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This Paperlicious Week

July 23, 2010
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…I took a cue from the Good Look Cookbook and finally got around to creating some of the various information tracker/organizer forms that I’ve been intending to do for a long time, including a fridge-worthy household chores schedule/organizer/checklist. Instead of actually doing chores.

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Monday Inspired: in the bookstore

July 19, 2010
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For anyone with an eye for design, stepping into a bookstore (or wine shop, or stationery shop, or soap aisle) might as well be stepping into a diverse and awe-inspiring art exhibition. An art exhibition where almost all of the works fall within your budget. And you want to take everything home because it just looks [...]

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Weekend studio

March 1, 2010

My favorite thing about watching the Olympics is that I always come away from it feeling indomitable – like even my most lofty goals are attainable with focus, determination and imagination. So that’s what’s been on my mind lately: setting goals, making plans, imagining new directions. Since I’m in the middle of seriously reorganizing my [...]

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There is hope after all

February 19, 2010

Two questions typically race through my mind when I hear of an impending major do-not-leave-your-home weather event: Do I have enough craft supplies? and Do I have enough flour? In other words, when I’m trapped inside for a weekend, there’s a 2 in 3 chance that at any moment you can find me doing one of two [...]

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Once upon my mind

November 23, 2009

Not long ago, I made a pact with myself to be more brave with art and design, and life in general. I think I’m making baby steps — decent psychological progress toward standing more confidently behind my own ideas when presenting them to other people. But what’s struck me lately is the sting of disagreement, [...]

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Exodus

August 11, 2009

What do you get when you have six polymer clay Moseses dressed in various colors?! The Game of Exodus, of course! It’s a game I created for an art project when I was a sophomore in college. The design could obviously use some polish, but the project was more about developing the total concept — [...]

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