French Friday: From Flickr

The above images found on Sugar Monster’s Flickr stream

Wordshop Wednesday: Poketo!

If you haven’t already scoped out the wonderland that is Poketo, you should make a beeline to their website immediately. Immediately, that is, after feasting your eyes upon the following diversely brilliant items offered in their online shop:

Custom diary:

Wallet:

Animal journals:

Hippie pens:

T-shirts:

You can also follow Poketo on Twitter HERE.

It’s Customer Appreciation Week over at Found Paper Co.!!!

In celebration of Found Paper Co.’s 100th sale, they’re offering daily giveaways and a one-of-a-kind special gift with every purchase of $10 or more!

Check it out:

I’ve been wanting one of their mixed paper journals for freakin’ EVER now, so I’m very excited to finally go forth and conquer… and nab a free gift while I’m at it:

Check out more items in the Found Paper Co. Etsy shop HERE.

Oh, and the gift with purchase contains 15 vintage papers and looks a little something like this:

For more info on the week-long celebration, check out the Found Paper Co. blog HERE.

French Friday: Vintage Postage Stamps

I recently came across the Flickr stream of Dr. PhotoMoto, which produced a sort of Pavlovian response. His sets include breathtakingly detailed shots of insects, butterflies, birds, and… vintage international postage stamps. Yeah, I know it seems like a jump, but somehow it all organically evolves into one big photographic pile of awesomeness.

Below I’ve included some of my favorite stamps from France and her territories. But please Please PLEASE visit his stamp collection to see all of the beautiful specimens.

Throwback Thursday: The Fisher Price School Desk

I’m thinking of making this a new weekly feature, but… not sure if I’m totally sold on it yet. I already have Wordshop Wednesday and French Friday. Maybe my Thursdays need to feel more liberated and not so pigeonholed? Then again, I love vintage and retro-y stuff anyway, so I kind of doubt “throwback” material would feel very restricting or hard to come by.

Well, we’ll see how it goes.

But, for today, I feel absolutely compelled to post the following images, which I came across last night thanks to Uppercase Gallery‘s ridiculously awesome Flickr stream. I’ve become a bit of a Flickrholic lately, so be careful: it could happen to you. In any case, when I saw these images of the Fisher Price School Desk, I instantaneously screamed and clapped my hands with major elation. And then a bajillion happy memories (both visual and tactile) began inundating me.

It was awesome.

So, without further ado, I give you: The Fisher Price School Desk:

Wordshop Wednesday: Ajalon Printing & Design

Summer is wedding season, and I have a lot of soon-to-be bride friends (and crappy dress purchases) to prove it. So I thought it appropriate to feature a wedding invitation design company for today’s installment of Wordshop Wednesday.

For any of you in the invitation-planning stage of your wedding, I strongly encourage you to check out the Sonoma County-based Ajalon Printing & Design and their amazingly intricate and beautiful letterpress designs, some of which I’ve listed below. Make sure you have a towel handy, though, because you’ll definitely start to drool.

Oh, and get this: they have a massive Letterpress Invitation Special going on, which they’ve graciously extended until July 31st. Check it out:

Order (or simply place your deposit) by July 31, 2009 and receive 100 letterpress wedding invitations with blank envelopes and 100 enclosure cards for only $398!

And there are more than 25 brilliant designs to choose from! For more information on available designs, fonts, and enclosures, click HERE.

With the exception of the last two images below, all others represent one of the designs offered in the special mentioned above, which you can see more of HERE. You pretty much can’t go wrong.

Enjoy!!!

To visit Ajalon’s blog, which offers frequent wedding planning tips and unique ideas, click HERE.Happy nuptials!

Books. They’re like crack. This is my (partial) fix for today.

Thanks to design*sponge for clueing me into The Sugar Monster’s Flickr page, I just spent the better part of my morning obsessing over her “ffffound favorites” photostream. Those photos containing books, in particular.

In case you need a fix, here you go:

STAT!

Waiting in line at the Staten Island ferry terminal on July Fourth.