by Signify. Location: Castiglione, Italy

Merry Christmas!! To keep celebrating the holiday with festive links, here are just a few more that are wonderfully Christmas related.

• Enjoy a variety of festive and super creative holiday typography.
• A collection of gorgeous wrapping for the season from around the web.
• Just a fun, typographic holiday wine label to enjoy.
• Ring in the holidays on a good note – use these music-inspired salt and pepper shakers to add a little flavor to your holiday meal.
• I just love paper cut out creations. These placemats are no exception!
• And now I have to share some Esty.com finds. These gloves are pretty and practical. And this necklace is funky and festive. And my alliteration wouldn’t be complete without a comfy cowl scarf.

Have a very jolly time with friends and family this week!

- Laura

by Signify. Location: Venice, Italy

So in honor of Christmas, I’ve decided to make the focus of my links primarily on the holiday. Hope you like these little gems!

• Here are some fantastic glass ornaments that showcase bits of nature inside. Beautiful!
• It’s coming up sooner than twelve days, but check out this great “Twelve Days” gift idea and countdown candy calendar.
• If your house is still not fully decorated for the season, here are some great DIY projects to do and get on display before guests start arriving. And check out their mantel ideas – stunning!
• Gifts, gifts and more gifts for your artsy and organized friends.
• And here’s one for avid readers when normal bookmarks just won’t do.
• Let’s not forget the perfect gift for those who always grab a cup to go.
• Here are some beautiful PlayShape puzzles for the youngins in your family – or for you. And check out the best stuffed toy idea ever from Shidonni – draw your own toy. Build-A-Bear has got nothing on this one!
• This set of vintage storefront photos sort of reminds me of the best Christmas movie – “It’s A Wonderful Life.”
• And to bring in the new year, why not get this simple wooden calendar? (zoom in for better views)

More on the way next week. And despite all of my gift ideas, I hope you remember the real reason for the season!

- Laura

This weekend Ryan and I went to the Colorado Railroad Museum which is basically a photographers dream – a place to be inspired by the colors, textures and typography of the rail cars. It’s been a while since I’ve posted some eye candy, so I wanted to share our delightful little finds for you all this Monday. Hope you find the beauty in them, too!

Not to mention this would be a great place to shoot some engagement, wedding or trash the dress photography – and I think my cousin Lexia would agree!

Full of bells & whistles,
Laura

by Signify. Location: Gimmelwald, Switzerland

The start of this week’s link-y goodness has a gardening/farming theme. Hence my lovely cowbell photo. I’m somewhat of a farm girl myself and I love landscaping so it’s about time I made this a feature. Happy “digging!”

• Utensils made to look like gardening tools – how perfectly fitting. The designer, Vladimir Rachev, says: “Food is more and more produced in artificial environment. In [the] future we might need a reminder of the cultivation origins.”
• Simple but great “GrowYourOwn” seed packaging design – an easy way to become an amateur farmer.
• On a related note, wouldn’t it be fun to put some freshly cut flowers from your garden in a few of these rubber vases? No worries about knocking these over!
• Follow the doctor’s orders – make sure to track the apples you eat every day on this calendar. From the Etsy seller, VikDesign, “Keep it interesting. Try a Belle De Boskoop, a Newtown Pippin, how about a Peasgood Nonsuch, or maybe a Turley Winesap.” An odd idea but kind of a fun one.
• These typographic coasters are neat-o.
• More for my fellow type nerds – Garamond created out of powerlines.
• Some very cool photo experiments by Adam Voorhes – “exploded” objects.
• And check out this very minimalistic approach to the Nativity scene by Oliver Fabel. Haha.

That’s all for now! Have a fun weekend.

- Laura

by Signify. Location: Milan, Italy

Today’s lineup includes a lot of great packaging design from thedieline.com (one of my favorite inspiration sources) along with a few other goodies. Enjoy!

• I love to see organic elements like handwriting, hand-drawn type and illustration incorporated into design.
• Who likes olive oil? What difference does that make…these bottles are beautiful.
• Speaking of bottles, I would like this bottle of wine to grace my table at Christmas dinner.
• When I have kids, you can bet I will be buying this baby food. They will then graduate to this juice.
• Awesome laser-cut paper packaging and an AMAZING stop-motion paper animation video.
• This necklace is simply beautiful. And this one is super fun – maybe I’ll make this my Dad’s new jewelry project for me…
• Vintage cameras – 28 Camera Drawings by Christine Berrie.

Well I think I’ve given you enough to oogle over for today. Have a great weekend and as always, let me know some of your finds so I can admire and enjoy.

- Laura