and all around amazing artist, invited me over for tea, a chat and to check out her studio. I thoroughly enjoyed myself and look forward to hanging out again! It was fun to talk blog, flickr, fabric, family, etsy, and art with her. In addition to chatting, I could have spent hours just photographing her home. It was chock full of life and creativity. I think if I could make up an ideal job for myself it just might be photographing the living spaces of others – peeking behind the curtains!
Here are some shots from her studio:
And I took this one on the way down from her attic studio. The portrait is of her as a child and the woman in the mirror is the talented Mimi herself.
I was trying to explain to my husband that this was MAJOR blog fodder, meeting Mimi Kirchner!
I couldn’t show up empty handed. I was inspired by her quote in the latest Craft Magazine about the oft used phrase, “This is not your grandmother’s craft”. Click on the link and read it, it’s a good one.
I sewed some buttons from my Granny’s tin on a vintage piece of linen with lovely french knots (a skill which escapes me).
So thanks for a lovely afternoon, Mimi, and for sharing your non-virtual space with me!
And if you’d like to check out more of her work, including the very fine mustachioed and tattooed men, click here to be whisked away to her etsy shop.
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