A Childhood Classic Revisited

Some people take coffee breaks, I take craft breaks. In honor of the cold weather we've been having here in DC, I present to you a (mostly clean) paper towel (from the office kitchen) turned snowflake. What can I say, I enjoy using scissors as stress relief.


As you may be able to tell, it's been strategically posed on my office chair, and photographed with the not super high resolution camera on my phone. As for the original, it is now hanging in my office window.

Designing Fun With Polyvore

"What is Polyvore?" you ask.  Only the best time suck for the wanna be artist, designer, or procrastinator ever.  To quote from the website, " Polyvore lets you mix and match images from anywhere on the web, to create outfits, interior designs, or any kind of collage."

In other words, you can literally spend hours searching not only the Polyvore site, but the ENTIRE world wide web for  components for practically any kind of picture you'd like to make.  Below, you'll see my first attempt.

One warning, (besides the obvious that you shouldn't start this if you have an addictive personality and somewhere to be in the next hour):  Polyvore still has a ways to go in developing the tool to make it its best (it's only been around since sometime last fall).  Cropping and rotating images are limited/non-existent, and it's a huge hassle to deal with changing things from foreground to background images.


Still, it's far too fun not to check out!  There's also a Polyvore Facebook group, for those so inclined.

Just for Fun

I came across this awesome website due to my obsession with Jessica Jones' blog, How About Orange. She blogged this back in February, but I just read through a whole bunch of her old posts. I'm jumping on the bandwagon!

You should definitely head over to the Bureau of Communication where you can send out (free!) a range of fill-in-the-blank email messages, such as the Declaration of Romantic Intent (above), Airing of Grievance, and Unsolicited Feedback.