A Future Present is a new project that Dylan and I just embarked on. For now, it's a blog that chronicles what goes on in our apartment and workspace. We moved in just under 2 months ago with a lot of space and few possessions, so right now it seems like a never-ending work in progress. In the future we hope to expand AFP into a brand, shop, and possibly studio, with products and projects we design together. For now, I hope you enjoy looking at all our stuff and the things we make!

los angeles and crafts

D and I went up to L.A. yesterday for the Renegade Craft Fair. It was like Etsy in real life, some things I loved, and some things not so much. This is what I got! A crystal and "seed bombs" (homemade compost mixed with California wildflowers) from Terri Planty, a zine about making friendship bracelets (screenprinted with a cool gradient), a bird and horse mobile by Hillery Sproatt (really, really want a bunch of her dolls too), and a leather tassel keychain by Carrot + Corriander.



Other highlights:
It was super fun wearing my cat dress because a bunch of people recognized me! It was nice meeting Caitilin of Nice, and I wish I could have bought her Wild Heart banner. Also had fun browsing through my old neighborhood(s), and catching up with old friends from my former life as an L.A. girl. So much has changed in Silverlake, Echo Park, and Little Tokyo in the last 2 years! My favs were IKO IKO for amazing everything, and Wurstküche for the best fries ever.

Saturday morning inspiration

This is what I'm looking at while I drink my Oslo coffee and eat my Oslo bran muffin and get ready to paint some canvas to make tote bags today. The first one was an experiment and these ones should be epic.


Clockwise: Eley Kishimoto, google images, 2 ancient Egyptian paintings, Ashkahn, Becca Stadtlander, and last one unknown sorry!


Clockwise: 2 by Brie Harrison, Kaye Blegvad, Malin Gabriella Nordin, Yelena Bryenskova, Louis Bourgeois, Rodarte for Repetto, and Arian Behzadi.

Probably all of these have been on my tumblr where I post a few times a day and Diwa posts a few times a year.

There is so much to look at. I have so much to make! My summer starts in less than one month and it's going to be all seeing and thinking and making things all day and California sun.