Adopt a granny that can knit for you

It's a real luxury to have a grandmother or a mother that knows how to knit and that have time to make your favorite scarves and hats for you every winter. So, if you are one of the average ordinary people like me, that don't have this luxury, you'll enjoy this great web created by Jérémy Emsellem called Golden Hook where you can choose a granny to knit your favorite scarf or hat, just the way you like it. Thumbs up!

Art dolls by Dina Ladina

I was in Portugal for a week, traveling with my 'made in Brazil' friends and in one of my gallery hunting afternoons in Porto, I had the chance of meeting the girls from Aguas Furtadas (lovely by the way!). They had such great collection of work by young talented Portuguese designers and artists that no need to say that my friends L, P and J had to push me literally out of the gallery.

Some of the most fabulous art dolls they had were the hand made ones by Dina Ladina. I uploaded some photos of her work below that I kindly borrowed from her personal crafts blog, but you can find more images in her Flickr photostream, where she has lots of pics of her beautiful work.

Enjoy it :-)

Handmade editorial

A fashion editorial totally handmade? Jalouse invited a selection of artists to create a special handmade edition, from the cosmetics session with each product replica carefully embroidered by Emma Ferguson and Kate Talbot, to the magazine's title, knitted letter by letter.

Marie Christophe, well known in the world of fashion for her contributions for Dior, Baccarat, Cartier and Hermès, created the magazine's editorial page (absolutely amazing) with her delicate and light iron sculptures. Below you can find some of her work.

For a glimpse of Jalouse's handmade edition, click here.

http://www.mariechristophe.com/