Daydreaming today...

Love this little video

It's a short clip about what is "Letterpress"; I think it's so cute and explanatory

I always forget

Never cut projects while on my bed; scraps always make their way all over my comforter...

Visual Life

I guess I'm on a sort of video kick, but this video, featuring Michael Wolff, is just lovely.

It focuses on looking at life in a different way; slowly and meticulously. The way he notices things is somehow magical; it's like he sees beautiful details of life that everyone else is missing out on. But really, everyone could see them, if they looked.

One particular quote I loved was this:

“I see seeing as a muscular exercise, like I see curiosity. It’s kind of being open really, if you walk around with a head full of preoccupation you’re not going to notice anything in your visual life. I am obsessively interested in everything, and that gets expressed more through my eyes than my ears."

A video on Illustrators

This really makes me want to draw. Or learn to draw and then draw all the time. I keep dabbling with the idea of art classes, because I just love art so much, but I don't know how successful they'd be.
Either way, this video is great.

Random Helpful Gadget

I just ordered one for fun. I always get so tired trying to read in bed, maybe this will be the answer!

This is called the "Thumb Thing Book Page Holder and Bookmark"

Everything Pallets

Lately every other DIY project I see involves pallets; it seems like an odd phenomenon considering these things are usually surrounded by forklifts and such. But people are finding all sorts of things to upcycle these things.

My main association with pallets is goats; when my sister and I were younger, we somehow got our parents to get us goats. Now, you must take into account that we live in the suburbs, and no one really keeps goats in their backyard. But we were homeschooled and 4-H just fit in with some many of the other homeschooler stereotypes.

Anyways, my parents would get free pallets and put them in the backyard for the goats, because they enjoyed walking and climbing on them. They weren't the only ones; I have a faint memory of tap dancing on one of them with a fountain ponytail on top of my head....

Back to pallets! Here's some projects I loved:

Pallet Couch

Pallet Ottoman

This room is just fabulous; the bedding, the lanterns and the frames. Uh-mazing.

How about a Pallet Garden?

Pallet Headboard