spotted on instagram

23 August 2013

In all honesty, I really do try not to spend excessive amounts of time on social media. In fact, I try to be really intentional about who I follow and what I spend my time on.

But once in awhile, I get distracted and find some really inspiring Instagram accounts that keep me scrolling. So this week, I’d thought I’d spread the love + share the inspiration!

01 / Corinne Tan writes love letters to strangers and completely inspires me to write some myself!
02 / Sue Lyn is on a cookie project that is both encouraging and uplifiting.
03 / Amanda Rydell does amazing packaging + some fun DIYs.
04 / Rachelle captures life beautifully and just has such an inspiring-looking feed.

I hope this kick-starts an inspiring weekend!

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Life is often full and busy. But I like to take time to enjoy some of my favorite things. So Friday Favorite is a weekly series where I share my favorite(s) for the week. Check out my other Friday Favorites here.

Friday Favorite no. 011 // back to school

2 August 2013

Since I’m doing summer school this year, I’ve been in the school routine for a couple of weeks already. But for everyone else, there’s only a couple more weeks left of summer until school starts! This week, I’m rounding up some of my back to school essentials + favorites. So even if you’re not excited about starting school, at least they’re favorites to enjoy using!

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These items are all so lovely + I would love any of these for school! They just might be the perfect motivation to study hard on those days when you feel like doing anything but study.

But hopefully you won’t have to do any studying this weekend, and get to spend your time shopping for fun back-to school supplies instead (:

Happy Friday!

P.S. While I don’t usually post on weekends, I’ve got something exciting (!!!) planned for tomorrow so be sure to check back!

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Life is often full and busy. But I like to take time to enjoy some of my favorite things. So Friday Favorite is a weekly series where I share my favorite(s) for the week. Check out my other Friday Favorites here.

Friday Favorite no. 010 // CHA summer

26 July 2013

As you probably already know by now, I pretty much don’t scrapbook at all nowadays. And I’m really working on changing that. But in the meantime, I still love being inspired by all the amazing patterns and products out there. And because the CHA Create-n-Connect show just ended yesterday, I’m picking a few of my favorite new releases (in no particular order) to share with you guys! (:

1. Amy Tangerine and Dear Lizzy with American Crafts

As always, Amy Tangerine and Dear Lizzy have some great new collections. It’s even cooler that they have Project Life mini kits now. Pretty sweet.

2. Flea Market by Maggie Holmes for Crate Paper

I’m pretty big into gold right now. So I love that Maggie Holmes’ Flea Market collection has some generous doses of it!

3. Project Life Sunshine Edition by Elsie and Emma from A Beautiful Mess

I fell off the Project Life bandwagon more than a year ago. But all the truly sunshine + happy colors in this Sunshine Edition might just be enough to make me hop back on again.

But in addition to the usual favorites, I love discovering “newer” brands that I don’t look at a lot.

4. Cut & Paste Adorbs by My Mind’s Eye

I love the color scheme of this collection. Such a good mix of pinks and greens and aquas, mmm.

5. Cut & Paste Flair by My Mind’s Eye

This collection has the cutest nerd glasses, which is my favorite part of this preppy collection. I might get some of this just for those glasses, I tell you.

6. Dapper & Dan by Glitz Design

This collection is such a nice mix of greens, blues, and neutrals for the BOYS. Plus, I’m really digging those geometric shapes and the mustaches (!!!).

7. Finnley by Glitz Design

Also by Glitz Design, Finnley is a fun, fresh take on trendy colors with woodland animals thrown in the mix. So excited to see some of these brands that I don’t usually go for.

Well, that’s all for me for today! Now excuse me while I go and earn some dough so I can splurge on these collections later! (;

I hope your Friday is bursting with creativity and sunshine!

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Friday favorite no. 007 // phone wallpapers

5 July 2013

I know I shared some desktop wallpapers for June for Friday Favorites only just a couple of weeks ago. But I stumbled upon these free graphic phone wallpapers on Pinterest during the week and they were too awesome not to share!

Click on the image or go here for the link to download these.

All of these are so lovely and well-designed that I’m pretty much spoiled for choice as to which one I should have on my phone. Right now, I have the sunshine-y yellow lemons of no. 16 as my wallpaper – bright, happy and cheery, just perfect for summer. But I think I might just change it up every couple of days so I get to enjoy all my favorites (:

Free AND pretty phone wallpapers – what’s not to love?

Happy Friday! And happy belated Fourth of July to my American readers! (:

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Friday favorite no. 006 // urbanic paper blog

28 June 2013

My favorite this week is the Urbanic Paper blog. Complete with a brand new look, this super cute blog is full of inspiration and plenty of pretty paper things – which I absolutely adore. They also have lots of inspiring designs in their pop-up shop.

As a girl who loves paper and snail mail, this blog fits the bill to a tee – perfect for being inspired over this weekend.

Happy Friday!

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Friday favorite no. 005 // super fast class – handwriting

21 June 2013

While scrolling through my twitter feed last week, I came across a link to this video by Kristina Werner, which left me pretty inspired.

Growing up, I didn’t always have the nicest handwriting and I was constantly in envy of the girls in class whose cute handwriting made me wish I wrote better. As I got older, my handwriting became a little bit better and I started actually liking my writing. But somewhere, somehow, this writing of mine started getting all scribbly and messy again and now I don’t like it so much anymore.

I must say, with all the influx of technology nowadays, maybe all the time I spend typing on my computer and scrolling through my smartphone doesn’t give me much opportunity to practice writing with a pen (or pencil) anymore. So hmm, maybe technology is all to blame.

Still, I really hope that I get back to the phase of having better writing and liking my handwriting again.

But until then, I’ll just have to keep practicing, take every opportunity I have to use a pen to practice and try to make this handwriting as good I can get it.

I think I might just be busy practicing this weekend. Happy Friday!

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Friday favorite no. 004 // june desktop wallpapers

14 June 2013

It’s pretty crazy to think that June is already halfway through. And before you know it, July will be here! And while this favorite may be about two weeks late (considering it’s for the month of June), there’s still half of June left to enjoy these free desktop wallpapers.

There are several fun (and free) wallpapers here! I currently have the popsicle one from Design Love Fest as my laptop wallpaper. Too cute.

Such a fun way to kick-start the weekend. Happy Friday!

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paper + parcels // chic tags

8 June 2013

The fact that I love paper + parcels really isn’t a secret. And as Julie Andrew sings in The Sound of Music, brown paper packages tied up with string are definitely some of my favorite things.

But when you get both at the same time? It’s like Christmas come early.

So I was super excited when I found out that I’d won not one, not two, but FOUR of the newest tag collections from the Chic Tags giveaway on Stephanie Howell’s blog.

But I was blown away when I actually got my parcel on Tuesday – an envelope fully stuffed with packet after packet of paper goodies. Too much goodness in one envelope. Seriously.

I’m really excited to use these and work them into my scrapbooks. Anything to get back to this whole scrapbooking thing that I’ve been missing out on big time.

For more Chic Tags inspiration, check out their blog!

Friday favorite no. 003 // kinder happy hippo

7 June 2013

This week’s favorite is Kinder Bueno. And to be sure, it’s not just any biscuit; it’s all the creamy hazelnut goodness that is kinder bueno, shaped in an almost-too-cute-to-be-eaten hippo.

Ever since childhood, Kinder Bueno has been a favorite. So this Kinder Happy Hippo kinda takes the cake. Or biscuit.

Too good + too cute. ‘Nuff said.

Kinder bueno, you made this week really good (:

Friday favorite no. 002 // instant photos

31 May 2013

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I may be a little late jumping onto the instant photo bandwagon. But I finally decided to spend my birthday money on this Fujifilm Instax 25. AND I LOVE IT.

Not being sure of what you’re going to get and watching the film develop before your very eyes right after you take the photo is part of the thrill + novelty of having an instant camera.

I already love the little collection of instant photos that I’ve since amassed and I can’t wait to see how it grows!

Happy Friday!