Slice of Awesome, no. 21: the green machine

Tomorrow is Earth Day! In celebration of this, let’s go with some green-colored awesome today.

1. This DIY  for a pretty dang cool oilcloth storage bins. I want to make a billion of these. You could use them in the bathroom for qtips & toiletries. Organize makeup or jewelry or my nightmare of a sock drawer. I love compartments; this DIY is the perfect enabler.
2. “Bog In Mine Skull” Art Print by Graham Erwin (via OMG Posters). I love the crazy science robot frankestein henchman feel to this. Delightful!
3. This kickass little set up in particular from Paper n Stitch’s nice little green round up. The tree repurposed and given some industrial pendants and made into glorious lighting.
4. Adorable green eggs sugar cookies made in honor of Dr. Suess’s birthday from My Paper Crane. SO cute.
5. Fantastic green bicycle painting by Kris Atomic. The rendering seems almost tender; with warm fuzzy feelings toward the subject. It looks a bit like Dolores if Dolores were green. I would love to figure out if I can move my headlamp down like that to make room for a basket. Hrm…
6. Sheep! Elephantine‘s lovely daydream of Ireland.
7. Llamafont is amazing! The tiny illustrations are most excellent, though I am not quite sure how to use this in practical application. Oh silly me: it’s because llamas make everything better!
8. Shelby Dillon has been producing some wonderful work in her daily paintings.
9. Hee— I could not get over Gemma Correll‘s sweet German pug, lederhosen and all.

Slice of Awesome, no. 16

Slice of Awesome, no. 16: Colorful bright & a dash of chaos!

1. The tissue paper poms have been pretty popular for a while now (I have 1 up in my house & have paper for 2 more, actually!), but this was the first I’ve seen of recycling a t shirt to make fabric poms! Neat!
2. That’s a Bingo! Oh my goodness! I love this illustration by David Saracino. The black & white version is pretty fantastic but the color just takes it to a whole other level.
3. More string installations: Gabriel Dawe‘s brilliant thread installations (via Design*Sponge).
4. Marc John’s cotton candy. I love how he writes about scribbles & their energy. I love that he used the simplest lines to articulate his ideas.
5. 5 steps of the Creative Process by Christine Wong Yap from her series Positive Signs. “Positive Signs is an attempt to share my research into positive psychology with artists and art enthusiasts.” Awesome. I can’t wait to see all of them!
6. Bicycle drawings! & lots of them! A whole tumblr of bicycles drawn from memory (harder than you think!) brought to you by Andrew Neher. Thank you, Andrew!
7. French Knot Masterpiece by Yuko Uemura of Pata Pri News (via CRAFT). Stunning! I was fiddling around with some embroidery for a minute—this makes me want to dig it back out. Seriously Lovely!
8. What may be the most adorable clock on the planet by decoylab. The elephant & the squirrel are both rad too! I admit to using my phone to check the time but I love clocks! I like having a reminder of the passage of time & something pretty to look at (via Design is Mine).

What’s on your Awesome list this week?

Slice of Awesome, no. 15

Well what do we have here? We have your weekly slice of awesome!

1. String installations by keiko sato—I love them. I’ve always enjoyed them. I think it’s something about how insignificant a piece of string is and how it can be so much more than is actually present. This piece creates a tree from a stump & string.
2. Knot & Bow. Holy crap, this stuff is darling! I don’t know if there’s anything that I’m NOT coveting.
3. Another gorgeous painting from theblackapple or Emily Martin. She tells stories like no other with her acrylic paintings.
4. How cute is this coffee cup cozy from sewtara? Seems like most of my mornings. There’s never enough caffeine.
5. C is for Capybara; how adorable & disgruntled are these little dudes? My friend says they look like busters. Ha!
6. Incredible & intricate papercutting from Elsita with a piece called Magic Garden. The delicacy and detail that goes into her work is mind blowing to me!
7. Beautiful pottery from Darshan Pottery. It looks like it could be the most perfect mug—lovely color palette, with a bit of heft and a comfortable curve & nicely formed handle.

What’s awesome to you?

Slice of Awesome, no. 14

1. Kris Atomic starts a riot of color; pink & orange explosions. Glorious!
2. Wolfram Alpha (seriously complicated computational algorithm magic) gets into the spirit of Valentine’s Day with A Computational Love Engine.
3. Some lovely bicycle art by Jennifer Davis (via OMG Posters) Her shop is filled with so many awesome things!
4. Beautiful and creepy print Dark Light I by Chuck Anderson (via OMG Posters)
5. This is amazing: a workspace made entirely out of paper! If only I could built it to scale.
6. A fun video of Jim Henson on Making Muppets  from 1969 (via CRAFT). Oh nostalgia!
7. I am a sucker for birds; lovely & layered prints from One Little Bird (via Paper n Stitch)

Got anything awesome to share?

The Alphabet from n9ve on Vimeo.

Awesomesauce of the week:

• The terrifically charming video above. An animated alphabet focusing on type (that appears redundant but shouldn’t be interpreted as such) set to Edith Piaf. Yes, please! (via Black*Eiffel)
• This absolutely darling invitation suite for Jenna & Simon’s wedding from FPO. Pink + green, letterpress (heidelberg!<3), wren & wombat, the intense super pattern, the THANK YOU VERY MUCH note…I don’t know if there’s anything I don’t love about this!
• Teux Deux. I absolutely 100% love this app for my iPhone. I had been hunting for a good to do list app for awhile and after trying a couple unnecessarily complicated pieces of crap, I found this one! Brought to us by swiss-miss.com & Fictive Kin. It’s very simple. Each day is a to do list and there is a list labeled Someday. You can add tasks, cross them off or delete them. You can access it through your phone or through a browser; this was really important to me because I hate fiddling with my phone while I’m at my desk! In the browser, you can also drag tasks from day to day. And that’s it. Perfect, simple, lovely to look at and easy to use. Win win win!
• Masking Tape Graffiti
• I love this clutch. I’m really more of a giant bag lady but the tiny purses sometimes catch my eye. Like this one! Too cute.

What do you think is awesome this week?

cupcakes4lyfe!

This week’s awesomeness:

• My cupcake collection is growing! I definitely have more cupcake paraphenelia than this but I was going for the 3-d/in-the-round/sculpture style focus. Maybe next time I’ll gather the flatter objects. From left to right: UO Giftmas 2009 from my mother; November 2010 using-that-gift-card-leftover-from-my-july-birthday from Pier 1, Birthday 2009 from my sister/mom, wedding gift from my best friend (they’re sale & pepper shakers!) and last but not least, 2009 from my sister in a care package a month or two after we moved. <3<3<3
• Pretty prettiness: lettterpress + knitting?!? Hell yes! (thanks, masami!)
• Nerd art! Some Metroid love. Lovely illustrations by Glen Brogan of Albino Raven (his store!)
• Cat video of the week: Cricket (via cuteoverload/thanks, hillary!).
• LuckyHanks just reached their 200th sale! Check out the cute spa cloths or the super popular Dirty Girl Wool Dryer Balls.
• These gorgeous samples of exquisite typography! swoon!
• My love of Dr. Who will not die. I expect to be commandeering a piece of furniture (though not a bed!) in my house and transforming it into a TARDIS.
• I do know that peeps are PROBABLY tired of moustaches but this is necessary. I embrace ridiculousness.
• The giveaway on Yes and Yes! Go enter!

What’s made your week more awesome?