A funny poster, vintage quilts, rare nasturtium seeds

plus a great romance novel and my father's easy pork rib recipe...

Welcome to Design Scouting's first newsletter! I'll share the objects and experiences that shaped my week, as well as design notes on things that caught my eye and made me think.

I'm so happy to be here, writing to you. I'm sitting in the 'sunroom' in our new house. The former owners had an enormous hot tub in this room, and while the hot tub is long gone, I find that I do my best creative work here. Maybe the years of their relaxation created good energy. I like to think so.

It's 17 degrees outside, and the wind is gusting. I can see the hydrangea heads, now dried puffs, nodding in the wind. We didn't clean up the garden this fall to provide insects with a place to overwinter. With every sway of the hydrangea head, I think of biodiversity and how the ecosystem will thrive in the spring. On to my week: all I read, saw, ate, and bought! 

What I Read

I enjoyed discovering writer Anna Pompilio. Her substack is full of wisdom and great essays on all sorts of things I often think about (thir…