Sleightholm Folk Art

Tag: books

  • International Studies

    Thanks to a recent trip to the library, Audrey and I are getting all international. I decided I needed to know more about the countries whose folk art has been so inspiring to me lately, and also picked up a little Russian folk tale book for Audrey, who is now totally into Baba Yaga. I’ve…

  • Quelle Imperial

    Surely I have professed my strange love of all things Russian here before. It’s one of my oldest obsessions, sparked by reading the Robert K. Massie book The Romanovs: The Final Chapter when I was about 15 or so. The story of the fall of the tsar and the terrible end of his beautiful family…

  • Pretty::Lovely

    I like to surround myself with pretty. And bookish. And good to eat. And more pretty. The photo above was yesterday’s breakfast. I had a rather genius epiphany this week about the muesli I’ve been making– I add just a tablespoon of cocoa powder to the honey mixture and ohhh….it all turns to chocolatey delight.…