this today:
It's getting chilly out, and when it does I just want to leave the house wearing my blanket. This sweater looks cozy enough and it's cute. I'm also on the hunt right now for a pair of wide leg jeans. Take a hike skinny jeans, I'm planning to eat some pie this month!
Born in Helsinki Finland, somewhere I've actually been although only for about 24 hours, is my new favorite illustrator Pietari Posti. He began his illustration career just four years ago. Amazing for him to have such a strong point of view already. I found most of these images from within his "Giants" series and i adore them.
It's that time of year when I start thinking about what calendar I'm going to treat myself to next year. It's always a tough decision especially since many of my favorite artists and crafters started making calendars. To be honest I'm sort of over letterpress. Shocking, I know. So far this calendar from Frankie Magazine featuring some of my favorite illustrators like Ashley G and Drew and Anke Weckmann is up there in the running. It's available for pre-order now.
I was feeling a little extra creative this weekend so I pulled out a bunch of scrap papers I've been meaning to do something with and made this piece of collage art. I even found a good use for old class notes...if you look closely you'll see the type is actually knitting instructions.
this today:
That's right, no high fashion and heels for me today, instead I'm just really hoping I can make it to my yoga class tonight. I'd even like to wear cozy pajama pants. I don't think anyone would mind.
Many of you have been asking about my new job. I think most for you know I'm an Art Director by day and jewelry-maker/craft-maniac by nights and weekends. Well, after more years than I'd like to admit, I decided to leave the world of Art Directing magazines in favor of Art Directing beautiful books. I'm working on a book right now about ice pops. We're shooting photographs all week and then finishing up the design in the next two weeks. A blazing schedule! Although more time than a monthly magazine, for sure. Since my new world will be all about food and drink I thought I was in need of a little inspiration for those very empty bookshelves in my new office. I just purchased these three books. The Donna Hay Modern Classics 2 book is amazing. Every page. Amazing. And the prop styling in "Sticky, Chewy, Messy, Gooey" couldn't be any sweeter. Pun intended.
I'd like to welcome to my closet two new pairs of shoes. I sometimes get in a rut and find myself wearing my Dansco clogs every day. Yeah, sure, they're comfortable, but not so attractive. Time for a footwear change. Or TWO!
I wanted to wish everyone a happy halloween this weekend. I'm not sure I'll have the time to do any pumpkin carving so I thought I'd just look at some pretty photos instead. I think the studded pumpkin on the left is genius. It's by sweet paul, he was inspired by fashion designer Alexander McQueen. He intended to do the entire pumpkin with gold studs, but I like it this way even more. The above right image is from Country Living Magazine. Maybe I'll just get a large pumpkin and paint it white. I think it would look great without any decoration at all. Simple and sweet.
The new issue of Marie Claire Idees was so full of pretty things I had a hard time deciding what to photograph for you. I decided on spreads from my three favorite stories. I wish I could tell you what they say, but it's all in french. The visuals are still inspiring to me. I absolutely love the wire framed mirrors in the first spread. I'd love to try making some of those cute leather and suede mushrooms in the second spread, and last but not least the postal theme in the last spread is clever and basically if you put anything on a chalk wall and draw frames around it I'l love it, so there you go. I'd also like to introduce you to a new blog. Especially if you like magazines. This one is brand new and is written by a friend of mine. I know it will be fabulous and it's all about, you guessed it, magazines. Have fun over at Magazine Junkie.
