some inspiring artwork and guest post from abbey hendrickson of Aesthetic Outburst. Hello! It’s Abbey of Aesthetic Outburst here. Like our dear Victoria, I am totally addicted to flickr and often find artists and artwork that I fall madly in love with. One of my favorite artists that I found via flickr is Christine Buckton Tillman. Christine is incredibly talented... 
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this lovely guest post is brought to you by heather moore of skinny laminx. [ book of spoons ] Not long after I’d started blogging, my husband was given Jasper Morrison’s Book of Spoons, which had me digging out all our spoons to photograph them. [ Skinny laMinx ] This seemed to start lots of other people off on the same craze, and soon there were spoons pics... 
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this week [talking pictures] come from tif fussell, aka dottie angel, who i’m pretty convinced we all love and admire! i could look at tif’s flickr photostream for hours, and i check her blog, dottie angel out daily. you should, too — it’s beautiful and inspiring! you can also find her lovely handcrafted and vintage treasures in her etsy shop. here’s... 
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[ emma bradshaw ] since i’m off on holiday this week (stay tuned for some great guest bloggers!), i thought i’d take you all along, in the form of some summery inspiration via the sfgirlbybay flickr pool. even if you can’t get away, some great staycation ideas abound. [ reflect / refract ] find wonder in life’s simple pleasures. visit the farmer’s... 
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i know it’s not really a ‘color’ so to speak, but i wanted to see what my keep calm & carry on posters might look like in a nice chalkboard black. it’s not really ‘chalky’, but a nice rich, solid jet black, but the white type on black reminds me of a beautiful chalkboard. it’s turned out to be one of my favorites. if you like it... 
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