postcard gift

my coworker mary picked up this postcard for me on her vacation in boise.

disposable.

some pictures i took with the disposable camera. you gotta love low quality film.

brother's soccer tournament at bryan park

jp building (i guess lincoln financial now)

random parking lot behind my apartment

Portland Jams

I was mesmerized by Kele Goodwin at Mississippi Studios on Saturday and thought I should share the tunes. I found out from Nico that he is our neighbor and works at our neighborhood whole foods. Oh Portland and their hidden gems.

Kele Goodwin

Oh, Snap, Heartbeatbox.

some photography blogs.

Oh, Snap Photography Blog

Heartbeatbox Photos

I can't remember everything either.

Beth Nakamura, The Oregonian

For those who have visited my house in the last couple of weeks, chances are I've already forced you to watch this video, but for everyone else....I love this video! Please watch and love it too!

Read article here.

Making Progress

Quick post to get some feedback from ya'll. The place is getting bright and colorful with all my estate sale finds....yellow rattan pattern cushions, green/turquoise floral curtains, coral marmoleum under dinette, wood laminate flooring, aluminum backsplash behind desk. I'm keeping the 2 original lights pictured but need to find something for above the table....

Forage your fruit!

Find free fruit, nuts, and herbs in your neighborhood at neighborhoodfruit.com. I found cherries, blueberries, raspberries, plums, figs, apricots, and rosemary within 1 mile of my house! Good luck. I hope your neighborhoods are as fruitful as mine!

(Photo taken at a WWOOF Japan farm. One of my jobs was to shell walnuts from a neighborhood tree to make bread with. A lot of work for a cup of walnuts but enjoyable all the same.)

the color collective

http://color-collective.blogspot.com/

Test Color

Color Personality Test

Pantone Hotel

The PANTONE HOTEL^TM invites you to experience the city of Brussels through a lens of color and a spectrum of comforts. From the moment you arrive, the “hotel of colors” will awaken your senses to an array of delights and playful surprises.

Impeccably designed by Michel Penneman and Oliver Hannaert, The PANTONE HOTEL^TM, Brussels showcases the color of emotion with a distinctive hue on each colorous guest floor. From vivid to subdued, for business or leisure, our unique boutique hotel perfectly suits your savvy palette and colorful imagination.

From a design perspective, The PANTONE HOTEL^TM, Brussels is built on an exceptional use of contrast; a white canvas provides clean space for saturated colors to pop. Guest rooms feature unique photography by esteemed Belgian photographer Victor Levy.

ID Article HERE

tiny texas houses

http://tinytexashouses.com/

2010 Reunion

I'm sure we are all aware of this by now...


http://www.uncg.edu/iar/reunion/index.html

myPANTONE

The beauty of Pantone cannot be disputed. Thousands upon thousands of endless colors.
With myPANTONE, one has access to pertinent color information. It offers member posted color palettes, tips + techniques, color management, relevant news, announcements, color tidbits, support files & fun tools.

Pantone Goe provides innovative tools for creating, managing and sharing user-defined and PANTONE-identified color palettes. Features an eye-dropper for picking desktop colors, color harmonies, auto-generating palettes from imported images and the ability to save, print and also share palettes through the myPANTONE online community.

stuff white people like

We all know my obsession with the blog Stuff White People Like. They have teamed up with Workspace Design to make the blog into posters. Amazing!

30 to be released at a time. By them here:

http://helloworkspace.com/shop/

Victoria Modern

We heard a drum circle off in the distance and followed the sound until we came to this building. This is the new First Nations building on the campus of UVIC. Beautifully done.

retro planet

Out of this World Retro Gifts, Decor, Furniture & Vintage Signs!
http://www.retroplanet.com/

woolworth finally!

"Fifty years ago, the F.W. Woolworth building in Greensboro, N.C., stood as a reminder of segregated life in the south. Today, the building stands as a monument to the power of human courage and its ability to bring about social change. The International Civil Rights Center & Museum is more than just a building designed to house historical exhibits and artifacts. It is a place to witness, to experience and to discuss how to affect social change in our own nation and around the world."

finally!!! today is the grand opening! how long has this been under construction? at least the 6 or so years i've been in greensboro.

http://www.sitinmovement.org

for all your baking needs

http://www.bakeitpretty.com/

polapremium

with the economy tanking, along with my [re]found obsession with polaroids, i am seriously considering becoming a starving artist, with my main medium being these little delicacies.

polapremium not only sells premium polaroid film, but is also an amazing resource for all things polaroid related :D

film shop.

warhol at duke

"Big Shots: Andy Warhol Polaroids" provides insight into the artist who sought to capture the world like a camera. The exhibition includes about 250 Polaroids and 75 silver gelatin black-and-white prints taken by Warhol from 1970 to 1987, many of them on public view for the first time.

Nasher Museum of Art

cardboard safari

I stumbled upon this website while I was looking for creative Christmas decorations. I was going to re-create the tree, hoping to find cardboard sheets stashed in the Gatewood building. No luck though :(
Next craft project - the heart wreath. And of course, for A: the space ship!!

http://www.cardboardsafari.com/