Chilly? This blanket is reserved for the serious cartographist.

Is that even a word? Cartographist?

If I had like, three more hours in the day, I’d run a frivolous little shopping site, full of pretty things that don’t need to be quite as expensive as they are.

This lovely wooden lamp would totally make the cut. It’s £144, so maybe instead I’ll have the husband make one for me.

You know, if HE gets three more hours in his day, too.

OK, we need to talk about the new Clare Rojas for Chronicle Books journal.

Don’t get me wrong; I’m not going to abandon my beloved TeuxDeux method quite yet, but you guys. Whoa.

You already know I’m in mad love w/ Clare Rojas herself, and this cloth journal is just so, so well-made. Perhaps I’ll use it to keep track of all the jobs I have (since I know you readers love making fun of me for my fickle-ness!).

Or maybe for my new life list, which will be coming soon.

Stay tuned. ;)

A tree stump turned turntable. What would one even call that?

Awesome.

For Jack’s final crit project, he braided an area of grass.

Ah, man. Artists make me weak in the knees.

Henrik Vibskov loves fringe almost as much as 1986 did.

And look! A human carwash!

Paul Dersidan created stamps for every color of the rainbow. Wouldn’t these look lovely if shipping an international package where multiple stamps are required?

Yummy work, Paul.

You’re familiar with Christine, yes? Of Small Magazine and Little Bean shop? I certainly don’t have children, but if I did? Whoa.

Also, can we talk about how adorable her children’s names are? Amelie and Miette? Get out of town.

Also again? Cutest tooth fairy story EVER below.

Anyway, Christine is here to share her inspirational day with us — from her home to yours! Enjoy, and thank you, Christine!:
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6:49 Wake up. The girls always sneak into our bed at some point in the night. I manage to crawl out of bed, grab some coffee and make the girls lunches.

7:17 Sit on the couch with my 3 year old, Amelie and check my email. Well, try to. Instead we have a blank Word Document up and Amelie is randomly tapping letters and making me sound them out into crazy sentences. She laughs. I laugh. Amelie has the BEST laugh.

7:30 Amelie, Miette, Steven (my husband) and I eat breakfast. Help my 6 year old, Miette get dressed for school. My husband takes her to school.

8:05 Amelie and Steven have a dance party. I applaud and check my email. Shower and get ready for work. It’s a battle this morning to get Amelie dressed. It’s very cold and she wants to wear a sundress and hot pink sandals. She keeps asking us “When are we going to the beach house?” This girl LOVES the beach, dislikes winter. Just like her mama. Steven takes Amelie to school.

9:22 Drive to work and think about what I am going to work on first today. Organize the shop; get right to sewing or work on Small Magazine.  Decisions, decisions…

9:45 Open the shop. Get some music on. This morning I am in the mood for Miike Snow. Organize the shop. Clean a bit. Check email. Organize all of our advertising for the Spring Issue of Small Magazine.  My studio is right behind my shop so I get back there and figure out what orders I need to get started on.

10:44 Finish cutting out 19 dresses for a wholesale order.  I really enjoy this part of production. It’s a calming task. I help a few customers who come into the shop.

12:20 Eat lunch and read blogs. There is a great café next to the shop but today opted for brown rice and broccoli. I work on a few layouts for Small. Check the time in Australia where Olivia my co-editor lives to see if she’s home or awake yet to chat about the next issue. I love that we can still work on the magazine even though we are currently in different time zones. It’s still too early there…

1:15 Sew.

2:00 Sew some more. Some customers come into the shop.

2:45 Still sewing.

3:35 Steven and Miette come to the shop. Steven is a photographer (also the photo editor of Small) so I take advantage of that daily on all my projects. Miette is also my favorite model. Today we are photographing my Fall/Winter 2010 collection. I need to get it out to my showroom for an upcoming market. Steven has a little photo studio behind mine.

5:00 Close up shop. Drive home and look forward to dinner. Steven is cooking tonight. He is an excellent cook!

6:00 Eat dinner. This usually consists of the girls taking a bite of their food, getting up and dancing and Steven and I telling them they must sit and eat. We wonder if we will ever have a meal where everyone just SITS and eats.

6:30 Homework. Miette has to fill in the missing numbers from 1 to 100. Kindergarten is pretty intense. Remember when the only thing expected from kindergarteners was to color inside the lines? She’s done and she is off to the playroom with Amelie to dress up and play. Steven and I talk a bit about our day.

7:05 I promised Amelie this morning that we would make cupcakes tonight. She loves to cook. In fact Steven said she made the meatballs for tonight’s dinner all by herself.  I give the girls the task of getting the pans ready. I have to distract them after we finish mixing the batter otherwise they will eat spoonfuls of it.

7:30 Miette lost her second tooth today. She does not want the tooth fairy to take it so we write her a note to please leave the tooth AND the money.

7:40 Cupcakes are done. We each eat a cupcake with some milk. Amelie only likes the icing and Miette only likes the cake. A match made in heaven. I like the whole cupcake.

7:50 The girls and I take a bath. This is my favorite time of the day. We relax, talk about our day and laugh. A lot.  Unless I have to wash their hair…

8:15 Read a few library books to Miette. She brushes her teeth and I tuck her into bed. Steven goes in to tell her a story. Amelie and I hang on the couch and watch some SpongeBob. I check my email.

8:40 I read Amelie some books, help her brush her teeth and get her into bed.  I work on Small Magazine on my laptop on the couch. Most nights are devoted to working on the magazine. But tonight I just want to watch some television.

9:00 Steven and I watch Chopped. I love this show.

10:00 Brush my teeth and go read in bed. I make it through about four sentences into an article in the New Yorker.

10:05 Fall asleep.
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Denise Kupferschmidt certainly knows how to use a dash of paper.

I learned this pose in yoga yesterday, so I can totally rock it, especially in such awesome garb.

Who wants me to model for them? Bueller? Bueller?

Awesome, world-class photo found at SWNKDLLR.