December 2008

Perhaps you’ve already done your shopping and you want to add a handmade addendum to your gifts to personalize them. Making mini-journals is the perfect way to do that. They are so fun to make. I’ve made about a million this gift season. I use mine like a blackberry minus the emailing and internet searching. [...]

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via Starlet Showcase Today is my last day of work before a 2 week vacation. I really need it. I have a ton of artwork to do to prep for the surface pattern trade show I’m doing in a month! EEK. Here are some Maquette posts from the week and posts from around the web [...]

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I love street style blogs. Some of my favorites are Garance Dore, Helsinki Style, Face Hunter, and of course The Sartorialist. I could stare at the beautiful clothing in real life context for hours. When I think about it, it’s not solely the clothing that evokes such interest but the people wearing it. I look [...]

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Before I show you Erin’s fabulous photography check out Joanna Goddard’s post about the funny way I met my husband on the Glamour Magazine blog Smitten. Erin Gleeson and I met on the rooftop of our building on the night of the big New York black out and have been friends ever since. We share [...]

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I regret not taking a “before” photo of this Danish modern chair I purchased at a Brooklyn flea market a couple of months ago ($80- booyah!). The fabric was ratty and hideous but I knew that I was going to have it reupholstered with my own print in a matter of time. I had just [...]

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