A Sparkly!

I'm all about Yayoi's dainty silver twig bangle from Candy Store Collective. Whisper thin, just the way I like it.

This bracelet reminds me of a bracelet I got for Christmas when I was six that looked like varying shades of Chicklet gum strung together. I loved that thing! So Irina Blok had me at hello, but then she added tree branches = double whammy of voodoo love.




I so want Nicole Kidman wrists so I could wear this chunky berry branch bracelet by SNG! The inversed image two thirds thru reminds me of a photograph.





And talent runs in the family. AG designed the bracelet below - it's an id bracelet for modern times - your name and birthdate gets printed on it in binary code!




Everyone's talking about Yoon Jung Yun's inner message rings, and I have to add my voice to the throng. There's raised lettering on the inside, so when the wearer removes the ring after wearing for a good amount of time, the message is still there, imprinted on his finger. There are two standard messages - "Marry Me" and "Always" but for three times the money you can have a custom message. Most will go for something heartfelt and romantic, but if you're worried he's going to take off the ring while flirting with stewardesses, you can always have it say "You Dirty Rat". Or maybe this message for the day after the divorce..."I Was Pretending" or "Psyche!"

PS I'm not jaded about marriage ! M for Amazing and I have True Love (4 Ever). Just not so confident in other people's unions.

Type O

I love words, letters and numbers. I love books. I love typewriters, type, and typography. And so does pretty much everyone else in the world. I know I am totally not unique in this regard. But the upside of being one of the unwashed masses is that there's a market for what I like, so people with talent keep creating it!


Zebra Eye by, White Hand-type by, Inject Knowledge Question Mark by, Insomnia by
When M for Amazing was little his dad would play an old radio play for him about a shipwreck loaded with rats that crashed onto a lone lighthouse in a storm. The rats are cunning and surround the lighthouse gnawing and exploring, trying to find the way in. The Lighthouse Keeper goes mad and in one scene throws his body against the glass window then falls back to view all the rats pressed against the glass in an effort to get to him. "Look!" he screams, "My portrait in RATS!"

This is Stacy Benson's self-portrait not in rats, but in words. So cool.


I think the following piece, besides being such a perfect visual representation of this type of conversation, also absolutely rings true in content. We've all been there, done this.

I think these next two are excellent examples of consumer friendly typography in ads - Madison Avenue Smart. The Titanic poster isn't done justice unless you click on it and look at it full size.


{Why Did The Titanic Sink? via}

And this bit is called Point of View, for obvious reasons. . . Leave it to the Brits.

Via far better bloggers than I

Death By Chocolate

The Chocolate S'mores Keyboard hijacked my brain, now my mind keeps drifting to Chocolate Thoughts.

By Naoko Tone and Atsuyoshi Iijima. Hisashi Hidano`s “c.red “412-810″ by HIMAA{images found swissmiss.typepad.com}

We had chickens when I was a kid, and soon we were overrun with eggs. Tired of scrambled and hard boiled eggs, my mom and dad looked for recipes that would use a lot of eggs. In an old Betty Crocker cookbook they found the recipe for Chocolate Chiffon Cake with Brown Beauty Icing. It used a glorious 7-10 eggs! Still absolutely the best American icing recipe ever. No sickening powdered sugar sweetness. It tastes like chocolate truffles. And the light chiffon cake is the perfect counterpoint. My family had this for dessert for about eleven months straight. I'm not joking. It was heaven.

When I got married and began hosting my own dinner parties, I soon learned that while planning the party I would have giddy excitement and elaborate plans to make a seventeen step Double Chocolate Truffle Sacherorte with Blackberry Coulis Reduction, or some such, for dessert. But the gritty reality was that day of the party I didn't even have time or energy to make Rice Krispies. So Peg Bracken's Pots de Chocolat recipe from her Appendix to the I Hate Cooking cookbook became my never-fail-to-please standby. It's rich. It melts in your mouth. Its simple presentation always evokes oohs and ahhs. And it takes about five minutes to make. Tops. There is a god.

I now welcome all chocolate ramblings, recipes, and recomendations. I'm sure I will also be adding more... and more... and more to this topic.

Best. Baby Shower. Ever.

I was expecting this...

{Ribbon Gothic by Ataxia}Instead it felt like this!

{VE Day UK 1945}No Funny Hats. No Diaper Pin Games. No Cream Cheese Sandwich Loaf.

Just Fresh Flowers. Great Food. Lots of Passing the Baby Around and Happy Conversation.

It was everything a shower should be - pure celebration. Our genius hostesses booked a table at the wonderful Tillicum Place Cafe, ordered lovely food, then sat back and let the afternoon cheerfully take it's own course. Three and a half hours later we slowly and reluctantly pulled ourselves away.

I am so doing this next time I host a baby shower; I don't know why I never thought of it before.