happy friday!

well, friends, i'm off to san francisco for a weekend of craftiness and girly fun.  i hope you have a great one, too!  what are your plans? 

links for your weekend:

lovely paper cuts (via poppytalk)

my current dvd obsession

these invitations are gorgeous

i don't think i've ever seen a wedding here that wasn't breathtaking.  like this one.

this is a fabulous giveaway if i ever saw one.

woah. (via black*eiffel)

love these custom portraits!

can these please be turned into a book?  and quick?!

bacon bon bons AND beignets?  sold.

maple glazed bacon-apple doughnut?  double sold.

how can i NOT go to the jcrew outlet on the way to s.f.?

lol.

love at first glyph.

must. see.

have always wanted to stay here.  saturday is the day.  the beefeaters make me smile.

color study: red and turquoise

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On my night table: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

From Amazon.com:
 
Bad things come in threes for Toru Okada. He loses his job, his cat disappears, and then his wife fails to return from work. His search for his wife (and his cat) introduces him to a bizarre collection of characters, including two psychic sisters, a possibly unbalanced teenager, an old soldier who witnessed the massacres on the Chinese mainland at the beginning of the Second World War, and a very shady politician.

Haruki Murakami is a master of subtly disturbing prose. Mundane events throb with menace, while the bizarre is accepted without comment. Meaning always seems to be just out of reach, for the reader as well as for the characters, yet one is drawn inexorably into a mystery that may have no solution. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is an extended meditation on themes that appear throughout Murakami's earlier work. The tropes of popular culture, movies, music, detective stories, combine to create a work that explores both the surface and the hidden depths of Japanese society at the end of the 20th century.

Read along with me!  Pick up a copy here, at your local bookstore, or at your local public library.

renegade s.f.

Renegade San Francisco is this weekend and I'm so excited be be able to attend.  Gonna be doing some  stealth recon as I'd like to exhibit next year.  Dragging my friend D. along for some shopping, eating, and serious urban shenanigans.  Below: a sampling of just a few of the artists whose booths I'm looking forward to visiting.  Are YOU going to Renegade this year?

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the black apple
the mincing mockingbird
sleepy king
miki and nora
honeylux
sycamore street press
sara paloma pottery

I love this...

...and have somehow convinced J. to build me a swing like this in the oak tree in our backyard.  I can't wait!

(via Once Wed)

July Etsy Faves

top to bottom, left to right:

feather key holder: new duds
epershand necklace: isette
girl in the yellow suit: kiki and polly
return address stamp: primele
vintage thermos collection: gallivanting girls
summer: nan lawson
matilda headband: wendy and peter
hail to the chief print: one canoe two

color study: pink and gold

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My secret garden

I took a little stroll around our yard yesterday afternoon and these are some of the things I saw:

Today I love...

New Orleans letterpress wedding invitations designed by Blackbird Letterpress with calligraphy by Betsy Dunlap.  So, so lovely.  Makes me want to get married all over again just to be able to have invitations like these. (via OSBP)

A little sunshine for your Monday

Loving these yellow chairs at the Summertime and the Living Is Easy event in San Diego this weekend.  Styling by Sitting In A Tree.  Photo by Oh Joy!  Thinking I might need some for the backyard (to continue my obsession with the color yellow).

A coastal kind of weekend

J. and I spent Saturday up in Big Sur.  It was such a beautiful day.  We brought the dogs and had a great time!  Below are a few of the things we saw.