Giveaway: Summer Lapicitos Necklace from Corazón de Galleta

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Do you dream in color?  Well Ariadna Mateu, the designer behind this week’s giveaway, lives in a more colorful world than we can even imagine.  To her, “Wednesdays are soooo orange.”  And since she is terribly more interesting than I can ever hope to be (why can’t I be a beautiful artist in beautiful Barcelona?), I’ll jump right to the lengthy but delightful interview that Ari so kindly took the time to answer.  Afterward, be sure to leave a comment for a chance to win this Summer Lapicitos Necklace from her shop Corazón de Galleta.  It’s made of “cut wooden pencils, nylon recovered wire, colors, stories not yet written and lots of love.”  How could you resist?

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Daily Pretties: Color Cranium

{ Untitled by Pablo Boffelli }  { Fence of Crayons by Saima Says }

Giveaway: Vintage Elephant Pencil Holder

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Readers, meet Lexington.  Lexington is an easy-going elephant who likes loud music, a warm, dry climate and holding your colored pencils.  Lexington may have been born over thirty years ago, but he’s a spry chap.  And guess what, folks.  Lexington wants to come home with you!  Richelle Davies, mother of a creative 8-year old (Spy-themed Birthday party, anyone?) and the vintage shop Hopgrasser, has kindly offered this vintage pencil holder for our first ever vintage giveaway!   Before we get to the rules, though, let’s have a chat with Richelle about the joys of thrifting.

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The Shopping Sherpa: Reconstruct & Regress

Following the thread on eye-catching color and child’s play, the Shopping Sherpa and I have regressed a bit.  We’ve gotten lost in a little reminiscing, traveling back to the world of paint by numbers, pretend and vividly colored playthings.  I miss my giant blocks, with which I would construct rainbow colored houses for my dolls, and the My Little Pony collection I amassed, complete with baby ponies, water ponies and even a tent that fit on top of my bed with a repeating pattern of ponies prancing in peony-covered fields (jealous?).  Are you remembering with us?  Surely you also had a big green box of crayons and colored pencils.  It was dirty and dusty and wonderful, smudged with many colors and the mixed scent of wood and wax.  How nice it is to go back every once in a while, no?  Well, lucky for us, the Shopping Sherpa found a few childish pretties for our grown-up selves.

Clockwise from top left: Colored Pencils Ring by Maria Cristina Bellucci found via Short Story Design; Lapicitos Necklace from Corazón de Galleta (that means “cookie heart” in Spanish!  How fun is that?  Galleta is one of my favorite Spanish words to say… and it might just be because it means “cookie”.  I think we all know how I feel about cookies); Lemon Colored Pencil Earrings from The Lost Earring; Autumn Corn Field Original Pencil Drawing from Emburr