This story made me squee the other day, two trekkers going through the USA and down through South America picked up a companion in Louisiana. Adorable. Via cuteoverload
Gorgeous work of Istvan Vasil, found on poppytalk this week. My kinda colours!
London’s flagship Mulberry store transformed into a colourful Glastonbury, more images on the CR blog.
Illustrations by Alyssa Nassner, found on pikaland
Ahoy! I wasn’t around last week, or I was asleep, whatevs. Have some nice things from across the grand expanse of the internets…
Cute Poppytalk weekend project, door shelf! Unfortunately I think all the doors in my house are at corners of the room, so this probably wouldn’t work… pretty, though.
Custom painted nikes from Happy Cash, loving these Mario ones… there’re also some neat hello kitty ones. Unfortunately all seem to be sold out..!
Another cute studio on Unplggd, makes me wish I had the energy to sort my small space out. Bah!
Pixels. This video was doing the rounds the other week, it’s super neat and geeky. Had a hard time tracking it down again, seems to have been removed from a few places because of copyright stuff. Here it is, though.
And finally a nice, friendly introduction to PHP from Smashing Mag. Soon, me and PHP will be firm friends!
It seems that I’m on a constant quest for the best To-Do system, I’ve been using an app called mini-task, but it’s not pretty… or user friendly. I thought I’d give TeuxDeux a go, and so far I’m loving it. It forwards uncompleted tasks to the next day automatically, and gives you a section for To-Do’s that you don’t really have a time scale for… nice! it’s visually engaging, too, being designed by Swissmiss herself.
Sorry, this is turning into some kinda bi-weekly (di-weekly?) good stuff lately… blame Christmas shoppers and their insistence of buying from finestimaginary.com (oh hai, shameless plug… 20% off with code SNOWFLAKE).
Let’s kick this off with a fabulous t-shirt sale at Threadless! they already started their $12 Christmas sale, but they’ve knocked all shirts down to $9 for black friday! Woop! I bought the one above.
Last Saturday I went to jodrell bank with Adam for Jodcast Live (the jodcast is a monthly podcast all about astronomy, if you’re into that shit you should definitely give it a listen)! Adam did the sound effects, they were lovely. The majority of the day was actually spent driving around Cheshire… also, I drove to Macclesfield, what a stupid place.. how many roundabouts does one place need? Jesus.
I’m in love with these super colourful prints from Pancakes & Franks. Really, really nice, check out their site to see the others in the series.
Lily Cole and Lady Gaga (and some guy) in vogues Hansel and Gretel photoshoot by Annie Liebovitz. More here. Speaking of Lady Gaga, I’ve been obsessed with her new video and album this week. Love her!
Speaking of cats, Pumpkin & Bramble had their lady-parts ripped away the other day. They’ve now got giant bald patches on one side, poor kittens. Pumpkin has already managed to rip out her stitch too, nice.
Craft magazine has had a few posts about machine knitting lately, I’ve always wanted to try it out.I might invest in a machine next winter, knit up some great things for the store – what do you think?
And to finish, you should definitely check out the Luxirare blog if you don’t already. I’m not sure if she’s a genius or has way too much spare time, this is one of my favourite posts on how to make parfait (seriously, you NEED to check this out, it’s not an every day recipe at all).
A few books for you this week, the first is this great one on modern packaging design. The preserves packaging is quite apt, I’ll be making some new labels for mine and Adam’s christmas kitchen delights soon!
I can’t get a decent photo of these hardbacks, and the amazon one has that silly ‘look inside’ thing on. Meh. In Waterstones the other day, I spotted these super pretty hardback versions of His Dark Materials. With my dire financials atm I can’t really quantify dropping £60 on them, alas! Amazon has them for the measly sum of £11 each rather than £20. They’ve most definitely been added to my wishlist. This is the Northern Lights copy.
OMFG how good are google docs? I have actually become obsessed with them this week. We’ve got a spreadsheet on the go with our ‘christmas extravaganza holiday freetime’ days planned out. One days I’ll screen grab so that you can all be privy to how odd my household is. ‘oh hello Mr.Snowman how the devil are you?‘
Star trek kicks? OH HELL YEAH. If any of my american readers fancy, you know, sending me some, that would be dandy. I’m going to ask the parents to bring me some back from florida. ‘Oh Hi, florida? SEND ME STAR TREK SHOES k thx’
Speaking of my parents and their Floridian holiday, I’ve been skyping with my mum… best chat message ever ‘hot topic’s full of that actor you like, dad says he is a vampire’. Honestly, I’m not a twihard. Nor am I a furry, don’t ask me why I’m on a furry fandom list on twitter.
Oh, I definitely would. I’m not sure where it would go, though. Trek light fitting! I’m excited for the Huddersfield christmas lights switch on, I think that Jean Luc Picard himself is doing the honors! Either him, or Professor Xavier.
Tenuous link (they were both in Hamlet), but are you psyched for the new Dr. Who?! I AM I AM!
And finally, seeing as there’s not many photos in the post, have a Me, with my new fringe. Here I am being delightful.
Have good weekends! What are you guys up to? I’m going to dash around Manchester perhaps wearing my new boots, and then I’m going to drink wine! FUN. TIMES.
Hi, I'm Kim. Between being a web designer and making pretty things I'm mostly interested in Creatures (regular and crypto), geekiness, my inner domestic goddess, drawing and coffee.
