Poetry of Objects

Mingle...a new magazine

Have you seen the new magazine Mingle, put out by Somerset?  It's filled with beautiful photography of gatherings and celebrations.  I love the ideas that come from looking at inspiring photography.  A magazine filled with lovely photos as well as ideas for celebrating...well, that's a great combination.  This is the time of year when so many of us are planning celebrations with friends and family...from the simple to the elaborate.  Here's a sample of  photos for you to dream over.




The photo that's on the cover.  I love it.  Simple, pretty, and very doable with just a few vintage finds.


This is so great for any age.  Imagine waking up to that...a gift from your mother, husband, sweetheart, friend...?
It would make the whole day feel so special wouldn't it?


A cupboard filled with goodies...


Story collectors have such a great time collecting things for celebrations at flea markets, antique shops or thrift stores.  It is so much fun to see what you can create with simple things...

 
A tipi is so beautiful...


Vintage clothing...dresses up any gathering.


Food for a gathering just displayed creatively, makes the whole thing feel special.


Don't forget to take those dreamy photos...

All the above photos are from Mingle Magazine.

Book Giveaway: Home for the Soul

In the deep fall
don't you imagine the leaves think how
comfortable it will be to touch
the earth instead of the
nothingness of air and the endless
frehsets of wind?

~Mary Oliver Excerpt from song for Autumn in New and Selected Poems, Volume Two

I am having a book giveaway!  Home for the Soul: a guide for dwelling with spirit and imagination by Anthony Lawler.  This book came out in 1997 and I have loved it ever since.  Poetry of Objects is about finding the beauty around you.  Mostly, I find beauty at my homeplace.  It's where I've grown as a woman, a mama, a wife, a friend and a keeper of the land.  This book is the first in what I hope to be giveaways of books related to things that bring the idea of looking at our homeplaces as Poetry, as Beauty.  We don't need to travel to far away places to nurture our souls.  I think this book is a beautiful way to celebrate the soulful way that we can create our homes. Leave a comment, twitter this giveaway or post about it on your own blog with a link and let me know in the comments what you've done.  Each thing that you do gives you an extra chance to win.  I'll draw a name next Wedneday October 12th at 9am and post the winner here.  Please be sure to leave your email so that I can contact you and get the details if you win. Please note that this is a used book in very good condition.  Good luck!
 

 
This book will inspire you as you cozy up to the woodstove as autumn settles in.  If you're a vintage seller, this book will give you new ways to look at the objects your selling.  It will help you see that you are helping create soulful homes for your customers with the beauty that you select. 

Words on Wood

Often Etsy has inspiring videos on their blog for all of us sellers and buyers to be inspired by.  I wind up hitting repeat frequently.  I watch some of these videos with my family.  I find deep inspiration that comes from watching and hearing other artists.  This video with Josh Vogel is from Scout.  You will love it.

Josh Vogel from The Scout on Vimeo.

 PoetryofObjects sells many things made from wood.  The feelings I have for the stories behind these objects is best described here by Josh.  When I travel about, looking for vintage treasures, I have a deep feeling for the workmanship that has gone into the creation of that object.  I think of the maker.  I think of the people that have used this object of beauty.  These words are worth returning to.  If you create anything...a family, a piece of art, craftwork, a styled setting with a story...you are embracing the brief moment in time of going backwards...and building your story into the very fabric of what you are creating.

such small hands...

Poetry of Objects is so named because I love poetry.  I think all of life is a poem that we are all creating with each step, with each breath.  All of the artists are creating poetic works of art to me.  I see poems in the clouds.  I see poems in all of the worlds.  I can imagine PoetryofObjects creating a poem for environments, for ceremonies, for celebrations, for homes and spaces.  Today on Etsy Yokoo shares an inspiring video.  I love the line from the e.e.cummings poem that she quotes.  I've decided to add it the sidebar of my blog to remind me of her.  Here is the video if you haven't seen it.

Handmade Portraits: YOKOO from Etsy on Vimeo.

somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond
by E. E. Cummings

somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond any experience,your eyes have their silence: in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me, or which i cannot touch because they are too near your slightest look easily will unclose me though i have closed myself as fingers, you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens (touching skilfully,mysteriously)her first rose or if your wish be to close me, i and my life will shut very beautifully ,suddenly, as when the heart of this flower imagines the snow carefully everywhere descending; nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals the power of your intense fragility:whose texture compels me with the color of its countries, rendering death and forever with each breathing (i do not know what it is about you that closes and opens;only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses) nobody,not even the rain,has such small hands

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