Visit from Katy Elliott

Katy Elliott stopped by the store this week. She posted some photos on her blog - be sure to check it out! She has worked for several shelter magazines and has an editor's eye for good design, so it was nice to have her in Rockport for the afternoon to see that our town has something to offer besides t-shirts (not that there is anything wrong with t-shirts - it's just that we have so very many, many of them).
www.katyelliott.com

For the last few months I've been staring at my kitchen wall. No, I'm not crazy - at least not to my knowledge - it's more that I'm very happy with the juxtaposition of our red vintage wall phone against our kitchen wall, painted the color of asparagus. Not canned asparagus, mind you, but fresh asparagus, perhaps artfully steamed in a bamboo contraption. Our home's color scheme is a very basic black, white and beige. This includes our kitchen, except for what is fashionably called an accent wall. It provides a little respite for the eyes, a spot of color in a sea of greige textures. So today's post is a tribute to our wall phone. Which also actually functions, as an added bonus. Though my happiness with the tableau the phone presents is often undermined by actually using the phone, tethered to the wall as I often am in a conversation I would rather not be having.