best bits #3: handwritten

(linking with love to oh, hello friend.)

it takes a true artist to make dots look this good.

keeping blogging honest: a very humble apology by oh, hello friend.

365 days of the most excellent hand-lettered typography.

aesthetically pleasing home truths for your moments of need. 

letterpressing your big milestones, short weekends, and friends' birthdays.

good eats #1

(via Una Bella Vita)

the best looking winter breakfast i think i've ever seen.

food is still fun: a Fuck Yeah pie and beautiful sandwiches.

a recipe to share with friends: white wine carrots.

now you're just showing off: grilled potato rounds with pesto and asparagus.

i've been drinking this lemon ginger honey tea almost every day.

and to keep your creative juices flowing, hear from the creators of the hungry girl's cookbook and check out what they make at home.

this post originally appeared here.

best bits #2

(via for me for you)

art & design

making stenciled pillows look easy: something only this wonderful woman can do.

impractical, messy, and beautiful. i've been imagining having these hanging on my bedroom door, and one on each of my flatmates bedroom doors too, to write one another little letters about when we'll next be home.

what you wish your instagram pictures looked like, and the best real-life polaroids to match.


good reads

what happens when someone you love has Alzheimer's - a touching and practical account of reading papers, lies and truths, and grocery supplies.

if you've ever watched grey's anatomy, the office, or fox sports, you might be the subject of nano-targeted politics. a great read on nano-targeting and it's place in campaigning.

nostalgia and the forty-year rule. when will the appeal of mad men run out?

is this the end of the daily walk to the letterbox? (we've never had saturday mail in sydney anyway, but it's a compelling case study internationally.)

best bits #1: housewarming gifts & typography treats

(photo via pia jane bijerk)

art and design

the argument for recipe books:  not eating out in New York. 

this will be the next housewarming gift i buy.

can't believe how beautiful this typography is.

can't wait to buy some paints to get back into making plain and pretty ceramics like these.

this must be what it's like to sleep in a watercolour painting.

there's a time and place for practical underwear. for the other times, there's this. 


opinion and politics

USA: if you're a presidential candidate, twitter is the leanest, meanest playground on the block.

AUS: the monthly's write-up of christine milne as she takes the Greens' leadership.

International: a great analysis of change.org and the Trayvon campaign.

good reads #1

(via brainpickings)

when someone dies, it's only the beginning. "terra incognita", or, what it's like to write obituaries for the new york times.

i'm not sure "a shithot pair of shades" can save the ALP, but Tory Maguire thinks it might be worth a go. 

newsflash: maybe you'd prefer organic eggs with that.

the new york times confirms what we already knew: this conversation from when harry met sally will never die.

at every Passover Seder... questions the youngest Jewish child asks every year.