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Noteworthy: Eat Drink Chic iPhone Wallpapers

(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...

4 days ago 18 people like this

Colour Lover: Flight Patterns

Flight Patterns | San Francisco Mag | photo via Behance | color palette details ∴ credits ∴ vintage label-inspired shapes uma from myfonts

6 days ago 4 people like this

Photoshop: How to Replace Backgrounds

(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...

6 days ago 43 people like this

Blog Bling: Vintage Labels

(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...

22 may 12 16 people like this

Links Loved

(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...

21 may 12 7 people like this

Kawaii Office

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...

18 may 12 5 people like this

Handmade: ID Bracelets with Glass Beads and Buttons

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...

16 may 12 8 people like this

Photoshop: SNL Bumper Photos

(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...

15 may 12 32 people like this

Colour Lover: Yeah!

Yeah! Notecards by MN&Co. | via Eat Drink Chic | colour palette details ∴ credits ∴ vintage label-inspired shapes uma from myfonts

15 may 12 3 people like this

Photoshop: A Touch of Color

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...

14 may 12 21 people like this

Blogging for Beginners

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...

13 may 12 20 people like this

Links Loved

(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...

11 may 12 5 people like this

Noteworthy: La Sardina

(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...

10 may 12 7 people like this

Alphabet Beads as Photo Captions

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, ...

07 may 12 11 people like this

What the Font?

(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...

06 may 12 19 people like this

How to Fill an Outline Font

(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...

06 may 12 26 people like this

How to Outline a Solid Font

(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...

05 may 12 34 people like this

Noteworthy: Fifi Lapin iPhone Cases

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 ...

03 may 12 6 people like this

Photo Layouts Kit (Blog Bling Kit Part 2)

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...

01 may 12 7 people like this

Quotable: Average Magazine

(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...

27 apr 12 9 people like this

iPhoneographie

(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...

26 apr 12 2 people like this

Blog Bling: Faux Fur Textures

(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...

24 apr 12 4 people like this

Links Loved

(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 ...

24 apr 12 10 people like this

Colour Lover: Bullet

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 ...

23 apr 12 2 people like this

Photoshop: Instant Film Photo Frames

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...

22 apr 12 30 people like this

Kawaii Office

(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...

20 apr 12 3 people like this

Always a Work In Progress

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...

20 apr 12 2 people like this

Noteworthy: Dulce Delight

Cooking shows… I love them. One of the most rewarding things I do is watch Fast Food My Way with Jacques Pepin while I’m eating my microwaved Palak Paneer and toasted naan bread, both fro...

18 apr 12 4 people like this

And Some Are Powered by Pastries

Elisabeth McNair’s illustrations have found a warm spot in my heart. She’s an artist who shares her work at Afternoon Pity Party. Beth was one of the first to adopt the Strawberry Shortca...

16 apr 12 5 people like this

Freebie: Lemon Meringue Blogger Layout V.2

I gave Lemon Meringue a long overdue update today. Some people have reported difficulty activating Blogger’s threaded comments feature with the original LM. I’m not sure why it works on s...

14 apr 12 20 people like this

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