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Swim

It might be a little late in the season, but good-looking swimwear is always in vogue.  Find men’s and women’s styles at Minnow Bathers.

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Design Crush

I’m totally in love with the awesome work of designer/illustrator Erin Jang.  She works for Esquire Magazine during the day doing awesome layouts and spends her night designing wicked invitations and...

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Package Design

I’ll admit it.  Often times I’m lured into buying something (or at least considering buying something) by gorgeous packaging.  Sometimes, I buy it just for the packaging and not because I really want...

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Cityscapes

These cityscapes are like sculptures gone made.  Little environments made totally with jello, or cooking utensils, or eggs?  Magnificent.  The amount of patience required not only to put something like...

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Space

I’ve always been fascinated by the pictures from the Hubble Telescope.  Epic and awe-inspiring, they really give you a sense of your place in the universe.  I recently stumbled across an interesting...

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T.O.M.T.

The lovely Garci passed this along to me, and I thought I would share it all with you here. T.O.M.T. is a company that literally makes things out of trash.  During the few years I spent in art school,...

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Beer Labels

I have a favorite bar that I like to go to in Boulder.  They’ve got great food and a laid-back attitude, which is great, but they also brew all of their own beer, which is even better.  Be sure to stop...

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Flower of the Month – Garden Rose

My mom hates roses.  She hates all cut flowers, but especially roses.  It kills me to think that she hates flowers (when I love them) but I can see where she’s coming from.  They’re classic, yes, but...

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Lennon Michalski

Lennon is an amazingly good painter.  And he also happens to be a friend of mine.  I’ve had the fortune of being able to see a lot of his work up close (including one incredible painting hanging in my...

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In the parlour, if you please.

My lovely friend Amy was kind enough to host us at her DC abode last week for dinner.  It was cold, rainy and windy and after some time trying to make it across the city in such a storm, we were glad...

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Holiday Reads

If you’re just coming down from the after-effects of massive turkey dinners (and then leftovers), take a comfortable seat and enjoy reading some of these fabulous blogs. 1.  to be, inspired has to be...

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Nice Package

I think that probably everybody has woken up recently thinking “oh crap, it’s christmas!”.  That means lots of buying presents and most of all, wrapping them.  That time of the year is always fun for...

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Getting There

I spent some time in Australia when I was a kid so I have a real soft spot for anything vaguely Aussie.  These screenprinted panels are reminiscent of old trolley-car destination lists, or what they...

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Pictory

This fantastic website shows off great photography and the stories that make the photos even better.  Here are some examples: I love beautiful pictures, but for me, hearing the story behind them makes...

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Colorful Cowls

I’ve been working on some new knit cowls that I’ve added to my shop.  Each cowl is made up of many different yarns in different colors, creating a completely unique and wondrous look.  They’re each...

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Post 27

If you like shopping in a unique, curated way online, then Post 27 is a place you absolutely must check out. Now if I could only get my house to look like this, we’d be in business.

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Some Other Place

Words cannot describe how amazing these photographs from Lori Nix are.  She creates these intricate little miniature scenes that are somehow a tiny bit sinister, and photographs them so beautifully...

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Where Monsters Come From

There is something so grotesque and yet hilarious about these monster masks from Huck and Stuff.  I especially love the stories that these unique, hand-crocheted masks make.  Here’s a great example: Yum.

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The Value of a Dollar

I’m always interested in ways of visualizing and bringing to life an abstract concept.  This series of photographs by Jonathan Blaustein really embraces that challenge. Here’s his artist statement:...

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