{un}anticipated handmade delights: boston

the hanging nasturtiums @ the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

isn't life grand!
there's a wonderful thing that can happen for me. at home. on a getaway. wherever i allow myself to be open to it... it's that age-old idea that pairs things we look for & discover, with things we discover without looking.
and i just love when those two things intersect.

such was the case with so many wonderful handmade finds on my trip this week. i started out with so many things i was thrilled to see. that i anticipated seeing, and was delighted to see, revelled in! how wonderful!

and then, like on any great expedition, there were the delights that came across my path that i neither expected nor saught out, but that inspire and delight. such a great pairing!

isn't life wonderful like that? (and not just on trips!)

so here's a roundup of things handmade from my trip to boston: both anticipated & unanticipated. the charted & the uncharted.

aren't things handmade amazing, ever how we come across them!

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@ the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston:
couldn't wait to see & adored: Shen Zhou's amazing 4 leaves. Breathtaking in real life!

unexpected handmade delight: Yousef Karsh's inspiring, lesser known unofficial portrait of canadian agnes macphail. wow!

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@ the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston:

couldn't wait to see & adored: the Shepard Fairey show "Supply & Demand." Brilliant!

unexpected handmade delight: the beautiful building itself. WOW!

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@ the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston:
couldn't wait to see & adored: the "hanging nasturtiums" in the courtyard

unexpected handmade delight: edible nasturtiums various delicious ways for lunch @ the cafe!

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@ Harvard University, Cambridge:
couldn't wait to see & adored: the red-brick architecture in all it's historical glory.

unexpected handmade delight: the glass flowers @ the Harvard Museum of Natural History. Oh my heavens!

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@ my dear dear friend's beautiful home
couldn't wait to see & adored: her beautiful handmade style of decorating in all of it's airy, inspiring colour, & filled with handmade arts & crafts treasures from around the world.
unexpected handmade delight: the most delicious handmade goat cheese tortelloni with dried orange & fennel dust. oh my heavens!

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wishing you things delightfully anticipated (and fulfilling) and things delightfully fulfilling (yet entirely unanticipated) in your days. i'd love to hear about some of yours!

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