hermes printable

Remember this post?! Well, Hermes has a new free printable up on their website! After the Kelly Bag and the Collier de Chien bracelet/cuff (both not available anymore), the new printable is of a Jige Clutch.

Hop on over to their website and click on "I want it, I'll have it!" to download it.

Pictogram Movie Posters

Check out the Pictogram Movie Posters! Very cool idea!

Lace

I seem to be obsessed with lace lately. I think that I would like me some Lace Cups, yes.

Oh, how about lace made out of concrete?

Or a lace floor!

Would you be happy to see a lace fence?

Edit: How fun would it be to send your friends this goodie bag when they're not expecting it?! So cute!

Hiya!

I'm back, we've settled in well, and we finally got internet! I shall be blogging again!

To start off, here's a photographer I found on another blog that I'd like to share. She does amazing and ethereal underwater photography, and I hope I'm as good as her one day!

Elena Kalis

Hermes Corporate

Have you ever been to the Hermes Corporate website? I love it - it's full of inspiration, and I visit it often.

Earlier I also posted about the print-your-own Hermes Kelly bags and Hermes Collier de Chien bracelets. The Kelly bags are not available for download anymore, but the bracelets are.

Hope you had an amazing weekend! I did!

Photoshop Disasters

The title says it all. Get your LOL fix here.

Drop-in

Heyo! This is just a tiny drop-in, I'm afraid ... I'm off to do bigger things ... {like make a corsage bracelet! Tutorial? Yes?}

Seed Bombs!

Whoa.

Postcarden!

Half-bliss ...

... because I have half-completed my assignments. Two handed in, two to go next week, and I shall be a free bird ... at least for a little while. 

What's on my mind?

- DesignMom's "A Few Things" posts. They're awesome, they're filled with eye-candy, they arrive fresh every Friday, and there's heaps of them. Yep, DesignMom was the first Design blog I looked at, and yes, it inspired me to start one of my own!

- Swooping a prize over at The Bright Side Project. Their condition was that the swoop email had to be sent at 9am-12noon their time [4am-7am ours], and coincidentally I was pulling an all-nighter completing my assignment. I sent the email, completed my assignment, and won the swoop. Here is what I won. Yippee!

- These bottles, and the lovely lovely pieces of curled-up, folded paper inside them. It inspired me for my assignment, where I am creating a bust made out of clay, which is hollow inside. Inside this I will put ideas and theories that I have thought of during the semester, write them on a piece of paper not much different to the one in that other post. This is my theory journal. Oh, I am also threading the ideas together with some yarn. Argh I totally want them bottles!

- Speaking of cute bottles, I got a little glass jar at the local thrift store, with a stopper lid and all. I use it to store some of my ribbons. I want to find more such jars, and sort my ribbons by colour, and put them in those cute jars. And speaking of my ribbons, the collection keeps on increasing by the day. :D

- Sitting on my bed, with the electric blanket on, drinking a can of Coke with the complimentary straw that came with it. Mmmm. I like.

- Dozing off on the bus, as a result of an all-nighter. Not nice at all, especially when the bus jerks suddenly to a stop. Most embarrassing.

- Did I tell you that I used to work at McDonalds? Hmmm.

- This! I am obsessed with making paper flowers! Ach! And it's a really good tutorial, too. I think she might've been inspired by this, by Martha. I actually printed a whole bunch of paper yesterday for an assignment that is now a waste, pretty much, because it came out all wrong. I want to see if I can re-use it and make that into a paper flower like the one in the tutorial! Paper flower with text all over it, yummy! :P

- Just Something I Made. My favourite new blog! Yep, I found it through the Bright Side Project.

The Paper Bee

Check out this crazy amazing bee made out of paper.

Then check out this totally uncomfortable bed design.

via Geekologie. They have more cool stuff, so have a peek if you like.

The Big Red Button

Have YOU pressed the Big Red Button? I first found it through Bebo, a social networking site (for kids).

Warning: Please, only click over if you have oodles of time to spend, and not much to do, because the Big Red Button is addictive :P

Chalkboard Paint

I mean, how awesome is chalkboard paint?!

This guy right here painted it on his fridge. It turned his fridge into a creative space!

Design Mom's painted her son's wardrobe with this stuff.

General chalkboard paint ideas.

And it's Martha Stewart approved.

Eep!

Pantone bikes!

DesignMom's new baby!

Sailor's Knot Doorstop! [and it's a giveaway]

Whoa.

Whoa is all I said as I gawked at these:

From Tabu4U.

Winter blooms and birds

I can't wait to get some lovely pastel shades of crepe paper and make these fabulous flowers! They would totally brighten up my room! 

Edit: Wouldn't these make a fun bouquet for your mum?!

And these sweet bird cages!

There are a lot of other DIYs on The Bride's Cafe [which is where these tutorials are], and I really like the moss initials!

Heart Cake

Aha! I'd said earlier that I wanted to share another beautiful cake recipe - and here it is! 

The Secret Heart Cake recipe! From I Am Baker.

mathisdead

Kyle [Graphic Design, AUT] and his friend's blog:

mathisdead

Ooo, they talk about the new M.A.C. collection, which is inspired by paper! Brown paper! Pretty smart, really.

Edit: Yay, I was featured on Design Sandbox, our Graphic Design degree's blog! Check it out for more cool links and inspiration! I shall check back in later to share two recipes that I found in Vogue 1996!

Playing with Photoshop

I have to admit, I'm not much of a Photoshop person [InDesign's my favourite], but I've been playing around with Photoshop thanks to some super cool tutorials from around the web.

Today was the draw-the-shaded-blobs day. It's all about playing with your brush strokes and opacities. I strive to achieve this... soon.

[The text bit was done in InDesign]

Let's get bakey!

Tee hee ... it's my dad's and my gran's birthdays coming up real soon, and I'm thinking of baking a little something! I've never exactly baked before, just a little blueberry pie [recipe here] for an assignment, so let's see how this goes!

I'm thinking of baking ... drumroll, please ... the Rainbow cake! Except ... I'm not sure if I'll make it rainbow, maybe in colours they like best? Anyway, I thought the idea was brilliant, and I like how it looks white from outside, then you cut it open, and voila - burst of colour. I'd bookmarked another beautiful cake recipe, but alas, I can't find it at the moment - I'll definitely put it up if and when I find the link, though!

Some more bakey links:

- Cupcakes that make me drool.

- Even more cupcakes that make me drool [minus the Twilight ones].

- Smart and beautiful cupcakes.

- Glitter cupcakes!

- How to make some cupcake art.

- Here's where my mum got me cupcakes. They were totally yummeh, if a little expensive.

Fun fun! I'm doing this next Sunday, and I shall post pics up if all goes well!

Edit:

p.s.: Brrr, it's getting colder here. I must get my soft and cuddly Singapore Airlines socks out! I hope you're warm and cosy, wherever you are!

Look at these!

Mmm. And you thought I was showing you photos?! Hah! Nope, these are hyperreal paintings. Aren't they hyper-awesome?! 

Check out more here.

Oh, and sorry about the title. I couldn't think of a better one without giving something away ;)

Bulgar gold

Hey! Be sure to vote for your favourites for the Time 2010 Most Influential People! There are more lists here on Time's website.

PS: Bulgar gold?! Those are just two words Time made me fill in to make sure I'm human. And, turns out that I am. ;)

Image from the Time website.