0 Help Covet Garden Home Project

Covet Garden magazine would like publish  Covet Garden Home—a 100+ page half magazine/half book - a version of their online magazine with more additions and features. I've always made it a policy not to post crowd-funding projects on my blog, but this time I'm going to make an exception. Because of a few things. For one, Covet Garden has been giving us "FREE" online magazines for quite sometime now, two - it's Canadian content (so important to support) and three, after watching their video on indiegogo, I find them all so endearing! I just want to sit down and have a coffee with all three of them and talk about decor now. I mean really (maybe that should be one of the perks if you donate). Needless to say, I think we most definitely need to support this and what will I'm sure be a beautiful publication if it goes through. Click here for more info!

1 The One Where Ava Gets to Go Too

I love dreams, especially meaningful ones, and this is that kind of dream.  All of you know Andrea of Hula Seventy (my blog friend since like forever, past contributor, amazing photographer, wordsmith, colour capturer, dancer, and most of all amazing mother); well she has been asked to speak at a Ted Youth conference in Paris this summer, and her daughter Ava (budding photographer - see photo's above) is going also!  To help fund her part of the trip, Ava is selling some of her own photo's for a limited time in Andrea's etsy shop.  Not only do I love this dream, I LOVE Ava's photo's! She's most definitely picked up on her Mom's photo-taking-magic genes!  So what do you say? Let's help Ava go to Paris with her mom to, as Andrea puts it,  "to connect with kids from a different part of the world, to explore what it means to see the world differently. and then, paris. to experience paris, one of the greatest cities in the world."  Click HERE to purchase one of her photographs, or here for more info.

1 Mini DIY Round-Up | Party Style

1.  Sugar Cookie Ice Cream Cones | Damask Love
2.  DIY Confetti Backdrop | Confetti Sunshine
3.  Gilded Ice Cream Cones | Confetti Pop
4.  Clever Sprinkle Cake Decorating | Little Life of Mine

0 NSS Instagram-Style

Thank goodness for social media to fill the gap when you can't be there in person.  As much as I would love to be able to attend this event, this year's National Stationery Show was the perfect venue for a little show-viewing instagram-style! And I've gathered a few of my favorites for a little post here today! Above Carrie at Anemone Press shows off her colourful set of greeting cards (love)!

Sideshow Press's booth looked super cute with it's camp theme!

Gwendolyn of Dear Hancock had an amazing hand painted desk at their booth to compliment their adorable illustrated selection of cards.

Beautiful pieces from The Social Type.

Lovely new paper from The Great Lakes

Pretty cards and calendars from Moglea

Adorable calendars from Night Owl Paper Goods

Yellow Owl Workshop had a pretty painterly booth

New cards from the talented Printerette

New notebooks from Blackbird Letterpress

Floral patterns with gold foil from Sycamore Street Press

Banquet's beautiful walls

1canoe2's oversized wall calendar

Pretty wrapping papers from Belle and Union Co.

2 With Little One | New Leah Giberson Work (Sneak Peek)

Boston artist, Leah Giberson has a new collection of paintings in the works for an upcoming show opening his July at Nahcotta in Portsmouth, NH. I asked for a sneak peek:

“With Little One”
12” x 16”
Acrylic over photographic pigment print on panel

I will post more about the show closer to the dates. In the meantime, enjoy her facebook page for pieces as they are added. Her work is always a fave (and so summery)!