Mid-Century Photo Friday: White Sands Motel, Alamogordo, NM

Our dream: the "right" 50's patio cover.

By the way, if you had told me in the “pre-kid” days that I would ever have obnoxiously colored toys in my back yard I would have slapped you (even though I’m not a violent type)…if you can see enough in the pictures, you’ll see that our slack finishing of the patio has allowed dirt to wash down (thus why we did the complicated tiering on the side) and weeds to grow everywhere. We also

Mies van der Rohe’s gas station in Montreal preservation success!

It’s wonderful when we can report a Mid-Century preservation success: “Long, low and in his trademark black steel, the shuttered-since-2008 Esso station by Bauhaus master Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, at boulevard de l’Île des Soeurs and rue Berlioz in Montreal’s Nuns’ Island community, currently lies stripped of a little of its beauty – huge sheets of glass and their associated mullions have been numbered and disassembled for restoration – but by autumn, the building

Mid Century Modern Quilts

Due to my new fancy new-fangled scheduling system, this post went out a tad (ok, without me writing it) early! Oooops! For those of you who don’t know, I love needlework, quilting and mid-century, so of course, this fabulous project/blog caught my eye: The Mid-Mod Quilt Bee! The description on the site is “Quilters using mid-century modernism as a touchstone as they create quilts together.” Blocks are assigned monthly and I have to say they’re

Mid-Century Photo Friday: Tease of the Cimmaron Heritage Center Museum

We had a fantastic trip on Thanksgiving through the surprisingly Mid-Century Cimmaron Heritage Center museum in Boise City, OK. This amazing collection of 50’s memorabilia (among other things) delighted us and we’ll have more about it soon!