week 69 & 70 | pinterest

so some of you may already be deeply invested in pinterest... i on the other hand have only invested an 8 hour day into it today (thank you sherry and emily). i knew this would be a problem... mostly because i have a potential rennovation project in my future, but also because this is a perfect venue to collect mesh inspiration! it is far too easy for me to gather design concepts on this site... and highly adictive, although there is no doubt i will be ready for my rennovation project when the time comes, as well as our next mesh production session!

if you do not already have a pinterest account and you use some type of 'favorites' marker on websites or collect photos from the web in any way shape or form, i would highly suggest signing up for a invite. 'ben' (the creator of pinterest) has made this site extremely user friendly, and set up is a breeze! to go along with our recent inspiration posts...check out our mesh pinterest board for fashion trends slowly moving into fall...

on the table | laptop with endless amazing photos loaded and ready to inspire!

week 25 - careers

as most of you know, sherry and i both have full time day jobs aside from our flourishing mesh business...i'm an interior designer working for an corporate interior architectural firm, and sherry is an interior designer working for a not-for-profit organization that happens to be changing the world one child at a time...slight extension to our mesh responsibilities, but we are of course managing with no sweat :) we have so much going on in our day to day lives and we rarely take the time anymore to simply catch up on what is happening outside of mesh. as we sat at the kitchen table tonight, creating our one-of-a-kind pieces of inspiration, we were discussing the recent responsibilities we are taking on, such as a radio interview that sherry is helping to coordinate tomorrow morning that will raise money for her girls in India, or the trip to shanghai that i have coming up for work in less that two weeks. we don't know when our lives became so busy, although we are very aware that we are both self-made fillers of time...we don't like to sit still, because when we are sitting still, we are not accomplishing much. i can't believe how far we have come with mesh while still making sense of our everyday careers. we can't wait to find out what's around the next corner of our journey!

-melissa

on the table | new supplemental bling and an anthro catalog full of endless inspiration...

week 7 - home|show prep!

well, here we are in week 7 of our monday night kitchen table blog! thank you for continuing to read about our latest and greatest endeavors. our facebook page seems to be taking mesh fans by storm, as we now have 85 whole people following our every post, and we couldn't be more thrilled!

this week we are in mass production mode...not as in making a bundle of the same thing on a production line...but as in taking every little and large trinket out of the credenza and making something of them.

we have a home|show coming up on saturday (shout out again to nici and the ladies of plainfield) that we are prepping for, along with a handful of other home|show events coming in the summer months. why not start off your summer right with a girls night in and mesh?! contact us to get on the growing list of sale locations. we can't wait to see you!

-mesh

on the table | combining classic oak park with novel new york

week 1 - spring time bibs

It is mesh Monday again…how do these weeks fly by so quickly?!

Spring is in the air, and I am feeling inspired! The more the sun shines, the more mesh-driven I become. There are so many things that inspire us to keep going with this little business of ours. Inspiration finds us in many places, including the sunshine: a flight above the clouds to a project destination; a magazine article about someone we aspire to be like; MLS photos of abandoned homes that we hope to live in and revive someday; displays at stores that are so creative, they make us want to go home and start reworking a wall in our living rooms…the list goes on and varies greatly. If only there were more time in a day, perhaps all of these inspirations would lead us to our mesh dreams.

So...back to reality, we are meshing tonight, and that can only mean one thing…I need to catch Sherry up on all of my amazing new shoes that I found on DEEP discount this weekend...okay, so it means other things too. We need to start producing our spring line! We are working on multiple ‘new wave’ creations including, but not limited to, bib neckwear. Yes, you know all of these bibs that you see women wearing around town. It is obvious who purchased theirs off of a production line shelf, and who’s was hand crafted with the most exquisite trinkets you have ever seen! mesh will of course follow the latter protocol for these one of a kind creations…and see what in the world we can come up with at the kitchen table. We just invested in a slew of AMAZING vintage appeal broaches to add to this collection. These one of a kind bibs will be obvious statement pieces created from ‘grandma’s entire jewelry drawer’ J

What do you think of this bib style necklace? What inspires you?

-melissa