I didn’t have a chance to finish my intended Fancies post before departing for the left coast, but seeing as travel should always involve brunch, cocktails or brunch cocktails, we’ll just leave this little gem from Breakfast For Dinner here for you to devour.
Have a great weekend!
We’re off to San Francisco tonight to visit friends, take a break catch some art, eat and drink, and run Bay to Breakers.
It’s true, we probably won’t dance on any tables, and champagne is only a maybe, but there is almost certainly (always) a bubbly of some sort in our future. Cheers! (image credit: Hello Love Boutique, available in poster form on Etsy)
Still, by departing tonight, we’re missing out on some pretty snazzy events in Boston. If you’re in the area, maybe these will strike your fancy on a dreary evening.
For anyone who has ever navigated Boston’s streets on two wheels, it’s painfully obvious that cars are king in our culture – but not so everywhere. In honor of National Bike Month, a peek at this terrific traffic garden in the Netherlands.
This space, built on a smaller scale and populated with pedal-powered cars, serves as a testing ground for kids learning the rules of the road as drivers, cyclists and pedestrians before they can even get behind the wheel. (It looks pretty fun to boot.)
Read more about America’s war between four wheels and two, and why the Netherlands doesn’t have one, over at the Atlantic Cities blog. Need to brush up to do battle on Boston’s streets this summer? Revisit our tips for better biking, too!
Happy Mothers’ Day weekend! Between us, we’ll cover ground in four states this weekend for assorted festivities – here’s to safe travels, sunshine and some very special ladies in our lives.
We’ve spent the week knee-deep in custom monogram designs, which (would you believe) go hand in hand with cocktails; Jack was particularly excited to have tracked down a bottle of the brand new Wire Works gin for his martini. We’ve been following GrandTen’s progress since they began their permitting process to distill in Boston, and it’s fun to finally have their (rather excellent) product in our hands. A vodka and a rum are in the works, and GrandTen hopes to have their space in Southie ready to go for tours, tastings and sales this summer. Follow their progress on facebook and twitter, or head to their site to learn more and find your own bottle. (image credit: Union Jack Creative)
Jack has a particular weakness for making-of videos, and I have a soft spot for well-executed watercolors. This timelapse video of Italian artist Silvia Pelissero at work was mesmerizing for both of us.
You can find more of Silvia’s work on Facebook, deviantART and bigcartel; for more timelapse painting, head to her YouTube channel.
video credit: Silvia Pelissero (agnescecile)
After Friday night’s ICA shindig, we holed up to make some serious headway on designs for thank yous, wedding invitations and monograms, interrupted only by groceries and a disappointing fourth place trivia finish.
We also finally got around to photographing invitations that were designed for Danielle (and Nick’s) shower and bachelorette weekend.
Happy Friday! We’re aiming not to let the dreary weather (really, it’s spring now?) dampen our spirits. Tonight we’ll head to the ICA for their annual Party on the Harbor, and with Jack’s final paper for the semester out of the way we may be able to enjoy some Derby festivities or SoWa’s opening day this weekend. Time will tell.
One of my very favorite discoveries of this week was Colossal, an art and design blog headed by Christopher Jobson. How I’ve missed Colossal thus far is beyond me, but every post is a delight – go on, check it out, but don’t say I didn’t warn you when you get lost in the archives. (image credit: Colossal)
Sometimes, art falls neatly into themes; more often, something strikes a chord that brings to mind an entirely unrelated work previously viewed. For me, these connections – the common ground – can be fascinating.
I had tucked the photo-sculptural work of Scott Hazard away in a Pinterest board ages ago, but this particular piece – Exhaust Escaping - was the first thing that came to mind when I happened across Tobias Tovera’s watercolors at Anthology.
Be it the jagged edges, the layers of blue or the incredible depth that each artist’s disparate technique lends to their work, these two pieces will forever be linked in my mind.
Head to the portfolios of Scott Hazard and Tobias Tovera for more of their fascinating work!
image credits: 1-Scott Hazard; 2-Tobias Tovera
Happy Friday! Jack will spend most of our weekend making headway on a final paper, and I’ve got wedding invitations and website proposals to tuck into. But first! A few things that caught our eye this week.
We caught wind of Boston-based OoOTie (rhymes with bow tie) through 9tailors – and oh, what fun. OoOTie offers up a selection of limited-run bow ties, some of which are the work of local designers, and includes shipping and tax in the cost of the tie. There’s a tie-of-the-month club (Triple-O), an app to assist in “trying on” OoOTies, tips on how (and how not) to wear each tie, and a portion of the proceeds goes to support charities chosen by the designer. (image credit: OoOTie)
Years ago, when Jack and I first got together, we bonded over a love of Scrabble. Our games would drag on for hours – I would occasionally doze off waiting for my turn – so I eventually bought a travel version that could be packed up with letters still in place, to be continued by the light of the next day.
Our first real fight was over a Scrabble game, too. (Here’s the thing – Jack is next to impossible to beat. In a fatigue-fueled act of desperation I may have tried to, um, bend the rules in my favor.)
Between us, we own at least two Scrabble sets, and of course the official game dictionary. We haven’t had much time for hours of linguistic gaming lately, and Words With Friends is a sad replacement for the late, great Scrabulous – but we were smitten with this minimal, typographic take on the classic nonetheless.
