design and schools (two great loves of mine)

what schools can look like....

see more here!

my mom=incredible

so here i am again...totally floored by my mom's incredible-ness. y'all know she's started doing calligraphy for weddings. and that she's so, so good.
but did you know she did tatoos, too?

no?

well, she does. sweet erin, my mom's new bff and creative pal at lucky luxe asked her to write out a little girl's name so her dad could have it tattooed on his arm. this is what she came up with (erin's photos btw):


well, actually when i talked to her last week she'd written it like 79 times, but the ones here were the faves. erin did a little photoshop magic to see how it would look and viola!


see? my mom is incredible. thank goodness I'm going home to play with her this week!
see erin's original post about this here.

more lovely letters...

my mom and i worked on her etsy store over the weekend between family gatherings and frolicking around our farm. and i have to say that easter and being at home was so good for my soul. i'm definitely seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. on top of that, i'm super excited about the work she's been doing... see?










are you sure you don't need anything calligraphied in the near future?

clever letters...

from gentle pure space via alexa vicius

pondering this...

true. but it's not just about hair... when i saw this i immediately thought of a woman's brain. hm.


found via imagespark

i love love...

i love love. and being married and generally i love marriage.... in fact, yesterday i got to give a fake wedding sermon and it was super fun.

but with that said... sometimes it's even MORE FUN to hear all the gory details of new love and courtship... one of my most favorite and special friends is in the "butterflies in the tummy/before the first kiss stage" of a new relationship and this made me think of her and her beau. :) enjoy.

i wish all of you the "butterflies in the tummy" feeling this weekend!

book covers worth drooling over...

saw these new book cover designs from fashion illustrator Ruben Toledo on penguin's website... then found images of the back and front from book covers anonymous (which is an awesome blog, btw). wuthering heights and the scarlet letter aren't my favs, but with covers like these, i'd WANT them on my shelves and would probably read them again.

lettering & logo love...

The only thing i think i like better than paper and making mix cds as far as "being creative" goes is messing around and playing with fonts. ran across Klim's website and i am JEALOUS. i mean, how fun would it be to design logos and letters for a living?
i know, right?

wish grad students needed business cards...

knife from, Jaseisace, dailypoetics flickr, funnel

my new banner!

hooray, I have a new banner! it might still need a little tweaking, because it looks a little like I drew it on sandpaper...
either way, i had fun sketching out all the possibilities and think it's a major improvement.

also, i may or may not have been inspired by this lovely font from this discontinued GEM of a magazine...


feedback anybody?

malice and charity

I am always moved by Lincoln's letters and speeches and i tend to doodle when i'm engaged in and/or nervous about something.

maybe today more than most days... I only wish that after electing Barack Obama as the first black president of the united states, we could also have lived up to our ideals of justice and equality for ALL of our citizens.



where is our charity, for all america?
why have we singled out the GLBTQ community for our malice today?

proposition 8 in california and other similar measures banning gay marriage make my heart hurt for my friends and those around the country who feel deeply and powerfully about their partner, (like i do) and yet are kept from making life long commitments to those they love.



to assume that injustice is only one group's problem (for instance, when mccain said that Obama's election was an historic event for African Americans) is simply misguided. We all suffer when one suffers... and we rejoice when one rejoices. today i did both.