Current Obsessions: In Transition

On the agenda this weekend, ignoring winter and planning for spring—including adding color to the home, changing up the garden scheme, and maybe adopting a fruit tree.

Above: Reminder to self: life is in color. Photograph courtesy of Little Mill Abergavenny, from Little Mill Abergavenny: A Once-Upon-a-Time Holiday Cottage in Wales.

• Loving, loving this cornflower-blue kitchen.
• Never not smitten by an edible candleholder.
• Speaking of, we’ve been tracking the bread-as-decor trend; great sightings right this way.
• Who else wants to live in the rustic interiors of Hamnet? (Hat tip: Deborah.)
• New and noteworthy: a handy little stool to use all over the house.
• We’d love to join these workshops on making ethereally beautiful Ukrainian wax eggs.
• Curtain dreams.
• Did you know DWR is having its semiannual sale? Take 25 percent off everything.
• Planting season is just around the corner. Let these four simple gardening tenets guide your plans. (Hat tip: Laura.)
• Fan is eyeing these Deep Black x Gardenheir ceramic vases.
• Another collaboration she’s keen on: limited edition dinnerware from two Bay Area gems—Heath x Mister Jiu’s. “That yellow platter is just delightful.”
• Congratulations to all the winners of Cooper Hewitt’s annual National Design Awards—including landscape architect Christine Ten Eyck (whose work is in both Gardenista books) and Berea College Student Craft (see Margot’s Remodelista story about their handiwork here).
• This courtyard garden in Chengdu, China, is just exquisite.
• Heads-up, Angelenos: The Huntington’s Bonsai Celebration is happening today and tomorrow.
• What a great idea! Adopt a peach or nectarine tree at Masumoto Farm, and come harvest time, you and your team can pick a few hundred pounds of organic fruit. Details here.
• And a PSA for those of you in the Bay Area: flowering quince branches are currently in stock at The Gardener Store!
• Ooh, Create Academy just launched a new online course with garden legends Isabel and Julian Bannerman: “Creating a Romantic English Country Garden.”
• Last, a must-read for anyone considering rewilding their yard.