Mint

I’m thrilled to have my Mint business cards included in the new book Nice to Meet You Too: Visual Greetings from Business Cards and Self Promotion, published by Victionary. And I’m especially thrilled to be in there with my husband’s identity work for OK Great (both in the same book, can you believe it?)!

I definitely recommend picking up a copy of the book; it’s filled with beautiful business cards and we’re flattered to have our work among them. Really flattered. And excited. Did I say thrilled?

Available for purchase here and here.

Kate over at The Goodie Life has a great series where she asks bloggers to share pictures of their nightstands, and this week she asked me to participate! I was happy to share what’s on my nightstand, and you can see the whole series here.

I’m also participating in The Bright Side Project’s blogger favorites series. For the whole month of May, The Bright Side Project has lined up bloggers to share some of their favorite items, and here’s the good part: you get to win some of what they pick! So head over to TBSP and tell me what was the last great book you read. If you win, you’ll get to own some of my favorite things:

Psst… You can also win one of my west + plum plates through the Darling Dexter favorites!

As you can imagine, sometimes when I’m shopping for west + plum I come across things that I absolutely have to keep. I found A Book of Toys by Gwen White while thrifting in Massachusetts and bought it for the illustrations. There’s a copy for sale on ebay and here if you’re interested.

I spent some birthday money on a few design books, as inspiration for our house and for my work. The first one is Recycled Home, by Mark and Sally Bailey. Brendan and I found a ton of great ideas in here for beds and shelving—two main things on our wish list!

For my birthday, my brother gave me this great book called The Art of Manipulating Fabric by Colette Wolff. It’s full of step-by-step instructions on gathering, shirring, ruffling, tucking, pleating, quilting, and everything in between. The hard part is figuring out which technique to try first! I see lots of pillows and upcycled t-shirts in my future…

You can pick up a copy here.

EricGjerde has a flickr set of plates from Owen Jones’ 1853 book, “The Grammar of Ornament.” You can see the original book on the Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture (what a resource that is!).

Illustrator Rilla Alexander lives in Berlin and has a great collection of images on flickr that she’s found in European and Japanese books. Click the images to go directly to their source!

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