[image by neryl walker] Hi there, I’m Lucy… I live in Melbourne, Australia, and I write a local design blog called The Design Files. I’m a props buyer / set dresser in the film industry, and I do interiors styling and sometimes a little event styling too. Of course I am the hugest Design*Sponge fan…
This is our last post on the guest blog. It’s been a lot of fun posting here and sharing our anniversary ideas. Thank you for having us. Check out Bird and Banner and our blog if you want to see what we are up to! Have a great weekend.—Erin and Nicole Image above: The traditional…
The traditional gift for the fifth anniversary is wood. We certainly don’t suggest you harm any trees, but the sentiment is very sweet so maybe try something similar on a log or branch you keep in your home. Better yet, plant some trees in honor of your beloved. Vintage carpenter number Vintage wooden picture frames….
The traditional gift for the fourth anniversary is fruit or flowers. Pretty and delicious! Bake a pie! Simply perfect pear pair. Give your beloved an arrangement of the same flowers held in her bridal bouquet (top image from James Ryang, both images via Saipua). Create a custom label for your favorite wine. Nicole’s sunprints. Make…
The traditional gift for the third anniversary is leather. Make your own personalized punched leather bracelet. Lettering options from Tandy Leather Factory Tooled leather belt A leather bound version of your beloved’s favorite book Awesome leather necklaces by Natalia Brilli Erin’s dream, a vintage Børge Mogensen for Fredericia sofa.
The perfect vintage t-shirt personalized to celebrate year two. Michelle Lane’s hand-knotted necklaces from light cotton rope at Stand Up Comedy. Our vintage handkerchief card. One of our clients held a bouquet of cotton for her wedding. Perfect and simple to order as an arrangement for your beloved. (Images by Jamie Watts) Erin and Andy’s…
Hello! We are Erin and Nicole from Bird and Banner, a design studio in Philadelphia which specializes in custom invitations. We recently started our own blog and are thrilled to be here guest blogging on d*s all this week. We will be posting about ideas for anniversaries following the traditional wedding gift-giving list. Starting with…
In today’s post some glimpses from a small but very nice antique store close where I live in Gothenburg, Bebop. I like to strawl around here and gather inspiration from past nordic artists and designers like, Aksel Bender Madsen , Märta Måås Fjetterström, Taisto Kaasinen and Carl-Harry Stålhane. So if you ever pass by Gotheburg…
Have you ever visit the blog Dos Family? Dos Family is Jenny, Staffan & Isabelle from Sweden. A collective or modern family who likes to collect and make stuff. They have a category called “Dos Visits“, where they photograph peoples homes, filled with interior eyecandy. A nice part of it is that they don’t style,…
I want to introduce you to my friend and ceramic artist, Marianne Hallberg‘s work. Clever, unique and playful pieces rolled in thin stoneware, painted in white and cobalt blue naive lines. Everyday life objects in distorted forms, often with a twist. Marianne sell her ceramics all over the world but mostly to Sweden and Japan….
Today a peek in to my every day life. Half made beds and piles all over. I spent a lot of time in the studio for the moment. Me and Camilla (Studio Violet) are making a book, “The life of Mr Mustache“. Limited edition, hopefully ready before next year. A luxury it is, being able…
Hi. I’m Elisabeth Dunker of the blog Fine Little Day and I’m happy to be guest blogging this week on Design Sponge. In Gothenburg, Sweden where I live I have a studio together with artist Camilla Engman, Studio Violet. You can also find me / my work over at Lula, which is a common web…
today is the fifth and final post on our wedding- and it’s time for the good stuff: food! food was probably one of the first and main things about which aaron and i agreed. we both wanted southern comfort food- something relaxed, typical of the region and delicious. and when it came to the cake?…
i’ll keep it real- when it came to our wedding, the area i was most worried about was the flowers. i love savannah with all my heart, but it was tough to find a florist that worked in the style i wanted. i couldn’t afford to fly sarah from saipua down (my dream florist) so…
today is probably my favorite day of wedding pictures- handmade projects! in honor of diy day, i’m excited to share images of all the diy projects we did for our big day. i’m also excited to link to a great slideshow of images and information that martha stewart weddings did this week with all the…
today i wanted to share a few highlights about our wedding invitations, music, and decorations/rentals. our wedding was really about a million different people coming together to create something special and i’m excited to get to celebrate some of them here today. i wanted to start with an image of the porch in the garden…
good morning! i’m so excited to finally be able to share some images from our wedding this past april in savannah. the issue of martha stewart weddings featuring our big day is finally on stands, so this week i’ll be sharing some of our photographs (taken by our photographers, belathee). aaron and i were married…
Dear d*s readers, it’s been fun posting for you on the guest blog. I hope it was good for you too. Maybe you’ll keep up with me on my blogs Reference Library and/or Stork Bites Man. It’s the end of the week and I’m off to the book fair today, korean BBQ tonight, then the…
The NY Art Book Fair starts tomorrow at P.S.1 and I’m going to be wandering around there all weekend. I’m psyched to meet a bunch of internet friends and to put faces with all the names that are on my bookshelves. I’m most interested in meeting and reading at the tables of the many small,…
I love shops, shopping and shopkeepers. These are a few of my favorite things from a few of my favorite shops. Items made by people who love what they do, sold at shops run by people who love what they do. Sam Kaufman, South Willard, Stand Up Comedy and KIOSK are the best shops around….
