Category Archive for ‘things made out of paper’

Wouldn’t it be fun to take this cardboard deer head and cover it with maps of Brooklyn?

Deer head found here.

Image found here.

Ahhh….photos paired with fabulous writing journals, stationery and albums! Yes, please! I especially love the simplicity and design of these. I just found out Pinhole Press here & I’m already compiling my photos to put together to design a writing journal.

Trying to whip that husband or boyfriend of yours into shape?  Desperately searching on his behalf for a New Year’s Resolution that he might actually be able to keep?  I stumbled across something recently that might work wonders on the men in our lives.  Allow me to explain…

As I was sitting in bed this morning & flipping through the pages my Domino Design Book (which I love)…all of the sudden ….bam….that little pesky paper cut happened around page 64.   Sure wish I had some of these  Band-Aids designed by Cynthia Rowley to cheer me up.

We’ve all heard of Daily Candy, right?  That creative lifestyle e-mail that pops up in your inbox every morning bringing you the insider’s scoop to everything ‘you.just.can’t.live.without.’  The other day, I was browsing through an article about a fabo. new textile line & I noticed the sweetest bulldog line drawing right on the front page…the simplicity & personality drew me in closer & I got to searchin’.  Oh, say about and hour later,  I learned about the illustrator that draws all the images on the Daily Candy website, Miss Capricho.  Love her chic & colorful images.

CHeck out her flickr photostream here.

Another yearly ritual Lauren looks forward to diving into full speed is “magazine sorting.”   Lauren subscribes to dozens of magazines & throughout the year, she has little time to read them.  She arrives in Aruba with approximately a small boat-load of unread magazines & each day, she tears out articles and tid-bits from each one.  Afterward, she divides all the articles, recipes, work-out tips, “must have” items, and organizing tips into several different groups and transfers all this info into separate mole-skin books (this moleskin series is particularly nice.)  It doesn’t stop there…she then adds the lists to a downloaded i-phone app like the moleskine i-phone app or notifyme. If this girl wasn’t an attorney in Dallas, she’d be the most fantastic personal organizer that ever stepped foot on this planet.

lovin’ this entertaining wedding invitation by Kayrock!

Dani Cards. Sweet cards. Sweet stories.

you don't feel strapped in. you feel nervous. you want to puke.
but it's also euphoric.
kind of like taking risks and falling in love and traveling to foreign lands on your own...
you don't feel strapped in. you feel nervous. you want to puke.
but it's worth it. it's so worth it.

we were biking on a deserted road passing by hundreds of thick trees on our way to easter lunch. 
dylan had bought flowers to bring for miranda. i lagged behind on my old pedal bike. 
he stretched out his arms and the whole sunday smiled.

this little plane flew quietly overhead as i sat so small in front of the indian ocean. there was no point to the day, only to scavenge for shells and write things in the sand and maybe take a nap by the dunes. 
it reminded me that flying is hard. getting your wings together and gathering up belief and choosing to aim for the heavens, it's hard. but once you're up there, the view is...ridiculous. 
congratulations should always be in order for such things.

I’m one of  them.   Willy Wonka would say,  ”We are the music makers, the dreamers of  dreams” & i’ll add…”we are the list-makers.”  I just seem to make lists all the time…lists of things  I love, lists of things to get done, lists of people I need to write, & lists of random thoughts.   In the evening, I’ll even make a list of everything i’ve accomplished that day just to get the pure satisfaction of crossing everything off.  Something about these lists printed with white foil on 100% recycled paper caught my eye.

Yesterday afternoon, I was at the grocery store picking up the ingredients for a “perfect evening in” & this wine isle this label caught my eye.  Decision made…this malbec was coming home with me.  I kept looking at the label and it reminded me of a page from the June issue of the Anthropologie catalog & funny enough, Hatch Show Prints is the ridiculously cool company that designed both the wine label and collaborated with Anthro. to design the summer catalog.   I think I failed to mention that Hatch is the oldest working letterpress print shop in America & i’m sure most of you know about my intense love for letterpress.  Hatch also has used vintage wood block type and hand cut linoleum to make some pretty fabulous posters for some hug names in music.

I woke up and the first thing on my mind was a grommet. Strange, huh? You’d think i’d be preparing for my two jewelry shows Boston this week, but I just couldn’t get grommets off my head. Grommets are those strange little-metal-thing-a-ma-jigs used for reinforcing holes. In my opinion, I think that they’re a pretty darn cool invention. Whether they be on shoes, clothing or stationery, I just like them. I especially like the envelopes where a string is tied with a grommet and you have to unwrap the string to open the envelope. Because i’m procrastinating from carefully packing up my 100′s of pieces of jewelry for the Boston trip, I figured that this morning would be the perfect time to figure out the whole grommet-envelope-string thing (and, of course I would have random grommets hanging around the house). I gotta say, stationery lovers, I really like the way my project turned out…I might be on to something.

I’ve enjoyed reading the whitty equations from Craig Damraeur & I don’t even need to take out a calculator.

What does lobster bisque, a Norwegian Sky, pumpkin pudding, an Arizona Sunset and a drizzly afternoon have in common?  They are all the names of colored pencils…and there are 495 other funky and unique names.  The 500 colored pencil set is the only set that matches the span and wonder of human creativity. Each pencil has a name, a story, and a gorgeous hue.  The coolest thing about this set is that you don’t get them all at once.  For 20 months you will receive 25 new pencils in the mail.  If you’re stuck in an artistic block, feeling uninspired, or need something just to keep you going, these pencils will awaken that creative spark.

Simply put…I love hand-written letters.  I feel like handwriting can tell so much about a person. The calligraphy of Bryn Chernoff from Paperfinger caught my eye.  Paperfinger is based out of Brooklyn, New York  and Bryn encompasses a playful and unique style in her projects. Check out her work here.  Never underestimate the power of a hand-written letter.