Welcome to October 1. Many of you may have heard that every October, websites Go Pink For October to raise awareness of breast cancer. Part of becoming PINK is making your website or blog pinkish, promoting knowledge of Breast Cancer Awareness Month and research and making yourself more aware of the affects of breast cancer. In honor of those who have suffered from breast cancer either themselves or have been affected by those who have had cancer in their families or among friends I’ve gone pink on the blog, and the website will go pink as well over the next week. I know we all have someone we know or have experienced this disease first hand, and please for you and for them, go pink to show your support and love, these people are strong and courageous and have a great stamina in them to endure such an ordeal.

To the right in my sidebar, below my giveaway, there’s a banner that you can save and post on your sidebar. You can register your site for Pink HERE or read more about research and donation at the Susan G. Komen Foundation website.

Maggite Sottero
I’m not a huge fan of the mermaid, but I love how Maggie has a few red dresses in the collection every year. Wouldn’t that sweetheart bust would be fabulous for a Valentine’s wedding as well. Check out the back of the dress in the bottom right.

Hand it over to WhichGoose again for this rocking headpiece.

Eliarenas
Great for a brooch or boutteneire! These are so cool, they are hand painted and assembled on a pin, I love it.

Ring from Suzanne Felson yet again, I LOVE Suzanne!

I used to wear Laura Ashley as a little girl and their clothing just always continues to be so classic! This is from their fall/winter collection, wouldn’t it be great as a luncheon outfit or maybe a going away outfit after leaving the reception?

Karen over at French Kiss Pastries made these lovely apple cakes, aren’t they wonderful? You should check out her flickr feed as well, quite the wmoan!

I am really in love with this tiered dress from J.Crew, despite the steep price tag, it would be super cool for maids, or as a rehearsal dinner dress.

Invitation: from your favorite letterpress stationer ;)

Not to get all Matching Molly on you, but how cool is this comb from WhichGoose for your maids, then you can all be whimsical together?!

I loved this cake from Edible Art’s flickr stream, nice work!

Both of these bouquets are from DragonFlyFlowers flickr stream as well. I LOVE the Reds and greens with the orchids, amazing.

We’re on for another wedding week. To start off I want to talk about the most important thing that can actually save money with your stationer. 

I just printed these last night. Photographing ensued, Flickring came about, and Etsying is still in the works. I had a really hard time deciding what to give away this week seeing that I have some really fun things that you don’t even know about. However, it’s been a little while since I did some recipe cards, and the other stuff really needs a few more weeks before it gets given! I’ve got a box of bartlett pears just waiting to be canned, or to have SOMETHING done with before they all rot, and thought, chocolate covered pears would taste delish, so now I’m off to make some!

I lost track of time and now that my kids are in bed, here we go : 

I’ve applied to be a vendor at the PoppyTalk Handmade Marketplace for the October/November and the November/December slots. Wish me luck and check out the current showcase: Mix Tape over at PoppyTalk Handmade.

Bethany was one of the featured fonts in last month’s Rising Starsnewsletter put out by MyFonts. It has been doing extremely well since, occupying the top spot of MyFonts’ Bestseller list for weeks. As they claim, Bethany is spirited and spontaneous, but has better legibility than many other handwriting fonts thanks to the openness and simplicity of its shapes. I just like that it looks like it ACTUALLY wasn’t tweaked by a computer and that it is the epitome of Sharpie heaven.

My point in all this blubbering? The advantages become heavily in our favour for handwritten typefaces coming to full fruition (among other typefaces as well). Now instead of having one “e” that appears every time the “e” is typed, type designers now can have 20 different instances of an “e”. What that means for you my friends? That when you type a large novel like this one, each “e” can be randomly generated and slightly different, thus making it truely genuine. That is if you us Adobe CS4, otherwise you still get to manually select it among the glyphs because CS4 rocketh the Open Type.

There’s my take on the subject. No MORE papyrus!

After giving 5, yes FIVE bags of clothing twice to the local second hand store last year, and a good portion of that clothing having been bought in the last 2 years, I was disgusted. Disgusted at my lack of better judgment that, “No, I do not need that shirt in 3 colors.” Often when I shop I just look at something, pay for it and move on. Most of those purchases have about the same attention span in my closet. I started to wonder why I always had so much laundry to do when I wear close to the same three-five things every day.

The leaves are changing all around us. Having just picked the last of the apples off our apple tree, it’s time to think about bundling up as some days it’s still short and tee shirt weather, and others it’s clearly snow coat weather. I’ve been eyeing these sellers for awhile now, enjoy some fresh fall pickings!

Etsy Finds, left to right:

Orange crush headband by Gazzu
Re-felted figerless gloves in black and white stripe by Cofygirl
Pumpkin leaf scarf at Fray