meet heather moore | skinny laminx

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an illustrator, designer, and blogger from cape town, south africa. she's also a cat-owner = awesome. she creates everything from gorgeously quirky designs (printed on fabric woven in south africa) to delicate, hand-crafted paper products. anyone interested in the unique...you will LOVE her stuff! check out her blog, skinny laminx, or etsy shop for more info.

amazing before and after (using skinny laminx fabric) featured on design sponge!

oh, the possibilities! 

1. birdie gift tages, set of 10, $8.50.  2. eep teatowl, $12.50.  

3. herds in grey fabric, half metre (145cm wide x 50cm high), $25.  

4-5. orla in sap fabric, please contact seller for price.  6. two leaves pillow covers, $50.  

7. one leaves pillow cover, $30.

sam + kyle | engaged!

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this comic-book-loving-pair met 7 years ago at an anime convention -- both dressed as bart, the pirate from xenogears. "so i guess our mutually ridiculous nerdiness brought us together," sam says. ha! how awesome is that? kyle's first impression? "sam had a cool confidence that made me want to know more about her, was genuinely friendly, and immediately gained my respect. also, she had really great hair, which is funny because she cut it off before we started dating.”

they did the long distance dance for a bit: "we lived a couple hundred miles apart; so even though he was the nicest guy i'd ever met, and i loved his smile, i didn't really see a relationship working out." as fate would have it, sam eventually headed to dc for school and the two moved in together after graduation. 5 years after their first date, kyle + sam kept the pirate theme alive with a trip to ocracoke -- famous for the resting place of blackbeard's loot AND NOW where kyle popped the question: "given our pirate-centric history, it was the perfect place for a proposal, and made the big-ass-pirate-treasure-souvenir-shop-glass-engagement-diamond that much more amazing." sam's not your typical diamon-ring-chick, so kyle found the most anti-dimaond ring he could manage.

we headed to the national zoo to play with prairie dogs, otters, and other fluffy blobs o' cute...then planted ourselves on connecticut ave for some reading. congrats you two! i really loved meeting you and talking scott pilgrim -- although jon was seriously jealous when i told him the first shoot he's missed in ages was with a pair of comic bookers and gamers.

for your listening pleasure | beirut sampler

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for your listening pleasure | bon iver

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fabric lined envelopes with chelsea fuss.

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chelsea fuss runs {frloic}...only one of the coolest blogs out there. she's a huge do-it-yourself-er and will walk you through creating your very own fabric lined envelopes here. for a whopping $0.70 per envelope, you'll have a sweet home for your thank you notes, invites...anything!

anna + sam | sneak peek

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upon meeting these two, sam immediately dug into our toy bag and pulled out the biggest water guns he could find. i was eventually given special protection by captain rex (sam’s halloween personality) but jon, unfortunately, was not -- probably because he was better at getting shot than i am (jon would hit the deck screaming in pain, whereas i would say, “ow” or “oh no.”) anna, a bit shyer than her brother, spent most of the shoot in dad’s lap, quietly trying to learn how to blow bubbles. after the bubbles lost their luster, she began running around like a madman all over the gardens, cracking herself (and us) up. check out their sneak peek below...they've got the cutest smiles around.

for your listening pleasure | urban outfitters' music mondays

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