Cottage chic?

I just took a neat quiz on Sproost, a furniture and interior design website (originally found on the blog mirrormirror).  You go through pics of rooms with some specific styles of interior decorating and state whether you like it or not, or hate it, etc…

Apparently I’m 37% Cottage Chic, 37% Vintage Modern (picture below, from Sproost’s site), and 26% Modern Elegance.

…maybe in twenty years.  I need money to express myself in these “designer” styles.    But I can dream, can’t I?  Or maybe just fake it.  Oh Ikea, how I love you.

Buttons, buttons, buttons galore!

I forget how much I love great button designs!!!

The buttons above are from Yaelfran and available online for purchase through Etsy.

Function Magazine just had a bake sale at the Image Arts building at Ryerson University and also sold some buttons.  I bought one that I thought was particularly pretty (to the left).

I’ve managed to lose about half of these buttons, but anyone who checked out the AGO’s Andy Warhol exhibit probably remembers the free button swag, with about 5 (?) buttons that, together, spelled out his name.  Here is my last remaining button (to the right.)

And finally, who can forget spacing’s buttons!!!  They have a button for each subway stop.  I currently own Dundas and Union buttons, as those are my two main stations I use.

If you didn’t get enough button action, check out Smashing Magazine’s article, “Handcraft Strikes Back: Buttons, Badges, Pins, and Clips“.

Very cool!  I love the muted colours.  Dull (the colours), but it reminds me of the 80’s somehow.

“Curious” From Yaelfran

Monster!

Came across this awesome drawing on “Bump in the Night”’s blog “Misadventures and Mishaps“.  Just awesome.  And there are more posted on the blog!  I love her use of colour, and the sense that the construction of the piece doesn’t look complex but jumps out at you in its brief black pen (?) strokes and bold use of colouring markers.

Consumer Cravings

Just this past year I discovered my love for paper. By paper, I mean paper designs and designs made with paper, or even just designs on paper….uh, yeah!

I stumbled across this blog a few months ago and love the paper ideas they post.  It gives me so much inspiration, but alas my low funds stop me from purchasing any of the products.  Which is probably a good thing.

I’ve discovered many awesome design blogs of late and, as incredible as they are and the products they feature, I realize that I can’t get carried away with the urge to buy buy buy consume consume consume, which inevitably happens.

This intense urge to buy was deemed by my professor in the “A History of Material Cultures” course I took undergrad as a lust for a product or consumer item.  He challenged us to put off buying any product that incites this lust at first glance for about two weeks time and then see if we’re still infatuated or not.  He said most often than not after two weeks we’d probably either forget about the object or be far less enthusiastic about buying it.

I always like keeping this in mind when I have that incredible impulse to buy…and it actually helps….in some cases.  Why does the world have to have so many awesome products in it?!?!

The pic below is of The Paper Apartment’s note collection, as posted on Paper Crave’s blog.

Twitterin’ Kat

I’m trying to get back into the Twitter thing.  It’s amazing how many people are joining in now.  It was such a new thing to me back in July, and I kind of left it alone after awhile.  However, it seems much more fun now, and despite that some of their links still lead to dead ends, the cute dead end page images make up for that.

Follow me on Twitter, if you so dare!!!

I’ve got hurt feelings…

Nothing much to post about, but I haven’t posted in awhile so I figured it was time to post something.

I am crazily excited for the Flight of the Conchords’ show in Toronto this coming April!  Interestingly, I tried to get tickets for my sister and her friends after the presale (I got mine during the presale…lucky!) and they were sold out…but tickets were available on Ticketmaster’s “TicketsNow” site.  To me this site is just, as others have deemed it, legal scalping.  My tickets were $49.50 a piece…why are the same tickets more than double the face value?

TicketsNow’s answer is that once a ticket goes onsale and is being resold, its market value increases.  Okay, I get that…but come on!  What’s the point on selling them at the face value price at all when people will just buy them all up and sell them on the sister site to make themselves and Ticketmaster a nice profit?

I say boo.  To cheer myself up, I’ve become infatuated with Flight of the Conchord’s “Hurt Feelings”.