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Vintage-look labels and stickers from Cavallini & Co.
Cavallini & Co. makes these woderful little tins filled with stickers and labels made from their extensive archive of ephemera. They're a great addition to jazzing up personal correspondence, scrapbooking or collages. Eventually I'll get around to using them to embellish my travel journal entry on our trip to Paris.
Hilarious retro book titles
I admittedly have a fascination with most things considered retro. The ideal timeframe stretches from the 1920's till the mid-60's. A lover of the 70's I am not. I still have nightmares about the hideous tri-tone shag carpet in our family room which is precisely why this book caught my attention: Interior Desecrations, Hideous Homes from the Horrible 70's.
The other title is The Gallery of Regrettable Food which takes a look at some of the more, um, creative recipes from days gone by. Chapters entitled "Glop in a Pot!" and "Horrors from the Briny Deep" are simply too intriguing to ignore.
Both books are by James Lileks and if you want more of him, head over to his website where you'll find a comprehensive gathering of his creative endeavours.
Change of Address Cards
Our change of address postcards finally came. I'm happy with the way the design turned out. If you'd like to get your own they're posted in my zazzle shop. Anyone else out there like vintage graphics?
Lucite Love — artist Cec LePage
Remember the plain, clear lucite of the 70's and 80's? Well this is nothing like that. Colorful, bold, fun and eye-catching describes the products created from lucite by artist and designer Cec LePage. She operates out of New York and no two pieces are precisely alike. Each is handcrafted and signed by the artist.
Half Price Today Only & Free Shipping 11-16-2010
If you've been wanting to do custom greeting cards for the holidays—now's your chance. Zazzle is offering 50% off all greeting cards, invitations, flat cards and photo cards today only (November 16, 2010)—plus FREE shipping. There are thousands of styles to choose from and you can create your own design if you don't find an existing design you like. The above two-sided card is my design for our holiday cards. So handy to have a pre-printed signature if your penmanship isn't the best in world which mine isn't.
To get the discount enter ZAZZLECARD50 during the checkout process.
Shameless self promotion
I'm finally getting around to some Holiday designing and I wanted to share this cocktail party invitation I just finished. I'm really smitten lately with the retro color juxtaposition of red and robin's egg blue. All the text is completely customizable so it could be used for something other than "holiday." It's two-sided, so head over to my zazzle shop if you'd like to see the back.