Free People is hosting a winter craft swap called The Art of Giving! It’s been a long time since our last swap, so I am super excited. Join us in handcrafting some amazing gifts for your fellow Free People friends and spread the winter cheer.
Here’s how it works: You fill out the simple form with your name, email, and mailing address. People outside the United States are welcome to join, but if you live in the U.S., you can indicate if you do not want to ship internationally. I will match you up with a partner and send you their email and shipping address.
You’ll have until New Years to make a gift and mail it to your partner. You can make anything you want. The wintery theme can be your inspiration. You can make something to keep warm, decorate your home, or simply make your partner smile.
Click here to join the swap. Sign up will end next Friday, November 21.
Check out some of our old flickr groups from previous swaps! Valentine 08, Dark Fairy, Travel, and Valentine 07.
Aren’t these masks so fun?! One of our designers just got back from the Netherlands, and she brought home enough masks for the knits team and the image team! A lot of the masks are reproductions of old Victorian-era masks. What awesome little gifts!
- -Nov 12, 2008, 1:21PM
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Hi, I was searching for umbrella images and I found your site. You guys are doing some pretty cool stuff! Nice site and cute models too! Keep up the good work....
- -Nov 12, 2008, 11:57AM
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I had a handful of those in my "dress-up" stash as a kid and loved getting them out and transforming myself into a very "hoity-toity" lady. Such fun memories...I'd totally forgotten about those masks.
I adore these illustrations from Katie Kirk‘s wonderful children’s book, Eli, No! They are done in such a cute style, and the book is just wonderful! See the rest of it here on Katie’s Flickr. The book is not yet published (I seriously can’t see why not) but you can bet whenever it gets published (I’m sure it will soon) I will be getting a copy!
via sfgirlbybay
- -Nov 12, 2008, 10:17AM
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I love and need this book.
I have been looking all afternoon for information about this house, but I can’t seem to find any other than that it is in Iceland, and was photographed by Pascal Fellonneau, who has a lot of other gorgeous photos of Iceland on his site. I couldn’t resist showing it to you! I’d love to live there…
- -Nov 13, 2008, 11:08AM
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Wow! Thank you very much Pascal, for the info and for the visit!
- -Nov 13, 2008, 7:15AM
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I took this photo, so I can say a little more about this house. It is a part of an old farm from the 18th century, called Glaumbaer farm, near the small town of Varmahlid, western Iceland. You can easily find infos about it on the web.
I’m loving these patterned tapes from Present & Correct. They’d be awesome for gift wrapping! I’d like them with just plain brown butchers paper dressed up with the pretty tapes.
Check out these other printed tapes I had found awhile back, lace tapes and frame tape too.
Then of course there are the donunt tape dispensers!
Don’t forget about our internet craft party! Do you love to create and craft? Do you have a favorite craft project? Is there something you’ve made that is so wonderful that you want to show us how? We would love to see it!
We’re hoping that all the Free People girls out there will send us their favorite craft projects!
Send us your project with pictures (and step-by-step instructions if applicable) at blog.freepeople@gmail.com! Be sure to include your name, town, and website or blog if you’ve got one!
We will be trying our hand at the projects ourselves, as well as featuring some of them on the blog!
For inspiration, check out these revamped Altoid tins! I am so amazed at the clever things people have thought of to do with them!
A few days ago, our customer service representatives received this little note:
Dear Free People,
I receive your catalogs in the mail…thank you. I have a question in regards to your November 2008 catalog.
On pages 25 and 35, is it possible for you to tell me what lipstick color/brand they are?
Thank you.
We asked our make-up artist, Deanna, to help us out with this question, and she told us exactly how she made-up the model’s lips! I thought I’d share her answer with you:
Prepare the lip with a little Eucerin ointment- just enough to moisten the lip.
Then press Make Up For Ever Star powder (loose) in iridescent fuschia into lip, concentrating color more on the center of lips, then build to desired intensity.
Most Make Up For Ever products can be purchased at Sephora!
Thanks Deanna!
- -Mar 24, 2009, 2:32PM
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Those stockings are great! Where can I get some??
This video of the Reno Balloon Race makes me happy. It’s all sped up, and the balloons look really cute and cheerful zipping and bounding around so quickly! Enjoy!
- -Nov 10, 2008, 12:40PM
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Anyone thinking of the dancing mushrooms from the original Fantasia? The video should have that music to it.
These great pictures are from the first issue of Wassenaar, a new online photography magazine that I am enjoying very much! Definitely check it out if you like photography! These particular photos are by Alexander Binder, Andrés Marroquín Winkelmann, and Justin James Reed, from top to bottom. Check out Wassenaar if you want to see more!
I love this “graffiti” using moss, created by Anna Garforth and Elly Stevens. They call the project MOSSenger. I wish I could figure out how they got the moss to be on the wall in those letters like that! I can’t find any information on the project that elaborates on the process very much. Still, very cool! For more pictures and information, check out this post on Yatzer!
- -Jul 13, 2009, 11:41AM
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actually i heard how to do it im not sure if it works though its on helen nodding's web site http://storiesfromspace.co.uk/data/html/menu.html
- -Nov 14, 2008, 5:24PM
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This goes to all the grown-ups who thing graffiti is "ugly" and "defacing". Take THAT!
Design For Mankind shared a link for Peter Thuvander’s library bus, serving the streets of Sweden.
Peter designed the bus with Martin from the design collective Muungano and the graphics were done by Fredrik Forsberg at THEY GRAPHICS. The bus, of course, offers books as well as internet, computer games, a music listening station, and even a small cinema.
I wish this would roll down my street! I would definitely spend some time hanging out.
- -Nov 13, 2008, 7:07AM
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is the driver instructed to drive reeeeeeal slow so the pretty books stay all nice on the pretty shelving?
- -Nov 10, 2008, 11:34AM
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Whoa. That is way rad.
I love these photos by Matthew Carden with little people figurines depicted living and working among different foods. Carden is a commercial food photographer and married to a chef. I can’t explain the work much better than what’s on the site, so check out the description below.
“Carden sets out in his art work to make viewers more aware of what they eat and to simply think about food as an integral part of our world. His photographs juxtapose figures with seemingly colossal broccoli, macaroons, chicken wings and the like, and speak of abundance and the ultimate waste produced on a daily basis in our land of plenty. Despite looming issues, the blurry, dreamy quality of Carden’s work allows the viewer a whimsical space to enjoy the pure pleasures of food. Carden sets out in his art work to make viewers more aware of what they eat and to simply think about food as an integral part of our world. His photographs juxtapose figures with seemingly colossal broccoli, macaroons, chicken wings and the like, and speak of abundance and the ultimate waste produced on a daily basis in our land of plenty. Despite looming issues, the blurry, dreamy quality of Carden’s work allows the viewer a whimsical space to enjoy the pure pleasures of food.”
Don’t you just love the sun dried apricots?
found via Bloesem
- -Nov 08, 2008, 12:23AM
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Hello, I love your blog (and your stores and catalog)!! Such great clothes and creativity! I thought you might like to know about the really unusual art that my husband and I create......magical fairy furniture, houses and curious characters, all made from nature (flowers, twigs, leaves, moss, pods, etc.) Our pieces are very different and really beautiful. Thought you might like to post something about our work on your blog. I think your readers would love it!! Thank you for all the great inspiration!!
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