Blinks

Quick links to blog posts...

Helena Schepens as seen on Sia Graphica

These fruit holders make me want to design a kitchen simply worthy of having them in it.

Municipal Library in Nembro, Italy found on 2Modern
Very beautiful wall. Plays with the light...

Happy Dish Rack found on happy mundane

Seems like it would cause a little smile during a mundane house chore :)

Rotten Neighbors found on Apartment Therapy: LA

This mash-up allows you to post messages about where bad neighbors live...so others know before they move...brilliant.

Summer Obscure Observation

I've decided that obscure observations are simply those moments that make me pause, smile, view the world in freeze-frame photographs. The simple side-effect of this is that I take a moment to enjoy the little things.

An image from summer...



Where there's outdoor showers, there is a relaxing vacation...

Jen Stark

Another artist that caught my eye. I love when people take simple materials and interact with them in a way that makes us rethink the beauty that they hold. When I think of construction paper I think of that organic, pulpy, papery feeling you used to experience as a kid when cutting and folding and drawing on it with big magic markers that were running out of ink...

Jen Stark gives this seemingly clumsy medium something to be proud of. She gives it structure. I love how simply and complex these works are.

Discovered on Homestead

A post that matches the title of this blog...

I would like to share my first obscure observation. I was walking to work one morning and passed a slew of rubber bands thrown across the sidewalk. I walked passed and smiled to myself. So I went back to snap a picture with my phone.

My Mom Got Blogged...

I have been meaning to post many things over the last couple weeks but I had to add a quick post and link to the blog of one of our family friends, Shel Israel, who blogged about my Mom's self published children's book, Here You Are. On 9/11 he added some kind words about why this book is so appealing and wonderful across all age groups. I am a bit biased of course, but the book's message is so clear and simple that it becomes universal.

Aside from the book being one of those great children's books you can buy for adults, we have also made sure to do some inhouse testing on the younger market, my little brother. So we have positive affirmation for the 5 year old, 6, 7, and 8 year old crowd. There was a slight dip in the 7 year old stage if I remember correctly...but a sure recovery 6 months later.



If you are looking to order, make sure you go to this link instead of the one on her blog...the other link seems to be broken at the moment. As Shel put it in his post "Yes, I want you to buy her book. Buy one for each of the kids in your life, I don't care what age they are. The book will work. Buy an extra for yourself as well. I'll stake whatever reputation chits I have with you that you will not regret your decision."

Well put Shel :)