We were planning on having a big ol’ crawfish boil for Memorial Day at Golden Gardens. Alas, I discovered today that local Lake Washington crawfish season doesn’t get going until the end of June. I could order them from LACrawfish.com, but even with Saturday delivery they would probably all be dead by Monday. Oh well, … Continued
A solo exhibition and discussion with the artist Emma Jane Levitt opens today Friday, May 21st at The Center for Wooden Boats. Time & Tide examines how each of us experience and develop a sense of place. It explores how water interacts with land, with people, and with itself. Emma describes the Puget Sound body … Continued
I just discovered StereoMood and I am loving it! When there is no time to create the perfect playlist to fit your mood or event there is StereoMood. They have created a way to suggest songs that follow your feelings. Stereomood is the new internet radio with free playlists to suit you! Just click on … Continued
30 years ago today….. BOOM! From Wired: The area around the mountain was devastated by the collapse of the northern flank of the mountain in what amounted to one of the largest landslides ever recorded, which buried 24 square miles of land under as much as 600 feet of debris. The nine-hour eruption blew 520 … Continued
This is a series of print ads we create for the Virginia Inn Restaurant & Bar that were published in the Seattle Metropolitan magazine. I hear their patio calling my name on the next sunny Seattle day! Oh, how I love eating at the Virginia Inn…
Our good friends Phil and Lauren are getting married this summer. Lauren loves snails and gave us a drawing with snails and ferns. Riley transformed the drawing into a playful wedding invitation. They were silk screened with three colors on Pop Tone Lemon Drop from French Paper. I think they turned out incredibly cute and … Continued
I love maps. I dig unique paper projects. I have a thing for anything cut with an exacto knife. Since I also love Seattle it seems PaperCutWorks was made for me. I heart homemade, a great blog about all things homemade, is doing a special PaperCutWorks givaway. (Deadline for entry in May 19th.) Each of … Continued
I was walking down Broad Street in Philadelphia when I turned and saw these life size gray whales. Amazing. The artist Shay Church thinks about the long daunting migrations gray whales must survive each year. He describes his wet clay installations as migrations interrupted. Just when you think you have seen everything you come across … Continued
I tried to find a simple InDesign template for a cd/dvd labels the other day and I couldn’t find one anywhere. Not without registering my email address for some crap I didn’t want. So I made my own. It is a standard 8.5×11 2-up, works with Avery 5931, 8931 and similar. Download label template free.
Sarvey Wildlife Center led a captivating educational presentation about birds at the NW National Park Family Day event. Sarvey rescues and rehabilitates orphaned, injured, and sick wild animals from the Puget Sound area, ensuring they get the best medical treatment and care possible, with the ultimate goal of releasing them back in to their natural … Continued