French Friday: la Saint-Valentin!

La Saint-Valentin chez Etsy!

Michelle Brusegaard:

La Petite ChouChou:

Sewing Geek:

Delphine Studio:

 
Armato Design & Press:

Duct Tape & Denim:

Kamay:

CC Star:

Venus in Bloom:

Wordshop Wednesday: Austin Press!

I was sifting through the brilliance that is Design*Sponge earlier today, when my jaw suddenly dropped open at the sight of Austin Press‘s elegant 19th-century inspired designs. Take a gander for yourself, and then please please visit Kimberly Austin’s beautifully organized site HERE.

 

(All images above either from Austin Press, Design*Sponge, or Nibs Blog)

Custom keyboards from Datamancer

I was introduced to the Scrabble keyboard (below) last week via CrapWeLike! (which is a hilarious, daily blog of sometimes brilliant, sometimes absurd/hilarious items), and I had to head directly to the source in search of more.

Behold… Datamancer’s custom keyboards:

Scrabble:

The Aviator:

The von Slatt Original (Das):

The Sojourner:

French Friday!

Our lovely, newly confirmed US president isn’t the only world leader faced with trials and tribulations…

On the 21st of January, former French president Jacques Chirac was bitten by his clinically depressed Maltese doggy, appropriately named… Sumo. I’ve found endless humor in the reporting of this incident via various media outlets. For example, the Daily Mail Online reports that Chirac was “hospitalized” after being “mauled” and “savaged by” Sumo, while a headline from the Agence France-Presse (AFP) declares: “Sumo the depressed lap dog bites Chirac.” Meanwhile, the blogosphere has reacted in a predictably sensational and humorous style, such as Scandalist, who announces: “Former French President Attacked By Prozac-Popping Poodle.” AWESOME. I mean, not awesome that the 76-year-old right-winger was chomped by his own traumatized doggy, but… awesome that journalists (and blogalists… I just made that up) are finding creative, alliterative inspiration (even though a spokesperson for Sumo Chirac has yet to confirm the brand or dosage of the medication). 

Who wants to bet that SC simply got angry at JC for falsely diagnosing him as a sufferer of doggy depression? and for taking him to a doggy whisperer who ended up putting him on sucky medication that probably gave him insomnia? SC’s just sticking up for himself. I don’t blame him.

In any case, here are some pictures of the former président and his tortured little Maltese (*cue Babs and “The Way We Were”):

Meanwhile, current French president Nicolas Sarkozy might be feeling a little left out (especially since he’s trailing Chirac in popularity polls, too). So, in case you want to “maul” Sarko to make him feel more included, here you go:

(Images above found HERE and HERE. *Note: Sarko attempted to ban the sale of the voodoo doll… but he lost.)

Wordshop Wednesday: Egg Press!

For a blog entitled Words & Eggs, I’m quite astonished that I haven’t yet featured Egg Press on the site. What the heck have I been doing with my time?! Well… better late than never, right? Right.

So, without further ado, allow me to introduce you to the intricate loveliness of… Egg Press!

2009 calendars (both letterpress and offset) now on sale:

Letterpress cards I can’t quite deal with (umm, in a good way):

Lovely little gift tags:

Please look at these doggy paper doll prints and try not to pass out:

They even have ridiculous, little baby onesies:

Egg Press also offers a ton of Valentine cards, but I refuse to display them to you right now. I figure I’ll do some sort of Valentine post later on, even though I generally find Valentine’s Day an annoying pseudo-holiday invented by the Whitman’s Sampler and FTD (among others). But feel free to head on over to Egg land and check out their V Day cards, because they’re pretty d@mn awesome (for a lame-o “holiday”).

Happy Inauguration Day, America…

Continuing the typewriter theme…

In addition to my typewriter infatuation of late, I have become enamored with typewriter-inspired jewelry. Particularly: typewriter key necklaces and bracelets that I’ve found all over Etsy. One love, Etsy. One love.

(Above: J. Stephens)

(Above: Gemma Beads)

(Above: Webby Sue)

(Above: QA Create)

Pillow talk

You know how, after an undisclosed amount of time, your pillows can kind of start NOT feeling comfortable anymore? Yeah. That’s what’s happening to the pillows gracing my couch, of which there are many. Somehow, NONE seem appropriately cozy. And I certainly can’t afford to buy any new ones (not now, anyway), so… I just thought I’d do a little painless, virtual “window” shopping… via Etsy, of course.

So, if you’d like to join me in my spree, here we go!

1. Vintage grain sack pillows from Leslie Jansen:

2. Monogrammed pillows from White Twig:

3. Because I have recently become a first-time aunt (to twins! a boy & a girl… I’m not at all proud… hee hee), I have become somewhat infatuated with really ridiculously adorable, handmade kiddie stuff. Like these pillows, by Li’l Dumplings:

4. OK… I can’t help it. I think it’s hilarious when bad words are displayed in pretty, elegant ways. Like when I calligraphy “B*te me” on cards. It makes me spectacularly happy. And so do these two-sided pillows by Sew Naughty:

5. OK, back to wholesome… courtesy of these lovely, primitively welcoming pillows by Peace By Piece Designs:

OK, I think that’s sufficient for now. 

Happy weekend!