+ (above) I love Milly Freeman’s illustrations, via It’s Nice That

+ Don’t forget to enter the Vintage Interiors owl bookend giveaway by Monday morning, if you haven’t already!

+ This painted driftwood by Ginette Lapalme has been making the blog rounds (first seen on design for mankind), and I want it.

+ oh to have these tiles in my house

+ Danni’s 2 year blog anniversary giveaway is a good one! $100 to Anthropologie plus a Fugifilm Instax camera, and it ends on Monday morning.

+ I’m not sure it’s even for sale, but I wish I knew someone having a baby so I could give them this poster by Allan Peters (who has an awesome blog, by the way) via French Paper Sample Room

+ hello doodles on the hello project

+ LOCAL STUFF: Tonight at 9pm there’s an outdoor movie at the NC Museum of Art! // Annie opens this weekend at the North Carolina Theatre // I really enjoyed seeing “Color Balance” at the Nasher last weekend (abstract paintings by Felrath Hines and Alma Woodsey Thomas). See it for free on Thursday nights.

Have a great weekend!

some truly great things from partners & spade

via sub-studio

Quick Queries needs your help writing questions to ask the artists that Lindsay interviews. Submit your questions to mintdesignblog (at) gmail (dot) com and Lindsay will ask away. Remember, keep ‘em light and silly.

Quick Queries will be on a short reprieve until September (Lindsay’s getting married!!!), then will be starting back up with your questions in tow.

This note card is a paper cut made in Hong Kong, and I can’t wait to get it in a frame. The woman who sold it to me had a whole stack but wouldn’t sell me more than one (what is with antique dealers sometimes?).

Brendan and I have picked up a few perfect finds at flea markets lately. Here’s one of my favorites, a little $2.00 (!) painting now in a new frame. Finding pretty things at flea markets is just so satisfying!

The perfect summer treat… tarts & ice cream recipes from Golubka.

I’ve had so much fun working with Nina on her wedding invitations! If you don’t know Nina’s blog, Naturally Nina, you’ve got to check it out. Didn’t she do a great job picking out those vintage stamps?

Design by Hello Tenfold (me!), calligraphy by Ashley Osgood, photos by Nina.

It’s been a while since our last Mint giveaway, and when Dana of Vintage Interiors offered to give these vintage owl bookends to one lucky reader, I couldn’t resist!

To enter this giveaway:

1. Visit Vintage Interiors.
2. Leave a comment on this post, telling us one thing you’d love to own from the V.I. shop (in addition to the bookends, of course!).

Giveaway ends next Monday morning at 9am EST.

I’m completely entertained this morning by Sr. García’s collages… many more on his website. Hope you all have wonderful weekends! I’m looking forward to a little catch-up, and maybe next week on Mint will be more normal-like…

found on poolga, a great place to find a new iphone/ipad wallpaper

Chris Silas Neal is an illustrator and designer who teaches at Pratt Institute. His work has been featured by Communication Arts, American Illustration, AIGA, Society of Illustrators, Society of Publication Designers, Art Directors Club of Denver, Print Magazine and the New York Times. I found his beautiful work on the NPR site, for a series called Summer Books.