Mother's day

Maya and her daughter Proton, asleep. Pay no attention to the ragged carpet beneath them. Just pay attention to how they're sleeping, back to back.

Up at the cabin

Postcard from Alice Lake in the Sawtooth Mountains, Idaho, vintageplum

1950s coverlet in woven cotton. Cannon Mills USA.

Handmade vintage cotton curtains from enhabiten

1980s chukka boots with moc toes. Eastland, Maine.

1950s REI rucksack, takeahikemercantile

1973 wild food foraging handbook, classicobsessive

1960s wool plaid shirt. Pendleton, Oregon.

1960s denim coat with blanket lining. Sears Work n Leisure.

Oberlin, Ohio bait canteen, susantique

1950s straw hat

the next book.

completion date: september 1.

Bucket Provenance


From the story of an executive who started his career as a file clerk:

National Enameling & Stamping Co. (Nesco) headquarters, around 1907.

From a trove of printing blocks used in the making of a late 1930s hardware catalogue:

1930s letterpress printer's block of the Nesco pail, preservecottage

From a pantry in a farmhouse owned by a hardware store owner back in the day:

1930s Nesco bucket at the luncheonette

The black and the pink / vintage yang and yin

vintage 1930s mop pail by the national enameling and stamping company

vintage early 1990s Doc Martens with steel toes

vintage 1970s beach plum cardigan

vintage 1940s homemade peach pie barkcloth pillow

vintage 1950s Knowles china cup and saucer in coral pine, part of a bigger set

vintage 1950s handknit licorice drops scarf