Posts from — April 2008

carrying on my post last week, i’m still on a mission to decorate my boys room. i’ve been looking for an alphabet print to hang on their walls and i’ve found some great ones browsing etsy. here’s my latest finds:

Decoy Lab::Animal Alphabet Poster - Orange/Green

jennski::ABC animal set

visit her blog at Jenn Ski

Laurie Coyle Designs::Alphabet Soup Print 8×10

Paul Chung::Alphabet Series

Happy Tuesday!

I’ve been very inspired by the colors of Spring, particularly Yellow and White. I’ve been designing like mad, waiting for all of my legal documents and paperwork to come in (hopefully I’ll be all set this week!). I’ve noticed some of these spring yellows and flowers creep into my work. I can’t wait to start printing! anyways, here’s a flickr mosic that’s been particularly inspirational.

1. Yellow Flowers_1, 2. Untitled, 3. Yellow Flower, 4. Untitled, 5. yellow krokus, 6. When you look this good how can you not be in love with yourself, 7. Wish You Were Here…Or I Was There!, 8. Back home, 9. chilly spring

My fellow etsy artists have also been inspired by this spring color. Here are some of my favorite finds:

aree-2 yellow pillows

oktak XL frame pouch - yellow shapes on white

GreyBrocket Super Retro Yellow Shirtdress

Happy Monday!

by sonicwalker

I totally love:

sleeping in late

lazy Saturdays

breezy Hawaiian tradewinds

Jack Johnson

sour gummy worms

pancakes with peanut butter and bananas

Enjoy your weekend!

Today I love these handmade screen printed journals by rifferaff at etsy.

slim handprinted journal in bubblegum pink–rifferaff

I love browsing flickr, I can seriously lose track of time while browsing. Here’s a few of my favorites while browsing etsy craft pools.

1. Snappy Satchel - Patriotic Party, 2. emily felt flower barrette, 3. You are Never Alone - Ethiopia - ORIGINAL painting, 4. Bucket-bag, 5. Pink & Chocolate Retro Style - Blossom Card (Open), 6. * orange felt flower * 2 *, 7. Super Pig Suey Stands Victorious!, 8. Thread & Trim Holders-Set 3, 9. Tea Towel Swap-Embroidery close up, 10. Great Amy Butler Fabric, 11. cfp shoulder bag, 12. Little red riding hood, 13. Boats at Sunset, 14. Spring Hair Clip, 15. Untitled, 16. Birdy pins/magnets

I grew up listening to rock music as a teen, and I have nice little play list on my iPod of all of the old songs I loved to jam to back in the day. Lately, I’ve been listening to a lot of Foo Fighters. The song, February Star has been stuck in my head for days now.

Today’s post is a little late and a little short. I’m still recovering from yesterday. Yesterday was my SIL 26th birthday and we had a little get together at our house. Lots of great food (yummy steak, king crab legs, opihi (Hawaiian for a seawater Limpet–according to Wikipedia), saute mushrooms, baked potato…. My husband and I, made a 6 layer chocolate cake (very reminiscent of PF Changs Chocolate Wall). My little guy and I blew up balloons and hung streamers. I even let my little one stay up way past his bedtime to partake in the festivities. I have all of these great birthday party memories and NO not even one photo! shame on me! so anyways, after all of that birthday partyness (is that a word?), today I’m hanging. I can’t wait to get home (yikes, did I admit I’m blogging at work?) and pawn off my little guy on my husband and take a nap.

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So here’s a print I love. It’s called pink fireworks and it’s by makeshiftmodern. I found it via etsy.

I am finding that I need a new pair of shoes. I normally wear something with a heel to work, but as I get further into this pregnancy, I’m finding that my heels just aren’t cutting it for me anymore. I’ve been noticing that their are lots of really cute dress flats on the market now. My only problem, is when it comes to shoes and clothes, I can not do the online shopping thing. I’m a see it, smell it, touch it, try it on type of gal. My other problem is I live in a really rural area, with my only options for shoe shopping is a Payless Shoes, Macys and Walmart. I was just in the “big city” (AKA Honolulu) three weeks ago for spring break and it didn’t even cross my mind to go shoe shopping. *shame on me I know* so here’s what I’ve found….

From payless::

| 1. American Eagle Mille Bow Ballet | 2. American Eagle Cherish Mary Jane Flat| | 3. American Eagle Kimber Mary Jane Pump| | 4. American Eagle Carlin Sneaker Wedge| | 5. American Eagle James Pump| | 6. Flower Espadrille| | 7. Romance Espadrille| | 8. American Eagle Flutter Mary Jane Skimmer | | 9. American Eagle Liddy Canvas Wedge|

I’ll be back to show what I actually bought. crossing my fingers, my little payless has these shoes in stock!

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ETA:

I came home with these (in black) and these. I love them and I’m proudly wearing the flats today at work.

I saw this image browsing ffffound today.

Illustration - Circles on the Behance Network

I took a long weekend off to rest but this head cold of mine is hard proving hard to recover from. Of course it doesn’t help being 6 months pregnant and unable to take any type of cold medicine. I’ve been loading up on oranges and my current craving, peanut butter with pancakes.

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anyways, i’ve been browsing etsy looking for some original artwork for the nursery. my 2yr son will be sharing a room with the new baby for now and I’m starting to get the room ready. We just moved into our house in February and i’m still at work decorating. Here’s some of my favorite finds.

OopsyDoodleDesigns-Adorable Turtle Canvas

Ellie the Elephant-sweetmixcreations

Duckalicious-sweetmixcreations

Fifi Fish-sweetmixcreations

I just love these canvas acrylic animal inspired paintings. I found some other really adorable prints at tiddlyink, but I find that I’m really drawn to canvas.