Cassandra Smith Painted Antlers

Cassandra Smith is a sculpture and mixed media artist living and working out of Milwaukee, who received her BFA in Sculpture from the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design and is the co-owner of Fine Line Magazine. 

Smith has caused quite the hype over the past year, and especially this holiday season, with her line of naturally shed painted antlers which are available for purchase through her Etsy page and are also now featured in stores across the US. Recently her antlers have been featured in Rue Magazine, US Weekly, Anthropologie's holiday catalogue, 2012 Crate & Barrel Holiday Inspiration catalogue, Better Homes & Gardens, Cowgirl Magazine, and Style At Home. Her antlers have been picked up by over a dozen retailers, including Michele Varian in New York City, and Anthropologie and Terrain's online store. 

Let's hope to see them in-store in Toronto with the new year!

You can follow her Blog or visit her Website to view some of her other work

(hint: her work with taxidermy is unreal!)

The Painted House - Patterned Paint Rollers

Flipping through Style At Home magazine over the holidays there was one product that definately caught my craft eye! The Painted House, started by UK based upcycler Clare Bosanquet, supplies DIY connaseurs with an ingenious little invention that makes it easy to bring new life to old walls or plain fabrics; patterned paint rollers! Now while patterned paint rollers are not a completely new idea, having been around in some parts of Europe for over a century, they are not an apparatus that is easily come by or readily made...until now.

The Painted House has an Etsy store where it sells these applicators and interchangeable patterned rollers. At just $25/patterned roller, and $16-$32 for applicators it's a good buy for a product that will last decades and replace tricky-to-install and expensive wallpaper. Not to mention all the pillows, tote bags, home decor and clothing you can print on. You could also get creative and use these rollers to make wrapping paper, cards and other stationery.

Visit their website for more information and photos, or visit their Etsy page to order.

Rollers for walls, paper, wood

Rollers for fabric

A finished room

Of course I would love the woodgrain printed fabric!

Traditional pattern perfect for a breakfast nook