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Building a Booth

I've been at CHA, the Craft and Hobby Association show, spreading the word about Craft Stylish for the past few days, which (sort of) explains my lack of posting this week. It's been a really interesting week and I have a lot to process. There were some cool things (lots of new great craft products) and some ridiculous things (Paris Hilton's scrapbooking line) and I have learned a lot about a side of the industry that we crafters don't usually get to see.
One of my favorite parts of the show was concepting and building the Craft Stylish booth. A bunch of put our heads together and came up with an idea that was impactful and inexpensive: we folded up hundreds of magazine back issues (you can see a pile of them above) and created an installation the booth wall. People really loved it and it made an interesting statement about old versus new media! To see more about the installation, check out the article here.

Marimekko

Did you know that Marimekko has a blog?

They just posted some new fabric designs for Spring 2009. This one's my favorite.

Joetta Maue

Heartfelt sentiments (some sweet, some sassy) are embroidered onto vintage linens or hand-cut into banners by Joetta Maue.
She has a shop here or see more of her artwork here.
I love handcrafted type in art, especially script. How about you?

PS- I am in an embroidery show here in NYC on February 6th at Gallery Hanahou. I'll tell you more about that soon!

Inauguration Day!

photo from cnn.com

What a glorious day it was! I was pretty busy doing, well, a million things, but I did get chance to watch some coverage of the Inauguration and a bit of the Ball. It's so easy to get caught up in the day, running here and there, sending emails and returning phone calls but when I stopped for just one second, I remembered what an amazing historical day it was. I could see it in the eyes of many of my fellow New Yorkers: people seemed happy, content, strangers were smiling at each other.
When the President and the First Lady took that stage and danced, I got a little choked up. And didn't Michele look stunning in her Jason Wu dress? I love that she takes fashion risks.

Speaking of fashion risks: oh Aretha, that bow! If this is any indication of what's to come I would say we are in for a fabulous ride.

Credit Card Mosaic

Here's a new recycled craft tutorial I made over at Craft Stylish: a mosaic made from old credit cards!

This has been a really awesome month so far: check out these other fantastic recycled craft projects.

Sarah May and the Big Balloon Trend

There's been a lot of talk lately about how balloons are a big design trend. It makes sense: they're whimsical and colorful and they make people happy. I think a lot of us could use a little bit of happy right now. Design trends don't form in a vacuum. There's a reason why hemlines rise and fall with the economy!
While I was looking for something else entirely, I happened upon these photos on prop stylist Sarah May's site. So beautiful right? I like to think that these balloons all found each other in the woods on their own.

Amour sans Anguish

I am in love with these romantic dresses by designer Tawny Holt of Amour sans Anguish. Can someone please get me that purple one? Thanks.

Conversation Hearts

These conversation heart cookies from Martha's February issue are killing me with cuteness. I think I might have gasped when I turned the page and saw them.
Despite my dislike for the typical commercial trappings of Valentine's Day, as a stylist I love the look of Valentine's Day. Do you know what I mean? Hearts, red, pink, lace and doilies? It's all so deliciously over-the-top. Mr. Love Forever and I don't really celebrate Valentine's Day but I think that I am going to do some baking and give a few things to friends.
What do you think about Valentine's Day? Love it? Hate it?

Matthew Williamson in Elle Decor UK

I love the richness of color and the mix of design styles in Matthew Williamson's London home. I think that fearlessness is the best quality to have in designing your home. Just buy what you love and you will make it work.

Same Blog, New Feed

Hello,
Mr. Loveforever here.
As you probably have noticed, we've changed a few things at Love Forever. First, for a variety of technical, business and reliability reasons we moved the blog from Wordpress to Typepad. We then moved the domain name from thisisloveforever.com/blog to www.thisisloveforever.com. Typing in the old address will still redirect to the new address but if you're linking to the website from a post or another blog, then be sure to update to the new address.

We also changed the feed name. If you notice your feed not working (you're not getting the latest posts), be sure to update the RSS address to our feedburner link: http://feeds.feedburner.com/thisisloveforever (or click on the RSS icon in your browser's URL bar).

Please let us know if you see any mysterious behavior or inconsistencies with the blog.

Thanks for reading!
-Adam