Teal Etsy Finds

Yesterday's inspirational photos all based around teal and aquamarine got me searching for more. And in doing so I've come up with a few Etsy finds for you!

1."Royal Typewriter" by Nan Lawson
2."Peacock Blue Chalcedony and Sterling Earrings" by twig and clover
3."Turquoise and Brown Frayed Rosette Headband" by YellowBlackBird
4."Blue Hydrangea, Original Watercolor Painting" By lauratrevey
5. "Very Pretty long Chocolate Brown and Teal Tutu Skirt for Toddlers and Little Girls .By I luv u tutu much boutique as featured by Parents Magazine" by ILuvUTutuMuch
I hope everyone had a lovely weekend! Hopefully I will be able to plant my tulip bulbs tomorrow, finger's crossed!

Inspirational Photo Saturday : Mermaid's Cove

Todays photos are inspired by a conversation my boyfriend and I had about what sort of crayon would we make and what would we call it. I decided on a blue hue found in some of these photos and wanted to call it mermaid's lagoon, or mermaid's cove, and something... Also inspired by photos I've seen recently of the Great Barrier Reef, and beaches in my future home, SYDNEY, Australia! Enjoy. :)

all photos are from weheartit.

How beautiful is this room?

I love the use of wooden wine cases as tables. I have one that I snagged from my parents, but it's just holding all my craft supplies. I was going to drill holes in it and put it on the back of my bike, but I wanted to wait for the rainy winter to pass, and now my crafts have moved in, and I'm moving in 4 months, so I don't really think it's worth it anymore. But as a little table for a cake stand, I could do that! I wonder if I could weasel any more out of my parents next time I'm in town. When I lived on Catalina Island we used to use all those plastic milk crates from the general store for EVERYTHING. Side tables in our rooms, bookcases, chairs, tables, you name it we used a crate as it. (Remember I mentioned I was going to use the wooden wine box for the back of my bike... guess what's actually there now... a plastic milk crate.) Well that picture is from Cut Magazine, although I can't find where. (My German is sort of... non-existent. It is German on that site right?) I saw it through Cup of Jo.

And here is an absolutely STUNNING purse (pictured left). For you know, way more money than I have. It's by Nancy Bird, and they have tons of other gorgeous purses. I

could spend a fortune there!

And the whole reason I started this post

was to tell you that I

have some new pieces hitting the Etsy store in the coming days. These necklaces were all inspired by The Secret Garden, which is evidenced in the darling vintaged brass key. I hope you like them!

Rainbow of Baker's Twine

You know baker's twine? That lovely red and white twine that bakeries wrap around a nice big box of cupcakes of cookies?
Of course there are plenty of other uses for it, here is one that I thought was adorable:

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all of those above photos come from Style Notes, a blog which is a new addition to my blog reader as of... now.

So needless to say Baker's Twine is lovely, and a beautiful addition to just about anything, be they a box of sweets or a save the date. I recently bought myself by own Baker's Twine but in the most mouth watering color of teal ever. It makes me want to dive into a well temperatured pool and frolic around for a bit. My beautiful twine is from the company Divine Twine, which also has Orange (reminds me of a cream-cicle! also mouth-watering....), Green Apple, Licorice, and Lemon (see picture). I'm thinking about getting myself some Green Apple. Each roll has 240 yards! Definitely worth way more than the $15 they're charging. I love it!

I made a care package for a friend who moved to Colorado, and it gave me a chance to break out my baker's twine, which I though paired very nicely with the brown packaging paper I have. The vintagey looking labels went nicely too I thought, though my child-like Sharpie writing sort of takes away from the whole thing.


Have a great day!

Blog: Mrs. Lilien

I found the adorable blog Mrs. Lilien through Style Notes, another great blog. Each post is stylized for a personality or preference. Each outfit is perfectfly picked out, it is really quite impressive. Examples: Mrs. Downtown, Mrs. Uptown, and my personal favorite, Mrs. In Wonderland, which can also be seen below.

How completely Alice-y is that robin's egg blue dress? And those rose high heels are beautiful. I love it.

Love : Elk Accessories

I saw Elk Accessories through some blog somewhere on the ether (sorry don't remember which!), and quickly scurried over to check out the rest of their goods. And they do not disappoint! They have purses, and shirts, and hats, and necklaces, and earrings ,and brooches, and more! It's lovely. So all their necklaces are superb, if I posted a few pictures of them I would end up posting them all, and that is just far too many. So I recommend that you too scurry on over to their site and check them out for yourselves. But here are two luscious leather pieces to make your mouth water until then... Enjoy. :)

Come thou font of every personality.

The lovely blog Somethings Hiding In Here turned me on to this darling little quiz made by the folks at Pentagram. Apparently they researched the topic for 7 years before finally developing a simple, 4 question quiz to determine what is your font. Mine is Perpetua Tilting light, which I like very much, though if you look at all the options there are lots of very lovely ones that I would like to download for myself! More research on that later.... So let me know, which font is yours??

card making!

I mentioned earlier that I made some cards for friends out of cut up paper, a la this guy, using an x-acto knife, a cutting board, colored paper, and lots of creativity. And here are the end results:

A birthday card for a lovely birthday girl.

This was just a hello card to my friend living in Colorado right now. There's a little envelope on the string connecting our locations, and it can move along the string.
This one probably turned out the coolest, which is ironic because I didn't really think it through at all and it just turned out cool. It's a get well card for a friend who we wanted to send flowers too, but they were all just too expensive. I think that this as an even better alternative.
Have a great day!

Inspirational Photo Friday : Snowed In

Todays photography inspiration is all snowed in. A phenomena I have never myself experienced (though I hoped for it all the time the winter I lived in DC). But it's raining again here, once again proving Albert Hammond incorrect. But for those of you experience so called "Snowmaggedon" or "Snowpocalypse 2010" or whatever it is on the East Coast, here are some images to remind you that the snow is beautiful, blanketing the world in a down comforter of crystallized water. (It's easy for me to say this because I'm not the one who has to trudge through it to work, or drive in it.)

{ all photos from weheartit }

It did actually snow once where I grew up in Northern California. Keep in mind where I lived was close to San Francisco, we aren't talking like Yosemite Northern California, where snow isn't as rare. Here's the only proof I have:
Dot & I in our Santa hats, and me in my LL Bean (or maybe Lands End) Christmas fleecy on the deck, with snowflakes coming down! (Which of course melted soon after landing...) but it still counts!