Happy weekend, readers, and pre-feasting to all who celebrate! Ahead: old-school cooking tools we’re admiring, foraged branches, wreath making, and cozy spots to crack open a book. Read on:
Above: Autumn ready. Photograph courtesy of Mjölk, from A Rolling Spare Room: The Mjölk Shepherd’s Hut.
- Listen up! Environmental designer John Hart Asher, featured in The Low-Impact Garden, is on the most recent podcast episode of Cultivating Place, hosted by Jennifer Jewell (who calls our book “delicious and catalyzing”).
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Give the kids’ table a fun DIY project this Thanksgiving.
- Hey, Bay Area folks: Get thee to the annual Plantsgiving next Saturday. (Hat tip: Kier.)
- Love the sounds of this wreath workshop; Aussie readers, take note.
- Bring foliage in.
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Every part of this invitation is enticing: “Join Niwaki and florist Miyuki Griffin for a festive afternoon of Christmas wreath making, with Japanese snacks to fuel your creative endeavors.” Details here.
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Speaking of Niwaki, you must see its founder’s home garden. So good.
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Stunning botanical art.
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Holiday decorations, but make them chic. (Hat tip: Annie.)
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Hort & Pott’s eagerly awaited annual holiday shop is now live on their site.
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Wow! A radical before & after.
- When it comes to the kitchen, sometimes simple is best.
- Speaking of: This week we’ve been ogling the stove of our dreams.
- Ooh, save the date for Heath’s Make Good Market, December 6 and 7 in San Francisco.
- A new exhibit at Bard in Edinburgh—both online and in person—brings back the tactility of craft in an era when much of our time is spent swiping. Browse here. (Hat tip: Deborah.)
- Would you like to spend the night in the bedroom from Goodnight Moon?
- “Cradled,” an exhibit co-curated by Frances McDormand exploring “the Shaker ethos of care, devotion, and communal living,” makes its LA debut.
- You’re invited to the Reform holiday market next Friday, November 28, in Copenhagen.
- Julie is eyeing this ceramics open house by Victoria Morris, December 13 and 14 in Ventura, CA.
- Weekend listen: the story behind Farrow and Ball.
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Reminder to self: read a book. (Hat tip: Fan.)
- For architecture x holiday fans (like Annie): Stop by a gingerbread house spectacular at Danny’s Mud Shop in LA (proceeds go to LA Family Housing).
- Ooh, and a candle holder workshop at Tooth and Nail in Milwaukee.
- Spotted! The atelier of a recent Quick Takes star, in an 1885 Mission Hall in London.
- Pretty ornaments.
