“The greatest gift you can ever give another person is your own happiness”
― Esther Hicks
Your Own Happiness
The Utility Step Stool
This utility stool won my heart. Also comes in a taller size.
Speed Up Moon Footage
I have shared this before, but just want to remind everyone that this sped up moon footage exists. This is the internet I am here for.
Stop Focusing On The Negative
“You can get to where you want to be from wherever you are—but you must stop spending so much time noticing and talking about what you do not like about where you are.”
― Esther Hicks
Who Would I Be Without Instagram?
“There are plenty of well-documented reasons to distrust Instagram — the platform where one is never not branding, never not making Facebook money, never not giving Facebook one’s data — but most unnerving are the ways in which it has led me to distrust myself. After countless adventures through the black hole, my propensity to share, perform, and entertain has melded with a desire far more cynical: to be liked, quantifiably, for an idealized version of myself, at a rate not possible even ten years ago.
I think I am a writer and an actor and an artist. But I haven’t believed the purity of my own intentions ever since I became my own salesperson, too.”
Who Would I Be Without Instagram? An investigation. By Tavi Gevinson
Connection Bowl
This 3D Printed Steel Bowl is beautiful.
Link Pack
Legend (A Portrait of Bob Marley) (via)
– Am I Eating too Much Cheese?
– Interesting logos are being replaced with boring ones (via Chris)
– The name of this lemon squeezer made me laugh: Juice Bruce.
– I really appreciate The Wirecutter
– I spent a long time looking up books mentioned in response to this Tweet.
– Want to Reduce Your Screen Time? Try This Simple Trick
– Lessons people learn to late in life. Keep coming back to this.
– Yum. Spiced Chickpea Stew With Coconut and Turmeric
– Wow! Astrogeografie is a thing? I had no idea.
– I love my Pilea. And now, having seen this, I have goals. Also, this one.
– A California Type Foundry Is Keeping Vintage Printing Alive (via Chris)
– These hanging planters!
– These Wool Slippers!
– PEOP-LES
– My daughter and I love this meatball recipe from Tasty. (We just ignore the tomato sauce part!)
– Come work with me, Tattly is hiring a Graphic Designer and a part-time photographer.
– Did you know CreativeMornings has a global job board.
– A big thank you to Parsons at Open Campus for sponsoring my blog this week.
You Have To Rise
“Everything you have ever dreamed of having is being held in trust for you until you are at the level in which you are ready to receive it. You have to rise. You have to become the kind of person who deserves the life you want.”
— Brianna Wiest
Activist: Portraits of Courage
Activist: Portraits of Courage caught my attention. Love that quote especially.
♥ / Up Your Sartorial Savvy with Parsons at Open Campus
A big thank you to Parsons at Open Campus for sponsoring my blog this week.
With fall Fashion Weeks fast approaching, now is the time to gain inspiration to take the next step in your design journey. The Fashion Design Certificate offered by Parsons at Open Campus will enable you to understand historical influences in today’s fashion, learn sketching techniques, and gain a deeper appreciation for textiles and materials. In this series of six or eight courses, offered in NYC, you will:
– Learn basic draping, flat patternmaking, and sewing techniques, along with principles of design.
– Become adept at identifying various fabric types, yardage specifications, notions, trimmings, and sewing supplies.
– Understand fashion design and manufacture in a global societal context.
– Gain exposure to a variety of methods and practices needed in the art of sewing, construction, and garment design.
– Learn how to successfully draw a balanced, well-proportioned fashion figure.
(Interested in sponsoring a week of my RSS feed, learn more here.)
If you Love…
“The most important thing in life is your inner energy. If you’re always tired and never enthused, then life is no fun. But if you’re always inspired and filled with energy, then every minute of every day is an exciting experience. Learn to work with these things. Through meditation, through awareness and willful efforts, you can learn to keep your centers open. You do this by just relaxing and releasing. You do this by not buying into the concept that there is anything worth closing over. Remember, if you love life, nothing is worth closing over.”
― Michael A. Singer
Plant Lover Flow Chart
This plant flow chart by Michelle Rial made me laugh. I feel seen.
Wave Trivet
Can you fall in love with a trivet? I just did.
Break The Rules
“By all means break the rules, and break them beautifully, deliberately, and well.”
— Robert Bringhurst
Cloud Wall
I would love this wall of clouds in my bedroom.
Is it Too Late To Start?
This illustration by Michelle Rial made me laugh.
Link Pack
In this CreativeMornings talk artist and author Adam J. Kurtz reminds us that success is about more than talent and that perfect isn’t better. Don’t miss the ending!
– I believe it: Gardening could be the hobby that helps you live to 100
– How I Joined the Cult of Cauliflower Gnocchi (via Cup of Jo)
– Interesting read: Athleisure, barre and kale: the tyranny of the ideal woman
– ChangeAView aims to improve the world’s discussions. Interesting.
– We need an uprising of decency.
– ‘I Hate Dating Apps So Much!’
– Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir is a New York City based Earth-defending performance community.
– “For heaven’s sake, it’s your funeral. It should be your ultimate portrait and the celebration of your life.” — Susanne Duijvestein
– 3-Year-Old Completely Covers Baby Brother with Peanut Butter. The little guy is so unphased. Made me laugh.
– Monaru: A virtual assistant that helps you build deeper connections with the people you really care about.
– Innocence lost: what did you do before the internet?
– Why cartoon characters wear gloves (via)
– Sola Felt Wall Tiles turn single-use plastic waste into a beautiful, practical material.
– Favorite interview questions
– Come work with me! Tattly is hiring a Graphic Designer and a part-time photographer!
– Did you know CreativeMornings has a Job Board?
– A big thank you to my sponsor this week: Ello is a Chicago-based drinkware design company on a mission to replace single-use food and beverage containers.
Vacation With an Artist
Vacation with an Artist allows you to discover a new destination, create real local connections and spend time inside a master artist’s studio making something with your hands. What an incredible concept. This is wonderful!
Torn
“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
— E. B. White
The Technology of Kindness
“People’s ability to connect is the glue that holds our culture together. By thinning out our interactions and splintering our media landscape, the Internet has taken away the common ground we need to understand one another. Each of us is becoming more confident about our own world just as it drifts farther from the worlds of others. Empathy requires us to understand that even people who disagree with us have a lived experience as deep as our own. But in the fractured landscape of social media, we have little choice but to see the other side as obtuse, dishonest or both. Unless we reverse this trend and revive empathy, we have little chance of mending the tears in our social fabric.”
The Technology of Kindness, by Jamil Zaki
♥ / Ello
A big thank you to Ello for sponsoring my blog and RSS Feed this week.
Ello is a Chicago-based drinkware design company on a mission to replace single-use food and beverage containers.
Ello recently partnered with a nonprofit, H2OpenDoors, selling a limited-edition line of products to raise money for a solar-powered water system in East Africa that will become the foundation for a women-run social enterprise. They’ll be working with a local community to design a custom water bottle that will suit their needs with the new filtration system. All profits will go towards social services in the partner community.
Support the project here.