keeping it top-to-bottom pretty.

{more tina hellberg here.}

champange: consumed.

candy: inhaled.

love: made.

phone number: lost.

happy day after, darlings!

{roadsworth's "dead hearts" project.} {via junk culture.}

happy valentine's day, kittens!

and, as always...keep in demure.

xoxo,
tula

{top image: shirley maclaine in the eye candy-filled "what a way to go"; bottom: xoxo layer cake via oh joy.}

with a splash of marimekko.

{via round monkey.}

from the lite n' brite living room to the traveling-picnic streamline trailer, dottie angel's pad is pretty purty.

see more at miss angel's flickr.

choose your valentine's day card wisely.

when you care enough to send the very best.

view yeehaws letterpress goods here.

at formal family portrait at my home would look a little something like this.

{"cat family" by the phenomenally talented matte stephens.}

it's monday, darlings.

pick your palette and prepare for battle.

{4 1/4 and abalone by artist arian behzadi.}

the multi-talented jonathan lo of happy mundane transformed the IKEA enetri shelf (craigslist) and micke desk (69.00) into delicious I-CANDY by swathing them in faux-walnut contact paper.

see how he did it (and how you can, too!) here.

...of inspiration. you never know when it's going to strike. be prepared to capture it.

{illustrations by brain storm prints and dan gneiding.}