Planet Nice Crafts

Yes, that is the mission of Planet Nice – when you need to take a step away from Planet Earth, spend some time on Planet Nice. It has been a week since the Autumn or Fall Equinox, I am looking forward to cooler temperatures, lower humidity, fewer bugs, and less impact from allergies despite the furnace being turned on in the near future. Another positive is as the leaves fall and the sun swings south, the best crafting light will return to the workshop. There has been absolutely no crafting activity since the last post. Consequently, this post is mostly announcement related. After flipping through several issues of Architectural Digest and the book Perfect Palettes by Stephanie Hoppen (the designer of the blue decorating fabric pictured on the August 14 post here ), it was decided to try the smaller bean bag chair as the next sewing project using pattern Burda 8373 (also pictured in the August 14 post).   Why? There is A LOT of the blue fabric and the pattern offers the best oppo

I apologize greatly Earthlings for postponing a blog post time and time again. Planet Nice is still in existence..it is still rotating on its axis…it is just stretched a little too thin from time to time. I was able to take a short fieldtrip to the Art Institute of Chicago with the main purpose of seeing the Georg Jensen: Scandinavian Design for Living special exhibit (the closing date was September 9 th ). It was very worthwhile: many silver pieces and a few furniture and other home product pieces in addition to the background information on the designers and their sketches. The notable time periods were Art Deco and the iconic, sleek Mid-century modern. I never know if photos in museums will turn out worthwhile so I focused only on the chairs, but in two of the photos you can see tableware pieces in the background. Here is the sample: The one below has a light fixture too, I believe its style is called artichoke - very similar aesthetic to the pieces I saw on my travels