sweet valentine.

Valentine’s day is around the corner, so I thought you’d enjoy a bit of love today.

The Original ABC Love by Jennifer Ramos {via}

i heart robot by mengsel designs

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weekend distractions.

I am so excited to be back in NYC if only for a weekend. This photo is by one of my favorite bloggers – Jenna, the designer half of Whimsy & Spice. Here’s to friends, my first art show and real winter (brrr)!

I want to go to there.

I really enjoy the idea of entertainment while I wait for my eggs to boil.

A cynical (yet hilarious) look into unhappy hipsters. Who writes the captions for these photos is amazing!

If I lived in NYC still, I would j u m p on these flower arranging classes by Saipua (do you see the cherry blossoms class? oh my, you could just go into central park and swoop some up. and ranunculus… they’re my fav!)

Ah! Cute cloud marshmallows! I don’t like marshmallows outside of being the crust on top of sweet potatoes (and ohsoslightly burnt), but I’d have to make an exception for these.

What beautiful things to say about the one you love (may have to do this for my Gaius on his day)

For those of you living in Miami, here are fabulous food events that are happening in February.

best wedding save the date ever.

And I thought we were creative with our save the date.

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screenprinting demystified.

As you know, I’ve been learning the basics of screenprinting in order to execute my pieces for The Bad Words Experiment. Luckily, my fabulous Photoshop/InDesign instructor is going through some screenprinting classes of her own right now and referred me to this awesome reference video by Etsy seller and general crafter Emily Troy.

Love!

rainbows.

This one’s for blogger/crafter/creative friend Jiorji who made a rasta cake also eats rainbows.

Isn’t eating rainbows magical?

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knots and rope.

Recently, my eye has fallen for knots, ropes and the combination of the two. There is something magical in knots and ropes and their clever mix of function, strength and beauty.

how awesome is this knot collection?

i would love to sport this rope/knot jewelry by vamoose.

and this beige infinity knot necklace by crumpetcake would look scrumptious atop a cotton navy blue dress on a warm summer day.

i love the green in this knotted rope net (photo by)

nautical knots make me especially happy (photo by)

and finally how great would it be to have your coats on this HOIST by Oscar Narud (via).

bits of my weekend.

I spent a lot of my weekend in Wynwood, getting inspiration from an abandoned warehouse off 23St and NW 2nd Ave that was full of graffiti (both good and bad). Other than that, as you know we’ve been moving. Everything we own is in boxes and hopefully by the end of today, we’ll be settled into our new place (at least relatively). Spent a lot of time yesterday on my computer perfecting the pen tool in Illustrator as I traced my French handwriting for a project for school.

On Thursday, Gaius and I will be headed to NYC for the Bad Words Experiment. Don’t tell anyone, but I thought I would get my screenprinting done this weekend only to realize that there was no room for a makeshift darkroom with all our boxes at my parents place. My pillows will be done in time for Saturday night’s show though, promise.

moving.

We moved from one apartment to my parent’s house for the weekend. Today we move from their house to our new apartment.

We get to settle down a bit soon.

I’m tired, but happy.

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weekend’s here.

Lovelies, I hope you had a wonderful week and have awesome weekend plans. Gaius and I will be working on moving out of our current teeny apartment and into our permanent residence in Miami. Hooray! I’ll also be dutifully executing my Bad Words submission for the show next week (get excited). I love Geninne’s watercolor work and the one above just makes me think of nights of chill fun with friends. As usual, some links to distract you while you sit at work dreaming of sunny days and time off. What are your plans for the weekend?

The Society of Typographic Aficionados has created a Font Aid IV, a typographic collaborative effort  consisting entirely of ampersands in order to create a font whose proceeds will go to Doctors without Borders and their aid in Haiti.

Design studio Plural put together the most ephemeral, humanistic grouping of the alphabet. Love.

Music mix by Urban Outfitters is out and free for download. Your ears will thank you.

Knots are cool.

Kindred Spirits brought to you by Etsy. A new favorite post from the Etsy blog.

Genine has a romantic lovebird watercolor and it’s been on TV!

Looking for another French Girl To Worship? Look no further.

My Photoshop homework. Meet the Browl: body of a bear with wings and eyes as sharp as the owl.

Johanna Basford is my favorite right now. You’ll never get bored with her Twitter picture as your wallpaper.

tea time.

Tea for two? by Ototo.

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