happy haul-idays!

um, just saw this on jen's blog...seriously too good to be true:



what better way to celebrate the holidays than with chronicle book's awesome giveaway!

1. make a list of Chronicle Books valued at up to $500
2. put it on your blog
3. you're entered (well, you have to go enter yourself on their giveaway page) to win your list of books! AWESOME. (and, a reader who comments on your post also wins your list! )

deadline is december 10th, winners announced december 13th! hurry and post your list! (sorry, US residents only)

now on to my list *drum roll*...




1. 100 years of fashion illustration by cally blackman
2. decorate by holly becker and joanna copestick
3. open studios with lotta jansdotter by lotta jansdotter
4. paper craft by minhee and truman cho
5. family by lauren dukoff
6. reprodepot pattern book: folk: 225 vintage-inspired textile designs by djerba goldfinger
7. little book of letterpress by charlotte rivers
8. how to be a graphic designer without losing your soul by adrian shaughnessy
9. photobooth by babbette hines
10. the printmaking bible by ann d'arcy hughes and hebe vernon-morris
11. lotta's printing studio by lotta jansdotter
12. craft inc. business planner by meg mateo ilasco
13. lettering & type by bruce willen and nolen strals
14. the exquisite book by julia rothman, jenny volvovski, and matt lamothe
15. the commonsense kitchen By tom hudgens
16. tartine by elizabeth prueitt and chad robertson

cart total: $496.50 :)

what are on your lists?!

facial masks and large T's

I forgot to officially announce that I'm back from my short-lived hiatus.

I'm really enjoying life at home. I told T that I'm glad we're long-distance now because I no longer have to care what I look like half the time. As we speak, I have this korean seaweed facial pack glistening on my face (my mother has a yogurt one on), large t-shirt on, and macbookpro burning my thighs with its scalding base (is it just me or do all motherboards get ridiculously hot ridiculously fast?). Ah, the blessings of the semi-single life :).


Life is slowing down a bit and I've been able to do some things I really wanted to do like:


-- start up a pininterest like everybody and their mother.
-- go to the library and just look for fun books to read. (picked up shutter island by dennis lehane)
-- reading unquenchable flame right now (an insightful, informative, and hilarious read on the history of the reformation).
-- make milk tea at home (basically you brew some black tea, add sugar and half-and-half. voila.)
-- day trip to san diego! photos can be found at my photo blog!
-- evening walks around the neighborhood with mama
-- late night drawing/sketching
-- play with cho-cho, my rambunctious cat.
-- continue to edit pictures from the wedding i attended as a second shooter.

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Before I leave, just wanted to share this really adorable letterpress card (from anthropologie i think) my friend sabrina gave me for graduation before I left. *tear*

I Art U, Books Actually

I wish I were in Asia right now.

So I could go over to the AWESOMEST BOOKSTORE EVER, BOOKS ACTUALLY. (The store is called BOOKS ACTUALLY if you are confused. I sure was.) I just saw these photos on i art u of the cutest bookstore I've ever seen in my life.








cameras galore!


it almost looks like a toy store.


vintage typewriters down the steps!








Check out the post for more!



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Also, if you haven't seen i art u's awesome color schemed - object collection pieces (i don't even know what to call them, they are that awesome)... go over to her blog! She seriously has a great eye for color. I've sure exhausted my vocabulary with all these "awesomes" and "awesomests" haven't I?










I don't really want to know why she has a teeth mold though.