The Typography Business Card Challenge

Minted has finally announced the winners and boy are they well deserving! You can marvel over them here.

Two of my designs were selected as editor's picks; "Ladylike" and "Color Wash" have made the cut and will be available for purchase in the coming months.

"Ladylike" was also selected as a runner-up in the special prizes category of "Best Over-the-Top Pretty Design." Check out the rest of the special prize winners here.

One Pretty Thing

Since our Mediterranean cruise that stopped in Turkey, our need for a large floor rug has been satisfied. However, I can't kick my Overstock browsing habit and look what I found!!

[do you hear the little voice? "Buy me..."]

Free Download: May Desktop

I did some messing around with halftones. Click the image you like to see it larger, right click and save as desktop.

Dizzy Sea

May Flowers


Happy May!

DIY: Felt Dahlia Flower Brooch

Check out this sweet DIY tutorial on Holidash, created by Megan of NotMartha. I cannot wait to try it out!

Inspiration: Ron von Dongen

These black and white flower portraits are gorgeous. I adore his sensitivity to subtle texture and his strong compositions.


It doesn't end there! He works in color too!



Love, love, love!

[Photographs by Ron von Dongen, found via Design You Trust]

DIY: Felt Flower

My supplies

Some days I find myself spending hours browsing through my Reader subscriptions and by the time I've gotten through all of them I feel like like an under creative, impotent artist. It's like being in middle school again and I'm standing in the high school hallway; un-noticed, small, lack luster and plain uncool.

I've always wanted to try my hand at the beautiful fabric flowers I see all over the net but they always seemed so complicated. So today, with two giant cups of frantic energy (coffee) in my system, I happened upon this tutorial and giveaway at Grosgrain. The only thing I had to do was cut petal shapes out of fabric and use a hot glue gun. With new found confidence I said out loud, to the sleeping dog, "I can do that!"

I immediately rummaged through the "box of coolness," that my husband wonders why I keep, and found some black recycled felt from a 10 min project I did for him a few months ago (see below).

My "office." Underneath the desk to the left is the Box of Coolness.

This is my treasure box of cool sparkly and shinny things I inherited at an old job from the old trashed skating costumes of the Broadmoor Skating Club.

When your husband is a military pilot he'll collect a million patches and pins and want to display them all on his "I love me wall." Covering a cork board with felt is a good way to contain the madness.

Rather than use the printable templates from the tutorial I just made my own. With felt petals in hand and glue gun at the ready I used the glue and fold method in the tutorial to get my flower shape. Found a nice fancy, vintage bead-thing for the center, added some black ribbon and a bobby pin to the back and Viola! My finished hair flower!

It's tough taking pictures of your own head!

This was super easy and I love the result!!