Daily Poetics

...And here the last words your fingers wrote, Scrawled in broad characters across a page In this brown book I gave you.

Link: Secret Leaves paperworks Home.

"We are sitting in our cozy home studio listening to music and crafting beautiful things from paper.  We are fascinated by the stranger parts of nature and use images from the natural world in the things we create. We are enamored with vintage ephemera and constantly hunting for "treasures". We recycle whenever we can.

Most of all, we are happy to be doing what we love. "  -Secret Leaves Paperworks

Title Quote: Edna St. Vincent Millay

In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are empty.

Link: Somersaults Life Archives.

Somersaults™ Life Archives
your life – full circle

"The genuine little details of everyday experiences when collected and curated add up to the eternal essence of our loved ones’ lives. Hand-me-down moments with the click of a shutter become frozen in time and our hearts. Sand between our toes. Tears of joy at the alter. That certain aroma from the back seat three days into the trip. The impossibly soft strip of satin on that tiny blanket. Fresh cut grass filling our every breath. The nervous first kiss and lingering last dance. Our dreams, loves, fears, triumphs and defeats captured in sights, sounds and words to be relived for generations. Somersaults™ Life Archives collects and protects all of your moments and memories in artfully produced products designed to make sure your loved ones’ lives come full circle." -somersaults

Design by Eric Kass, Funnel
Title Quote: Robert Aris Willmott

Always be a poet, even in prose.

Link: Etsy :: wickedpen :: billet-doux.

"This special dancing girl press limited edition collection of missives is sure to entice and delight. 15 poets. 15 love letters. Each piece written and designed by the poet themselves and collected in a lovely box. A volume sure to thrill the poetry and art lover (as well as the occasional voyeur.)

Each box includes letters, postcards, and prints by Jane Pupek, Erin Bertram, Bronwen Tate, Michaela Gabriel, Cecilia Pinto, Shawn Fawson, Diane Kendig, Christine Hamm, Jeannette Sayers, Suzanne Frischkorn, Annie Finch, Emma Bolden, Julie Enszer, Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis, and Kelli Russell Agodon." -wicked pen

Title Quote: Charles Baudelaire

When I look on you a moment, then I can speak no more, but my tongue falls silent, and at once a delicate flame courses beneath my skin, and with my eyes I see nothing, and my ears hum, and a wet sweat bathes me, and a trembling seizes me all over

Link: Keith E. Lo Bue - Jewelry

posession

"Optometrist's test lens, bronze key fragment, steel tack, steel wire, steel-point engravings, paper, text."

Title Quote: Sappho

Slowly it wanders,-pauses,-creeps,-Anon it sparkles,-flashes and leaps; And ever as onward gleaming goes...

Link: Studio d.sharp : inspiration..

"Denise Sharp, the proprietor of Studio d.Sharp, is a visual artist with a fine arts degree in sculpture and printmaking . With a childhood immersed in artistic pursuits - rendering studies of the family dog , calligraphy commissions and countless greeting cards - she is rarely without a project in hand or creative wheels turning. She is a maker of things. She is also a bit of a magpie - a natural collector with a keen eye, particularly attracted to shiny found objects. With a past stint as an antiques dealer, she and her simpatico husband would haul home more things to feather their nest than to sell. Her house and studio swells with vintage ephemera and quirky collections that serve to inspire - her paper trophies are a playful nod to her collection of tarnished loving cups as her private metropolis of souvenir buildings inspired her landmark candy containers.

 

Her body of work grew out this reverence for vintage charm and her desire to imbue personal celebrations with intimate and memorable details - a table for twenty set with festive sheet music hats. the gift of a handmade cake topper for a friend's wedding, a charming crown a reminder of her son's first birthday. These touches serve as treasured souvenirs and make for occasions rich in meaning and individuality.

Studio d. Sharp's line of paper luxuries declare the significance of the celebration. With busy hands, Denise strives to capture the imagination and with a keen eye, she will continue to look for inspiration in the unexpected and grace in the most simple of objects."

Fancies that broke through language and escaped...

Link: Beautiful Specimens.

via Dear Ada

 

"a ‘slider’ made of ivory or bone, containing specimens held between disks of transparent mica. These were popular in Victorian England until the Royal Microscopical Society introduced the standardized microscope slide in the form of a thin sheet of glass used to hold objects for examination under a microscope.”

I’d like to add the following: Antique microscope slides, looked at from a strictly aesthetic standpoint (egged on by a design obsessed brain obviously) are some of the most elegant and perfectly beautiful human artifacts on planet earth. You can quote me on that. See below for irrefutable scientific aesthetic evidence."

 

No matter where I run, I meet myself there.

Link: Flickr: Art of the Luggage Label .

"...image stream and information resource devoted to the art of luggage labels and related travel ephemera. Luggage labels are fascinating bits of hotel history from the golden age of travel, roughly the 1900's to 1960's. During this time these labels were used by hotels as advertising and eagerly applied to steamer trunks, suitcases and all sorts of luggage by hotel staff, mainly bellhops."

Title Quote: Dorothy Fields

 

Another world is not only possible, She is on her way. And on a quiet day, if you really listen, you can hear her breathing.

Link: Daydreamer: Couture et Bricolage.

Title Quote: Arundhati Roy

The notes are right, but if I listened they would be wrong.

Link: altered objects | celia richards.

"Sheet music with the notes removed"

Title Quote: Eugene Ormandy

The world is its own magic.

Link: STORE * YEE-HAW INDUSTRIES : DECORATIVE MATS : kraftvignette57mat.  

 

"You get 3 beautiful letterpress-printed, die cut vignette mats, they are folded with center opening on front flap & a solid back. This is made to fit into a 5"x7" frame but is also nice unframed. The center opening area is 2.75"x3.75" which showcases your photo or artwork.

Made from thick kraft cardstock that is 100% post consumer recycled & printed with a fancy black decorative border around the center opening. The image you see in the middle is just our insert that includes suggestions on how to bond your image inside. It can be used horizontally or vertically."

Title Quote: Sunri uala