Touring London

LiT is in London till the end of January! I am loving it here and taking in all the design that I can! Beautiful fabric shops abound and the Designers Guild showroom as well as Timorous Beasties headquarters are still on my list to go see. Truly beautiful and quaint shops with tons of amazing linens and silk prints-I spent 150 pounds on 3 meters of felt that is incredibly thick and a colors I have never seen, and 56 pounds on a meter of coral and cream Ikat on silk-money well spent-even with the exchange in their favor. Met an amazing photographer and fellow fashion obsessive-Darrel of Mode Hunter, here is his blog if you want to check out the Fall fashion shows or what London fashion has going for it: modehunter.blogspot.com- and yes-there I am, bringing a little USA to the UK.

Au Revoir et Merci! LiT, last sale...

Well, 3 years it's been since this all started and though I bid a sad adieu to Seattle, I hope to learn and gain so much for my craft in Paris. Thank you to all who have come through my door and created with me and inspired me to keep making shades that I love. Hope to see you this weekend at the last shop sale, here is a look at what I have been doing lately, and what will be up for grabs...
LiT SALE!
11th and 12th of December
from 11am-5pm
1906 e. prospect st.

Love Letters

Here are some of the shades I have been making lately, lots and lots of letters! Floating whimsical words and captivating consonants, vowels in all shapes and sizes...please feel free to peruse.... "Truth or Dare", a shade done for the Shigo family in cream taffeta with letter pressed words by Lynda Sherman of Bremelo Press. The set of shades featuring Vietnamese characters for a project with Piano Nobile in Ballard.

Too Much is Never Enough

I just looked at the last post date, August?!? How did that happen? This is how:
1.) I am madly in love.
2.)My little shop dog had surgery and needed extra attention.
3.) It's LIGHTING SEASON!!! which means as the days grow shorter and you need more illumination, I am BUSY making lamp shades which makes it hard to find time to blog.

Here are a few of the pieces I have been working on...

For Great Jone's Home(one of the most inspiring and delightful home decor stores in the city), this beautiful Murano base is taken with this shade done in a dramatic floral print in cream, white, gold, green, turquoise, and navy by Designers Guild. Also for a client of GJH, these handsome sconce shades done in gunmetal gray taffeta with soft Sahara trim.

And then some more Des. Guild, MY ALL TIME FAVORITE STRIPE, beautiful taffeta silk in a creamy ivory with a perfect black, near grosgrain stripe woven through it. Perfection. Trimmed out in a triple ball fringe also by DG, you can BUY this one at Revival Home and Garden on 12th between Pike and Pine-you should at least drop in, there is NOTHING at this boutique but endearing and delightful finds.

Last but not least, this sweet shade in a Des. Guild linen, printed in berry and gold with bright fuchsia florals, went to a VERY lucky little girl's room. Oh how I wish it was mine!

Well, back to the shade making table, talk to you soon for BIG NEWS going on at LiT...stay tuned.

WEBSITE UPDATE!!!

Beautiful new WEBSITE UPDATE!!! Check out the new pages Atelier and Hand sewn shades in the Portfolio tab. Yay! Thank you so much to my amazing and talented friend with so much taste, Onur for doing the site design/build, and to Lauren for the great photos!

Wallpaper shades-Revived

One of my favorite things about my job is I get to look for new and interesting ways to use materials. Loud, heavily patterned, or gilded wallpaper is one of those "little goes a long way" finds that I think is PERFECT for shades. Just a pop of intrigue on the inside of a shade, or when you turn on the lamp-viola! a beautiful, yet subtle, silhouette glows through. These shades use Wilderness gold and cream wallpaper by Ferm and have cream silk on the exterior. Want to take a look? They are at Revival Home and Garden, 12th and Pine. Hope they drive you up the wall with wonder.

xoxo
LiT

Down the Rabbit Hole

"I wonder if I've been changed in the night? Let me think. Was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different. But if I'm not the same, the next question is 'Who in the world am I?' Ah, that's the great puzzle!" ~Alice

This lamp was changed in the night, when it got up this morning it was topped with a boring paper shade-off white and badly proportioned. NOW, it's feeling quite different as it is topped with this whimsical Alice and Wonderland printed fabric from Kokka. I used the dusty blue colorway on a vintage shade frame. This print is curiouser and curiouser with the Duchess, the Rabbit, the Hatter and the Catepillar clustered and countered with Alice, depicting well known scenes from Lewis Carroll's classic. You will smile like the Cheshire Cat at the coral and cream colorway as well!

You don't need to take a tumble down the rabbit hole for this one, it's here at LiT!