please mr. postman.

if i hadn't just spend $200 in the past two days on books and supplies {and cat food} i would totally get this adorable necklace from rag trader. oh gosh, i might just get it anyway.

don't be scared.

today i'm wearing my homemade "hi, how are you" shirt from when i was daniel johnston for halloween. it makes me feel good.

*edit: here is the shirt.

false contender.

{via the selby}

falling & laughing.

in the new vice there is an interview with edwyn collins, the singer from scottish twee pop band orange juice. in 2005 edwyn suffered two major brain hemorrhages that left him unable to walk, talk, or use his right hand. his brain also lost the ability to work out letters and words. over the next three years he began drawing animals, mostly birds, with his left hand as a way of teaching his body and mind how to work again. he recently had a show of these bird drawings at smithfield gallery in london.

{click drawing to download falling and laughing}

how wheeling feels.

amazing print and texture from copy of an imitation. oh, and maybe you though that this was a cool pleated bag? well, you were wrong. awesome.

{found at kingdom of style}

the moody blues.

in college i took an alternative {non-silver} photographic class and lately i've been thinking about working with cyanotypes again because it's such a magical process. i was just doing a bit of research and came across the smithsonian's flickr. it included these images which are seriously some of the most beautiful things that i've seen in quite a while.

flowers of a hundred generations.

simplicity is beautiful. momoyogusa's mount fuji.

{via nevver}

i want a range life.

johnny cash's to do list.

{via just pretend sigh}

long cool woman in a black dress.

three amazingly constructed dresses from emily ryan. cowls, ruffles, pockets and 3d bird appliques??? it's like she's reading my mind.

tighten up.

2009 was brought in at our house with friends, fun and fireworks! i suppose that i don't really do 'resolutions' but it's always nice to have some goals in mind. last year i wanted to read 50 books and i did it! as for this year, i just want to get the absolute most i can out of grad school, which re-starts on monday!