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Currently working on two design collaborations with my friends. Exciting things are to follow! :-) Do check out my pinterest, I've been pinning like crazy!

Okay so I know it's not Friday but this is long over due... I hereby present a cluster of links!

+ This is hilarious: 7 celebs who make the same face in every photo.

+ Tanesha Awasthi aka Girl With Curves is so stylish.

+ How far is it to Mars?

+ How croissants are made. I want some croissants now!

+ Gangnam Style dance dare.

+ Four ways to mix fonts.

+ This is a bit old now but a good one: The Greatest Nation on Earth Isn't Us.

+ 10 recipes for 20-somethings that can't cook. Hah!

+ Um, whaaat? The truth about the Fig Wasp, and why other vegetarians and I shouldn't eat figs anymore.

+ I loved this article about other peoples' seemingly perfect life on social media.



Until next time! :-)

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Well! I haven't blogged in quite a while now! Just been caught up with work,  studies, and catching up on Full House (my guilty pleasure). It sure feels awesome to click "New Post" again! :D I have a few more links to go, so expect me to pop back soon! ...And without further ado, here are some awesome linkz from around ze interwebz.

+ Photo editing tips by Shutterbug on Pinterest.

+ Cool + fun party games.

+ Antipodes Map (found this from Michelle!)

+ Lovely type illustration.

+ Custom typographical logo designs (I hope I get to do this one day!)

+ Eye candy: Ellen's Album

+ The Style Files

+ Long exposure photographs taken from space. Aaaah.

+ Absolutely loving Andy Gilmore's work. I wonder how long it would take to painstakingly create those beautiful patterns?!

+ Typography + cities = this.

I'm obsessed with the use of geometrics and botanicals in design at the moment. If you, too, are into that kinda stuff, maybe check out my pinterest? :-)

Oh, and thank you, vintagetreasures, for following my little blog :-)

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+ I just bought some polymer clay, and I can't wait to try these!

+ ... and these!

+ Stargazing.

+ Full Moon sticky notes

+  This is so inspiring: F#%k yeah watercolour

+ Another inspiring tumblr: Textile and Trim

+ I think I need to go get some gold tubes! This DIY is super!

+ Art for iPhones/iPads.

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+ I know Valentines' Day is over, but check out this super cool pixel heart necklace.

+ Uhm, I really wanted to try Rainbow Twizzlers for some strange reason, and I did. I would say that Stephanie was right, and they taste and have the texture of flavoured plastic (not that I've ever tried plastic). Aaanyway. Read this funny review about Twizzlers.

+ Mark Weaver's Make Something Cool Every Day. So. Inspiring. :')

+ 6 Rules of Poster Design.

+ Scientists discover the most relaxing tune ever. I think it's pretty sweet.

+ Check out what people were wearing in the malls the year I was born.

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+ Made me laugh.

+ This ad. (And behind-the-scenes).

+ Hand-lettering, le sigh.

+ If you like Tangled, this is for you.

+ Raspberry Cat, you might like this calendar. :D

+ Handpainted Type.

+ Gotta love Readers Digest jokes! Here are 11 Valentines' Day jokes!

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Have a great Waitangi Weekend! :-)

+ Patterned Monograms

+ A game for all you pen-tool worshipping people out there (including me): Shape Type.

+ Awh! Dress-up Band-Aids! I want the sequins one!

+ What a five-year-old thinks of logos.

+ Panorama view from Mt. Everest!

+ Holy Mackerel. Michelle, you're right—this anatomical quilling is intense!

+ Doesn't this Lavender Lemonade look refreshing? (Actually, it kind of reminds me of Taro flavoured Bubble Tea!)

+ And these Lavender Shortbread cookies?! Next on the "to-bake" list! :D

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+ How beautiful is this cake?!

+ If I was ever to go online shopping, these would be the first thing I'd buy.

+ I loved reading about the evolution of this website. I'm absolutely interested in, and inspired by all things botanical right now! :-)

+ That's it, I'm following her blog! Such beautifulness.

+ Buttered popcorn ice-cream, anyone? I've tried buttered popcorn jelly beans, but, is this a step too far?! Or will I love it?

+ Check out this sweet Valentines' wall heart!

+ Two words: Fictional. Food.

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Please excuse the lack of posts so far. I'm still trying to figure out the balance between what to pin and what to blog. :-)

+ DIY fringed lanterns

+ 50 Reasons not to date a Graphic Designer (almost all of these are true with me).

+ Succulent type.

+ Pedal-powered roller coaster? No thanks.

+ Pantone's Colour of the Year—Tangerine Tango.

+ Loving the work of UK doodler, Carrie Lewis.

+ Mm, flower pancakes!

+ Sidewalk chalk art.

+ This is a fun one: How fast are your reactions? (I'm a Bobbing Bobcat, haha)

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Last set of links for the year! :D

+ Earth's permanent lights at night time.

+ Paperclips + string = earrings.

+ Deadline; a post-it stop motion.

+ Peppermint stack cake looks yummeh.

+ Rapunzel, by Claire Keane.

+ The best and worst brand identities of 2011.

+ Tiny apartment transforms into 24 rooms.

+ Wishlisted.

+ Stamp carving is something I want to try out in the new year. Here's a tutorial that I found.

+ Also this one from one of my favourite bloggers, Geninne:

Stamp Carving from Geninne D. Zlatkis on Vimeo.

+ Oldie but goodie: Vellum Mobiles. Doable for New Years' Party?

Edit: Whoops! Seems like I'd forgotten to include the last two links. They're now updated, and an extra one added! :-)

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+ SO inspiring.

+ Le sigh. I really should start Pinteresting.

+ Life is beautiful.

+ The Year in Middletons.

+ Type portraits.

+ Disney princesses as cover models. Hah!

+ Artists in Miniature (free downloadable magazine)

+ Do you have the Facebook Timeline? You could revamp it like this!

+ So you need a typeface.

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Cool and interesting tidbits on the Internet this week:

+ Check out this field of light blooms. Totally magical!

+ 10 ways to make a garland! I'm bookmarking this for the New Years' Eve party! :-)

+ Typography by Alex Robbins.

+ How to make the perfect gift bow.

+ Cheese, with edible gold bits. Anyone else find this weird?

+ Pretty. :-)

+ :O

+ :O :O

+ A Personal Apology. (Thanks, Corinne!)

+ Old Loves.

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It's December! Summer's heeeeere!

+ Om nom nom!

+ Who wants this?!

+ Necklaces made out of Barbie parts. :S

+ Have you seen Colleen Jordan's wearable planters?

+ End Times. By Jill Greenberg.

+ Creepy, but beautiful?

+ Check out some really cool projects/design work here!

+ Dear Louis Vuitton.

+ How to hack your Facebook profile picture.

+ Dreamy photography by Roberto Rubalcava.

p.s.: Yes, I'm still experimenting with Courier (this typeface). I really like the look of it. It makes me want to write more. Plus it makes my posts look longer ;)

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Happy weekend, y'all! (Did you notice my new favicon? :D )

+ Build 3D letters from a font!

+ 25 ways to wear a scarf! I have a collection of summer scarves that I can't wait to try this on!

+ Paper-cut diorama artists.

+ Interesting and strange: How would it be, if typefaces could be tasted?

+ NASA goes pink.

+ Artist Kyle Bean's portraits made out of pencil shavings.

+ I'll have this (and especially this) for the holidays, thank you.

+ Their Good Morning/Good Night poster is quite brilliant! 

+ The difference between the United Kingdom, Great Britain, and England. Also watch: Copyright, explained.

+ Take a look at Shinichi Maruyama's amaazing photographs!

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Thank you, Ponciks, for following the blog! :-)

+ Bracelets made out of dental brace parts. Um. Ew?

+ Oh wait, that's not Frodo Baggins!

+ What a fun house to live in!

+ The trick to applying nail polish.

+ Overheard on the Titanic.

+ The magic behind the magic: a tumblr full of Disney concepts (they've stopped posting now, but they have an amazing library of concepts)!

+ Egg Watchers: to get the perfectly boiled egg. This is actually really useful!

+ Loving this Etsy shop!

+ I need this: A clock designed to help procrastinators.

+ This is super: Pick your own pendants! I'm planning to make something similar... it's part of my personal campaign to get away from the computer!

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Pssst. It's 11:11pm on 11.11.11. Awesome!

+ RAW is still on (till tomorrow)! Are you visiting?

+ Take a look at this beautiful light calligraphy.

+ Things 90s kids realise. I stumbled across Full House episodes earlier this year, and I fell in love with them! Then my friend Morgan told me about Danny Tanner. :-\

+ Love this list: 20 Things I Wish I'd known at 20. (I turned 22 last month, and I think I still have time to pay attention to this list)

+ Typography inspiration!

+ A library of Victorian scraps!

+ Life is too short (campaign).

+ I can't sew to save my life, but if I could, I would sew this.

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Not a heap of links today.

+ All Blacks making snow angels after they won the Rugby World Cup.

+ This was surprising: behind-the-scene visual effects from popular tv shows.

+ Luke Williams' typography

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Rugby World Cup final this Sunday! GO THE ALL BLACKS!! Woohoo!

+ Hogwarts + treehouse = awesometastic.

+ Is it a cheese, or a font?

+ Embroidered x-rays.

+ Found this while blog-hopping: Chocolate-chip cooke recipe.

+ Leigh Wells' awesome type illustrations.

+ Read this book, and a free meal will be donated to pet shelters!

+ Miniature books on necklaces and rings! Ahh! Wishlisted!!

+ Learn colour-styling!

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Half of October has gone by! This year is whooshing past so quickly! :(

+ Apple pie cookies! EEP! SO CUTE.

+ Minimal movie posters.

+ A very addictive game for typographers: Kern type (seriously, I had no idea there're so many graphic design games out there!)

+ Disney girls, runway style!

+ There's oodles of inspiration at this tumblr!

+ All of a Heap—a Youth Art Committee launch, taking place tomorrow!

+ Typewriter art! O.O

+ This blog is so. super. sweet.

+ Photoshop yourself a Halloween pumpkin.

+ Take a look at these fun Halloween recipes!

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Whoo! Handed in my last graphic design assignment for the whole course! Feeling happy+sad at the same time. Now I can start worrying about Professional Practice (another paper, where we go out in the industry to find work experience and report about it).

Here is the usual cluster of links:

+ When the fairy tale ends, real life begins.

+ 100 years of London street style.

+ Beautiful food styling.

+ Paper+Typography.

+ Can you tell your Helvetica from your Arial?

+ I didn't realise candy floss grew on trees :P

+ Wishlisted. :D

+ Yay, I'm not the only one obsessed with everything gold and glitter. 

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Here is this weeks cluster of links:

+ Teeny origami! So adorable!

+ These holidays, I want to try my hand at marbling (watch the video, it's super).

+ Newest blog love: Mickey and Minnie.

+ This is super cool: Draw a Stickman! (Thanks for the link, Morgana!)

+ Inspiration galore! Does everyone want to make wall murals now?

+ Redesigned Harry Potter covers!

+ Photoshop in real life.

+ How to make typographic string art. Totally keen to try this out in the hols, too.

+ Reinterpreting Disney Princess costumes through a historical lens.

+ 5 smells that can change your life. I was really surprised about Vanilla!