Visual Poetry: paintings by photographer, painter, multimedia artist Linda Plaisted

I'm a stationary and paper addict, going back to 2nd grade and that wondrous big indian chief pad of ruled paper, just waiting for a novel to emerge. (Did I mention I wrote a sequel to Gone With the Wind in 4th grade?)

So chic book and journal covers:
Book City Jackets

Other paper lovelies for bookish types at:
McMaster & Storm
for Grande Paper Notebooks

Rose Mille

125 Main Street South

Stillwater, MN 55082

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Vintage lace from Lacis, ivory velvet, crushed satin....oh, and hours of beading...

Selvedge Magazine, published in UK, is an exquisite, eclectic magazine that explores—in high art and tactile detail — the craft and influences of this rarefied world...and the stylish musings in art and literature that inform fashion culture.

Scene from my bedroom: Pale blue wall, my mother's mirror with her picture tucked inside, victorian heart pendant (fragile filligree filled with dusty velvet), off-center portrait in a tin frame of girl with bow in hair, tiny white box with a vial of my grandmother's perfume (Tabu), contact sheet nude of pregnant me, and a sprig of lily of the valley.

I am currently making my daughter's prom dress, and she is the most difficult client of all! Celebrities aside, teenaged daughters -- especially those who are much more worldly and sophisticated than me — make for quite a discerning clientele. But her beauty melts me.