Blossoms and Butterflies

Life keeps interfering with craft this week . . . specifically with all my big Gocco plans. I did, however, manage to make a new set of pretty recycled stickers. I love the Japanese style-blossoms on these. They're available in my Etsy shop.

A Personal Update . . . and Found Magazine

First off, I really need to apologize for the lack of crafty posts. I really do love sharing my own work, but I just haven't found the time for printing the most recent designs (more of the Jane Austen series and some bunnies coming up shortly, I really do promise). I'm short on time and supplies lately. On the upside, a custom order for wedding invitations has been keeping me in a fresh creative frame of mind (I'll share those end results, too).

In the meantime, if you liked seeing the first bits of my photobooth collection, perhaps you'll enjoy the random awesomeness that is Found Magazine. They publish "found" materials submitted by readers--- like the note above.

Have I mentioned I teach high school? Between walking our dogs in the city and what ends up on the floor of my classroom, I have a potential goldmine of submissions. Sometimes I think about all the tragic tidbits I could mail in, if I wouldn't feel so darn guilty about it. But right now, my classroom is like my own little microcosm of revealing found objects, I guess.

Photobooth No.2

This was given to me by an old friend who said I reminded him of the girl in the picture. I'm not quite sure I took that as a compliment, but it's a sweet little picture nonetheless.

Visual Vocabulary: Dahlias

I know that dahlias are more of a late summer rather than an early spring flower, but they're lovely and cheerful and looking at them in late February makes me feel all warm and hopeful. I had a bouquet full of ivory dahlias and herbs for my wedding, but I also love the intense pink ones shown here.

{All images from Eric in SF on Flickr.}

Photobooth No.1

After posting about Lisa Congdon's inspiring arrangements of her collections the other day, it became apparent that there is one place I can currently display my collections--- right here!

I'll be posting images from my photobooth collection first, and then some vintage postcards.

Do you like the first one? I think the girl's hair is awesome.