mini-tags

I made these little sketches/tags two summer's ago during my stay in Estonia. The background scalloped shapies are actually flourescent but for some reason my scanner can't grasp neon pink, green and yellow/the forms are geometric office stickers.

ahhhh presstype

these are some of my favorite sheets.

shape stacks

pretty insignificant stuff, but the scraps are sure nice.

good ????s

are answered in these fine Little Blue Books.
Plus some bursts.

by hand

Mister basketball collage was found sandwiched in an old book (it's super mini-size—about 1.5inches tall). It's one of my alltime favorite finds.

Also a kitty stitched card (front and back).

some bits for upcoming projects

for Tondera!

type + poetry!

Mark Jamra, good pal, from Portland, Maine gifted me these amazing type specimen cards a million years back//from D. Stemple AG. I still oogle over them.

office miscellany

Just a handful of basics from my paper farm.

Oh, and this site slays me!

the details

no doubt—the best truck in minneapolis

black + white wall

march... out like a lamb?!

Lot's of great weatherlore, rhymes and proverbs—here and here.

yesterday

Despite the death of the lucky lady bug, it was an amazing day.
thanks to you all.

sampling of bird trademarks

From Signs + Emblems by Erhardt D. Stiebner and Dieter Urban
Van Nostrand Reinhold Company. 1984

spring fever

My work is keeping me indoors, but outside it's absolutely springy and sunny and I hear birds (even through my closed windows)! I believe there's still ice on our lakes, so no canoeing yet... the good news is, the snow is almost all melted.

flying/falling

small japanese playing card
+
tiny me in the sky

tetherball

Seriously, this used to be my favorite "sport" in elementary school; as well as stilts, the nerf pogo-ball, this makeshift board that balanced on a cylinder, lemondrop, sit and spin and pretty much any 'solo' style loser game. Anyhow, i'd be up for a game, but haven't spotted the apparatus anywhere in minneapolis. maybe tetherball was a michigan and estonian thing?

[clipping from an estonian guidebook—ooops, i don't have the title...]

and one welsh sheep

chicks + eggs / swan + signets

a sampling of springlike cards. happy easter!