Sculpture in woodland at Devil's Glen in County Wicklow. Walked through it when I lived in Ireland. Beautiful and atmospheric.

I have a thing for sculpture gardens. One of these days I'd like to visit The Gardens of Gaia in Kent.

"This was shot just after a sunset on the roof of a palace at Shugruf village in the Haraz Mountains of Yemen. No extra lighting was used. The sun has just set (see the top right corner of the image) and mist has started to rise from the valley below." Photograph by Matjaz Krivic, Slovenia.

Burgundy Street, Madrid.

Wood veneer pouches and how to.

spring fever

Altered books...

Great presentation concept by Cavalier Essentials.

I ♥ Maira Kalman

fonts

Love these new fonts from Tart: Bookeyed Jack and his stylish cousin Suzanne.
Carefully hand-drawn with an old school pointed pen in walnut ink.

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We ask ourselves, ‘Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and famous?’ Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that people won’t feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

- Nelson Mandela

the golden rule

“This poster is a father and son col­lab­o­ra­tion. All ele­ments are hand drawn by Koen (age 6) with a Sharpie marker at the din­ing room table, then arranged dig­i­tally in our stu­dio. The type is the “Golden Rule” as penned in the hon­est hand of a child. Maybe what we learned in kinder­garten is most impor­tant after all.” Avail­able from Studio On Fire (14 x 20 let­ter­press poster, $30).

calligraphy collaboration

Beau­ti­ful valen­tines from Hello Handmade Paperie – a col­lab­o­ra­tion between artist Shanna Murray and cal­lig­ra­pher Betsy Dunlap. Each valen­tine is printed with Shanna’s lovely rib­boned lau­rel illus­tra­tion on the front and a cus­tomized note penned by Betsy on the inside.