As a San Francisco based totally artist and creator of lovely matters, I strive to design the information of my existence in order that my enjoy of splendor is more suitable to the most. It’s what I name Artful Living. One of my inspirations is stunning cloth. What’s yours?
My enterprise is sewing for custom interiors and I get wonderful satisfaction from running with remarkable fabric. Flowing silks, crisp linens and the bright vegetation of a waxy cotton chintz are a pleasure to the senses. My featured material from the house of Fortuny is one of my favorites.
What I love about my paintings is collaborating carefully with customers to create the houses they want to live in and feel remarkable about. Making the whole lot from bedding, window treatments and pillows, I create something remarkable every day. I even have extended the rich sensual experience of my work into my philosophy of Artful Living.
Artful Living can embody the materials, the texture, the color and the form of the regular items with which you surround your self. Life is a banquet and you could take each possibility to revel in it is pleasures with the aid of enriching your daily revel in with beauty. Live Artfully by using:
Have Your Special Signature Piece – Take an regular object like your handbag, your tote or a scarf and make it your unique signature piece. A specific expression reflective of you! For instance, one day in a superb hurry, Babe Paley socialite and trend setter within the 50’s and 60’s, tied her Hermes headband to the manage of her purse thereby growing a fashion craze. Everyone who was each person straight away did the same.
Uplift and Enrich Yourself in Small Details – It isn’t always what you possess however how you’re making the most of it by way of imparting and arranging it. Consciously design your existence as an antidote to the pervasive pressure of the twenty first century. Choose the details of your surroundings to uplift and enhance your existence. Perhaps it’s far some thing that was made in particular for you, or some thing that reminds you of a glad time. Whenever I appearance at the small Florentine paper photo frame which sits on my bookcase, I am immediately transported to that magical save beneath the Ponte Vecchio and the soft, warm mild of a spring nighttime. What small object takes you to a favorite nook of the world?
Be Environmentally Friendly – Your artifacts may be customary from salvaged, recycled, reused or renewable substances. You would possibly think that this doesn’t sound horny but you may have beauty and be type to the planet on the equal time. I reuse vintage Japanese kimonos to make stunning pillows and totes. My customers love them due to the fact they’re extraordinarily constrained portions, made especially for them from splendid fabrics with prints which are now not loomed. It’s a real thrill to have your own custom pillow, tote or accent in a cloth in an effort to in no way be made once more.
Be a Pebble within the Pond – As the ripples unfold out from one small pebble dropped right into a pond, you may supply others the gift of Artful Living by means of honestly embodying it yourself. Others will perceive and revel in your elevated feel of vivaciousness as you unselfconsciously go about sporting your signature piece. Just think of how appropriate you sense when a person compliments you in your correct taste and fashion. You can also artfully preserve the details of your work surroundings. I regularly benefit with improved mood and energy via maintaining a sparkling reduce flower (a red, orange or yellow Gerber Daisy is my favored) in a small elegant Japanese ceramic vase. I maintain it subsequent to my laptop and a couple of instances a day or so, the colour and fragrance offers me a exquisite contemplative get-away into splendor. It shall we me refocus on my work with a renewed sense of vigor. You can experience the identical benefits with your very own private artful design. By expressing the radiance that is your true nature, you may decorate your personal lifestyles and the lives of others in surprising ways!
Get equipped for an abundance of fresh ideas, energy and new beautiful objects to enhance your living!
Shirley Anderson
Minna Street Creations