Check out West Elm’s sale section for some really lovely summer melamine and other cuties!

My boyfriend dressed as Gandhi for Camp Naked Terror 7 and I went as Mary Lou Retton, obviously! How convincing is Petey??

A few months ago, I received a request for a guinea pig print. I worked something up this weekend. Whaddya think?

I just got my first tattoo this weekend! It’s what I’ve always wanted - an anchor on my upper arm. Being a simple and traditional tattoo, I think it really suits me! Now I just have to wait for it to heal…

My dear friend Dina opened an adorable etsy shop selling cute bird appliques and pretty little tea canisters from Japan with tea and a recipe inside. So good!!

I love Bernadette Spikes’ work! She has a store on Etsy called Sugarloop which is full of little sweeties.

I just put this lovely deer head up in my house - it’s from the sale rack at Anthropologie for $299. A lot of money, but since it’s on sale, the more you spend the more you save! (I hope I believe that!)

The Superest is a great site run by my friends Matt Sutter and Kevin Cornell that pits one made-up superhero against another. Each clever hereo is drawn beautifully! Today, my boyfriend Peter Dalkner created “Fallout Fedora” to pit against “Shredlock.” Check them out!

I’m just back from half a day of strolling down the lanes of the stationery show. It was pretty great to see what’s going on in the world paper goods, and even better to see my peacock on the front cover of the Chronicle Gift Catalog!! Amazing! I have some cards and a journal coming out this year with them and I got to see it all in reality today.

There was a big letterpress card presence at the show; they were all gorgeous, but the standouts for me were Hammerpress, Nantaka Joy, and Sugarcube Press. Just lovely!!

Take a look at my loveseat on ebay!!