Etsy Tuesday: Skinny Laminx

This week's Etsy Tuesday comes from reknown illustrator and design blog maven Skinny Laminx. Heather makes her cute creations at her studio in South Africa. She specializes in fabrics and home wares. She is basically loved by all in the etsy and blog world-and its easy to see why! You can visit her personal website/blog here and buy her products here.

Wallpapers!

I found this really cute blog from Marimekko. Always Mod is all about Marimekko products, showing us the greatest and latest from the design house. I found this page for desktop wallpapers-what a fun way to incorporate great design onto your laptop! Everytime I see it, I feel a bit more cool. You can download their wallpapers here. Enjoy!

Friday Faves

I was inspired by this pillow on Design*Sponge yesterday, so I went browsing for gorgeous purple and dusty gray shades...I think its love! Recognize that closet on the top left? Thats Carrie's from Sex and the City!

earrings by Emily Gray Jewels, dress by Sarah Seven (I had a class with the girl in the pic, she is so gorgeous!)

other photos from Domino, D*S

Lecture Notes: Daniel Bozhkov

Artist Daniel Bozhkov, born in Bulgaria, uses his art as a means of social connection and incorporates everyday images of Walmart and icon Larry King.

His lecture was quite varied, he showed images and video of himself painting a fresco in the layaway department at a Walmart:
And creating a huge "crop sign" of Larry King:
Perhaps my favorite image he showed us was a still frame from a 15 second commercial he aired in Turkey:
Everytime I see this I crack up. Its Darth Vader cleaning the Black Sea with a Brita water filter. OH MAN.

Daniel has been producing tons of work over his career, many of which involve community. Another great project was creating the fragrance of Ernest Hemingway-which he made into a real fragrance- Eau D'Ernest.
In many ways, hes brilliant. Great work!

photos courtesy Flickr and Andrew Kreps Gallery

First Etsy Sales!

AH im so excited! I sold my first items on Etsy today to two of my best friends. It doesn't matter that they are close to me, its just that I've finally done it! So so excited, I'm off to the post office right now to ship their items! Another print will be coming up in the shop soon, I just finished printing them yesterday. Later on I'll post my Lecture Notes series on this week's Monday Night Artist Lecture...until then!

Etsy Tuesday: Mudpuppy

Today's finds are from artist Michael McDowell of Mudpuppy, who creates beautiful bud vases and sculptures with clay. His work is minimal, clean, and fresh and still holds a feeling of vintage nostalgia. He was also just featured as last week's roundup on D*S. Great work! You can purchase McDowell's creations here and visit his website for more fun stuff here. Happy Tuesday!

Loving It

I found these great felted vessels from Papaver Vert on Etsy. They are a splurge, but are lovely containers for decorative plants, objects, pencils, whatever you got lying around! Get your felted wool fix here. Happy Monday!