Artful Sentiments

I bookmark stationary sites all the time and return to them often for ideas when designing my own creations. One site I love is Artful Sentiments. All of the station is original block print designs. In addition to notecard and stationary, Artful Sentiments also has magnets, beautiful calendars, and they do custom work, as well.

Bon Weekend!

We are out of town this weekend to celebrate my beautiful mother's 60th birthday, but I thought I'd leave a few things to peruse over the next few days.

It's now safe to post about my favorite latest discovery: Tastebook.

For years I've been tearing recipes out of all of my magazines and adding them to enormous black binders, divided into appropriate categories, but jumbled none-the-less. Tastebook is the answer to my recipe disorganization.

It's an insanely easy, three-step process; and they make the best gifts too! Write your own title, choose a cover image from tons of incredible pictures, add your own recipes or pull from your favorite web sites, and voila! You can even add your own photographs too. Each book comes with 100 recipes for $34.95. If you by as a gift, the recipient gets a certificate for the remaining recipes! We gave them to a lot of people for Christmas, and they've been a huge success.

Pearls Events!

So, I was just checking out the latest favorite Knottie bio (Mrs. T-to-be) and was thrilled to see Aletha of Pearls Events featured in one of the pictures. Beeeautiul wedding. You have to check this one out!

Radishes!

Holy cow! Is this incredible, or what? I'm constantly amazed by what Housemartin creates. I wish I lived in Portland proximity because every day there's something else I want to discover in the area. A trip is definitely in the works.

These arrangements would make the most incredible (rick, thick, full) centerpieces for a wedding or special event. The radishes add a huge splash of color and an unexpected twist.

Colorize your desktop

A friend sent along a great link today. Check out Kris's Color Dots to download one of these great designs for your desktop. The blog is also really fun to poke through and gives you some great idea and color inspiration.

I'm kind of feeling over pink for a while (GAH!), so I'm thinking I'll go with the red!

Joy's guide to Philly!

Joy of Oh Joy! (which, as you all should know, is the pinnacle of inspirational blogs) posted a fabulous guide to Philadelphia on the Design*Sponge blog. Check it out! I agree with all of her listings, and would also add a fabulous new brunch location which recently opened in Fishtown: Ida Mae's. Super cute and amazingly delicious.

Brown Sugar Design

I'm completely obsessed. I've spent a good hour tonight looking at both the Brown Sugar Design Web site and blog.

An now that I've poked through the entire blog, making notes along the way, I'm going to move on to Seattle's Starr Photography to find more photos from this magnificent wedding.

UPDATE: Oh, oh, it's a featured wedding. There are a ton of photos!

Martha on Valentine's Day?

EEEEEeeeee, Hubs and I just found out we have tickets for the Martha show on Valentine's Day. The audience will be filled with couples who met online. Any of you also going? And how did you meet online!?

Orchids

So, I don't usually like this type of bouquet, cascading like this, but I was surprised by how much I loved this combination. The flowers actually look quite fragile and elegant, and I love the color combination. Check out Chris + Lynn Photography for more great pics.

Heather Bailey

Not only are her fabrics amazing, but so is her studio. I think this is the one I choose! I just absolutely love it. The colors. The femininity. The craftiness! It definitely has everything and looks like the type of place we'd have a hard time leaving.

Etsy find

I have a number of friends expecting their first children in 2008, and I think these little booties would make a perfect gift!

Craft Room

It's my DREAM to have a craft room in my house, and my husband promised one to me yesterday (when we upgrade to a new house in five or so years). So, in the meantime, I'm starting to collect photos for inspiration. And maybe I'll keep my tiny office clean now as training for my future room. (Riiiggghhttt)

All photos courtesy of Flickr!

Craft and Creativity

Tara Anderson

Help a blogger out

And visit Snippet and Ink's blog today to take the reader survey! Kathryn's hoping to take her reader's opinions into account when creating her blog. How wonderful is that!? Also, be sure to poke around. GREAT distractions.

Seriously. A Jane Austen wedding? I want it!

Etsy find

I LOVE this Japanese textiles store! The children's prints are the best, and I'm bookmarking this site for when I'll need them. In the meantime, the ribbon is too cute to pass up!

Melissa Jill

Over the holidays I discovered Pheonix-based photographer Melissa Jill. I absolutely adore the song that plays on the homepage of her Web site. Sometimes I just leave it up while I'm checking my e-mail. But, I also love poking through her blog. Great pics and wonderful, bright, vibrant colors!