lately we’ve been doing a ton of printing/branding/typeface work for  our local coffee roasters…best clients ever or best clients ever

11:20 am  •  20 May 2013  •  22 notes

best times vending yesterday at homegrown market, contemplating putting up a bunch of jewelry online…since this is the first time in ages I’ve had enough stock to do so, I just have to find some time to photograph and post everything

7:01 pm  •  19 May 2013  •  58 notes

I’m modeling for this super glamorous over the top wedding dress shoot next weekend, wondering if this is just a perfect opportunity to pull a fast one on distant Facebook friends and convince everyone that I married a male model and they weren’t invited.

2:26 pm  •  17 May 2013  •  30 notes

How is it that even with twenty four years worth of evidence to the contrary, I still expect ice cream to be thirst quenching? EVERY. DANG. TIME.

12:09 pm  •  17 May 2013  •  17 notes

a handful of limited edition shirts are up on Etsy, 10 dollars each, when they are gone they are gone! :) Click through the photo for the listing

7:26 pm  •  16 May 2013  •  17 notes

on my mind//studio thought vomit this morning:

• how plausible is to have someone tattoo the leather portion of my summer dress? is it too much if the rest is really heavily screen printed? would i ever wear this?
• should the flowers be coming out of the eyes or the jaw? or both?
• why didn’t i save my hair the last time I cut it?
• what is the color between robins egg and mint called, the one that isn’t jade?
• poetry as the only appropriate language for “unspeakable” violence, but like not bad poetry ya know? implication is so powerful, but ugh if the poetry is bad it’s worse than just coming out and saying it.
• we should buy a kiddie pool for the roof deck, but what if I drop my sketchbook in, but also …. pool office!

2:45 pm  •  13 May 2013  •  15 notes

stocking up a bunch of our wholesale clients/boutiques this week, drew up some new tags and screen printed them today, excited to test out our new tag gun!

2:59 pm  •  9 May 2013  •  22 notes

toward a cohesive series on self care, food, ritual, diy, and healthy organization: some early thoughts

After getting so much good feedback on the idea of doing some more in depth writing on these topics, I’ve been trying to think through the best and most helpful way to convey what I’ve been learning lately. I don’t know if I’m the only one who feels this but there is a particular sort of guilt and shame that I find encroaches on my enjoyment of lots of tutorial and lifestyle writing. I have limited time, and limited money, and limited physical and emotional health due to long term chronic illness (and I know I’m not alone in this). And these limitations always feel so much more painful and obvious when I read blogs or magazines that seem heavy with the constant implication that I am not doing enough. Sure, learning to bake your own bread is a really fulfilling skill, if you have the space for bread baking in your life. But whenever I read an article telling me it’s the only right way, that it’s healthier and cheaper and it will change my soul or some shit, I just feel angry and hurt. Because when you are depressed, or very sick, or work full time trying to survive on minimum wage, or just don’t like baking … spending several hours in the kitchen just isn’t a good use of your time or emotional energy. Because even if I have time to bake bread it will look nothing like the photos I see of rustic loafs carefully situated between sprigs of lavender on a beautiful handmade cutting board. The few times I made bread, it was a small misshapen tennis ball, goofy looking and crumbly (gluten free flour just doesn’t make for pretty bread) and against the backdrop of my cracked peel and stick linoleum and plastic Ikea cutting board so filled with knife marks that it’s transparent in most spots, it felt less and less like an accomplishment, less and less like the success that it was. I don’t want that feelings for myself, and I don’t want that for you. So I will be prefacing everything I write as a part of this series with a reminder that you should engage only the things that feel healthy, and necessary, and affordable, and good to you right now. The focus is to celebrate successes no matter what they are. Some days success for me is endurance of pain, it’s making it out of bed, it’s a t.v. dinner, it’s a smile in spite of what is. A big part of working through the ways in which I take care of myself, and re-evaluating my routine is allowing space to celebrate accomplishment in it’s lumpiest forms. Take what you find helpful, leave the rest, don’t look back. 

11:42 am  •  9 May 2013  •  35 notes

So this is sort of off-topic from what I normally try to cover on here, but lately I’ve been doing a pretty serious over-haul of the way I eat and take care of myself, and I’m thinking about writing out a series on meal planning /general self care routine stuff. As someone who has some serious issues with prioritizing and self motivating when it comes to food and other really basic survival type stuff (generally related to depression, but also food allergies and some food texture stuff), I’ve had to become pretty creative in maintaining a healthy weight, overall hygiene, coping with stresses while working within serious budget constraints. Is this something I should write more about/ would any followers find this sort of thing helpful?

2:33 pm  •  3 May 2013  •  74 notes

joellesoswell:

It sort of cracks me up that this is still the most popular thing I’ve ever done with my life….

not really funny anymore, just …. depressing. 43,000 plus uncredited notes. I give up. 

(Source: kadyxanne, via emmalinemolloy)

1:51 pm  •  3 May 2013  •  43,435 notes