Exploring Vintage Album Cover Art With Project Thirty-Three

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Project Thirty-Three is new to me, but I've already spent way too much time browsing the archives for color and design inspiration.

The seemingly infinite number of vintage record jackets that convey their message with only simple shapes and typography never cease to amaze me. Project Thirty-Three is my personal collection and shrine to circles and dots, squares and rectangles, and triangles, and the brilliant designers that made them come to life on album covers.

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Book: Blog tour: Girl?s World {with giveaway}

Girl’s World: Twenty-One Sewing Projects to Make for Little Girls By Jennifer Paganelli. Chronicle Books (April 2011). Perfectly girly and sweet, Jennifer Paganelli’s book Girl’s World, is for sewing mothers who are crazy about dressing up their little girls, and creating adorable and pretty spaces. Chronicle’s books are always well made, spiral bound hard cover [...]

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May Birthday Giveaway: lovely things from Joy the Baker

What's going on here? My site started ten years ago this month and to celebrate I?m giving away something each weekday. Because I like you. Today's giveaway is from Joy the Baker [1], it's a bunch of stuff she likes and thinks you might like too. When I asked her originally I thought her book (she's gonna have a book coming out!) would be a great thing to giveaway, but it turns out the book is still a long ways off. But, being sweet as she is, she jumped in a offered to get together some good things, because she's nice like that. She also hinted that there would be a few additional surprises included. If you'd like to win the care package from Joy please leave a comment with this post, you have until 10 a.m. on Friday, May 20th to enter, the fine print [2] applies. If you'd like something to mention please tell us: Do you have a favorite kitchen gadget? I have recently been introduced to the new style of can openers that don't leave a sharp edge and refuse to look back (I am clumsy in the kitchen). Ok, good luck everybody! Closed! Thanks so much for entering. [1] http://www.joythebaker.com/ [2] http://www.notmartha.org/the-fine-print/

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Papier-Mache Easter Eggs

[1] For Easter I made papier-mache polka dotted eggs. [2] I made small pinatas using water balloons and tissue paper. [3] I filled them with candy, then sealed them shut. [4] You can also put toys or notes inside. [5] They have to be ripped to open them, which is way fun. [6] Click here: Papier-Mache Easter Eggs [7] to find (much) more detailed instructions on how to make them. [1] http://www.notmartha.org/tomake/papiermacheeastereggs/ [2] http://www.notmartha.org/tomake/papiermacheeastereggs/ [3] http://www.notmartha.org/tomake/papiermacheeastereggs/ [4] http://www.notmartha.org/tomake/papiermacheeastereggs/ [5] http://www.notmartha.org/tomake/papiermacheeastereggs/ [6] http://www.notmartha.org/tomake/papiermacheeastereggs/ [7] http://www.notmartha.org/tomake/papiermacheeastereggs/

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the alphabet according to my browser

I recently found myself idly typing letters into my browsers location bar and noticing which sites it first suggests as an auto complete. So I made this list, which may or may not be an interesting alphabetic snapshot of the sites I've recently been visiting the most often. These don't reflect sites that I read obsessively in RSS and some results are surprising. (No Twitter or Pinterest? I'll have to figure out how that works.) A: Alicia Paulson [1], who was lovely enough to offer a copy of her book for the May giveaways B: The Beer Junction [2], a local beer shop and where I get Pliny the Elder and good advice on what other beer I might like (I'm an IPA lover) C: Cliff Mass [3], a local weather guru D: Design Mom [4], I love following her reports from France E: Epiphanie Bags [5], those lovely camera bags all the cool bloggers have (is now a good time to tell you I have one too?) F: Feedburner [6], I set up my feed through them before they became owned by Google, and I was so relieved that the switch over was seamless G: Grassroots Business Association [7], the small business group I'm a committee member of H: The Hairpin [8], it's where I get beauty advice [9] from a producer of This American Life (that sound? is a few of my worlds colliding) I: IMDB [10], for all those "that guy" look ups, I also like their collection of news [11] for updates on what is going on in movies and TV with just enough celebrity gossip thrown in J: Jordan Ferney [12], maker of excellent parties and surprises, and reporting from her move to Paris K: Knox Gelatine [13], research for a current project L: Luxirare [14], I'm in love with her posts about food [15] M: Musings of a Muse [16], where I get my makeup reviews N: NetShift [17], a neat little game made by foon, NetShift is the successor to BlackShift (which I liked even more but doesn't work on newer computers, sadly) O: Gmail [18]. Wait, Gmail? Apparently I don't visit sites that have O in them? How about Mrs. O [19]? Tom and Lorenzo [20]? Overstock [21]? C'mon browser! P: Posie Gets Cozy [22], Alicia again, I got sucked in by the adorable dog and kept reading Q: Ask Metafilter [23], not surprising in the least as it's all Qs R: Random.org [24], the number generator I use for giveaway winners S: School House Craft [25], a conference here in Seattle that I'll be at to talk about blogging with Blair from Wise Craft [26] and Molly from Orangette [27] T: Tom and Lorenzo [28], they who do Project Rungay and keep up commentary on all sorts of shows and red carpet events U: Ugly Green Chair [29], Whitney is one of my oldest blog-to-real-life friends! V: Voracious [30], a local Seattle food blog W: WTF with Marc Maron on PRX [31], these are a selection of WTF podcasts trimmed down to fit in a usual public radio slot and I'm so happy to see they are being picked up by public radio stations across the US (you should request it of your local station, just a suggestion -- I also suggest you listen to the WTF [32] podcast if you don't already) X: XKCD [33], I like this online comic so darn much Y: YouTube [34], this one is a surprise as I really don't spend much time on the site, though I did watch this fun fan-made Portal video yesterday: Outside Aperture [35] Z: Zappos [36], I recently panic-ordered a lot of shoes to try and they all arrived in one big box, it's so large I could curl up inside and ship myself back [1] http://aliciapaulson.com/ [2] http://www.thebeerjunction.com/ [3] http://cliffmass.blogspot.com/ [4] http://www.designmom.com/ [5] http://www.epiphaniebags.com/ [6] http://feedburner.google.com [7] http://grassrootsbusinessassoc.com/ [8] http://thehairpin.com/ [9] http://thehairpin.com/slug/how-to-be-a-girl [10] http://www.imdb.com/ [11] http://www.imdb.com/news/top [12] http://jordanferney.blogspot.com/ [13] http://www.knoxgelatine.com/ [14] http://luxirare.com [15] http://luxirare.com/make-pizza-without-dough/ [16] http://www.musingsofamuse.com/ [17] http://foon.co.uk/farcade/netshift/ [18] https://mail.google.com [19] http://mrs-o.org/ [20] http://www.tomandlorenzo.com/ [21] http://www.overstock.com/ [22] http://rosylittlethings.typepad.com/ [23] http://ask.metafilter.com [24] http://www.random.org/ [25] http://schoolhousecraft.com/ [26] http://blairpeter.typepad.com/ [27] http://orangette.blogspot.com/ [28] http://www.tomandlorenzo.com/ [29] http://www.uglygreenchair.com/ [30] http://blogs.seattleweekly.com/voracious/ [31] http://www.prx.org/series/32112-wtf-with-marc-maron [32] http://www.wtfpod.com/ [33] http://xkcd.com/ [34] http://www.youtube.com/ [35] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NorZUFfpvC0 [36] http://www.zappos.com/

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