Mimi and Sky

The new green magazine that has it all: Pure Green Magazine

Mimi and Sky — Sun, 13 May 2012 22:27:57 +0000

Happy Mother’s Day to you! Maybe you can celebrate your life as a Mom with your sweet children and partner by being newly inspired about green living. Mothers might just be the ones to turn the way we live around to reflect a gentler existence. Maybe we can do this by making little changes to our homes and how we live in them. I love to happily cruise online through this great spread out of Canada: Pure Green Magazine. It has inspirational design for homes, innovative and cool products for parents and children, recipes, and tips about easy changes for eco living. The travel sections are amazing and even though I can’t go to some of these places, I travel in my mind and it hits the spot sometimes. This magazine is the Martha Stewart/Domino for eco living. The previous editor of the newly re-published and now seasonal Domino magazine, who is currently the editor of the vastly fun and beautiful Design Sponge, wrote about Pure Green Magazine and how inspiring it is for her. I love the baby and kid stuff as it’s wonderful that there are so many of us out there trying to make beautiful and safe products for children. It’s worth checking out. http://www.puregreenmag.com/pure-green-blog

Traditional toile design

maseditor — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 19:34:05 +0000

I love this traditional toile design in a contemporary pencil sketch style, found on Ebay. It says “Little dreamer” in French. The polka dot fabric is, of course, Les Indiennes interior design fabric – organic cotton traditionally hand printed (no use of machines or electricity) by an artisan community in India. Brilliant way to support the continuation of very worthy ancient artisan methods. Check out www.lesindiennes. com for more fantastic textiles and interior design enchantment.

Comforter Eugenie

maseditor — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 19:24:35 +0000

The comforter Eugenie, named after our great aunt from Paris (who brought our family from to Montmarte to Chicago) with an art nouveau goddess. She, the goddess, oversees John Pugh’s living room and he is a successful muralist in Truckee.

Monogramming by Edith Mezard

maseditor — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 19:14:16 +0000

Monogramming by the genius Edith Mezard, (whisper…my hero) who brought back the art of monogramming in Provence, France. Her monogrammed linens sell internationally at boutiques and the Ritz hotel chains. This is a poem monogrammed on a linen panel.

Baby Comforter | Aunt Germaine

maseditor — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 19:41:54 +0000

Named after my Aunt Germaine, from Paris, who learned to be a seamstress and do monogramming in Chicago starting at the age of 13 to help support the family who just moved to the U.S. She was a painter too, and a very strong personality (tres formidable). Happy Thanksgiving Germaine, wherever you are!