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Work by Israeli designer Reut Ashkenazy. I love the inclusion of fabric in the above book (which was based on the Japanese concept of Wabi Sabi) and the delicate drawings in the packaging below.

Thanks for sending your work my way, Reut!

If you’d like to submit your portfolio to be featured on Mint, please send a link and/or images to mintdesignblog (at) gmail (dot) com. I can’t always answer every email I receive, but I do try!

I think I mentioned that Brendan and I did some traveling a few years ago…

These are some photos I took in Thailand. Some mornings looking at these photos is the perfect getaway! Even though it’s been nearly three years since we left for our big trip, we haven’t edited the majority of our photos, much less made an album. A project for 2010, maybe.

If you could plan a big trip, where would you go?

+ Wanna work there? I know I do. The studio of Parliament via @Josh_Baker_ and @markweaver.

+ Love this DIY pine cone garland from twig & thistle

+ A holiday desktop wallpaper! Hooray for Made in England.

+ Trampoline will be putting this beautiful set of vintage decanters in her shop tomorrow. Someone will be lucky to find that under the tree!! Also check out the vintage shot glass collection and the apothecary bottles collection.

+ I love these pinecone holiday cards by Casey Baudoin of Paper and Twine.

+ Thanks to Ruffled for featuring my olivia invitations today!

+ If you haven’t seen it yet, check out my DIY gift guide, with something for each person in your family!

+ Oh So Beautiful Paper has been doing great round-ups this holiday… most recent favorites are the holiday cards.

+ Have you seen the beautiful ornaments by Land-Rich? Maybe my favorites of the year…

+ Courtney of Design Work Life shared her super cool save the dates this week.

+ For my weekly You Can Afford it Friday post for OK Great, I rounded up 9 table linens I’d love to add to my collection.

In a couple weeks 2009 will be coming to a close, and I want to thank each of my holiday sponsors. Of course, there were many other sponsors throughout 2009 who aren’t listed here, and I’m grateful to those artists, small businesses, and designers as well. Running Mint is time consuming and couldn’t be done without their support. If you’re looking for some last minute Christmas gifts, I think you should check these good people out:

[1] earrings by creativ*bee [2] wooden salad bowls from shoestring home [3] coasters from SITE [4] ornaments from pepper sprouts [5] earrings from vespertine

[6] calendar by niseemade [7] pillow by chakra pennywhistle [8] napkins by flytrap [9] vintage cup from solstice [10] stationery by postal press

[11] stationery by two brunettes [12] jewelry by alex keller [13] paintings and prints by samantha french [14] prints by 3 lambs graphics [15] accessories by felt gallery

[16] here’s looking at me kid [17] oh so beautiful paper [18] clover & bee [19] harry taylor photography [20] oh darling! photography

Such beautiful things from Truly Smitten! (Also a new website, check it out). They do custom wedding, baby, and social stationery.

Today I’m headed to Chapel Hill to see the 2nd annual UNC Student Art Sale. This year, it’s held in the new student gallery, The Artery, at 137 E. Rosemary St. I couldn’t make it last year, but Brendan did and picked up a couple great Christmas gifts (one of which is proudly framed in our dining room). The student sale is one-day only, from 9 a.m. to 9:30 p.m., and features etchings, screenprints, photographs, drawings, paintings, digital works and ceramics by dozens of UNC art students. You can read more about it in this article by the Chapel Hill News. Hope to see you there!

You have to go check out this architects brochure over at FPO designed by COÖP. Beautiful. Mainly I like the metallic on ivory in that pretty pattern! And the rubber band binding… So I hopped over to the COÖP site and found lots of good stuff: