Little Pink Houses is a collaboration between two very talented San Francisco artists and friends, Mati McDonough and Lisa Congdon. They conceived of the show by discovering their mutual love for John Cougar Mellencamp’s famous melody. Little Pink Houses is an homage to many of the pair’s mutual loves, including the color pink and all things of the forest. The... 
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Big news! The summer issue of Uppercase magazine is due out July 2nd – woohoo! 100 pages of glorious print on paper, and all perfect-bound and just waiting to get your hands all over it. It will be mailed out in early July, so it’s time or order, or subscribe now. I am extra excited to receive my copy, because I was invited to write an article and shoot photographs... 
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I know it may seem like a Curiosity Shoppe love-fest this week (and hey, what’s even a bit wrong with that?), but I couldn’t help but share this cute glimpse from 7×7 of Lauren Smith and Derek Fagerstrom’s adorable Mission District apartment. For more details pop over here to 7×7′s online design magazine. Tweet#call_to_action h4{padding:0px... 
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my favorite diy duo, lauren & derek of the curiosity shoppe, have done it again over on design*sponge. if you haven’t checked it out before, lauren & derek post amazing diy ideas on design*sponge every wednesday, and this week i was so jazzed to see this beautiful camera strap cover made from a fabric scrap! i am making this pronto-like, and i was thinking it... 
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Last week, I announced that Chronicle Books had generously offered two lucky sfgirlbybay readers a chance to win one of two copies of Wallpaper Projects – a new DIY book from craft experts Derek Fagerstrom and Lauren Smith of The Curiosity Shoppe. Over a hundred of you wrote in with some fantastic ideas and two of you were selected! Our first winner is Vera Devera with... 
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