iPad Apple’s Pockets — But For a Good Reason
Yes, I know the trend-setting ship has sailed on this topic — and been back to port and out to sea again a couple of times. I’m impulsive by nature (thanks Mom) and susceptible to tech trends (thanks Dad), but it wasn’t just the price tag that prevented me from...
The Neopagan Wheel of the Year
(or, Why we need Fewer Holidays and More Festivals) I’m sick of holidays. Now, I’m not sick of days where I don’t have to get up and go to work and I can just wear stretchy pants all day and eat crackers out of a box while watching the Animal Planet YouTube channel...
Manage Your Wardrobe with Paper Dolls
Illustration & craft: custom paper dolls & wardrobe
Five Iconic Notebooks in Film
I am a highly non-linear notebook user. I usually have several on the go at once, for different purposes. I write on scraps and sticky notes much more often than is good for me. And I have a terrible habit of folding a letter-size sheet in half, writing on one side...
Postage Stamps are Endlessly Fascinating
(Things I learned from hoarding foreign stationery: Part II) Okay, so I didn't actually learn this from hoarding foreign stationery. I've been a philatelist since childhood, when I inherited my uncle's stamp collection and spent a memorable Christmas holiday sorting,...
The Dryad Tiara and a Cryptozoological Wedding
Long before I set about the daunting task of getting married last year, I noticed that the blogosphere was crammed to its virtual seams with twee little blogs about dainty arty hipster themed weddings. Bicycle weddings! Vintage barn weddings! Cupcake and record player...
Interfaces in Sci-Fi Films: a study in user experience
When we talk about style in film, it's not just wardrobe and set. An important part of production, especially in sci-fi films, is interface design. For the technologically impaired, an interface is what allows a user to interact with a system or a machine — your...
We Are All Obsessed With Design (weekend-rant-o-rama)
It’s occurred to me lately, as I walk downtown or through campus, as I surf around the world through my internet goggles, how very few of us are still watching where our own feet fall. No longer do we live within our four walls, living a life confined to our own...
The Grown-Up Kitchen
I spend a lot of time in my kitchen. The kitchen table is my official workspace. I have a tiny desk in an "office nook" in the living room, but it's above a heat vent so it's officially covered in sleeping cat 90% of the time. I'm a notoriously messy worker so my...
Things I learned about design from hoarding foreign stationery (Part I)
I love to collect paper, envelopes and stamps from other countries. This post is the first in the series in which I'll discuss everything from paper size and weight, to the appeal of layered media, to the pictures inside airmail envelopes. 1. Almost every other paper...