d.Sharp Journal

a note

{it's now Monday, glad to spend a little time here. posting may be scattered about as I plow through some projects in the coming weeks. hopefully, all the more to share with you later! }

a natural collaboration

Holy smokes, this is wonderful.
Beehives and bee skeps have always intrigued me.

Hilary Berseth creates sculptural armatures of wire and wax and collaborates with honeybees. See more of his process here.

paper foliage

Paper cuts by Yuken Teruya - so lovely and transformative - especially enjoy The Giving Tree below, one of my childhood favorites. {via Booooooom}

Heart shape box

Continuing the theme of  belated holiday lameness on my part, I wanted to share the heart container I made for my husband this year. I couldn't share it earlier because I didn't finish it until, cough, a few days ago.

So, for the past few years I have tried to make a different heart shaped box for G for Valentine's Day. Last year, I played around with the image of the sacred heart. Here.

This year, I wanted to make it more like this brass monstrance-type thing I found in Paris years ago. {still haven't figured out what to do with it/where to put it.}

So, this year's Valentine -
my husband thinks I'm kinda nuts.

Behold - paper hatchet

This paper hatchet candy container was used to celebrate Washington's birthday/President's Day, I have also seen little tree stump containers with teenie tiny hatchets.

I find most vintage holiday things very charming. I love that every holiday seems to have been celebrated back in the day, taken as an opportunity to gift a small token of your affection to those you care about. {and eat sweets!} And geez, here I am showing you this 4 whole days after President's Day. I would have never cut it back then.

tin types

Inspired by the vintage design, type and color of these typewriter ribbon tins, via booooooom

Love Letters

I had the pleasure of creating a project tutorial featured in Paper Bella's E-zine this month - Love Letters. It's  packed with projects, downloads and inspiration.Teresa McFayden is the creative force behind it all and I had such fun working on this and working with her.
A little peak at my project.

I like these.

via ffffound, do you know who created these?

I lego N.Y.

Transplanted New Yorker  and super talent Christoph Niemann {love his illustrations} shares his wit through his blog on the NY Times. His Lego interpretations of  his former town are clever and charming - more here.{check his coffee drawings and tiled bathroom - wonderful!}

In the interest of fairness..

We had dogs a few days ago. Here are kittens with commentary. {love her!}

Kittens, inspired by kittens @ Yahoo! Video