Moonshine Jewelry & Salvage

It was warm and cozy in my sewing room today! @nvewarehouse @the.weekend.estate #repurposedmaterials #upcycledflannel

Happy New Year all from San Diego!!!

Balboa Park is a beautiful place!

A fun day in Balboa park, San Diego #cactusarecool #balboapark

Christmas Day in San Diego with the family.We had a rainbow, pretty birds and lots of fun and delicious food ( photos by Annie OBrien)

Happy Holidays to All!!!

The O’Briens are celebrating Christmas together tonight!!! Early Merry Christmas to all#vintagechristmas #christmasmemories #timeforrelaxing

Feels so good getting to use and creat with all the stuff I’ve collected over the years!!! These are all going to The Art Center Makers Market at Pennings Farm along with lots of fun new patch flannels! Tomorrow’s going to be super fun because Mike & Mellisa are playing in the indoor beer garden next to the Art Center!!!

Dear Friends, As an exhibitor of CITYX at the Venice Biennale, I will be hosting a series of events named the FOUNDATIONS series - through October and early Nov...ember. I will be talking with people which are thinking on some big questions impacting our shared/common possible futures and 'world-making' challenges and opportunities. The events are free but require registration. Please see below for more info. The first event coming up is FOUNDATIONS : CRUST on October 7th, 12-2pm EST with Thomas Klein (environmental stewardship, nuclear waste storage) and Tei Carpenter (architecture, memory marker project). I am so grateful to all the authors/thinkers that accepted this invitation - I look forward to the events and to engaging your questions to the presenters and our discussions! Thank you to Ed Keller for the invitation and his Creative Directorship of the "Space and Planetary Design Group" and to Tom Kovac and Alessandro Melis for their invitation and curatorship of the Virtual Italian Pavilion. ---- FOUNDATIONS series Hosted by Carla Leitao Any act of design integrates the foundations that ground us by both willfully ignoring and also actively relearning those foundations. The concept of the Anthropocene - accompanied by the Anthrobscene, or the Novacene - helped name and point at processes, contexts, figures, diagrams and agents of the transformation of our ‘ground’. With these reframings, we begin processes of inquiry into how to inherit pasts, inhabit presents and what to lay as groundworks or structuring foundations for an uncertain future. The FOUNDATIONS Series asks what layers will we purposely engrave, carry, remember and honor; and which clean slates will we want to produce - which assemblies will we step onto/into? Inspired by the increasingly connected "Spaceship Earth" (as named by Buckminster Fuller), the FOUNDATIONS series zooms into key moments of written material, systems, ideas around world building, making and thinking - proposing discussions on the new futures for life and livability, envisioned for our shared planet and beyond. FOUNDATIONS is a series of events, convened by Carla Leitao, at the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale Italian Virtual Pavilion, Sezione del Padiglione Italia. Curated by Tom Kovac, RMIT University and Alessandro Melis Portsmouth University titled CITYX Venice responds to ‘How will we live together?' curated by Hashim Sarkis MIT, organized by La Biennale di Venezia. The exhibition is open until the 21st of November. @cityxvenice #italianvirtualpavillion #cityxvenice #ivp2021 #labiennaledivenezia #IVP3 CARLA LEITAO is an architect and writer living and working in New York, Co-Founder with Ed Keller of AUM Studio and Spec.AE. Assistant Professor at Rensselaer Architecture where she explores the intersection of architecture, urban systems, technology, ubiquitous cultures and emergent materiality through immersive environments (https://www.clatcraive.net/). Leitao's work and events at the Venice Biennale are part of the "Space and Planetary Design Group" by Creative Director Ed Keller, for the Italian Virtual Pavilion. FOUNDATIONS : CRUST THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 12-2PM EST (NY time) SPEAKERS: THOMAS KLEIN, TEI CARPENTER LINK TO EVENTBRITE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/foundations-crust-tickets-1751 Free event - registration required. Image Credit: Testbed Core Sample / Courtesy Agency-Agency Nuclear waste storage is one of the many legacies we embed in the crust of the Earth, along with an hyper-ethical system of memory markers that aims to prevent intrusion and its consequences. "Testbed" is a memory marker project for the WIPP (Waste Isolation Pilot Plant) facility that presents a novel idea for message permanence in a changing ecosystem. This session looks at the challenges of creating materials that outlast our lives and imaginations, the regulatory perspectives that think about deep futures, and mechanisms for embracing and following dynamic systems in search of identity/message persistence. Thomas Klein Mr. Klein has practiced in the field of Environmental stewardship, clean up, review and design for the past 40+ years. Mr. Klein received his Bachelors’ degree in Biology from Emporia State University in 1980 and his Masters Degree in Environmental Biology in 1984. Mr. Klein has been involved with the regulatory compliance aspects of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant for the last 20 years. WIPP: https://www.wipp.energy.gov/ Tei Carpenter Tei Carpenter is an architectural designer, educator and founder of AgencyAgency, an award-winning New York City based architecture and design studio. Her design and research work has been supported by a number of international organizations including the New York State Council on the Arts and BMW Mini. As an educator, she has taught design studios and seminars at Brown University, Columbia GSAPP, Rice University and the University of Toronto. AgencyAgency has been honored as one of the recipients of the 2021 League Prize by the Architectural League of New York, the 2018 New Practices New York award by the American Institute of Architects, as a Next Progressives by Architect Magazine, and featured in Domus Magazine’s 2019 list of the Best 100 Architecture Firms. http://agency-agency.us/

It’s a great day to stroll around the Newburg Vintage Emporium Warehouse and find some treasures!!! Moonshine Salvage@TheNewburgVintage EmporiumWarehouse

So wonderful to work on my embroidery after a year of no progress!!! It’s pure relaxation and love for me. #embroideryartist #embroiderersofinstagram #loveheals

My crazy wild garden and wildflower patch bring me so much joy!!! #augustblooms #summerflowers #overgrowngarden

My crazy wild beautiful garden. Fresh cut flowers for days wildflowers trying to overcome grass. #summerflowers #augustblooms