Happy Friday!

Here's A Field Guide to Typestaches to celebrate the weekend! You know how I love typography. (Scroll below for a funny story about that.) I think my favorite is Mr. Wide Latin in the upper right corner. I can picture him with large, aviator sunglasses and a plaid shirt.

Buy an 18x24 poster here. I'm trying to persuade Tyler into letting me have one. (As a birthday present, perhaps?) We wanted a mustache mirror from Skymall a while back, and never ended up getting one. Glad we waited because this is even better!

My little semi-relevant story: You know how I hate comic sans? Jack has outgrown his 6-9 month jammies and I had to find him last-minute 12-month jammies. So I picked up a pair while I was at Walmart that wasn't too terrible (meaning it had no licensed characters on it), and when I opened them up, the pants looked like this:

It was my worst nightmare! Tyler just laughed and laughed. Needless to say, they're being returned. (I promise I'm not a snob - I'll just be the first to admit I'm persnickety about that typeface and where it is allowed to appear.)

Map of the World

I've decided I'd like to (tastefully) decorate Jack's room with maps. You know, to be all educational n'stuff.

While searching Etsy, I stumbled across this map and fell in love!! Does anyone else adore this as much as I do?!

Buy it here. For a steal at just $30, friends. I might just get one and save it?? (And Mom - wouldn't this be neat in your loft?)

Travel Posters

[I made my younger sister a set of greeting cards and this was on the front of them. Doesn't it just make you smile?]

A few weeks ago I had an idea. A "brilliant beyond brilliant" idea. Ever since the tragic death of our over-sized wall clock several months ago, I haven't bothered to really decorate the wall behind our couch. The one piece of art that was there wasn't even centered. Embarrassing, right? 

Then one night while I was trying to fall asleep the words "vintage travel posters" popped into my mind. Bingo! The next day I started working on them.

The process was fairly quick, but not painless. My original idea was to download and print real vintage travel posters and hang them on our wall. This was proving difficult because all of the designs I liked and that fit together weren't large enough images to print out.  And it's definitely not in our budget to buy five (or even one) $20 posters. So we scratched that idea. Tyler then suggested, "why don't you just make your own?" Riiiiight. Why hadn't I thought of that in the first place?

We decided I would make travel posters of places we have either been together or have visited separately. While looking online for inspiration I came across the beautiful NYC poster below. I loved it so much that I simply tweaked it here and there and called it good. I also found the San Francisco and Hawaii ones, and tweaked them a little bit too. I can't call those my own, but they certainly were the perfect inspiration pieces. The style is absolutely perfect for what I want our family room to be. Using the NYC, San Francisco, and Hawaii posters as inspiration, I made the London and the Paris posters from scratch.

I'm really happy with how they turned out. Tyler even let me buy some frames for them to go in. I'm digging all the bright colors - I get so happy every time I see them!

And p.s. here is another sneak peek at my hair:

[and baby jack:]

Awww.

Isn't this print the sweetest thing? I kind of really want one. It'd look fantastic framed really huge above our couch.

Loveseats

While browsing Amazon's homepage, I spotted this loveseat. Lovely, no? And who knew you could buy a couch on Amazon?!

And while I'm on the subject, I have been thinking of making new pillows to add to our couch. I want to introduce more colors into this front room besides lime green. Does anyone love this pillow as much as I do? I bet I could find a knockoff version cheaper at TJ Maxx. ;)

Nightlight

I've really been wanting a nightlight in our hallway so I can make it safely to the baby's room in the middle of the night. 

(I know that sounds absolutely ridiculous, but it's really dark in the hallway and I mentally don't wake up very fast. And embarrassingly enough, I'm still a teensy bit afraid of the dark. Don't judge me.) 

The only problem is that we don't have ANY source of plug in the hallway. We might have to thread and extension cord from our bedroom and put a low-light lamp there or something. 

But if I did have a plug in the hallway, I'd buy one of these. It'd be perfect and would work anywhere in our home because the decor could change so easily!

Magazine Redesign

I need help. A or B?

Here's option A:

And here's B:

Suggestions?

(and for those of you who can't tell the difference between the two, sad! it's the headline.)

San Diego, here we come!

TYLER GOT AN INTERNSHIP!

It is with Service Now in San Diego, California. We're really excited for the warm weather (as I write this, the snow is falling hard outside and accumulating on the ground again. Yuck.)

We'll be living with Mom and Dad (which we are also excited for!) in Oceanside. Tyler is also excited to eat my dad's barbeque all summer. :) I'm excited for the beach again and the humidity from the ocean. It sure gets dry out here.

Anyway, congratulations Tyler! I'm really proud of you. :)

Oh how I wish...

{Remember last year while camping at Carlsbad State Beach when the squirrel got stuck in Dad's BBQ grease catcher? I think someone in our family has a video of it; I'd like to track it down!}

Oh how I wish...that I wasn't still sick. I really don't know what keeps hitting me, but ever since Saturday night I haven't slept well and my stomach has hurt again. Luckily, Tyler coaxed me into taking some Pepto Bismol last night after dinner, and needless to say I was feeling much better. Thank goodness for modern medicine. {I actually liked the first spoonful so much that I asked for a second, which I almost spit out it was so bad. Don't be fooled by its relatively cool bubblegum flavor; the second wind doesn't taste a thing like bubblegum.}


Something I found today on decor8blog.com, originally from http://simonehowell.blogspot.com/. Check out this lovely bench cover:



Isn't it gorgeous? She really does have an eye for color and mixing patterns. I'd LOVE to have an arrangement of bright, festive colors in our home, but I'm terrified it will look more like a circus than anything coherent.