RASKOG

Maybe this name holds little meaning for you but in this household, Raskog is a darling.


I fell in love with Raskog, this beautiful turquoise 3-tiered cart, when doing some online window shopping this Spring. It became available at Ikea a month ago nearby our home and we left promptly at 7am on a Saturday morning to be sure to get her.  After returning home and a rather tough time getting her up the stairs, we opened up our flat box to put her together and found Raskog was in fact Stenstorp, and we were not impressed. The next day, all the 'real' Raskogs were sold and I was left once again to scour the nearby locations on the Ikea website, hopefully checking each store's "stock prognosis".  


At one point, Yahtzee even rode over an hour away at the promising show of six trolleys in stock in Connecticut, returning empty-handed to a very disappointed Dasha. 


Well this week based on another lead, Yahtzee took a ride out to NJ to pick her up "again, of course calling ahead of time to be sure she was really on the shelf. Tonight he put our little Raskog together and here she stands in all her amazing blue glory, ready to be stuffed to the brim with make-up and perfume and nail polish and scarves and pretty hair clips!


Husband does good.
He's a true blue little darling too.

 

It's finally done!

I was inspired by a light box. An old massive light box that i found at a stoop sale on 14th street.
See, originally i was looking for a lit sign for our apartment, but upon seeing this, i knew it could be something even more more original. I had a few ideas all centered around our flat name, Urban Disco - and knew the style and message i wanted to convey.

So i met with this beautiful artist, also known as my sister - and it just took off from there.


Artist at Work from Stephanie Hays on Vimeo.

Several iterations and one year later, we arrived at this very awesome, very telling, every original Urban Disco sign.

i then worked with a local printer to get it scaled to light box size and transferred on transparent paper. It was a very exciting process and what made it even more special is that the Artist was visiting when i went to approve the proof. So here we are, stayin' alive at the Urban Disco with this very large, bright and PERFECT sign of which we are still deciding on where to hang (thinking now the foyer versus the "create room"!).

And we couldn't be happier with it.

 

I HEART Polaroids

"raw" polaroid by Brian Rawson

"sunny days ahead" polaroid by Dasha!

I bought an old typewriter recently and did my first project -- typeface on a polaroid of Joyce and Jason just after the ceremony from their beautiful Montana wedding.
The theme is "going-to-the-sun" in line with the road through Glacier State Park.