(Marc by Marc Jacobs Neon Pink Rubber Turnlock Bracelet) One of the fashion blogs I follow is Le Blog de Betty. I like her style. Sometimes she’s smiling, and sometimes not, but she’s alw...
JetPens sent some Kaweco pencils my way. One is a 2mm lead holder and the other is a 0.7mm mechanical pencil. They’re gorgeous and robust, and more importantly, these guys have a great feel and...
(magazine love: nylon japan, june 2012 // neon nails: celtic sun by china glaze) Yesterday started innocently enough. I was about half an hour into writing my next tutorial about how to turn your Pho...
(Eat Drink Chic / Set 1) Eat Drink Chic iPhone wallpapers made me smile all week. I think it might be all the gold and glitter! Amy Moss of Eat Drink Chic has made 3 sets of free wallpapers, with 2 w...
Flight Patterns | San Francisco Mag | photo via Behance | color palette details ∴ credits ∴ vintage label-inspired shapes uma from myfonts
(Marianne’s photo used with permission. // ORIGINAL) San Francisco Magazine had a beautiful fashion spread in their March issue called Flight Patterns. I don’t normally look inside SF Mag...
(hover over photo to see preview) Hey hey, it’s time for Blog Bling! Here are 9 vintage labels you can use to make cute captions for your photos and collages. All 9 labels are available to memb...
(magazine love: TokyoVivi, Issue #1 // more photos) Adorable camera straps, neon earrings, sound career advice, a toy font, collage art, desktop wallpapers, new blogs, a foodie mag and other fun stuf...
invite.L sent me some rolls of washi tape and two beautiful notebooks (this and this). I can hardly wait to tear into them and make long lists of things to do, but that will have to wait until I exha...
Here’s a simple project I was working on last night. I don’t know about you guys, but I like these kinds of easy, no-brainer DIY’s and think that working with your hands is the perf...
(Photo of Rebecca used with permission.) I got an email asking how to get the effect that SNL uses for their bumper photos — you know, those bright retro-ish photos of the hosts shown between a...
Yeah! Notecards by MN&Co. | via Eat Drink Chic | colour palette details ∴ credits ∴ vintage label-inspired shapes uma from myfonts Did you enjoy this post? There’s a ...
Hey everyone, if you want to learn how to convert your photos to black and white and preserve areas of color (as in the Rebecca’s photo above), head on over to The Clothes Horse. I’ve bee...
I get this question a lot: “I want to start a blog. Which is better: Blogger or WordPress?” I usually refrain from answering this question because there isn’t a single all-purpose best blog pla...
(Letterman Digital Arts Center) Before anything else, I want to thank SFGirlbyBay for featuring my mini envelope DIY in her weekly series, Tuesday’s Girl. I was out and about most of Tuesday an...
(La Sardina in houndstooth) A couple of weeks ago, I stopped by Lomography to buy a replacement for my busted and beloved Diana Mini. The store was so much fun — there were so many things to lo...
If you follow me on Instagram, you may have seen me playing with these alpha beads. I found these cuties at The Hobby Company on Geary Blvd. in San Francisco. I’ve seen these beads many times, ...
(Lattes from Trouble Coffee) The first time I saw Pee Pants Script it was on the cover of Nylon Japan’s April 2012 issue. It looked so artistically disheveled I assumed that it was hand-drawn t...
(hover over toast to see non-fill version) Hey folks, in the previous tutorial I showed you how to outline a solid font. In this post, we’ll do the opposite — add a fill to an outline fon...
(hover over pie to see non-outline version) I’ve bought quite a few fonts this year and some of my favorites, like Hiruko, have outline variants. There are many times when I wish my other fonts...
As you know, I rave about my iPhone all the time and I like to dress it up in a new case now and then. The last case I talked about here was my Rabito. Then after the ears got dirty, I switched over ...
The Photo Layouts Kit is ready! Some folks have asked for a Blog Bling Kit that is entirely photo layouts. So, I’ve compiled all the layouts I’ve made into Kit #2. There’s lots of v...
(Average Magazine) I bought a copy of Average at Green Apple Books. What attracted me to it was the word “average”. I thought, What the hell? Just average? So I flipped through it, and un...
(Mural at Outerlands on Judah) Lately I’ve had quite a few reasons to go to the City to run a few errands. I always enjoy these little trips because they give me a chance to indulge myself a li...
(5 colors with variations. total textures = 19 JPGs) I’m getting stuff ready for the Photo Layouts Kit. I was going to make these textures exclusively available in the kit, but I changed my min...
(Lomography, SF) A new awesome show, new diys to try, another bow tie to covet, a Ted Talk, blog banners, free textures, css cheat sheets — just a whole bunch of fun stuff. :) girls define diy ...
Bullet Magazine, Volume VI | color palette details I bought my first issue of Bullet last week. All I have to say about this magazine is that every page creates a conflict — I wanna linger and ...
I was reading Lula, Issue #13, and I noticed some instant-film-like photo frames in use in their Lula Loves section. At first I thought it was totally Photoshopped and then it occurred to me that the...
(photo taken with my beloved iPhone) There’s my D70 lens hood hovering over my new Hello Kitty pens from JetPens. They’re soooooo cute! After watching Dulce Delight’s behind-the-sce...
After I updated Pugly Pixel a couple of weeks ago, I was pretty pleased with it. But seeing my wacky pom-pom photo every time I viewed a page became a bit annoying. Then I began to feel that the side...
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