A place to store my collection of interesting, pretty, and useful things I find on the internet.

Saturday, August 22

Web Advertising 101

http://www.designspongeonline.com/2009/07/biz-ladies-09-advertising-your-business-online-the-basics.html

For when the time is right.

Upholstered toddler bed

http://www.designspongeonline.com/2009/07/diy-project-upholstered-toddler-beds.html

Instructions to make an upholstered toddler bed, if ever the need should arise.

instructions

Originally from "Recovering Lazyholic," I found these here.

paper whoa


These are made of paper. PAPER.

Love and life

This reminds me of what I once saw written on the bathroom wall at the Alley Cat in Foco: "I love you the whole wide world." (source)

We Are the Friction


I covet this book.

Slobbovia

Slobbovia: an elaborate text-based RPG. This article at Play This Thing! blows my mind.

minipops


David Byrne plays a building

David Byrne of The Talking Heads turns a building into an instrument. Incredible.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1D30gS7Z8U

Kate Pruitt's own collection


Kate Pruitt collects pretty things. Some of my favorites:








Friday, August 21

Jen Corace illustration


http://www.jencorace.com/

Someday I'm going to have a website like this.

Gorgeous web design

http://www.storypixel.com/

Visually one of the most beautiful websites I've ever seen.


Two great directories for pretty websites. For inspiration.

"The Poem Store"

http://zachhouston.com/

Favorite part: "If you have one of my poems please email it to me at zach@zachhouston.com"
Source: Ironically enough, I found it at http://otherfancystuff.blogspot.com/2009/06/poem-store-write-poem-about-her-hair.html, which of course I had to check out when I picked the name for this blog.