ps, it's snowing here today, how about where you are?
UPDATE: you can download the PDF by clicking on the button below!
Every Little Thing
ps, it's snowing here today, how about where you are?
UPDATE: you can download the PDF by clicking on the button below!
Free Fonts
I'm a sucker for free anything, but when it comes to fonts, I'm a double sucker. I'm obsessed with checking the "new fonts" on a couple different sites and downloading anything that I think I might someday want to use. Of course for personal use only, but there is the rare occasion that a free fontier has given permission for commercial use as well, so I tuck those away for the future life when I will have more time to freelance again. Here are a few of my favorites from the past few weeks and a lovely link where you can find them for your own free font enjoyment!
I don't know what it is about this font, but I just love it. It's an all caps font and reminds me of Marvel comics, I think. Shown here with a slight drop shadow. download from fontspace.
What can I say? I love calligraphy and I'll blame my grandmother who took calligraphy in her early grandma years, and always writes with beautiful penmanship AND every card or letter is beautifully scripted. download from fontspace.
mmm...clean and warm, just like fresh laundry. Me gusta!
download from lost type co-op (found via smashing magazine).
When I first saw the name of this font, it reminded me of my little sister's monthly blogograms to her babies. love them! The font itself reminds me of their purpose to savor your babies at every stage. love them up. download from dafont.com.
I also downloaded a ton of web ding, ding-a-ling fonts that I have already saved as vector images to get decorative with. Even if you don't have illustrator software to convert these gems, they are still fun to use in word processing documents. just type them in a text box for easy placement.
The Ghost of Valentines Past
I was going through past entries on my blog, reminiscing, when I came across this one from four years ago. Oh the blessed and/or cursed day. I'm not very romantic, so I've never really understood the hullabaloo.
But, when I was single, any Holiday was just another excuse to throw a party. So that's what we did. I must say, the invite turned out quite nice. A little bit like her introduction at the pre-superbowl press conference, or so I read here... (if you choose to follow the link, scroll down to 2:04pm)
The Month of Love
In this gritty city finding frill is a little like looking in a "where's waldo" picture book. If you look really closely, that striped red tunic and tuke will glare right at you. Bless these urban artists and their creations for bringing a little bit of romance to the concrete jungle.
While, my creations may not be worthy of sidewalk art or wall murals, I like to do my part to celebrate the month of love. This year, I decided to get crafty with ric rac and ribbon and make some placemats. Frilly and functional. Again, I don't have enough photos for a full tutorial (and apologies for the iphone photos), but I found this one the other day (which I didn't use, but why reinvent the wheel when there is already a fabulous step-by-step out there?)
After pre-washing my material, 3 yards of heavy red canvas that I picked up at one of the many fabric stores in the Fashion District, and the ric-rac from my favorite (Daytonna Trimming). I used a store-bought placemat as a pattern and cut out 16 rectangles for 8 placemats, traced a bowl on the corners with tailor's chalk and then cut them into curves for added femininity. Each placemat got it's own hand-stiched, lovey-dovey message. (I also used the tailor's chalk to write the messages and pictures before I attempted to embroider.)
I didn't knot the thread so that it would lay flat, but I was worried that over time after washing the stiches might get loose. I ironed a little bit of interfacing to the back of each message to *hopefully* fix this. At least it gave me some peace of mind. Then I pinned the ric-rac between the front and the back (right sides together) and stiched around the edges, leaving about a 5 inch gap open to pull the right sides out. But don't turn it until you've notched the the seam allowance on the curves. It lays some much better if you do. And it's easier to top stiched.
Top stiching. I ran out of heavy duty red thread mid-way through. PS Fabric is my go to for this product at $1.80 a spool, so I had to wait (they aren't open on Saturdays) until after the weekend to restock and finish.
I rather like how they turned out and our table looks festive, like a handmade valentine.
Bon Chandeleur!
N'oublie pas des crepes aujourd'hui.
February second is not just for groundhogs. It's for tossing crepes too! Tossing them over your shoulder into a cupboard while holding something of value in each hand and leaving it there all year...all in the name of good luck. It has to be the first crepe, which is fine by me--it never really turns out right anyway.
Yum!
(Yes, that is our Christmas tree stand on top of our kitched cabinet. Don't judge. We live in NYC.)
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