Five from the Ground

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Some lovelies from Five from the Ground. I love the way these are styled and photographed.

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Hanging Ideas

Temple Bells from Viva Terra


garland via Lobster and Swan
bird mobile from Anthropologie

Moon Bell Strand from Anthropologie

Gift Presentation

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Homemade gifts for my girlfriends...

Free Wedding Websites

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Many of you have asked where you can find free wedding websites. A wedding website is a great way to keep your guests up to date on your plans, and communicate information that you may not want to include in your invitation.

We are excited to announce that chewing the cud has teamed up with Project Wedding to create website templates based on our signature collection.

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The website design above was inspired by our All Aboard! invitations.

More designs here, here and here.

Other sources to create your own wedding websites:
mywedding
weddingwire
weddingwindow
the knot

Days with My Father

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Heartwrenchingly beautiful visual story-telling by photographer Phillip Toledano in a series called "Days with My Father". I shed a few quiet tears as I followed him on his journey. My dad lives thousands of miles away from me; I think about him everyday.

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Glassy Display Ideas

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Lotta Kühlhorn

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Scandinavian designer Lotta Kühlhorn is well-known for her patterned goods but her book cover designs are just as gorgeous.

NYC Highlights

Beautiful hand-lettering

Two weeks ago, we were in New York city, for pt's race. When we weren't carb-loading, we were roaming all over the city.

street painting in Soho. The passer-by's coordinated color palette was sheer coincidence.


store signage for Le Labo, an olfactory heaven.

retro street ad on Lower East.

coffee run at El Beit in Williamsburg. A-mazing coffee.

Coffee run #2

we finally got smart and bought in bulk.

my favourite wall in DUMBO, Brooklyn.

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Anu Tuominen

Alphabets (found stone and twig)

Red Currant – The Idea Of a Funnel, 2001

book page, 1998

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Loving the playful works of Finnish artist Anu Tuominen.

Best Save-the-Date Ever

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How adorable is this save-the-date inspired by The Graduate?
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Alice Mara

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These witty "hanging people" pieces from ceramist Alice Mara made me smile...

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Public Transit Branding

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We were in New York last week so the subway was on my mind a lot. It was a nice refreshing change from driving.

There was a time when wearing a subway-branded t-shirt might have gotten you beat up on the subway, but these days, it's cool. Especially when the branding is more than putting a logo on the item.

Altoids Tool Box

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oh my, these are the most adorable mini toolboxes ever, made out of used Altoids tins. Here's the how-to.

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Omnivore

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New York-based design firm Omnivore created this witty invitation. I love the diversity of their visual language.

Museum of Robots

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The name certainly made me look: Museum of Robots is actually a line of modern housewares and home accessories but also a virtual museum.

The products are inspired by... ta da... robots, which as described on their site as being "the essence of modern and nostalgic, at once futuristic and retro, technical and playful, functional and entertaining, and perfectly represent our vision."

Their space bowl and cowboy plates are so fun!

Flower Power: Azuma Makoto

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Former grunge rock musician Azuma Makoto creates the most masterful pieces from beautiful botanical and blooms.

When asked about the complete lack of flowers in his basement shop, he says,

“If you have the flowers sitting there in the store, the customers will say, oh, add that one please. My concept is ‘order-made’ from zero. I take the order from the customer—theme, coloring—and then I go get the flowers myself, make, and finally present the work.”

love that!

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Tatty Devine

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How fun are these jewellery pieces from Tatty Devine!

this one's for you, Miss Bleeker!

More Wrapping Techniques

And the wrapping continues... Above is the step-by-step on how to wrap a simple box, but there are so many more ways of presenting your gifts with fabric wraps.


In fact, you can do more than use them for wrapping gifts. How about as a bandana or scarf? Check out the possibilities here, courtesy of furoshiki.com

Speaking of which, I'm happy to announce that my wraps are also available at furoshiki.com

Happy weekend everyone!

Fabric Wraps are HERE!

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No joke. Our reusable fabric gift wraps are now available in the shop!
Each one is a gesture of giving: GIVE LUCK. GIVE LOVE. GIVE WISDOM.

Hand-printed on 100% organic cotton with soy-based inks.

GIVE LOVE

GIVE LUCK (in mustard or blue)

GIVE WISDOM


Use it to wrap your boxes. Use it to wrap your wine bottles. Use it to wrap book gifts. Your recipient receives a beautiful gift and presentation, and they can re-use it! Nifty eh?

Happy wrapping!

"Works with Water" Packaging... it works!

Such simple and iconic packaging that clearly communicates the Works with Water product value. The iconic lifebuoy graphic was inspired by the key theme of "rescue". image source: here

So strongly recognizable was the lifebuoy that it was flexible enough to be adapted for the various product benefits. Brilliant!

Packaging by British design consultancy: Elmwood

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Michael Jackson Logo

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Beautiful symbol and video memoriam for Michael Jackson by BBDO Germany for MTV.
Watch the video here.

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