okay, it’s official. over the last few months, i’ve become a knitter. and since i love vintage style, i was especially excited to find that the victoria & albert museum has some amazing vintage knitting patterns from the 1940s available to download as pdfs or word docs. i am especially taken with the convertible mittens. check out all the patterns here. i think a lot of them have sort of an anthropologie -esque quality, especially if knit in a luxury yarn…
oh, and these little knit plushies too. i love the lion!
Waiter...there's a fly in my soup and he wants a raise
This just made my short list of the craziest marketing stunts of all time that will only be impressive the first time they’re done. Those flies must have been exhausted by the end of the day but the human overlords seemed to enjoy it. I’d tell you who is responsible for equipping flies with tiny signs but the site is in German (which is one of over 6999 languages I can’t read).
a few items on the short list: illustration, jane austen novels, the beatles...
so it should come as no surprise that these illustrations by paula j. becker make me smile. the elephants above are part of paula’s vision of pride and prejudice. yep, that’s mr. darcy asking darling lizzy bennet to dance. priceless!
between the elephants and this beatles illustration, paula has earned a place in my heart forever.
via jane austen’s world, a fantastic blog filled with fascinating information on regency england.
Here’s a bit of frivolous fun for this thursday afternoon. Caribou Coffee just launched a new fall campaign starring a wisecracking pumpkin and a dimwitted gourd (voiced by awesome coworker Dan). The campaign was done by more of my super awesome coworkers, Barrett and Lee and animated by the folks at puny.
It’s fun, frivolous, and just what I needed on the day before friday.
The one up there is my fave, but you can see the other four here.
What to do with a VW Bug and any tires laying about
No hablo Espanol, so I can’t say much more about artist Betsabee Romero. But I think the work speaks for itself.
I’m not sure why I always find this sort of thing so amusing but I confess that I do. More at Wooster Collective Have a surreal day.
seriously.
meet 8 year old arlo weiner, son of mad men creator matt weiner. i’d say that a strong sense of style runs deep in that family, since arlo has been mixing up his wardrobe to suit his style since he was three, when he asked his parents for a top hat.
check out the slideshow of arlo’s favorite looks and be sure to read his inspirations. this kid is amazing. i am sure we’ll see his name all over the fashion rags in ten or twelve years.
seriously.