I've had a fixation for school/office supplies ever since my days at Cain Elementary, where you could stock up on adorable little pencil rests and erasers at the school store (yes, just like in "Saved by the Bell"). Now I have a new resource for desk candy:
Present & Correct. One of my favorite Brit e-commerce sites, this fanciful online boutique stocks everything from '60-era rubber band book belts and vintage telephone indexes to engraved pencils and fun typographical calendars like this quirky, nonsensical Noa Bembibre Cats Calendar. Also: chalk sets, letterpress journals, and - hello! - patterned tape. It all makes me long for a squatty little desk to squeeze into.
Here's a hot site my
Lemondrop buddies tipped me off to:
Paste Magazine's Obamicon.Me. Just upload a photo, select a saying or customize your own, and you've magically made it into Shepard Fairey's famous poster. I'm a little obsessed...
I'm not much of a nature girl, but I fell hard for the photographs on display at
London's Natural History Museum's Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibit. The winning entry was of an elusive snow leopard in the Himalayas, but these images were my personal favorites. I've already ordered the jellyfish print to hang up in my new flat. Don't these make you want to take up photography and go traveling around the world taking incredible pictures? Even more amazing - the "Treetop Jigsaw" image (the top one) was taken by Brittany Fried, who was in the 10 and younger category. Ah, my misspent youth. (Photos from the
Natural History Museum.)
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