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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New blog header. Yay! It’s not a huge change, but I think it’s a major improvement over my old one which was kind of ugly. After searching and searching for an eternity for the perfect font, I finally found one that fit juuust right. I love the new look. For anyone reading in Google reader, Bloglovin’, or whatever have you, here’s a screen cap of the blog looking all pretty. Ooooh! Ahhh!

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Ten things that make the wings of heart flutter.

Laura Wood Photography
Because it’s mysterious, ethereal and dreamy, and I totally covet an image from her chandeliers series.

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I’m not really big on board games. With the exception of Scrabble. I loooove Scrabble. And most of all, I loooove playing Scrabble with my mom; hilarity always ensues. She makes up the craziest words. But I say, if she can come up with a plausible definition for her made-up wordsⁱ, I’ll let them pass. It’s no fun if you can’t laugh until your insides feel like they’re going to explode.

Side story tangent over and back onto the topic at hand: I present to you the most beautiful Scrabble board game. This set was designed by Andrew Clifford Capener for those of us out there that are giddy at the thought of a Scrabble/typography cross-over. And that would be me. Let’s take a look closer, shall we?

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1. must run in the family as I am a master at inventing fake words here on the blog (»)

I love a good 365 project as much as the next person. (Cue: A Collection A Day, and my own Daily Mixtape and This Is My Happy Face projects.) I find it endlessly fascinating seeing what artists can create within a single theme for every day of an entire year. Cue no. 2: Photographer Parker Fitzgerald. Instead of the traditional “post a photograph each day”, he includes an inspirational quotation alongside his captures combining the beauty of photography, the elegance of the written word, and a graphic punch courtesy of some crisp typography.

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