Decorationsss

I'll take one in size S, please.
Anthropologie, $28.



These are nice, too, but I'm not so into blue...
From Urban, $14 and $8.

These Bags are Fabulous

I'm pretty sure I will never spend this much money on a handbag, but seriously, Vivien Cheng's hand-painted vintage bags are some of the most beautiful pieces of art fashion. Simply gorgeous.

Check out her official website, blog and Etsy shop.

Read more about her process right here.

Color Love

My eyes swoon at the sight of the colors on this blog. Lovely.
I'm totally addicted to yellow.

Treasure Hunts

This is a great little article about all the things you should never pass up at a goodwill store or estate sale. Some day maybe I'll be crafty and ambitious enough to take on these kinds of projects.

Via Design*Sponge.

Free Font

Kinda diggin this little freebie. Check it.

Woodgrain Textures

You may have noticed my new banner up top. I have to thank defcon-x.de for the generous supply of free high-res scans of several different woodgrain textures!

You can download them from the blog, and they're yours. Sweet.

Via How About Orange.

Jalepeño Poppers

Don't these look so yummy? I can't take credit for the picture. And I didn't make them yet. But I will. You betcha I will!

See the recipe here, via tastespotting.

Web Creme

Check out this great site recommended to me by my awesome footwear-designer friend, Eric. It's a blog that posts new and interesting websites every day. Web design inspiration!

Definitely one for my Google Reader.

Thanks, Eric!

Internet Down

Sorry friends, our internet is down. I'll be back in full force next week.

Hypercolor Tees

I don't care who deems it uncool, I want one! It's a t-shirt that changes color with heat. Don't think I ever had one when I was a kid. I was probably too cool for it then. Your pits would always be a different color, though... right? Who cares!

$34 by American Apparel, via notcot.

Chinese Food

Two things that were, sadly, not as delicious as they looked:


Smucker discovered a treasure in Newark last month: a Chinese grocery store. Scott and I went to check it out, and these are the two purchases I made. The sesame sticky bun thing was rather impossible to chew, and the strawberry sticks were, well... I didn't like them berry much. But I wanted to share anyway.

I was really hoping to find some fresh lotus root because I keep seeing pictures of it and it looks so awesome. I want to make lotus chips! Anybody know where I could find it in Baltimore?

Manischewitz Falafel

So delicious. Falafel, tomatoes and homemade tzatziki sauce served on a bed of romaine. Yes, I'm posting a lot about food this week. Truth be told, I have all these pictures saved up from the last month and haven't used them. So it's time! Om nom nom.

Walk at White Clay

My friend Bill lead us on a great little hike around White Clay park the other weekend. I was digging the shadows and butterflies. Thanks Bill!

Praying Mantis!

Saw this in Scott's backyard. How cool! Loving the shadow.
(Click image to see a bigger version).

Sad Day

Trouper, my family dog, died today. She just turned 10 in June. Thought I'd take a moment to show off some of her better days.


Traveling home won't be quite the same without her tail-wagging greetings. She's one of the sweetest, most loving pooches I've met! I'll miss her.



Just felt like sharing.

Fourth of July

We had a fabulous Fourth of July celebration, thanks to all of our amazing friends. Potluck BBQs are definitely the way to go! We played all evening in our backyard, drank beer and ate hotdogs and burgers and pie and corn and watermelon, walked down to the harbor just in time for fireworks (and glorious rain), walked back, roasted s'mores over the grill and played Apples to Apples till the wee hours of the morning.

Bruce & Robin, right before Bruce desecrated the chalk flag.

Tiff & ML (go UD!), EJ & Brian (yay new friends!), Me & Maggie.

Becca & Bill (yay out-of-towners!), me & EJ (go Orange Element!), me & Grant (screaming for PIE!).

The backyard, the fireworks over the harbor, the zoo crew, the UD crew.

Check out Scott's awesome rotating gif of the fireworks! haha.

Life is good : )

Kebab/Kabob

These kebabs were amazing. [Scott art directed that first photo].

We marinated cubed beef round, white onions, red bell peppers, zucchini, red potatoes and mushrooms in Italian dressing for a couple of hours, then skewered them (and added cherry tomatoes), and grilled.

Tossed the asparagus in olive oil, garlic and fresh lemon juice, and grilled.


I'm not usually a big mushroom fan (they are usually too spongy), but these were delicious. I think they were the best thing on the skewer!

One piece of advice: put all the red potatoes on one skewer, without anything else, and cook them for longer. They'd also be amazing with some rosemary.

Easy, healthy, delicious.

Oh! And I found out both "kebab" and "kabob" are correct.

Flicks from the Hill

I have a "The Hill" in St. Louis (my hometown) and a "The Hill" in Baltimore (my new town)! And they both have awesome FREE summer events : )

Becca came to visit this week (wahoo!), and we decided to check out Flicks from the Hill at the American Visionary Art Museum. Thursdays evenings throughout the summer they project movies on the wall on the back of the museum, and everybody sits on the Hill across the street to watch, for free. They serve popcorn and sno-cones for $1 each, and you get a dollop of Fluff on your sno-cone for an extra quarter. Sounds strange, but apparently it's a Baltimore tradition.

I got egg custard flavor with Fluff on top. Gross, yet delicious.

We watched O Brother, Where Art Thou? I can't believe I'd never seen it before! Totally entertaining, and of course, the music is fantastic.

I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow


It was a great Thursday night.

Honfest!

Scott, me, Grant, Maggie, Matt. Flamingo.

Hon Pageant. Pork Butts, Scott (naturally).

Print Liberation

I'm totally digging this book. I just added it to my Amazon.com wishlist, under "highest priority." Only $16.49!

I've been missing screenprinting like crazy since I took a beginner class fall semester of my senior year at UD. It made me use color and illustration in a whole new way.

So I came across this book at NOTCOT, and I'm thinking it might give me some inspiration for how to make screenprinting possible in my teeny house with no extra space. I really would love to set up some space so that I could make prints and start my own Etsy shop [I'll have to post about that soon. I have a lot of ideas and a serious lack of direction.]. Perhaps outside and at my desk in the basement which I never use?

Anyway, back to the book. Here's where it came from. Same place as the Obama shirt! It tells you every single thing you need to get started.

And it's so purrrrty.


Oh and here is their wacky trailer they made for the book.

Stop Motion

Loving this little video. I'm going to do a stop-motion video for fun one of these days.


Revamped Graphic Equalizer from Marcelo Costa on Vimeo.