Nursery Prints.

Even before I was pregnant, I designed the baby's nursery in my head and even started shopping. The only problem though, is that without meaning to I came up with a pretty girly looking room. So now it's time to incorporate more boyishness in my plan, and my first step is to find some cute prints. I was originally going to use all the prints I have in my bedroom already, but trust me they are way too girly for a little boy room- I'm not sure how Jordan puts up with them! Here are a few I have found on etsy:














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I've also decided on a new color scheme, which includes a gray crib and yellow changing table.

More Face Love.

Remember when I told you about my new favorite friend, Face, and her amazing artwork. I bought one of her shirts and I am absolutely in love with it. Face explained the owl creature in an email:

It's from the Ricky Gervais podcast. He's been doing this for ages; it highlights the truly bizarre outlook and sayings of his friend Karl Pilkington. Karl essentially thinks like a kindergartener. One podcast, they were having a discussion about how to make the best animal -best at surviving and being awesome and stuff. You know like, head of a lion, arms of a gorilla, tail of a giant scorpion or something. But Karl thought the best animal would have an armadillo body (for protection), slug juice instead of feet (“it's mainly meant to be on walls”), an owl head (to make it look nice to humans so they won't harm it), and peacock feathers (to deter predators).

Pretty hilarious, huh?






P.S. Go check out Face's blog. She just got it up and running again, and it's pretty darn awesome. I especially love her tshirt leeching tutorial. Who wants to try this with me?

Speaking Of Artists.

I'm not sure if I've shared any of my brother's artwork here before. I'm also not sure if I mentioned the part about being from a family full of talented artists, and me being the only one without any real artistic talent. Yeah, it's depressing. My sister is an amazing designer, my dad is an architect and can paint/draw the most beautiful images (I will share someday), and my brother draws the most intricate and interesting designs/pictures you've ever seen. I also have an uncle that makes sculptures and dolls, two other uncles that are photographers, and an aunt that used to make gorgeous silver jewelry. Annoying, huh?

Here are a few of my brother's latest pieces. He sent these to me yesterday because I'm in the middle of making his business cards (they were his birthday present last year and I've been slacking just a bit). You can see more of his artwork on his Yessy site.

Face Time.

Thanks to my Shonna, I met my new hero/favoritepersonever the other day. Katie Face is an amazingly talented artist and is probably the most hilarious (and sweet) person I've ever met (I figured this out after the first email I received from her, which left my with tears in my eyes from laughing so hard). What's even more exciting is that Face is going to start blogging again, and I can't wait until she gets her site up and running because I'm sure you will love her as much as I do. But in the meantime you can check out her online store here.

Here are a few of my favorite "Face" pieces:







Here is the shirt I bought, which I will explain later:



And she might kill me for posting these, but isn't she beautiful: