hi guys! i hope this post finds you all back safe and sound from the holiday weekend. three days away from the laptop definitely did me some good and it was great to indulge in my once-a-year flag cake obsession. to kick off this morning i wanted to share some beautiful letterpress stationery from a…
last year i posted about miriam rosenbloom’s beautiful book cover designs for faber’s classic poetry selection, so i was thrilled to hear from her about a new collection of artist-designed book covers. miriam worked with six british printmakers to create covers that were more colorful and specially commissioned endpapers. the talented group includes: jonathan gibbs,…
Hi D*S readers! It’s your entertaining gals, bash, please, and we’re back for another entertaining installment courtesy of the big, vast, globe. If you missed out on our first column we spun our globe (blindfolded) and landed in Seattle. This time around we spun and landed in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Oops, we thought….
One of the exciting things about editing this column is the opportunity to work with incredible people. When Grace and I put our heads together and came up with the idea to do a Top Chef series, we never imagined in a thousand years that we’d have the chance to work one-on-one with the Top…
It’s rare that florists get to work a wedding where they create all of their designs on-site, and it’s even rarer for those same florists to get to stick around for cocktails and dancing. The fact that we got to do both last weekend was both exciting and exhausting. As one of our nearest and…
I don’t know about you, but I’ve never met a berry I didn’t like. Strawberries, blackberries, blueberries, raspberries, gooseberries, huckleberries, wineberries, boysenberries, marionberries, mulberries, loganberries, lingonberries-if it ends in -erry, I will eat it with rapturous delight. As of last week, we’re officially experiencing summer and summer is prime berry-picking, berry-making, berry-shoving-in-the-pie-hole time, if you’re…
i’ve always had a soft-spot for water colors. it was one of the areas of fine art i could never master in college, despite endless practice and lots of effort. i just didn’t have the finesse needed to make watercolors look fluid and beautiful. so whenever i see someone working with watercolors in a modern…
i’m so smitten with today’s final makeover i can’t stand it. lori danelle turned wooden pallets into an adorable bed for her daughter and did a seriously bang-up job. i’d be happy to take a nap in here and now, thanks to lori’s diy steps, i could build one myself! lori was inspired by projects…
i really enjoy when people incorporate sayings, poetry, and quotations from literature and film into their homes. i’ve had a special poetry project i’ve wanted to work on framing for a while (this poem, handwritten by someone i love), so when i saw this makeover involving poetry i was instantly intrigued. liz from sticks and…
i dream of having space for a potting station one day (and a cutting garden) so when i saw his makeover from deborah hanamura i was sold. deborah’s husband bruce has been experimenting with ways to re-purpose used shipping pallets and decided to start turning them into potting stations. deborah and bruce love the way…
today’s first before & after project comes from d*s reader hannah stanton. hannah truly had some visionary skills with this project because when is saw the before picture i thought, “oh hell no”. hannah found this rotten iron back nursing chair on ebay for a steal and discovered that the only parts that weren’t rotten…
today is the first day of july (why is the summer flying by so quickly?) and it also marks the 11th month of the d*s desktop wallpaper series that kicked off with deanne cheuk last august. i’m thrilled to have one of my fellow design by the book team members joining us for this month’s…
i’ve hit a bit of a personal limit when it comes to vintage, holga-style photography and the way it feels like it dominates the photography section on etsy. but every now and then a collection of photos sneaks through that makes me smile- and makes me want to find a new frame for one of…
