I REALLY NEED BOOKS TO FILL MY TIME OKAY THANKS?! I don’t need to validate myself here on the internet!
I’m going home to North Carolina for Thanksgiving, most likely. Driving the 3-day trip by myself, maybe stay at some KOA’s in a tent. That doesn’t sound so bad.
I’ve been trying to sell my car, and during a test drive by the one legitimate person who responded to my ad, the check engine light came on. This has happened before, but it’s been a $75 fix. I found out from a transmission expert that it will cost $2,362 to fix whatever is wrong with it. 2.3.6.2. That’s like half the worth of my car. I suggested to my dad that I just drive across country and we fix it together since he’s built a Porsche from the ground into being worth 60 thousand dollars, he agreed, hey look next week is Thanksgiving, hey cool this will be my first Thanksgiving in NC in 5 years!
By the way, I am devastated. I hate driving and just wanted to get rid of my car. It has been in great working condition, so I want to sell it, and now due to CA transmission laws, a large portion of my trans needs to be replaced when only one thing is wrong.
This blog is a compilation of the words, images, and the inspiration of Amalia Sieber. (Oh yes, her last name is not 'chimera,' but it is mythical.)
And more..
I am a photographer, designer, animator, all wrapped up in a neat little package of scraps.
I love film, I have rosy cheeks, I wear white dresses, I live in outer space, I live deep in the molten core of the earth, I have walked on the moon, I cannot do the Frug.
