artist: jacob hashimoto

Jacob Hashimoto is another artist whose work I am in love.  Born in Colorado, Jacob works with paper to create the most magnificent wall hangings and sculptures. The detail and texture in his work is impressive and is what draws me to his pieces.  For a list of his exhibitions, please click here.

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hand drawn invites

I was speaking to a friend tonight who is getting married this year, and she was telling me about her invitation selection process.  In passing she mentioned that she was wondering whether an all text invite is okay for a wedding.  If you have seen any of my previous posts on wedding invites, you’ll know my answer to that question is YES! YES! YES!  There is no need to go the traditional route of calligraphy on a cream background. 

Thank goodness for all the wonderfully talented and creative graphic designers out there who have pushed the boundaries of stationery to include colourful, contemporary, and sometimes minimalist designs.  I say anything goes as long as it reflects the couple.  In the spirit of my conversation tonight, I dedicate this post to you my friend. 

I love these invites from NY based, Erin Jang.  They were designed to be part of Bella Figura’s 2011 collection.

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via the indigo bunting

via the indigo bunting

BHLDN

BHLDN is here.  By here, I mean today.  Valentine’s Day.  Today marks the official launch of the newest addition to the Anthropologie, Urban Outfitters family.  BHLDN is Anthropologie’s answer to bridalwear in “heirloom quality” bridal gowns and “mix and match frocks” for bridesmaids.

I will start by saying that to my Canadian girls who are wonderstruck by this new brand and dying with anticipation to know whether BHLDN will ship to Canada, the answer is: yes BHLDN does ship to Canada.

The gowns and designs are just stunning and in addition to wedding gowns, BHLDN offers lingerie, jewellery, shoes, accessories, amazingly fashionable bridesmaid dresses with the lookbook quality and art direction that you come to expect from Anthropologie. What’s even better about the brand is that dresses are available for overnight delivery as no one should have to wait months for a dress and with each order comes a free return shipping label. So that means you can order as many dresses as you want, try them all on and return them risk free.  But that’s not all.  As of May, BHLDN will offer decorations, tableware and favours and come fall, it will introduce separates. This is going to be huge guys, it’s going to be huge.  Feast your eyes on a couple of my favourite designs but the true beauty is showcased on the site itself.   More brand details including launch details can be found here.

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artist: oli goldsimth

I find I am getting to the stage in my life where I am starting to pay more attention to art.  As kids, art appreciation is something part of growing up either via arts & crafts lessons, school trips to the art gallery or art history classes in school.  During university art appreciation, for me, when dormant.  I was no longer drawing and painting, I could count on one hand how many times I set foot in an art gallery and the last class I formally took on about art in school was my third year aesthetics class for my philosophy major.

Now that I own four walls and a roof, my interest in art has been rekindled and I make more of an effort when out and about in Toronto or traveling abroad to visit galleries and shops with art.  I scribble down names of artists so I can research and blog about their work and have started to build my repertoire of what I would like to fill my walls with when I have the budget.  One of my new favourite artists is Toronto based Oli Goldsmith.  His art is chaotic, bust, colourful, graphic, involves the repetition of patterns and is sometimes referred to the genre of pop-surrealism.  I saw his work in a great furniture store, Michael Thomas, in Port Hope.  If you would like to read more about the artist, I found two good bios here and here.

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via flickr

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via flickr

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sushi cookies

Look at these sushi cookies from Hello Naomi in Newcastle, Australia!

So cute.

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