D.I.Y. for Lindsey

A friend of mine just moved into a rental space that has dark wood grain on the kitchen cabinents. I tried to explain an idea similair to this to her.. but it wasn't coming across very clearly. I stumbled upon this picture (from domino) and decided to post them for her. It would be a cheap, simple and great for a renter... just use white contact paper to create large blossoms. Kinda like a reverse of this dresser.

coterie

clever little birth announcment...

this little blog is a gem. I barely met Heather while she was living in Laie, but a lot of my friends knew her well. I loved her pregnancy announcement and she is always posting good ideas.

inspired by the ocean

I found these fabrics via another blog and they are so whimsical! These colors are girly without being to much. Now I just need to find the right project to use them for....

photo booth

I have always loved photo booths. There used to be an awesome one at our local mall, and I always wanted one at my wedding. To bad I didn't know about photoworks interactive. They rent photo booths across the US. You can also track down a vintage booth in your area here, at photobooth.net.

Your surfing where?

As I have come to know the surfing world I have been intrigued by the names of surf spots. It's part of the insiders lingo at each new coastal spot. Some are self explanitory and others are well.. a legendary story! I found this article through the honolulu advrastiser explaining some of the names of breaks on Oahu.

Do you know how these beaches got their names?

(image from Jonathan Canlas)


(image from Ashley Moffat)

Personally, my favorite story is about the break called gums in between Pipeline and Ehukai. Apparently an old man surfed his longboard there in the 70's and "During a particularly bad wipeout, the man's longboard knocked out his dentures — and he never replaced them.

"So he would surf there without any teeth, just his gums," recalled Randy Rarick, veteran surfer and contest promoter. "And that's how it got named."

Cassandra Barney is a good artist...

I had the opportunity to take a composition class from Cassandra Barney at BYU. She is great and now I love to read her blog and be inspired. Her post here about women stuck in holes is so great. Sometimes I'm ... well... "stuck in a hole" and the goal really is to "recognise when we are in a hole and then figure out how to get out" as she says.

D.I.Y.

Photo fridge magnets done right. I found this idea at junebug wedding blog, where you can find a tutorial for the project. I think its great and once again seems to be do-able. The tutorial takes you to an online printing source that I have never used but looks pretty good, called Moo