http://www.karenmandery.com/blog Thu, 22 Apr 2010 16:16:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 http://www.karenmandery.com/blog/http:/www.karenmandery.com/about.html http://www.karenmandery.com/blog/http:/www.karenmandery.com/about.html#comments Thu, 22 Apr 2010 16:12:10 +0000 admin http://www.karenmandery.com/blog/?p=94
Just returned from 10 days of good food and family. My mama and I traveled across Tennessee visiting friends and family. I filled up on hush puppies, fried green tomatoes, country ham, corn cakes and pecan pie. The South is now my latest muse…..stay tuned ya’ll.

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Be sure to come on down and check out my furniture made from discarded pallets and a pillow created from a tarp and adorned with VHS tape flowers.

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]]> http://www.karenmandery.com/blog/http:/www.karenmandery.com/about.html/feed 0 http://www.karenmandery.com/blog/http:/www.karenmandery.com/about.html http://www.karenmandery.com/blog/http:/www.karenmandery.com/about.html#comments Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:18:42 +0000 admin http://www.karenmandery.com/blog/?p=53 Yes, it was a labor of love but we finally finished four custom tables for New Belgium tasting room. What started out as 10 individual boxes became @ 100 per table. The tables are made from Colorado beetle kill by Nate Wysock and Matt Chapman. We wanted to highlight the blues, greens and reds that the beetles left behind with a pickling white wash. This helped to tone down the lodge look and modernize. I worked with artist Erin Hughes to fill each and every space. Of course the best part for both of us was the hunt for treasures. The cherry for the tables is a mixture of vintage chairs painted a glossy red.
Photos by Craig DeMartino.

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