When I was young, my dad would make people mix tapes for their birthday. These weren’t just any mixtapes though, they were time capsules. He created each mixtape by finding the number one Billboard hit for each birthday you ever had. I can’t recall all of my birthday hits, but I do know that the number one song in America when I was born, my “birth song” if you will, was That’s What Friends Are For by Dionne Warwick and (you guessed it) Friends. [side note: why is Elton John rocking a Stevie Ray Vaughan look here? It's really confusing.]
Category Archives: Today I love…
Today I Love: Lazy Oaf
Lazy Oaf is not for the timid. This London-based creative label will shock you with color and tickle you with silly graphics. I think I’ll take one of everything!
Today I Love: Balloons and Memories
Many photographers and would-be photographers have done the balloon thing — balloons in a field, balloons in front of your face, balloons in a row, yadda yadda. But I find this one particularly joyous. Perhaps because it reminds me of one of my favorite Halloween costumes. I think I was 10 or so went I went as a bunch of purple grapes. It was my Mom’s idea, and come to think of it… it wasn’t my favorite at the time. It made a clumsy little girl even more awkward and somewhat dangerous for anyone nearby with a heart problem who was easily startled by loud noises. Let’s just say, I made it home looking like a week-old, half-eaten bunch of grapes.
{ Untitled by Melisa Fernández }
Today I Love: Repurposed Teacups
If you ask me, “teacup light fixture” is just another term for “cluster of pretty”.
above: { Teacup Lights } { Design* Sponge }
Make a home for a tiny plant!
Teacup pincushions make sewing FANCY!
above: { teacup pincushion for my mom } { Fit for a queen }
Good for drinking tea and being incognito.
above: { Mustache Teacups }
I’m a big fan of these little lovelies. My spunky friend Amy sent me some easy to follow directions for making teacup candles! Should I share with you? (Maybe later!) And Brian’s sis Carlie bought me a teacup ring holder from Who Made It for my birthday. I love love love it!
above: { teacup candles } { teacup ring holder
Turn a collection of teacups and saucers into a giant hanging sculpture! Yeah. I’ll do that this weekend… (jk!)
above: { teacup art }
Tiny puppy in a teacup? So adorable I could faint! Human baby in a teacup? Creepy. Quit doing that, people.
above: { Puppies Will Sleep Anywhere } { Baby C in the Teacup }
Today I Love: Scout Holiday
These multi-colored flag pins by Scout Holiday are said to “automatically increase the insanity of any outfit.” I believe it.
They look like upside down, rainbow mountains. Now, I can’t remember if Rainbow Brite lived in a mountain — I think I can picture her flying out of a cave on her magic horse… the Color Caves, maybe? — but either way, I’ve decided that she would definitely wear one of these pins.
Cheri Messerli, the stylist and illustrator who makes them, also happens to have had THE most darling handmade wedding I’ve ever seen. That wedding cake!? I want to live inside it! Thanks, Erin, for reminding me about it.
Today I Love: Laundry Day
clearing away the mountain of clothes beside the dresser so I can actually open the bottom drawer. putting the quarters in the slots of the washing machine and pushing until it goes, “cla-ching”. carrying an armful of clean, warm clothes to the bedroom, like a hug. folding the t-shirts and undergarments into tidy little piles. filling the closet with fresh options for the days to come.
{ Laundry Day by Yves Lorson }
Today I Love: “A Collection a Day, 2010″
Over at Poppytalk, one of my daily reads for inspiration and diversion, I came across this exciting find. “A Collection a Day, 2010” is a new project by Lisa Congdon (who I love and featured two weeks ago), in which she will create and document one collection of small related items for every day of the year. I think my anal retentive tendencies are rejoicing as much as my appreciation for common yet beautiful things. Like Lisa, who’s appreciation for collecting and arranging small treasures started in childhood, I too remember spending far too many hours organizing and displaying my possessions, be they the crayons arranged in a color order that made sense only to me or the chest containing rows of tiny plastic toys that I received from my dentist.
I especially love how Lisa has opened the project up for discussion and encourages “you to share your thoughts about what memories the photographs and drawings of my collections spark for you and what, if any, sense of nostalgia or repulsion they make you feel”. I guess her collections have happily reminded me of little orange trolls and crayon rainbows. What memories do they spark in you?
Today I Love: Our First Comment!
Oh boy oh boy, were we excited to see this! Our very first comment! Yesterday morning at 12:12am, the holiest of hours (you’ll probably want to mark it on your calendar), the Westervin blog was christened with a comment from what must be our number #1 reader. And for you other readers out there, don’t be shy! We know you’re there, and we’d loooooove to hear from you. Especially if you’ve heard any good jokes lately. We love a good joke. And bad ones, too…
Today I Love: Sharing
Anything but germs, that is. If you’re germ free, you should share one of these perforated cards with your best friend. Give, and ye shall receive!
{ from the Curiosity Shoppe }
Today I Love: Faux, the new black
I feel like ‘faux’ has reached a new level of appreciation. Real fur coat? Yuck. I only wear faux. Do you know if that diamond was ethically sourced? Oh, of course! It’s faux!
And that’s a trend I can definitely get behind. Faux Sho. (Oh no she didn’t!)
{ Faux Diamond Necklace from TreasureField }
