Awesome. Foer LIFE!

One of my favorite authors, Jonathan Safran Foer (Everything Is Illuminated, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close) just had his "unmakeable" book MADE:



I salivate. This is SAVAGE structure. 've always wanted to do this to a book.

Fredflare.

I am sooooo in love:


http://www.fredflare.com/customer/product.php?productid=5638&cat=450
Teacupcake baking molds (4)




http://www.fredflare.com/customer/product.php?productid=4961&cat=450

http://www.jimtierneyart.com/

I think I just threw up in my mouth at how cool this designer's stuff is and how competitive I feel!

On a cloudy, rainy day

Oh, man. The rainy, foggy and cloudy weather is back. It's always been my favorite! It reminds me of happy, cozy memories of reading in the sheets and walking under the umbrella with my babysitter, growing up.

Now, these days consist of pumpkin pie, coffee and work.

I do miss the reading!

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Look what I got for my birthday from Justin! Aside from the routine 4 layer raspberry iced poppyseed cake he takes me for at Rick's Diner in Sacramento, he got me the Small Stakes Poster book.

Yay! Check that off my wishlist! I love it so much and droll on it so much. Jason Munn's aesthetic is abstract yet communicates the feeling of music. His work feels vintage and illustrative. Of course, I love it.

He has a true gift. And I thank my Justin for his gift!

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http://www.cottoncandyfriends.com/catalog/index.php

One of my favorite stores to visit, looking for concept inspiration!

Check these out. TOTALLY want these!

Polaroid Post-Its

These gorgeous, delicious, luxurious bookmarks! Would be amazing for all those poli sci books I still want to finish!

And, of course... this one is still being sold. When I first saw it, I freaked out.

It's gotten a lot of attention, since.

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Also, working on my design signature for my portfolio class (finally!). I can't wait to share my progress with you.

hmmmm

I want to layer all fall/winter.

These are the collections of Fall10 I'd like to mimic this year:

ANNA SUI

ADAM

BURBERRY PRORSUM

JCREW

TWENTY8TWELVE

Working on a lot, lately. Just finished another quarter with all As (I'm anticipating). My favorite was my branding class in which I had two awesome teachers (Holly Hadley and Joanne Tepper-Safren). They fed us well and taught us so much. We loved that class. I'm thinking about even pitching some designs I did to the actual places I fictionally redesigned for!

Also when it comes to branding, please stop by the wonderful Rockin' Cupcake Cafe in Folsom. I did the logo, menuboard, mission statement, product cards and shirts. I hope I get to do more because it is a fun system to design for! I mean, come on! Cupcakes, man! And music! I also helped a little with the environmental design. My teacher and classmates are already addicted. My classmates are addicted to the mocha, for sure! (http://www.yelp.com/biz/rockin-cupcake-cafe-folsom)

I am also working on three other branding projects... so this break I'm planning to go all bohemian: frugal, pondering love, reading a ton of books I checked out, writing poetry, traveling photoshoots of my friends, and art art art art art!!! I'm starting to go deeper into some really philosophical questions I have about my generation and I'm going to dip into collage.

New loves of my life:

Sebastiaan Bremer's work

http://www.sebastiaanbremer.com/index.php

-Diana cameras!

-John Steinbecks' Cannery Row

-Collage art, in general... I've liked it for a while but now I'm itching to do some!

-The snake cuff Justin got me from Egypt.

-Rings, rings and more rings.

-Bunnies, in general.

-Envelope templates... you can get one at The Spoon Sisters store.

-Baking.

Jason Munn's poster book

I'm sorry I haven't been updating! I haven't forgotten about you.

Just hammered with homework!

In the meantime, these blogs are great!

15 yr. old fashion designer and great photographer

http://esther-fromthesticks.blogspot.com/

sweet photographs taken of the everyday life of a young mother

http://mycakies.blogspot.com/

WEEKLY HEROES

I was privileged to see some of the making of this video and preview the final awesome video... I promise it will be viral. It's by some cool cats in the web, film and graphic design programs at my school. So watch because it makes me jealous and it rocks!!! The site's pretty awesome, too.

ooooo baaaaadASSkerville!

http://www.itstypography.com/

Tea at my dream ModHouse

I am legitimately in love with these kawaii tea sets. I remember when I was about 5 or 6 that I was begging for a teaset. When I got one, I was thrilled!

However, I quickly realized there wasn't anyone to have tea parties with but my nanny when she wasn't busy or my stuffed animals who weren't quite interactive.

So while I placed the girly appliques that came with the teaset on the teaset, I also placed dinosaur stickers on it so that I could get my brother to play. But he didn't.

These are so cute that I don't think I'd care about sharing! Ha!

all available at http://www.modcloth.com/

ModHouse

Measuring cups

Salt and pepper shakers

Cutting boards

Drying racks

Bowls

Measuring Spoons

Organizers

Ice Cube molds

Vase

Mugs

Fetch Toy

all from http://www.modcloth.com/

I'M IN LOVE!