Fancy Magazines

Recently, I've been noticing how many fancy magazines I'm seeing, named a singular word.

A few years ago, I fell in love with Lemon magazine (1) created by Kevin Grady and Colin Metcalf who in addition to Lemon, have illustrious advertising + design careers. After reading a new issue of Lemon, I would cry myself to sleep every night hoping for more, but they would eventually stop and my fancy magazine lust would waver. 

In the last couple months, I've noticed some interesting magazines that seem to follow in Lemon's footsteps. Bullett (2), like Lemon, has themed volumes and I recently read their sin article and it was quite lovely.

I found Wilder (3) today, which is a mag for people enthralled by the natural world. Where do I sign up? I hope it's as good as they set it up to be.

Gather (4) seems like a bit of a knockoff of Kinfolk (5) at least in design sensibilities. Gather takes a more cookbook approach and Kinfolk is all about the gathering. Kinfolk reminds me of how wonderful my world would look if I had a photographer following me at all times taking monotone vintage shots of life. Oh yeah, and in the shots I'm totally cool and photogenic, which if you've ever seen a picture of me you'll know I look like a the real life version of Beaker, the Muppet.

Gardening Adventure

And really when I say gardening adventure, I really mean gardening on my back porch and my houseplants. I'll take what I can get when it comes to gardening space in SF, and since there is a 10 year wait list for the community garden in my neighborhood, my back porch is pure gold. Here's a little board of my dream supplies for this garden adventure. Naturally, since much of the actual gardening is inside my house I can totally rock those green heels.

1. a $490 pocket knife necklace is essential for gardening
2. from the home depot collection
3. amy merrick just a gem of the world
4. camera strap so you can garden and snap, garden and snap
5. wonderful
6. fancy gardening shoes
7. pruning saw
8. you never know when you'll need a survival guide
9. pruners

Beauty is Embarrassing

Wayne White's work is pretty stellar and now there is a documentary about him. I can't wait to see it. Too bad none of the screenings so far are in SF.


I love love love his word paintings. It's amazing how funny they are but how seriously the words are painted on there.

Patterntown, USA

I found a lovely selection of wrapping paper on love mae. Print on print!

1. confetti + charcoal stripes 
2. flower garden + dream weaver
3. charcoal stripes + polka
4. red roses  + polka
5. Pocahontas + confetti
6. polka + tiny flowers
7. flower garden + polka
8. charcoal stripes + red roses
9. dream weaver  + pocohontas

Stitched Landscape 02

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Stitched Landscape 01

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Fern Friends

Ferns are little bitches. They need lots of attention and don't recover easily if you forget about them for too long, but they are my favorite. Maiden hair ferns (which just narrows it down to about 200 subspecies) are at the top of my favorites list, and I always need a few if not a thousand in my home at all times. I have killed a few in the past by abandoning them for a day too long without water, but it's bound to happen with these temperamental beasts. But it's always worth it to play their needy games because no matter where you are ferns can make you feel like you are in a magical forest among the gnomes and elves.

1. rabbit foot fern ball
2. fern in the clouds
3. fern ball
4. northern ferns
5. cut ferns
6. ferns mingling with other folks
7. fern drawerings
8. west elm loves little ferns too
9. an instagram shot of one of my Boston ferns
10. a fern representation on my webby