Please, fonts have feelings too you know! They also have personalities.
(Except for Comic Sans and Papyrus - they are each dumb as bricks).

So what happens when a font gets lonely?

Enter the Type Connection! As her final thesis for a M.F.A. from MICA, Aura Seltzer designed an online dating game for typefaces!

From her site:

Type Connection is an online game that helps users learn how to pair typefaces. Like a conventional dating website, Type Connection presents potential “dates” for well-known, workhorse typefaces. Users are matchmakers. They decide what kind of match to look for by choosing among several strategies for combining typefaces.

Brilliant! The accompanying exhibit is now closed, but the website is still up.
Help out some wanting typefaces!

And here's the story behind the project at Felt & Wire!

And it's in limited quantities!
Font designed by Andrew Clifford Capener.
For $200 buckos here!
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Photo by Andy!

Completely caught off guard to get my picture taken... but Stacy is a natural!

This image from Baltimore Sun

My early Saturday mornings usually consist of not washing my hair, putting on some schlubby clothes and dashing my Etsy goods to the post office unseen by the public. So when, bleary-eyed, Andy and I stumbled down the avenue,  it took a few minutes to register what I was looking at.

This was no fuzzy nightmare of middle school...this was a fantastic school bus filled with thrifty goodies! Swoon!

Now I'm a pretty bouncy person, but the owner, Stacy, completely eclipsed me. Maybe it was because she just quit her day job? (YAY!) or because she had the most adorable puppy-in-a-basket to keep her company!? Either way, I had a great time browsing through the awesomeness. Even Andy enjoyed his time by petting the pooch and adding dry erase graffiti on the ceiling!

Check out the Go-go's Retread Threads bus stop schedule here!

Some other linkies:
Go-go's bus at Honfest! And at Hampdenfest! (How did I miss this!??? Oh wait... I was probably highly intoxicated. Nothing says "Yay Neighborhood" than drinking in public!)

Did I mention I love how random Hampden always seems to be?

Still pretty awesome tho!

The setting of this ring was custom made for a customer using our 3Design CAD CAM software and cast in 14k white gold.

If you ask me, she should take a REAL good look at the fiance! You don't wanna get stuck changing oil diapers later on...

Swiped from Geektastic! link

CUPPOW!.

Make ANY jar, into a travel mug!
How awesomely recyclable is this?

Considering I have a stock pile of jam jars... this. is. Genius!
Oh, and how cool is the packaging?




$7.99 here! via

Don't know why it took me so long to post this. I have literally read each of these like, 18,000 times - and repeated them at the most awkward places. (i.e. work, home, meetings, bathroom, to the boss).

Put your neighbor to shame with these Yo Momma's a Shitty Designer printable notepads. The file is 8.5x11 without bleed so print away on any standard printer and then just tear the sheet in half. 

Best one imo? Yo momma's so fat, she thought RGB was a sandwich!
Or .. Yo momma's so lo-res, she can't even save for web!

Btw, there is a call for entries! You got a good one? Share it!

LINK to get yar own!!!!!!  via

Mammamia! Maybe I should have posted these yesterday. MEOW!

From the amazing illustrator Malika Favre! via Zoe-Zoe

Archimedes’ Scale operates on the principle of buoyancy, submerging part of its body up to the appropriate line to measure the dry ingredients within.

That is pretty darn brilliant.

Or how about the Principle of Communicating Vessels?

This principle states that the liquid levels in two “communicating” containers will stay at equal levels in both. By making use of this principle, these vessels keep potted flowers and cut flowers supplied with fresh water.

And there's more amazing product designs from Acquacalda Designs on their site here!
Where were these when I was in grade school!? via

Moonrise Kingdom Trailer from Wes Anderson on Vimeo.

Yep. I'll be seeing this.
It's like watching a vintage thrift store painting come to life.

Did I mention the font is designed by Jessica Hische?

Yeah yeah, so I'm early... but this was way too hilarious to pass up!

In case you haven't seen the MEME sensation that is Fuck Yeah, Ryan Gosling, here's a sampling:



Happy Ryan Gosling, er... I mean Early Valentine's Day!

Who says you have to be young and waif-ish to be fashionable?  These "advanced" ladies show you are never too old to play with your clothes and look FABULOUS. I admire their chutzpah!


In our immediate family we're lucky to have amazing dressers to emulate. Jealously of outfits runs rampant. Unfortunately they're all smaller than a size 4 compared to my "behemoth" larger sizing - so hand me downs are out of the question.  

Hmm... maybe some of these ladies might want to adopt another grandchild????
More inspiration at Advanced Style Blog! (where I stole the photos from...)

This is the most amazing packaging I have ever seen.
Really.
No, seriously.

The Dieline sums it up "Poking fun at himself, The Bitter Chocolatier tells his tales of misfortune throughout his life through the different flavours"

Get it? Cause he's BITTER! and needs Chocolate to get through it! (that last bit might be my interpretation).

Too bad this is student work, cause I would like one of each.... maybe personalized....

via The Dieline

OMGosh! How lucky am I! Not one, but THREE Etsy Treasuries!!

I don't know which I like more!

"Tea's Up" by Harrietstanes




or "Its time to make blackberry jam" by KathrynOaten



or "Awaiting Autumn" by Wearableartbyjude...



Gorgeous choices!
Thanks Guys! I'm the luckiest Etsy Seller eva!

The look on this child's face? Priceless.
The look on my face when I saw this costume monster? Also priceless.
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But wait! There's more!

Superhero uniform sleeper! via / link

Rounding out the day?

LET'S PANIC ABOUT BABIES!
AHHHHHHHH!!!!!
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Little brother Ollie is a super genius! But when his inept older brother brings home a thinly veiled NAZI SPY to steal his time machine, things get hairy for the Nazis!

Awesomeness.

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