july desktop calendar (from shanna murray).

I swear, they just keep getting better!  This one from Shanna and Shari Altman is so pretty and beachy and calming.  Yep.  It looks so great on my computer (and...will probably look the same on yours!).  Get different sizes HERE.

super RANDOM (food/home video/desktop calendar).

Happy Friday!  Just had some fun and random things for you today.  First, a Dake home video starring Job and Dan!

Next, Shanna Murray's june desktop calendar(s) with Abby Try Again.  SO pretty!  And we have options!  I picked the lights for now...

And last....another home made pizza!  This one had potato, onion, broccoli, garlic, and mushroom.  We did NOT enjoy the broccoli.  NO more broccoli on pizza!  And, some homemade meatballs in the making for pasta & subs.

That's all.  Told you it was random.  Have a lovely weekend!!

april desktop calendar (by shanna murray).

This one is my favorite so far!!!  Oh my, it's so pretty.  And it welcomes spring so nicely.  For this one, Shanna collaborated with Heather Smith Jones.  Head here for more info.  
Enjoy :)

march desktop calendar.

Just wanted to make sure you knew about this!  I really like this one (I think I say that about all of them...hmm)!  To download double click the image and save it to your desktop (or head here to do the same!).

(desktop calendar by shanna murray & jordan ferney)

Also, issue 2 of the online magazine matchbook mag is out!!  Check it out HERE.

february desktop calendar.

Just wanted to share Shanna's February desktop calendar with you, in case you didn't get to it yourself ;) it's beautiful.  Another collaboration with Nikole (from Herriott Grace):

(click on the image to save!)

inspired by: yes jess knits.

Jess and I went to school together and usually connected through similar music likings and maybe even one another's style from time to time (okay, at least I like/liked hers!).  Today, I am SO encouraged by the sweet knits that she makes, and the success that she has been having in making them!  Here are some of my favorite pieces of hers:

($38)

($76)

($28)

($10!!)

($32)

You can buy these lovelies HERE, check out her beautiful tumblr HERE, and check out her website HERE!

Also, Shanna Murray has kicked off the 2011 year with a wonderful desktop calendar (collaborating with Marina Porter):

gifting.

There have been so many incredible gift guides and free gift tags on the web that I wanted to highlight a few (and share one gift that I think is pretty sweet!).

My favorite free gift tags:

from eat drink chic---download here! (found here)

from hello handmade paperie (Shanna & Betsy)

download at RUE magazine page 60!

A really sweet/reasonably priced gift (for the traveller/wannabe traveller in your life):

the scratch off map!

from iwantoneofthose £14.99 (blast!  urban had them & sold out!)

Scroll through these blogs for some AMAZING and super fun gift guides:

rifle paper co.

mint design blog (especially this DIY guide!!)

a cup of jo

random!

Found a few fun things for you (if you haven't already found them yourself of course!)...

1. the new dreamily colored desktop calendar for December by Shanna Murray and Abby-Powell Thompson:

2. Two more online magazines have new issues!  Hooray!  N.E.E.T. magazine and Sweet Paul magazine (found here).  All of the holiday inspiration that has been available lately has been so fun to look at :) 

calendars!

There is something delightful about calendars.  Here are two free November desktop calendars, the first from Shanna Murray and the second from Christiane Engel:






Head to their blogs for the original postings: Shanna...Christiane...


Also...my beautiful and incredibly talented friend Beth (and her beau, Drew!) recently started a blog and showed a little sneak peak of her 2011 calendar:



I'll be sure to keep you posted about when it is finished :)

flags.

I am not sure where or when my great liking of flags began, but it exists, and I am convinced will exist for a long time.  Here are some fun flag photos:

(1) from tabitha emma
(2) by carson ellis from grass hut
(3 & 5) forty-sixth at grace  (shop: herriott grace)
(4) the royal tenenbaums!


Also, since I unfortunately found this July desktop calendar too late, here is October (from Shanna Murray)!!  Still a little late, but there is still time :)

 (maybe this is also a reference to my liking of cakes?!)

inspired by: shanna murray.

Step one:  paint walls.
Step two:  get these:







Okay, maybe step one should be: move into apartment/house that allows you to paint the walls....dreaming for now!