Screen printing

Around Christmas, Camille and I taught ourselves how to screen print and I realized I never posted the final product! I love the way this print turned out, the wood canvas is awesome, and something I want to use more.

Spring Has Sprung! Kind of...

      

 

 I know it's just a teaser, what with the beautiful weather and buds popping up, but I'm so excited about the cherry blossoms I had to take some pictures. I never realized how many cherry blossoms were in a 4 block radius of my house. It's makes me very happy.

Weekly Design Love: The Stendig Calendar

I've seen this on numerous design blogs and finally bought one, and I love it! Pair with my screen saver (oh and my amazing new imac) and you're in design nerd heaven. And it's somewhat practical! How you ask?? It doubled as wrapping paper when the month is over. booh-ya.

The Sustainable BLT

For Will's birthday I made BLTs and yam fries, and managed to get all the ingredients at either local farmers markets (or rising sun in this case) and a great little butcher shop that just opened in my neighborhood, Bill the Butcher. The bacon was amazing, and of course locally sourced, with a great focus on sustainability, and not wasting any parts of the animal. I love that if there is one thing popping up more and more in Seattle its places to buy local/organic/sustainable, and contrary to popular belief, it doesn't have to cost a lot. Sure, if you did all that shopping at PCC you would drown in organic debt, but going to places like famers markets are surprisingly cheap.

Not to say I don't appreciate being able to get any vegetable year round, but I think there is something to be said about living off of what is locally available, even if that means not getting squash in June. So I say, if you have the choice, which you pretty much always do, skip safeway and head to the farmers market, and you not only support the little guy, but you might learn something too.

V-Day

As a last minute decision Will and I decided to skip town and go to Shelton for Valentine's Day. We played on the beach, ate an amazing dinner and tried not to flip the row boat as we watched the sunset. All in all, a pretty damn good Valentine's Day if I do say so myself.

Handmade Cards

A while back, when I had a LOT of time on my hands, I started making greeting cards with intention to sell them on Etsy. Of course I never got around to putting them in my Etsy store, which might I add, I haven't gotten around to putting anything into, but hey. I decided I would rather print them for friends and family if they would like them for free anyway! So, if you would like a pack, let me know! I would be happy to print you some!

A website every designer should know about!

I was doing my pre-spring cleaning on my computer when I realized I had about 50 bookmarked sites from when I was in school. Most of them were random pages about beer labels and nuclear energy, but the I stumbled along one which I honestly don't even remember looking at in the first place. It's called Blue Vertigo, and it is amazing! For all of those times you're thinking, damn if only I had a quick wood grain/floral/metal pattern to put in here, or, if only I could find that font... for FREE! and so on and so on, well here it is! The designer's mecca to free thing we use and love! Enjoy!