Sep 18, 2013
Bought this beautiful candle set to add to my bookcase.
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Bought this beautiful candle set to add to my bookcase.
Check out this amazing and inspiring video from our friends at Pollen Arts, the wonderful folks that make our beeswax candles~
(p.s They were just nominated for a Martha Stewart award, vote HERE>!)
When it comes to decorating, the big furniture purchases are important, but to me, the little stuff is what really makes the whole place soar. It's what shows that you're attentive to your space. Also, especially in this day and age, when everyone's got stuff from the same vendors in their homes, it's what distinguishes your IKEA/Pottery Barn/Crate and Barrel from everyone else's.
In my never-ending quest to prettify my beloved abode, I picked up this Pollen Arts candle over the weekend at a wonderful store called Brooklyn ARTery. The candle is molded based on an antique glass bottle, as are all of the candles this company makes. It's made from beeswax, and it smells delicious. I love a scented candle, but sometimes the unadulterated scent of wax is lovely, too. This little guy now has pride of place on my nightstand, and I just can't get over how wonderfully quirky he is. I can't wait to buy a few more and put them around the house!
POLLEN ARTS
Partners in life and art, Pollen Arts creators Peter and Juwels moved from their upscale loft into a solar powered 1975 Winnebago and began making beeswax candles cast in unique, antique glass bottles supplied by collectors befriend amongst their travels in "Winnie". Peter and Juwels are great people, with big dreams of turning a fleet of forgotten Blue Bird school buses into mobilized community studios that create positive jobs promoting sustainability.
Preemptively cutting my nails, these next 2 weeks are going to be brutal, but in an amazing and affirming way :) running a Kill Bill marathon and am neck deep in patterns, experiments, deadlines, and adventures... I'm loving life right now. It's had some real nasty curves for me, but balanced them by randomly providing opportunities to check off a bunch of my life's to do list while placing me right smack in the middle of some wonderful artist communities. I've had to both learn personal humility, some things are outside of my control, and creating/ recognizing auspicious moments and seizing them. It's been hard without my kitties :( I'm missing them terribly. Sigh... On a lighter note, a random story: The other day while sitting at my desk, sewing tiny silky pieces of lingerie together, I heard this strange buzzing... I looked up... Nothing... Went back to work, fingers deftly maneuvering layers of fabric between metal teeth and the smooth arch of the presser foot. Then I heard it again... Looked up- Again, nothing. Odd. This happened a few more times, and I'd begun tuning it out as I got lost in the seams. Then I heard a sort of careening buzzing followed by a soft "thwack" on my desk. I leaned over and peered behind my sewing machine to see an exhausted bee unable to fly anymore. He still had his stinger, and seemed ok, just tired from buzzing around the room. I remember Peter and Juweles' blog, Pollen Arts, and she had been feeding the bees honey when they were tired... I caught him in a jar, and brought him outside where we put a nice blob of honey in a dish to see if that would help. Stubborn, and unable to communicate with us because he's an insect, of course in the process he landed on his back and in the honey. Doh! We got him flipped over, he loved the honey :) they lap it up with long skinny tongues and do a little butt bopping dance :p apparently straight honey gets them a little drunk too, so he seemed to be having an alright time ;) hunger sated and trying to clean himself, his little wings beat furiously as he pulled the sticky stuff off with his back legs. Worried he'd wear himself out, and might not succeed on his own... I dipped a super fine paint brush in water and the bee and I worked out a system were he would buzz as I would oh so delicately brush his wing. Well, it seemed like we worked together, either that or I have such awesome timing I can sync up with bees! I moved him into the sun when we finished, gave him a final smear of honey to pep him up... After some more preening and sunbathing he flew up, up, and away... The end :) True story :p Goodnight lovelies, sweet dreams <3