photo from notemaker.com.au
While in Boston last week, I noticed my friend E’s nifty notebook, and decided I needed some “school supplies” of my own. A few clicks around the internet, and I found some ultra-cool O-Check designs available at Notemaker, based in Australia. My first choice would be the (sold out) library card pocket journal, but the pocket notebook with sleeve (pictured above) is pretty great, too. I think that Notemaker will ship to the US (hooray) so I’m going to scour the rest of the online shop and then wait 7-14 days for my care package.
Have a favorite notebook, or have you seen O-Check in the US? Leave a comment. I’ll check out your suggestions …..
Stop the presses! Notemaker seems to have a shop in Melbourne called The Source, featuring lifestyle essentials: newspapers, magazines, and stationery? Sounds about right.
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photo from longstoryshortcoffee.com
Add to the list of cool food trucks: Long Story Short Coffee, located in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. I would love a Vernon Hills franchise so I could try an iced sweet latte or a fizzy lemonade.
Found via HOW Magazine’s Self-Promotion Design Annual.
photo from flora’s etsy shop
I am going to have a devil of a time choosing 2009 calendars. The latest one, from artist Flora Douville, is both charming and original! Perhaps my strategy will become “Buy them all” and have an arsenal of Christmas gifts at the ready.
If you love Flora’s work as much as I do (check out my “escargot”), she’s giving away two animal alphabet prints to one lucky blog reader ….. details at Flora’s blog.
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I am soooooo ready for school to start next week. It may as well be the new year for all the resolutions I’m planning. At the top of my list? Fewer cookies and magic shell; more healthy food. Like this ultra-delicious roasted vegetable sandwich that my down-the-street favorite bakery, Green Prairie, makes. Yum.
(I can’t wait ’til they launch a website/blog/menu so I can brag about them even more.)
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I know parts of Boston very well, like Back Bay, Beacon Hill, the South End, and let’s not even talk about my knowledge of the Shops at Copley/Prudential. What I’m lacking is knowledge of how the neighborhood puzzle pieces fit together to make Boston, like when I got to the Athenaeum and realized just down the hill was Faneuil Hall. Not cool for someone who likes to pretend she lives there. Had I looked at City Walks:Boston before my trip, I would have been better informed. For my next visit, I intend to take walk #7/School Street and learn about its literary/printing roots. You can pick up a copy at amazon, or Chronicle Books. (There are currently 21 “walk” titles. I think next up for me is San Francisco, or Paris!)
See you tomorrow.
