Type nerd alert! Check out the Le Bijou Alphabet Ring collection from Axylo. At first glance it’s just another chunky ring, but look a little closer and it’s a letter. All twenty-six are available in different finishes and materials.
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PHOTO + LINK: Raygun
This should be the tee every blogger receives once they reach a certain number of posts. I’m not even kidding a little bit. {via Erin Cooper’s Pinterest}
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Huge, voluminous, beautiful silk scarves from Forget Me Not. Each one features a hand-drawn design that’s digitally printed in small batches. Endless wearing possibilities for summer – cover up, turban, beach carry-all, etc. {via Dismount Creative}
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I miss my sweet home Pennsylvania a lot of the time, so I definitely would love one of shop dirtsa’s chalkboard state maps. They’re made to order and will be vertically or horizontally oriented depending on the shape of the state you choose. PA FOR LIFE! {via Bliss}
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Tell Ritterback’s Book Hook was born from the idea that he wanted something better than a strip of paper holding his place. His design prevents damage and mimics the shape of an open book, and I love how it practically turns into a piece of sculpture.
Posted In create, house and home, woodI hate seasonal shopping. I don’t want to commit to a new coat in August when I’m thinking about cookouts and college football, or a bathing suit in March when my life revolves around comfort food. One thing I am happy about? The resurgence of retro-styled bathing suits adorning the racks this year, I’ve always found them the most flattering and comfortable. My eyes are on the prize.
Natalie One-Piece, Anthropologie
Jersey Lomellina Ruffle Tank, J.Crew
These silk tees from Rachel Rose look perfectly light and airy for the first days of warm weather. Each one is made to order, so you’re getting an absolute one of a kind item. Ink blot test, anyone? {via ali loves curtis}
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PHOTO + LINK: A Beautiful Mess
I can’t wait to recreate this layered tissue paper decor for something. Anything.
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Fall, winter, and spring music is not like summer music. I dare you to think of a roadtrip or family vacation and not have at least one song you’d consider part of the soundtrack of your memories. It’s impossible. The music is somehow better, the words mean more, and the beat more likely to get stuck in your head for days on end. And all of those reasons together are why I decided it’s high time to throw a little mixtape swap party. I’m constantly on the hunt for new ear candy, maybe because I spend a good ten hours a day listening to it. And I can’t imagine anything better than some new (or quintessentially summer) tunes blasting in my car, windows down, hair blowing in the wind. So what do you say, want to know the deets?
1. First off, I use the term “mixtape” in reverence for what it was when mixes first emerged in the 80s, your mix will most definitely be on a CD.
2. Email me at designcrushing@gmail.com to sign up by Sunday, May 1st.
3. Tell me what genre (i.e. indie, pop/rock, classic, etc) you usually listen to as well as your mailing address.
4. Choose 15 to 20 songs that scream summer to you and burn away.
5. Go all out with the disk and case art. Graphic design, markers and colored pencils, whatever. It’s all up to you, just make sure it’s not plain and that you include the songs and artists’ names somewhere, somehow.
6. Everyone will be paired off and notified via email by Wednesday, May 4th.
7. Your mix is due in the mail to your swapmate no later than Saturday, May 14th.
Please, please, please get your mix together and mailed on time. It will break my hearts to hear of someone waiting well June, even worse, not receiving one at all. If you don’t think you can get your mix together in time please refrain from signing up, I’m hoping there will be more mixtape swaps in the future for you to take part in.
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