La Hora del Te (via colorblok)

Carnival – Envelop

This would look soooooo cute on my couch. I wish I wasn’t firmly committed to sewing my own throw pillows. *sigh*

swissmiss | Zoo Lunchies

So. I am way too old for this, and I work from home (thus negating the need for a lunchbox)… But I want this.

drawgabbydraw:

A time lapse video of Mark Ryden painting Incarnation.  Paints that are not watercolors mystify me.  Also, Ryden is just incredible.  Here is the final product:

 Worth watching every single second of.

poppytalk: Milan 2010 Design Week Preview

I wish I had the space in my house for these lovely wardrobes (I’m generally a sucker for colour-blocked furniture).

My little sister is just discovering the awesomeness that was X-Girl now. Apparently, I’m just enough older than her to remember it from way back in the day.

I know if you’re old enough to remember the trend the first time, you shouldn’t wear it again, but DUDE! I am soooooo happy the nineties are coming back!

Postcarden

A ridiculously adorable idea.

grain edit · Julia Guther

gorgeous paper cut illustrations

The Recipe Door | Dinner: A Love Story

Recipes painted on the inside of Kitchen Cabinets? Sheer. Genius. I love this so much I think someday I want do this on the OUTSIDE of my cabinets.

• Really, really disapointed with The Frog Princess last night. On pretty much every level. Except for Keith David!!! #
• Just had brunch @ the Roxton. Worth it for the thick cut bacon alone. May come back for the jerk duck. & possibly the lobster bolognaise. #
• Makin' turkey sausage and lentils braised in a spicy tomato sauce to be served over a bed of barley risotto. #

Let’s go camping! « 100 Layer Cake

This “styled” camping engagement photo shoot makes me feel so many contradictory things:

Jealous. Inspired. Vomity. Twee. 

Envelop

How have I never heard of this site before? Lovely, quality illustrated goods of all varieties? Yes please!

Rue Montorgueil-Les Halles – David Lebovitz:

This post on David Lebovitz’s blog makes me sooooooo hungry for Parisian food. We visited Rue Montorgueil regularily, as it was the main market street only a few blocks from our aparment.

Thankfully, I think I have some chevre and duck pate in the fridge! No baguettes though :(

It’s been awhile since this blog has gotten a good scrubbing and spring cleaning. I’ve updated a few things here and there, but there’s still a lot hanging around gathering cobwebs.

So, it was more than time for a redesign.

This design is based on a couple of things:

Firstly: Mathew Buchanan’s genius Esquire tumblr theme. I was exploring tumblr (more on that in a minute) and came across his designs, and was more than impressed. He’s managed to explode my notions of what a blog (or tumblr) can look like. His designs are very magazine like, and driven more by classic modern graphic design than web-design – hence the drop caps (although they’re not quite working perfectly yet), and the floating elements.

Secondly: Paris (I’ve been there, you know!) by way of French Children’s books. I was thinking specifically of the colour schemes of something like Babar. Soft, friendly, sophisticated primary colours in particular: coral red, emerald green (sometimes called French green!), and French racing blue.

But more than just a pretty new design, I realized my blogging has been sorely lacking. I know, and I’m sorry. Twitter updates do not constitute a blog.

So I’ve done two things: I’ve moved twitter updates to be once weekly instead of daily (and even that, I might get rid of) so they don’t get in the way as much and I’ve signed up for a tumblr. You can find it under my name (bethmaher) if you have one too, but it’s not necessary as I will be syndicating my efforts here in an attempt to rev up my blogging.

I will always love WordPress because it makes blogging so infinitely customizable, but I will concede that tumblr is way, way easier. So combining the two is ideal: I can post big long rambling posts like this one from the admin of WP every once in a while, and the rest of the time I can be sending little brilliant little tidbits of found images, video and links from my tumblr.

As always with a redesign, I will be tweaking things for the next little while, and if you find anything that’s not working, please do give me a shout in the comments!

• Photo: (via marcinéma) http://tumblr.com/xvo8btjak #
• So. I did begrudginly mockup a redesign for the blog today. I also syndicated my new tumblr so it feeds there. Now on to making dinner!!! #

(via marcinéma)

• I need to re-design my blog today. Which is a statement that also applys to the last 365 days of the year. #
• Is there anyhing better than a leftover meatloaf sandwich? #nothereisnot #unlessyoureavegan #

Holiday shenanigans :: Loobylu

I love getting glimpses of Claires adorable, simple little drawings.

Polyvore

I wanna dress like…

fairy house (via Mimi K)

I need a pin cushion. This one would do nicely (but is a bit too spendy).