Anahata Katkin

Holiday Gift Guide from PAPAYA! LIVING boutique

We've been puttering around getting the online store stocked with stuffers from PAPAYA! LIVING boutiques favorites list! This is the first collection to hit the website from the shop and we're excited about the fun crossover.  PAPAYA! products and global goodies now mingle freely! And for the event there's a beautiful Holiday Gift Guide to help inspire your Christmas pursuits! Click here to see the online zine.  And just click on the images inside to shop online!We're so delighted to finally be able to share our pics far and wide.  Hope you enjoy!  Happy Holidays!

Thanksgiving...

We gussied up the house and waited for food and troops to arrive... Loads of kiddos and food and all the good stuff! Yup!  A few times over! 
Umm...yes there was also wine. And the best of family!

Show N Tell:

Finally have some wonderful new arrivals which means I can spill the beans!  Show and share the pieces I've been playing with in the studio!  This piece is part of all sorts of wonderful goodies.  Art print...and card...and an amazing new clutch wallet! Sunflower! And Starlet!  As a wallet, an art print and a card.  An India inspired line up!

A lot like Christmas

Our Boho tree is up and brimming with pom pom garlands, vintage glass buddhas, sari gift bags, elephants and angels!

PAPAYA! spotted in Somerset!

(Cover image via Tracy Bautista)  This months Somerset Magazine features a mixed media article by Connie Fong.  Connie's work is beautiful and features creative uses of PAPAYA! calendars and artwork seen above on the cover!  And new 2012 calendars are in and ready for whatever is in your minds eye this year! With lots of pretty formats to choose from!

Christmas Spiff!

We've been running around like mad Christmas elves.  It feels like the calm before the storm at PAPAYA! LIVING.  And between holiday displays, making a party dress shop transformation and boosting the overall atmosphere in the store has been a good experience.   We're all gussied up and ready for the festivities to begin!  It's been a wild balance this year between our creative duties for PAPAYA! brand and now our boutique as well.  But everyone is brimming with ideas and inspiration for a magical year!

Inspired by: Cyanotypes

After reading a wonderful article about what Rinne Allen calls Light Drawings (also known as Sun Prints & Cyanotypes) I've been itching to get out and try my hand at them.  Rinne was featured on the Terrain blog in a lovely interview about her process and more about this lost art.  You can find it right here.
This amazing tape image by artist Christian Marclay.  And I particularly fell in love with these life size prints by Woody Woodroof.  (cool name eh!) Absolutely beautiful!

Well Hello Fall: I almost missed you!

    
I nearly missed the fall this year.  I've not even been on a walk in the park for months.  Nearly a crime during the fall here.  But alas we conquered a lovely afternoon walk, mochas and neighborhood day dreaming!

First Friday: Ashland Independent Film Festival

We had a wonderful evening last night at PAPAYA! LIVING for First Friday, Open House.  Featuring the Ashland Independent Film Festival.  A warm and cozy evening with wine, cookies and good company!

Olaf Hajek: You make my heart sing!

There's something so exhilerating when we find ourselves obsessed and inspired by an artist!  Olaf Hajek has been the chit chat around our design studios and offices at PAPAYA! lately.  
His book Flowerhead created such a stirring in me that I'm completely mesmerized by Olaf's fantastic pieces.  Add that to a recent obsession with elephants, a lifelong love of florals and a true bent for the weird and it's a match made in heaven.  Well fan heaven.  The indian ilustrations above are from a children's yoga book.  Olaf!  You make my heart sing!