With the help of a magician/carpenter/painter/fixer of all things {message me if you need his contact info}, we screened in our carport.
In Charleston, you paint your porch ceiling and door blue to keep away the haints and remind you of the sky. I wanted the floor, a concrete slab covered in oil stains, to look like sand. This, is what I want, I told him. He totally got it. I put up the most nautical looking light/fan combo from Lowes that I could find.
I found the bench with giant final sale red stickers on it at Home Goods and a little white resin table at the new store, Sage Antiques & Uniques on Winchester Road here in Lexington, KY. Check out her shop. She’s awesome!
The walls inside used to be tan and brown. Not anymore.
For years I’ve written To-Do and Grocery lists on this chalkboard. But recently I remembered how Cate Capshaw’s character in The Love Letter wrote quotes on a little chalkboard in her seaside bookshop and I decided, why not? Now, we take turns leaving quotes there for the other to find. I found the little lamp at Home Goods. The sweet grass basket was a wedding gift.
My friend and mentor Beth gave me this beautiful tea set for my new porch. It is perfect in color and shape. Best of all, the cups are microwave/dishwasher safe. I have new business cards from Tiny Prints.
Also in the studio, the cake topper from my parents’ wedding. We used it for our wedding cake, too. Good chi for a wedding photography studio.
My little lomo camera I picked up on that great trip to New York back in February. There’s film in it now that I can’t wait to develop!
There are comfy places to sit in the studio, too. The paintings in the background are by Faye Christian Phillips.
The crystals are from our trip to Sligo where my husband was studying Yeats and where we met dear friends. Some seashells from Seaside, a seaglass bowl from Worlds Apart Home here in Lexington.
The Heywood-Wakefield I found at Scout Antiques for a song when I was looking for furniture from the ’50s. My house was built in 1950 and furniture from the same period fits so much better in the cottage. The minute I noticed that the glass was broken, the shop owner was sort of apologizing and telling me how to replace it, but all I could think of was that it was perfect without the glass in it for my iMac. My favorite headphones from Urban Outfitters. Notebooks with all of those Paper Boat contracts and forms.
More to come when the prints arrive for the wall. Come on over for realies sometime! We’ll have tea.
by Teaworthy
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