Mexican Minimalism

I went to Mexico last Saturday and was blown away by the plethora of color, color, color! Color everywhere. So much. It just made everything so much more exciting & interesting & beautiful, in the most bizarre way. I didn't take a ton of photos, & and all of them were taken from the car, but out of the 20 of them, I was obsessed with how nearly every picture was of a building of an entirely different color, more ridiculous than the last.

And so, here is one of my favorites:

Mexican Minimalism, ladies & gentlemen.

I know, I know, the color isn't too crazy in this picture, but if you want to see the really crazy stuff look at my facebook album "Mexican Color"

Dad's Birthday Card

So my Dad's birthday was November 3rd (& he turned 55!!), but... I was late making him a card, and then I found out he was coming out to visit me (tomorrow), and I decided it was totally okay to put off making it, since I would just give it to him in person.

I spent approximately a billion hours making this. Really though. I'm too embarrassed to tell you how long it took. Except of course I was just reveling in the joy of making it the whole time.

Oh also, I tried to do a design that I normally wouldn't do and so I essentially stole the design from this incredible stationary company (that is too expensive for me) called Welcome to the Look (http://www.welcometoloop.com/doodlespark.html). And really, this card isn't much of a "Father's Birthday Card", but whatev's!

Enjoy.