I’m loving these funky artifacts from artist Jennifer Khoshin. More here.

Ahoy! I’ve got tons of energy this morning.  I spied this pirate toast stamp on Urban Outfitters — only $2.99.

Two of our best friends are having babies in October and so that means there is quite a bit of baby-talk in the air (and Tim is going to be a godfather to one!!). So, my scouting eye is going nuts. This Japanese sewing tape would be perfect on a baby quilt or baby clothes.

Via Matabtabi

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I love this image on the top, via one of my favorite artists, e. soule.  I’ve always found that trees are really hard to photograph the way the eye sees them and think this photograph is pretty amazing. I’ve been taking it easy today, a little fatigued somehow.  The bottom image is from Please Sir, and is by Magdalena Bors.

via maggienikole’s photostream

How totally badass is Michael Caine? I love his hair! I’ve taken to reading Tim’s GQ (where I found this picture) and I have to say I think its a great magazine. Keep up the good work GQ.

Loving these funky finds from Bell’occhio, which I found via a post of Derek & Lauren’s over at Design*Sponge!

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One of my favorite bloggers, who hails from South Africa, is Freshly Found. She just posted these adorable pillows  she made from men’s dress shirts ($27 with $7 shipping to the US). I have a thing for men’s dress shirts and refuse to let Tim throw his old/ripped/stained ones away, as I keep thinking I’m going to make a quilt out of them. So these are right up my ally, you might say. More pillows for sale at her Etsy here.

I spied this awesome moving card ($10 for 5 cards) in nsquare’s etsy shop, found via this month’s poppytalkhandmade.

The summer wedding circuit is in full swing and I’m hunting for a fun and affordable dress or two. When all your friends know each other and then get married to each other you just can’t wear the same dress to every wedding. A dilemma.

One of the fun parts of going home is seeing what crazy “mom” catalogs my mother is getting in the mail. You know what I mean — the crazy catalog world of women over 45. One of them, Barrie Pace, has a great selection of formal dresses that you would find at a Nordstrom/Lord&Taylor/Macy’s but at great prices. I really like this Tadashi dress, $258 marked down to $149 (loooooove the color) and there are hundreds more fun dresses, from $79-120 here. Warning: there are some serious old-lady dresses here too, but just keep your eye on the prize.

Mom and I stopped in to Micheal’s to check out the scene (yeah to gettin’ my fill of the strip mall) and spied this set of 26 vintage inspired Animal Alphabet cards for $9.99 from Martha Stewart Crafts line. So cute and such a good price. They would be very sweet in a nursery or just framing one or two of the letters that most appealed. Two of my closest friends are pregnant and due the same week so recently I’ve been digging all the cool baby stuff I could buy.

Memory is a wonderful, fleeting, mysterious force, isn’t it? Joanna posted these photographs of deer beds by Katherine Wolkoff and I was instantaneously brought back to childhood in Vermont where we would see these in the back field almost every morning of the summer (you could see the back field from the kitchen window). There is something so peaceful and calming about seeing the place an animal felt safe enough to sleep.

I was at the New York Public Library today and stopped into Eminent Domain, a NYPL exhibit of contemporary photography in New York (on the first floor, just as you come in the main entrance, and it is free to the public). It is a beautifully curated show, thoughtful and in touch with both New York and the photographers. I was particularly glad to discover the work of Zoe Leonard and Ethan Levitas. Levitas’ series “Untitled/This is just to say” is of photographs of subway cars and riders (seen below). Leonard’s work (seen above) is concerned with globalization and urban redevelopment. If you find yourself in midtown (42nd and 6th) with a few minutes, pop in — I think you’ll enjoy!

Loving this article on bringing nature into your home.

I love whales and this print from Tugboat Printshop stopped me in my browsing tracks. They are part of this month’s Poppytalk Handmade Paper Pops which is full of beautiful items — Jan and Earl have outdone themselves this month.