Greetings from Down Under! The last few weeks of travel have been such a whirlwind, I don’t even know where to start. I’m having a great time so far, and I have a truck-load of pictures to share once I get a chance to sit down and sort through them. Gosh, it’s been so long since I’ve blogged properly (over a month, going on two!), I fear I don’t even remember how any more. I hope no one minds if I cheat a teeny weeny bit this morning with a sort of “drive by” post. I’m so over-flowing with inspiration and things I want to share that I almost don’t even know where to begin. Consider this my “Today (a.k.a. the last 3 weeks) I’m Inspired By The Following Things” post.
Popsicles (a.k.a. “ice blocks” Down Under)
Pocket Squares & Menswear
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Ten artsy-fartsy things that are cooler than cucumbers.
Massive Ice Wall by Jeremy Miranda
Because it’s the perfect combination of beautiful and terrifying. (And I have a strange fixation with ice and snow.)
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Probably over a good solid month ago now, Harriet posted about her visit to a frozen yoghurt shop called Snog. I was so intrigued by the bits of the interior poking through in her photos, I just had to look them up on the web in hopes of seeing more. Lucky for me, their website was filled with photos of the design of a handful of their locations. Yay! And, oh, things were about to get gooood. More yay! Behold… This is the sort of commercial design that makes me positively giddy with excitement.
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By nature, I’m a very festive person. I love the holidays. All of them, not just Christmas. Yup, I’m that person that wanders around in a state of giddiness for three weeks pre-holiday, and on the actual day, dresses up with a silly costume. As I type this, I’m wearing my light-up reindeer antlers. Totally dorky, but I love them. I love Christmas! I love pretty much everything about it! Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes. Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes. Silver white winters that melt into springs. These are a few of my favorite things. I may not be quite as eloquent about it as Julie Andrews, but these are my favourite things about Christmas.
10 Things I Love About Christmas and the Holidays
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Concrete
Because I love how bare, understated, elemental and simple it is as a design material. I find myself using it more and more often in design projects.
Image above is from the Diamond Project by Terry & Terry Architects.
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