Wordless Wednesday - How do you see this?

via Kyira Hauer

Easy Wall Artwork that will keep you going

Found this on Pinterest (via Abyleys Golden). This will look good in many homes and it is quite easy to do. Get some old scrapes of wood, use some old paint and get your favorite words on there. There's a great chance this will be a creation for my room.

Aside from that these words are lovely.

Drink umbrella lamp

This just calls out for relaxation and fun! A lamp made out of drink umbrella's is nothing short than brilliant. Love how the colors blend in with each other and the lamp stand.

Source: uncommongoods

Artist showcase: conilab

Coni Della Vedova contacted me to share her artwork with everyone through the "Have an inspiration?" link. She makes these artworks using handmade serigraphy. To me it looks like a lot of work, but they all look great!

The love what you do one is my favorite. It is what I chose to made my life motto.

 Do you like her work? They can be purchased in her Etsy shop named confab.

Hang in there

Just got this tweet from Ms_Positivity that I believe is worth sharing.

Ain't she super positive? Love her vibes! Hope you are hanging in there.

Octopus hands {video}

Seaweed from Tell No One on Vimeo.

Really like this video. I wished I had all those hands to get all that I need to do done.

Patterns and Patterns

Patterns are really cool! Lately I've been paying more close attention to patterns. The colorful kind are the ones that stand out to me the most. So here is a compilation of some patterns that I found and really liked. What type of patterns are you fond of?

Credit (from top left): Pattern and Co., Unknow (via Kaela Graham), Hope for the best, Inhale...Exhale

StumbleUpon Favorites

Have you been stumbling? Every now and then I take some time to really use StumbleUpon. With it I  find all these great amazing things and find  it difficult to share all of them sometimes. So here are the Top 5 favorites I found this week.

15 Amazing Chair Designs

page corner bookmarks

Most incredible loft space in SoMa

Top 10 Examples of brilliant shadow art

Book Of Art

If you've been stumbling, share what you've discovered and leave your username behind so we can connect there. 

It was a cactus bud

No, it was not an artichoke. Tracey G and Michelle had it right! Yesterday's Wordless Wednesday picture is of an cactus bud. This particular cactus called "Dama di anochi" (lady of the night) in Papiamentu, only opens its flowers during the night and it only does so about twice a year. Last night was the first night that one flower opened. Tonight all of the buds are supposed to open.

Here is a snapshot of what it looked like last night.

See the little bud on the lower right?

Wordless Wednesday - Do you know what this is?

The Best Camera Ever

Photo credit: Bea loves photography

Have you seen the pictures from my fun week? At the present moment I am still full of inspiration from all that I saw.  There is one thing that came to mind during that trip that I believe we can all learn from. After trying to capture every shot with my camera, I took a break and realized that I had a much more powerful camera than the one I was holding.....my eye.

Think about it for a minute, with the eye we can capture pictures in an instant without having to play around with shutter speed, aperture, or flash. Use of the eye is completely free and the images can never be destroyed.

Just like a photographer can photograph the most ugliest of things in an attractive way, we can also choose to see the ugliest situations in our lives with a different eye by creatively seeing the positive inside of it. Besides, make sure that you do not forget the beautiful moments your natural camera captures. Hang them all up in the gallery of your mind. This way you are always surrounded by beauty.

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Creative way to use plates

Here is a creative idea. Hanging plates on the wall (found via Remodelista). There are some other examples on how to do it right here.

I don't know about you, but I know that I have some spare plates that can go on the walls.

Pictures after a week of fun

As promised, here are some pictures taken during my time exploring Curacao.  You can find some more in the album "Curacao" on Flickr. It was an amazing week, but I did miss blogging.

The above picture is the most creative thing I saw this week, a pot made out of an ostrich egg shell.  

Relaxing

Will be exploring Curacao in the next couple of days. Will be back later with pictures (this one was taken yesterday).

In the mean time would really like to hear more about the most relaxing place you've ever experienced. (I will be checking the comments).

The most amazing shelves

Aren't these the most amazing shelves you've ever seen? Not really sure if you can store things on them. What do you think, storage or decoration?

By Christopher Bettig, via All the mountains

Generate Your Own Color Palette

This is a tool that I am sure a lot of you will find helpful and fun to play around with. A couple of posts back I shared about Design Seed and the amazing color palettes they have. To my surprise I found out an easy way of doing it on Pinterest (via Pepper Ferguson).

With the Color Palette Generator from DeGreave, you can easily find the palette of colors used on any image on the internet. All you have to do is upload the link and it automatically generates the colors for you. I thought the Nena Sanchez painting was a good one to try out. So there you have my experiment. At the bottom you can see what I made out of it for myself using Photoshop.

How are you planning to use this tool?

DIY Bookstand From Hanger

First day of school and already encountered a problem that needed a creative solution. Studying Graphic Design means that a lot of work is done on the computer, yet there are still books that need to be read. I quickly found out that trying to hold the pages open while doing assignments on the computer is not very practical.

So I searched the internet for book holders and learned that there are some really nice ones out there. My only problem was that I needed it right away. That was when I came across this video on LifeHacker. It is a fast, easy, simple, creative and cheap way to get a book holder.







And here is how my bookstand ended up looking like. The white paint rubbed off the top part while I was twisting it. Good thing you don't see that when the book is on it.