Over the last week I've scored some pretty awesome street finds. Furniture, clothes, papers, stuff &mdash as a result our little apartment has suddenly transformed itself from just-another-little-studio into some pretty awesome digs. It's amazing to think how little furniture we've actually bought for the place: one coffee table, one armchair, one lamp, a bookshelf and a couple of foldaway side tables. That's it. The rest is either built-in or free stuff I've scrounged from the street. Ben thinks I'm crazy for rescuing furniture and crap from the street, treating them as if they're poor stray dogs who need a home. Be that as it may, I think all my stray dogs have given our place stubbly, Tel Avivian edge that I dig.



The most useful find was the vintage desk and chair (found on the same day, but not together), which is the new home for my sewing machine and pretty much where I've been spending most of my free time. It has this amazing lily-orange laminate on the desktop and along the baseboard, and it makes me alternately want to watch the Eames' short films and anything with Steve McQueen in it. Hot, I tell ya.

To inaugurate the desk I made a clutch sort of thing from this cool felt-like floor cloth. Not exactly the thing for hot-hot August in Tel Aviv, but pretty sweet nonetheless. I was happy enough with the way the material behaved that I'm making another version, this time with handles.



But back to stray dogs for a minute. As awesome as the desk is, I have to mention another recent adoption: this big blackboard, a former specials board from a bar a few buildings over. They had chucked it out on the street early one morning, and I was lucky enough to grab it before anyone else. It's huge &mdash maybe 2.5'x3.5' (and was already full of doodles five minutes after I took the photo). Any takers for a drink and a game of tic-tac-toe on the board can come over anytime they like. xo