20 x 200

You really can't get too much for $20 these days. Heck, we wanted to decorate the apartment with some picture frames and we could only buy 3 frames that we liked for $21...

I love scouring etsy for amazing prints and fun things, but here's art that's even easier to find. Every Tuesday and Wednesday at 2pm, new art is posted for sale on 20x200, and each edition has 200 8x11 prints available for $20! If you're really enamored with the work, you can buy the full size for $2000 or the 13x19 size for $200.

A wonderful idea, and great eye candy for the soul every week.

my first etsy items

So I went ahead and made some of those photo-notebooks this weekend, and I've added them to my Etsy shop. Listing is only the beginning, as I won't be a bonified "real" etsyian until an item actually sells.

My first experimental notebook used a couple of photos from Amsterdam, and the cover featured the oldest house in the city (built in the 1520's I seem to recall).
Then I printed up some photos at Costco (gotta love their online system... makes a weekend trip to the store that much better when you don't have to wait an hour for the photos!) and made some cute sets from some of my favorite non-commercial photos:

I'm really digging the giraffe right now... and these adorable little Boston Terrier ones that have yet to be created! My shop should be nice and full tomorrow... after I find someone else to cut the paper instead of my tired little hands!

I got a little crafty yesterday in my jobless lull, so I decided to make a long overdue "Thank You" present for a friend. Mrs. Bee @ Weddingbee.com granted me my wish last year and anointed me last year as Mrs. Lemon, the crafty and blue/gold obsessed 7/7/7 bride. WB made life a lot of fun while I was planning my wedding, and it still is something I'm very proud to be a part of. So, I made this little kitschy thing out of felt and I hope she'll like it!

I'm searching the house for cool 4x6 photos and dragging my papercutter from the craft box to make some of these beauties this afternoon. Photojojo has a great video tutorial on how to make a reclaimed notebook from two photos and a stack of paper. The genius behind the tutorial is the lovely Judy of five and a half. I'm so happy that someone who creates such beautiful things is passing down to art to others!

If only I had a good profile, then I'd get my mom a silhouette necklace of moi for her birthday (Happy Birthday mom!). But somewhere around age 15, my nose got its trademark Lewis bump and my shadow has never been the same. Mr. Lemon dislikes his profile as well... so I guess this little gem that etsy seller luckymebead is selling will not be purchased by our family. It is a glorious idea though... and the chalkboard display is just too precious.

I habitually add flavors to my H20 in any way that I could. In college, it was adding a little bit of lemon/lime Gatorade mix to each bottle of water or perhaps a bit of NesTea. Not enough to actually create the other beverage, but enough to take away the bland taste of water. Then they came out with individual bottle mixes, which was still way too much flavor for my taste buds.

And then... came the wonders of the Pur Flavor Options filter.

We bought ours two weeks ago for the new apartment and are currently enjoying 8 glasses of raspberry water each day. Peach is sitting around in the cabinet waiting for its turn. At $50, it's a bit pricy to start, but much better than paying $5 for silly little powders that dry up much too fast for my conservative use of them. Mmm... berries.

During the relocation/moving process, my mom left me with some cooking tips to help me along as the new domestic goddess of Northern California. Well...they are not exactly hers nor are they quite Top Chef level, they are quality recipes and tips from our Apple Pie Queen, Martha Stewart.

The little "Everday Food" magazines are great digest level size, and are filled with lots of great/simple weekday menus and lots of colorful photos. In fact, I'm now faced with the dilemma of how exactly to store the recipes... should I just tag the pages or cut them out and store them in a binder? Oh the decisions...

Either way, I'm signing up for a subscription before I'm tempted to pay $3.50 at the grocery store for the latest edition.