The Moment Jars is a breathtaking project that’s a collaborative effort book. Visit the site and put your own moment in a jar. A fitting way to kick off 2010, no? {via swissmiss}
Great things from the week past…
Super pretty I-can’t-believe-they’re-a-free-download holiday gift tags :: Two Brunettes
Are you using TeuxDeux, the super simple, designy, free to-do app yet? :: swissmiss
Relive your childhood mall Santa terrors with Sketchy Santas
Tear off wallpaper for that customized look :: Design-Milk
Pantone unveils Turquoise 15-5519 as color of the year for 2010!
Living In: Romeo & Juliet :: Design*Sponge
More incredible free printable wintry holiday tags for your collection :: Domestifluff
This December desktop calendar is rockin’ my screen right now :: simple blueprint
Loving the details in this chic Chicago wedding :: Style Me Pretty
Download these envelope + package wraps for your holiday mailings :: Creature Comforts
A great selection of warm + cozy throws for under $100 :: Shelterpop
Check out my personal wish list for the year! :: Shiny Squirrel
Giveaway Reminder: You have until Monday at 9am CST to enter the ivee giveaway!
Happy Weekend!
Posted In accessories, christmas, downloads, graphic design, happy weekend, holidays, house and home, online, shameless plug, walls, weddingsI’m thrilled for Thanksgiving this year. Not just the food, food, FOOD or the mad dash shopping on Black Friday (which I really do love, by the way), but the tradition. I’ve never missed a Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in my lifetime, so that’s first up. Then I’ll be making cranberry parfaits to enter into our family’s yearly Thanksgiving Dessert Contest. Sometime in the early afternoon I’ll head over to my mom and stepdad’s house. My mom and I will cook and browse the sales ads to formulate our plan of action for Friday. There will be lots of football watched and maybe even a little bit of Christmas decorating done since we’ll all be together. Finally, that evening I’ll roll myself to my car and home, with a bag full of leftovers to sustain me throughout the weekend. What’s the best part of your Thanksgiving Day?
Lots of good stuff floating around this week…
The holidays can be a bit stressful to say the least and I love this Keep Calm and Drink printable to keep things light and funny :: Whisker Graphics
Sweet Paul kicked off his crafty holiday countdown today!
Love these vintage photos from the 1932 Macy’s parade :: bad banana blog
I like this idea for Thanksgiving Blessing Snack Mix – it would make a great hostess gift or take-away for guests and could be packaged up so sweetly! :: The Kitchn
Cute bird bookmark download – great idea to tuck one into a book you’re loaning out or returning from having borrowed as a little surprise :: How About Orange
Getting ready to start decorating for the holidays? Here’s a great roundup of DIY wreaths :: marta writes
Mrs. French is now selling her photography as little Polaroid collections in her shop! :: Bliss
A pretty place setting practice template to help kids learn the ropes of table settings (free labor!) :: Blonde Designs
Rachel’s doing a great set of posts – Holidays, Managed – to help keep the stress at bay and the end goal in mind :: Heart of Light
A great selection of one of my favorite parts of a wedding: the seating chart :: Pretty Little Things
Happy {Thanksgiving} Weekend!
NOTE: Don’t forget – you have until Monday at 9am CST to enter the Vivi Dot giveaway for a haul of fun holiday accessories!
I bring up Columbus Day because my office will be closed Monday, so posting will pick back up where it left off bright and early Tuesday. Next week I have lots of amazing calendars to share with you and will be posting not one, but four, calendar roundups! (You are signed up for the Design Crush/Greedy Girl 2010 Calendar Swap, right? I thought so.)
**NOTE: Just a little reminder, you have until Tuesday at 9am CST to enter the MusicCooks giveaway and win one of two collections of recipes and music!
• Pioneer Woman’s cookbook is finally in print!
• cut and build a haunted house paper model for Halloween
• hop on over to Pattern Wall for patterns you can download
• check out paper crave’s roundup of Halloween freebies
• think ahead to treats for the holidays with this tutorial for sea glass candy
• I love every detail of Carly + Dan’s wedding day
• I’m obsessed with these PJs inspired by Where the Wild Things Are!
• Genius idea: Expense a Steak
• adorable DIY homemade jam labels for you to download
• check out Man Shops Globe to tag along with Anthropologie’s buyer at large
• lovely October desktop calendar that’s adorning my laptop at the moment
• say hello to scoutie girl gifts!
Posted In downloads, halloween, happy weekend, holidays, make it, online, read up, recipes, see it, weddings
{Unknown}Have you been having an amazing first week of fall? I have. Here in Oklahoma we’re experiencing a lot of below average temperatures and I’m soaking up every moment! Not only did I break out the Halloween decorations (fine, that was last week), but some long sleeves, too. Have a fantastic weekend and enjoy this week’s Mad Props!
Download these pom pom printables for your next girl’s night in
I very badly want to throw a backyard fall soiree
Repurpose chip containers to make this rad organizer
No one’s perfect, not even cake decorators
I’d use this menu wheel for a dinner party
Soak up Mankind Mag’s last issue
Feather Report now jumps cities and has an app for your phone
How to spend Under $100: in the garden
Check out the Where the Wild Things Are pop-up shop
Head over heels for these velvet pumpkins
Make your own Starbucks-esque Pumpkin Spice Latte
Beautiful science-themed weddings
Make your own (healthier) fast food
Old-school Halloween party save-the-date printable
Fun + bright Cirque du Bebe shower suite to download
**NOTE: Don’t forget, you have until Monday at 9am CST to enter the Rachel Pfeffer giveaway to win her delicious honeycomb necklace!
Posted In downloads, entertaining, happy weekend, invitations, kids, mad props, make it, online, outdoors, recipes, technology, weddings
Personas is an application that searches your name on the web and returns a profile of what it finds. Check out mine above – it found my online and social presence and all my mentions of books, fashion and art. The fame and sports mentions are sort of puzzling, unless I’m a big pro athlete in a foreign country and just failed to mention it to you all…
Personas is a component of the Metropath(ologies) exhibit, currently on display at the MIT Museum by the Sociable Media Group from the MIT Media Lab. It uses sophisticated natural language processing and the Internet to create a data portrait of one’s aggregated online identity. In short, Personas shows you how the Internet sees you.
We Feel Fine is an exploration of human emotion on a global scale engineered by Jonathan Harris and Sepandar Kamvar. I could spend hours pouring over the beautiful words and images.
“Since August 2005, We Feel Fine has been harvesting human feelings from a large number of weblogs. Every few minutes, the system searches the world’s newly posted blog entries for occurrences of the phrases “I feel” and “I am feeling”. When it finds such a phrase, it records the full sentence, up to the period, and identifies the “feeling” expressed in that sentence (e.g. sad, happy, depressed, etc.). Because blogs are structured in largely standard ways, the age, gender, and geographical location of the author can often be extracted and saved along with the sentence, as can the local weather conditions at the time the sentence was written. All of this information is saved.”
“At its core, We Feel Fine is an artwork authored by everyone. It will grow and change as we grow and change, reflecting what’s on our blogs, what’s in our hearts, what’s in our minds. We hope it makes the world seem a little smaller, and we hope it helps people see beauty in the everyday ups and downs of life.
Posted In collaboration/project, online
We all make mistakes. We all hate to admit we make them. Oh sets them free for you.
In the 6th grade I told everyone that this girl, Jessica, who was a year older than me was my half sister from my mother’s first marriage. The facts are that I’m an only child and the closest J was to being my halfsie was that she lived a few doors down from me. Oh, and my mom had only ever been married to my dad. Cool, huh? Oh.
Not so long ago I was out doing some shopping and in a foul mood. (Let’s hear it for retail therapy!) When I came out of the store there was a shiny Mercedes parked next to my Xterra. Did I mention that they were only pulled up halfway into the space, crooked, and semi blocking my way out? Well, then that explains me scraping up their nicely painted rear bumper with my slightly less expensive rubber one. It doesn’t? Oh well.
Sometimes I don’t think soup qualifies as a real meal. So I eat another. What, that’s not ok? Oh my.
:: via Mackin Ink
Posted In online
Thank You Too. Because it’s a highly-underused phrase and everyone needs to say it a little more often. Check out all the different ways and pass it on.
Of All The People In All The World uses grains of rice to bring abstract statistics to life via exhibitions worldwide. Each grain of rice represents one person. Over a period of days a team of performers carefully weigh out quantities of rice to represent a host of human statistics in the form of groupings. Some are serious, some not so much.
Some examples include:
– the populations of towns and cities
– the number of doctors, the number of soldiers
– the number of people born each day, the number who die
– all the people who have walked on the moon
– deaths in the holocaust
I love the downplayed simplicity of the entire project. It makes it that much more impactful.
Check out more images on their flickr page!
