Art Innovator : Ghost Patrol Pencil Sets

Ghost Patrol pencil sets make my heart flutter. The clever and unusual use of shaved down pencils as a canvas pairs perfectly with the artist's touching and fantastical style.

Leaving Pencil Forest
Originally uploaded by ghostpatrol

Hostage, Throat Cut
Originally uploaded by ghostpatrol

Trees Are Made From Pencils
Originally uploaded by ghostpatrol

hyper coustume
Originally uploaded by ghostpatrol

reaching key
Originally uploaded by ghostpatrol

Visit http://ghostpatrol.net/

Gotta have it: Becky OH! Handbags

A don't miss giveaway

and one fab online shop

   

Becky OH! makes one hell of a handbag. Her one-of-a-kind creations are available in a number of different styles; each with thoughtful details like bamboo handles, contrast zippers, and punchy pattern pairings. Recently interviewed as part of the ambitious and well curated The Bright Side Project--and currently participating in a mighty fine giveaway--Becky O. settled in New Hampshire where she lives with her husband, after traveling five of the seven seas. 

{a chance to win} Read an interview with Becky and enter her giveaway @ The Bright Side Project. 

{shop online} Be sure to stop by the Becky OH! website and shop the full line of purses, clutches, cosmetic bags, and other products.

All photos c/o Becky OH! and The Bright Side Project.

Inspiration: Vintage Family Photos

Are digital cameras impacting the American tradition of the classic family portrait?

Selected photos from my family album: My mom, Lake Tahoe 1958; my great-grandmother; my grandmother; my dad in uniform; my mom (before her friends had eyebrow intervention-yes really) with my brother and sister; my mom and her identical twin sister, brother and father; my dad and his family looking snappy

I am going to miss the differences in film (bye-bye polaroid... sigh) and photographic style that we all cherish in our favorite photos from the past. I worry that with all the new cameras and software, family photographs are going to look a whole lot alike and the next generation will not be able to see the changes in the world and technology advances through images in quite the same way .