tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6795358225183778642012-02-03T08:07:31.771-08:00patiencehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02523013801357347704noreply@blogger.comBlogger9851100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-679535822518377864.post-45634753485548886062012-02-01T23:57:00.000-08:002012-02-02T14:22:00.242-08:00

hey ladies! it's time for a contest! a contest to inspire creativity, competition and...love. create a beautiful piece of mail art, with a secret admirer theme - and send it to: patience isavirtue 306-3614 richmond road victoria, british columbia v8p 4r5 canada be as creative as you like, but please ensure that you abide by all postal rules - a minimum size of  4.5x5.5 would be a great

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i told you i would have something great for today! below are the envelopes i'm using for my valentines. i embossed my new stamp - which arrived on monday, in various colours. i'm hoping the fun colours took some of the morbidity out of it... i'm going to add a little saying underneath - perhaps "love is in the air." i also included a little sticker for the receiver to pass on. i can't wait to

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now that i'm married, people ask me often when i plan to have babies.* i say, listen, i've got a teenager, and twin girls and that's more than enough for me! i'm sure i've mentioned it here before, but i'm currently in a sim addicted 'situation'** and i can't get out. but it's okay because i'm convinced it's teaching me a lot about life. for example: one | sometimes life throws surprises at you

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today i was going to post an image of the most recent letter sent to me by my oldest friend and oldest penpal - but i can't find it! it's one of those situations where i cleaned too good and put everything away too well that now i can't find anything. there was a beautiful pencil crayon drawing on the envelope of a sunset! so i crossed my fingers, unlocked my mailbox - and voila! a beautiful

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i just love these journals/books/boxes by baka design. they seem so simple with their fabric coverings, succinct titles and classic fonts. but then i have to stop and remind myself that these are books - that someone made! and there's nothing simple about that! wow. wouldn't these make a perfect gift? a recipe book for a food loving friend...a pretty pink diary for a sweet sixteen... baka

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lowercase gallery presents: brandi deziel what feels like years and years ago, i saw brandi's work at a huge toronto exhibition - and fell in love. i think about toast crumbs (below) often, and one day hope to add a piece of hers to my collection. learn more about lowercase gallery here visit lowercase gallery

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there is a lot of art to be found on the internet. in the same way musicians were able to redefine themselves and share their music using myspace pages - artists can upload their artwork and have it circling the inter-web quicker than anything they could have done irl. i like to wander my favourite artsy blogs and webpages, until i stumble across something that inspires me (which is incredibly

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this is project twenty-two of fifty-two projects. for more completed projects, click here.  project twenty-two | write in the margins of your books. underline your favourite passages. then, make sure to put the books back into circulation.  alterations | i just bought this book so i won't be donating it quite yet! when i first read this book, i borrowed it from the library. there was

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i'm very excited to announce that i've added a new colour to my stationery shoppe! as you may have discerned from the title of this post - it's grey/gray! (how do you spell it?) alright alright, i know grey isn't exactly a colour but to me it is! but if it makes you feel better - i've added a new shade to my shoppe! get your grey on below:  

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there has been a lot of talk lately about goals - it being a new year and all! for most of my life my goals were kept within my head. i always loved making lists but they contained very immediate tasks - finish my art history essay, email my aunt, paint my nails and do my course readings. i think part of the reason i never wrote down my long term aspirations was because to me, they were always

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i was so delighted to receive a finished mail art challenge in my mail box on friday afternoon - from my best friend! of course she's a total gomer and hid her beautiful collage work inside a white bubble envelope! i just love the way she used all the pieces of paper in such creative ways. she pasted on some hilarious lines about humpty dumpty from a music sheet, and cut out a pair of legs from a

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well! for the last two weeks i gave up pushing away my husband's affections (that sounds horrible every time i write it - read the original post here). i'm pleased to say it's one of the best things i've ever given up! no matter what i was doing or how i was feeling, when he came to hug me/squeeze me/playfully harass me, i sat there and took it all in. even when i was internetting*. even when i

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when i was about eleven or twelve, my brothers and i decided that now was the time to investigate the abandoned cottage across the lake from our own. every time we pulled into the bay, lessoning the engine and drifting towards our dock, our eyes would follow that dark cottage with the growing ivy and the collapsed boathouse. in our heads we would invent stories as to why the cottage had been left

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i could spend hours staring at these works by leslie shows, trying to figure out what types of media are making up each layer. my mind jumps back and forth from abstraction to a sense of reality where for a moment, i am almost certain that i'm looking at some sort of tropical beach scene or geological rock formation. i enjoy this video on youtube, where shows describes an installation piece -

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every once in while i make something and i'm just totally in love with it. and hopefully whoever you are totally in love with will love these valentine/anytime envelopes! whew - that's a lot of love! i like the idea of using envelope packs like these to write a series of love letters. they can be used as part of a gift finding scavenger hunt, or hidden about the house for him/her to find...

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yesterday it started snowing for the first time this year. i'm hearing stories about the lack of snow all over canada. but here on vancouver island it's not particularly strange. the first year i moved here, february felt like spring. when i was little my brothers and i use to pour orange pop or pepsi on snow and then eat it like a treat. thinking back, i'm not entirely sure how clean the snow

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today at the post office, the cashier put sticker postage on my first package. booooring. so i kindly asked if we could use real stamps for the second one which was going to france. well by golly - i think they've been holding out on me! look at all these great stamps below! i didn't even know there was such a thing as a 'five dollar' stamp, and i just about died when she pulled out the chubby

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i was getting a little bored of plain coloured envelopes this week and so i decided to switch it up with these letters i mailed out. the first one, is a print-out of the isavirtue blog - seriously that's my blog! it's for dana from wonder forest - the designer of this lovely blog. the second envelope is a print out from a type book scan. my lovely friend magdalyn gave me this beauty for

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you know it's funny - i don't often make cards or envelopes for my husband (though i seem to for everyone else!). in almost every other situation, i think homemade cards and notes win out over store-bought ones. except, j sees me making paper stuff all the time so it's almost as if me 'taking the time to go out to the store' and choose a card for him is what counts for extra effort. so i've been

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why hello! did you shower yesterday? excellent. but you don't feel like showering today? that's totally okay - i understand! but your hair is probably looking a little blah - that means it's time to pull out "the sock bun." all you'll require is some socks, and some hair*. oh, you already have those? well how convenient! follow along with me below: part one | step one | choose some

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this was on honestly wtf ages ago but i am still head over heels in love with these little sculptures by livia marin. with a name as beautiful as her artwork, marin has created stunning, minute moments of fragility. i know for a fact that there is a deeper meaning within these works (fatality and loss/care and continuation, via), but sometimes art is just straight-up beautiful ya know?

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this is project fifteen of fifty-two projects. for more completed projects, click here. project fifteen | set up an art gallery in your apartment/house. seek out original art and buy it. there is original art available at whatever price you can afford. put the art all over the house.  alterations | if anything - i need to buy less art. i'm mostly posting pictures of the art directly, not the art

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i know i've been posting a lot of my stationery lately but i've been having a ball making new things and love sharing them! below is my valentine stationery for 2012. i know it seems early, but keep in mind if you would like to order valentines items online - now is the time! click here to see the full collection. i've got a cool "fifty-two project" lined up for tomorrow so check back!

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today is the first isavirtue art crawl! i have a feeling i'll be crawling by myself but i do hope you will join in soon! i've chosen a selection of artwork that i feel inspired by lately, and posted images below. you can do the same and then add your link in at the end of this post so that readers can crawl from blog to blog looking at art! to learn more about the art crawl, click here. the

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let's get real today shall we? today marks the beginning of national letter writing week 2012. oh, didn't you know that was a thing?* well, if you didn't know - now you do so let's celebrate accordingly! as you can tell from this post, i have very specific beliefs about friendship. i don't believe you have to chat every day, and hear every little nuance of someone else's life in order to

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sooo...about those carbs i swore off. was i crazy?? what was i thinking?? it was certainly tricky, and i pretty much gave up after a week. for starters, i wasn't actually trying to give up carbs so much as bread. but i would find myself choosing between two snacks and thinking "well, this one is chocolate and that 's bad...but at least it's not bread!" so that was unproductive. second, i had some

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lowercase gallery presents: lee price click here to enter the gallery learn more about lowercase gallery here

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this is kind of how i'm feeling lately. a bit down, a bit depressed, but there's some mystery and moments of sheer happiness and colour. emotional metaphors aside, i really do appreciate how each of these works by phoebe unwin have a slightly sinister quality (is that a figure? who is behind that mask?) to them. yet other aspects of them are quite joyful (lines of pink and collective bundles of

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this is project twenty-five of fifty-two projects. for more completed projects, click here. project twenty-five | wake up. call in sick. use that day to do the things you've been meaning to do. alterations | i can't really call in sick when i'm not sick. here's the thing. i've definitely been in situations where i'm not like, terribly, awfully sick - but i call in sick anyways. maybe only

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hello! hello! i'm so delighted to share this post with you. for the past month i have been working on a collaboration with the lovely kate gabrielle from scathingly brilliant and flapper doodle.  when i first saw kate's illustrations, i was tickled pink (like her hair!). i've always had a bit of a soft spot for the roaring twenties, but it was the quieter side of kate's flapper girls that

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it's no secret that i'm obsessed with painting...and text. so really, anyone who puts the two together is after my heart. oh, and silhouettes - i love silhouettes! nesta home, on etsy, prints photographs in colourful silhouettes on index pages of atlases and encyclopedias. be sure to click the link below after peeking at the wonderful images because nesta makes pillows and tea towels too!

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in the spirit of this letter writing style, a review. a photo of myself and my new husband in downtown toronto. two thousand & eleven |  this was a bit of a flip year for me. things feel a lot better at the end than they did at the beginning hearts | i got married in the spring of two thousand & eleven. things were tricky before that with the stress of planning and the related financial

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in continuation of my new, developing obsession with water colours, i am posting these whimsical maps by elisabeth from poppy & pinecone on etsy. similar to the cityscapes created by watercolourist jessica durrant, elisabeth tugs at our heartstrings with her custom paintings of states, provinces and countries. as i begin to fall more in love with my city each day (my home now for just over three

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i know it's thursday and i usually post a fifty-two project. but i think i'm going to start spacing those out a bit. they make me feel a little bit stressful and there are a couple i'm not going to do anything (they involves strange irrelevant things like shot gunning beer and looking for broken umbrellas...). instead i will share a what i made post. which i should have posted yesterday. but you

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as i sit here and wait for my name to be called at the dentist, i can't help but think about how much i dread it. the funny thing is that what i dread is not necessarily the appointment itself but this waiting, and this time leading up to it. on the same subject but on the flip side of things, i also love the wait and the time leading up to good things. birthday parties, paycheques, drinks

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our mail box was absolutely inundated with cards this year! it's been absolutely delightful finding a card  every day. i think a lot of it has to do with the fact that j and i didn't travel back to ontario for christmas this year. but i think it's something else too. j and i got married last spring and strangely enough, i think that's the reason that we received so many joint cards. is it

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visit the stationery shoppe

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okay. how did my cease fire on miscellaneous spending go? all in all - pretty good. especially considering it's christmas time. i had finished the bulk of my shopping but grabbed a few extra little things for j. we also bought supplies for a christmas dinner party we had at one of the galleries i work at. but instead of buying fun dinner party decorations - i made everything myself. and there

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to all my friends, loved ones and readers - have a wonderful holiday weekend!* * that is, if you celebrate this holiday. if you don't, then enjoy december 25th when north america and europe grind to a halt!

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i am totally entranced by by these neon mapping images by aaron straupe cope. a man who is inspired and worked closely with "all things mobile, geo and 'machine-tag' related." appropriately called "pretty maps," the images and colours are based on data from various open sources. you can read more about it here. i think this connection/collaboration between art and technology is truly exquisite.*

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this is project thirty-five of fifty-two projects. for more completed projects, click here. project nineteen | write down the story of an incident in which you're lucky enough to be alive to tell the tale alternations | i'm an incredibly safe person. i know - that's totally boring. but i don't really live on the edge or go on great adventures. that being said, i can't recall any serious

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you know, i think i forgot to introduce the most recent addition to the make art a part (of your life) e-course! the drawing section of the course only had two projects, whereas many of the rest had three. enter kelly from let's die friends. i've always admired kelly's spunky blog and delightful drawings. when i approached her about contributing a project for the course, she agreed. below are

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lowercase gallery is now live! admission is always free! visit the lowercase gallery lowercase gallery is an online exhibition space in which i curate collections of inspiring artwork. the gallery is designed in such a way that visitors will feel as if they are walking through, admiring art on the walls. new art in the gallery will be installed bi-weekly. i encourage you visit often,

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*come back soon for the grand opening of lowercase gallery!* once, when i worked at the robert langen art gallery while doing my undergrad at university, i fell in love with some art. i didn't know it was love at first - but i would stare at this artwork* and become totally entranced by it. i used to get up and just wander by the pieces, admiring the intricate layers and clever use of

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below are some baby shower invites i made for a good friend of mine who is expecting in the new year. i know - they aren't really your traditional baby shower invites. i truly debated whether i should include images of babies, strollers, bassinets or girly things.* but in the end none of it felt very "her" so i went with something that is (in my eyes) just a little more chic. i'm including a

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this past month, i had the pleasure to meet* kaelah from little chief honeybee and hive & honey. rarely do you come across someone with such intense style and personality! she's spunky, super creative and passionate. in her etsy shop she sells adorable little pieces like the ones below. in my quest to make my hair look like this, i have purchased** the first bow - isn't it pretty?? shop hive

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welcome! i'm delighted to introduce you to the new isavirtue blog design! it's a little softer and a lot more fresh. isn't it funny how you start to feel lackluster and it turns out all you need is change? this blog is my new haircut, and it feels good. thank-you so much to dana from wonder forest who did the re-design! there's a lot of changes and fun stuff that i will be introducing as

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how beautiful are these pieces by valerie roybal? roybal uses bits and pieces from discarded books and magazines to create these perfectly balanced works of art. the various sections of colour and the multiple layers make them complex and pleasing to the eye. i love art that incorporates emphemera from the past. i like to imagine the how each sliver (antique post cards, handwritten letters,

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this is project nineteen of fifty-two projects. for more completed projects, click here. project nineteen | write down the story of the best night of your life...more along the lines of past events that aren't so easily identified. alterations | this is not so much a series of events within one night, as it is a very precise, very embarrassing moment that i feel changed my life completely and

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i'm like the frank's red hot sauce lady - except i'm not elderly, and instead of hot sauce it's deer. but regardless "i put that s*** on everything!" okay jokes, but i told you i was going to put this deer on every product i had! shoppe

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i was so delighted to get this awesome piece in the mail last week. my friend shawna used her wallpaper to create the envelope.* i've learned that wallpaper, because of it's thick, water repellent quality, it's actually kind of ideal for enevlopes! i did try it once and it was a little tricky to fold it into place and to get it to stay there. also, when i stamped on it the ink didn't dry - but if

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as part of my quest to "give it up and get better" i'll be giving up something naughty for two weeks at a time, in the hope that it will have some sort of lasting effect and i'll continue to refrain from it on some level. for more sins, click here. money art by hanna von goeler as an update on previous sins, i am only taking the elevator half of the time that i used to. unless i am carrying

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we all have "a thing" right? a thing that gets us excited, makes us loopy with joy and turns us in to total dorks. mine is vinyl lettering. when i worked at a gallery in ontario, i helped out with exhibition installations here and there. mostly, it was my job to take the vinyl lettering down. few else had the patience that it takes to scrape those letters off of the wall. then one day the

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it's a beautiful sunny day in victoria bc, i'll be at an exhibition opening tonight (one which i have worked very hard on) and so what better art to feature than some beautiful, light and fresh watercolours. in accordance with my new obsession with female contemporary watercolourists (here and here), i present to you: samantha* hahn! her ethereal portraits of women make me ache equally for a

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this is project one of fifty-two projects, for more completed projects, click here. project one | gather up all of the letters one of your oldest friends has sent to you over the years. photocopy the letters. put the photocopies in an envelope, and then mail off the envelope to your friend. alterations | none! i love this project!! this one has been in the works since i first began the

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for my birthday in november, j said he would treat me to fifteen dollars at every stamp store in our city. this is one of my fifteen dollar stamps - isn't she a beaut?

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i'm a real material girl. sad to say but it's true. my penchant for art, dresses, craft supplies, jewelry and more art far outweighs any semblance of my "it's the thought that counts" nature. don't get me wrong - i love giving presents. i love being creative, and finding that perfect item for someone. something serious, silly or something they really need. but i also find joy in receiving,

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best. mail. week. ever.  among holiday gifts for j, and other things, this week in the mail i got two fantastic deliveries. the first, were the vintage canadian stamps i ordered from jaime at send more mail. each grouping consists of fifty-nine cents worth of stamps, enough for a letter sized envelope. they are so special! they are unused, in perfect condition and i can't wait to send some

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i can't believe what an incredibly busy month november has been. it's been absolutely non-stop with the holiday orders, the craft shows and the extra gallery shifts. so needless to say i've been feeling really disorganized. my house is a total mess, and so was my desktop. as i looked around at my apartment, it seemed like a whole day project - but the desktop? that i can manage. i have a

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let's buy some art! it seems to me that when it comes to buying gifts for others, art is almost never considered as an option. yes, i'm very aware that art is personal, beauty is in the eye of the beholder and all that jazz - but to me buying art for someone else is really no different than taking the time to painstakingly choose say, a pair of pretty earrings. in both situations you have to

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i've had a bit of a girl crush on kris atomic since the first time i stumbled upon her blog. you know how sometimes you look at yourself and feel like you aren't skilled enough or creative enough? well, when you discover women like kristina, you're bound to think "ohhh, that's where all the talent went!" kristina is a photographer and illustrator who lives in brighton. her blog is simple,

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this is project six of fifty-two projects. for more completed projects click here. project six | you never know when it all might end. that thing about just walking across the street and getting hit by a bus - it really could happen. write a letter to be given to the most important person in your life in the event of your death. alterations | none, but i'm not going to share it here. you know,

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the other day i was chatting with my friend over email about gifts for the men in our lives. she asked me what i was planning to get my husband for christmas and so i emailed her the list. throughout the year i keep lists - in my email, on my iphone, in my moleskine and most importantly - they all get filed into my evernote program (which is gloriously available for mac, as an app for

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i've owed my friend shawna a letter for awhile now but i've been so busy with holiday stationery orders. when j and i were at the hardware store the other day i stealthily snagged a bunch of these beautiful pink paint chips. i made an envelope* out of some of them and then wrote my letter on the rest! i also included a little surprise for her impending birthday celebration... purchase the mail

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let's talk stairs. whew! as part of my quest to "give it up and get better" i'll be giving up something naughty for two weeks at a time, in the hope that it will have some sort of lasting effect and i'll continue to refrain from it on some level. so for the last two weeks i have not taken a single elevator ride...well okay, truth? i took a single elevator ride. j actually forced me to take the

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hey ladies! just a reminder to let you know that you can receive 20% off all (non holiday) stationery products in my shop this weekend! and all holiday stationery is 50% off! i know - it's crazy right? but i really love you! also, buy three envelope packs and get a beautiful floral writing paper pack free :) i know that i like...made this stuff, but i truly believe it would make a beautiful gift

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admittedly i'm not always into textile art. at least, i didn't used to be. i remember one year i was working at a gallery and was told that we were going to have an annual quilt exhibition. i couldn't have been less excited. but boy was i surprised when i saw what those artists had to offer. less traditional "quilt" and more...fabric miracles, those artworks were some of the neatest things i

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this is project forty of fifty-two projects. for more completed projects click here. project forty-five | write a one minute autobiography. don't necessarily start at the beginning and don't worry about the ending. once the minute is up, read over what you have written, and then immediately repeat the exercise. alterations | none, oh, except i obviously stopped at a certain point. i wasn't in

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one of my favourite birthday gifts this month came in the form of this beautiful package below from my friend alex. it was a little worse for wear when it arrived, and i was a little lacking in wear when the postman arrived with it! i literally couldn't find a robe so i just stuck my hand out the door for the mail! *awkward* contained inside the envelope was an endless number of art cards,

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as a huge advocate of online shopping, i'm kind of jealous that cyber monday is so u.s.a. focused. however, i think the world wide web is kind of an entity all its own with no geographical location. so i'm jumping on the band wagon and celebrating black friday/cyber monday too! from november 25-28, visitors to my etsy shop will receive 20% off with the coupon code CYBERMONDAY. in addition, orders

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i've been pleasantly inundated with holiday orders this season. friends, family and strangers have been ordering my stationery to use for their holiday greetings to their own loved ones. i'm really pushing to change people's idea of traditional holiday cards - in that they don't have to be cards, but notes, writing paper, postcards or flat cards. the first two images below show one of my largest

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i've put together this gift guide based on items that i think are perfect for any mail enthusiasts, letter writers, package pals and journalists. which of these are you favourite? one | a beautiful packaging kit from sweet findings two | recycled mail book from bad books three | ruler notebook from bailey doesn't bark four | an adorable first letter writing stationery set from a lane

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in 2007, when j and i had already been together for almost three years, if someone had told me that in four years i would be even more in love with him, i wouldn't have believed it. i would have said "nope, no way. it's not possible. how could i ever love this man more than i do now, right at this very moment?" except, as it turns out - it is possible. now that the fuss of our wedding earlier

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alyson fox is a renaissance artist in a contemporary art scene. that is not to say that she paints in the classical style of the renaissance, but that she is multi faceted. from design, to jewelry, to ceramics and multi-media drawings, fox's talent is incredibly clear. her work on the other hand, not so much. more dream-like then reality, the artist creates scenes that carry undertones of

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this is project twenty of fifty-two projects. for more completed projects, click here. project twenty | write some letters. then, go to the library and place the letters in some books. the letters can be about anything, to anyone but keep them anonymous, untraceable. alterations | i didn't write these as letters to people so much as actual letters to the readers of the book. in the letters, i

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if i could put this super adorable deer on every form of stationery - i would. and i just might! for now, here are a bunch of pictures of the same product for your viewing pleasure (seriously, tell me he isn't the cutest thing since bambi!).  also, i've begun making some simple do it yourself note card kits. they're great because after you complete the project in the kit, you can still use

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remember this? that was the package i sent to my pal in florida. we are participating in gentri lee's package pal project and i received mine today! see below for fun images :) i'm a little scared to try the combo (she knew i would be!) but i sure am excited about the chocolate/english toffee heath bar! and that mustache card is awesome - i think i'll write j a card since he shaved for me

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okay - so check this out: a couple weeks ago i was at a party and my best friend reached in her purse and pulled out this. she said she thought it was materials from my mail art challenge and sure enough it was! i'm totally amused by the fact that one of her friends put in an order at my etsy shop, had it delivered to ontario, created this mail art and sent it back to my friend who lives in

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don't we all want to be a better person? learn how to handle our vices? well, i'm going to take a stab at it and i'm going to do it in a unique way. for my 26th year, i am going to give something up* every two weeks. when the two weeks is up, i can have it again. now, this might totally backfire right? but here's my theory. people say that if you stop eating sugar for a week or two, your body

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stress. i love it. i mean that! i love endless to do lists -  i love adding to them as much as i enjoy crossing things off of them. i don't mind when things are due the next day because it gets me moving, and gets my heart pumping. i feel alive - and not in that dangerous "i'm going sky-diving" way. just in a simple, "i'm human and i thrive on tasks, results and future events" kind of way.

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this is it! the winners of the week long big birthday are as follows: monday | the winner of the pretty plane stationery is angela from simply simple me tuesday | the winner of the sidebar spot is kaycie from redhead memories wednesday | the winner of the free e-course is brittany from the first grade crush thursday | the winner of the jackpot giveaway including stationery, a

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yay it's my birthday!  it's kind of cool and i think i'm officially more excited than scared to turn another year older. though to be fair i've actually always been fairly lax about getting older.* anyways, i've got great goodies today for you! it's the last giveaway of the week so i wanted to make it a special one! first, check out monday's giveaway (stationery), tuesday's giveaway (sponsor

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welcome to the wednesday isavirtue giveaway! don't forget to enter monday's giveaway and tuesday's giveaway! all giveaways are open until thursday night!and don't forget, all week long products in the isavirtue stationery shop are 26% off with the coupon code BIRTHDAY26 (to celebrate turning 26!). in addition, my e-course has been reduced by 26% as well. i'm actually really excited about today's

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welcome to the tuesday isavirtue giveaway! only three more days* until my birthday so that means three more giveaways for you to enter! feel free to enter yesterday's giveaway as well, they are all open until thursday night! as a reminder, all week long products in the isavirtue stationery shop are 26% off with the coupon code BIRTHDAY26 (to celebrate turning 26!). in addition, my e-course has

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i am so gosh darned excited about this week full of giveaways! i think you are all so wonderful and you deserve each and every one of the things i'm giveaway away and more! however, since i am only one person, i had to get creative. for starters, from now until sunday november 13th, you can receive 26% off all products in my online shop by using the code BIRTHDAY 26. in addition, my e-course -

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on thursday, november tenth, i will officially climb over the hump of the twenties and turn twenty six. i can hardly believe how quickly twenty-five flew by and now it's already gone! to celebrate the hump, i'm doing a week full of giveaways. in addition, all items in my shop will be 26% off all week (with the code BIRTHDAY26) and my e-course will also be 26% off! (already discounted) all winners

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lately i've been noticing just how much of a font snob i really am. i'm not all technical about it (although i do get a serious kick out of this kerning game), for me it's more of a visual thing. when i see comic sans or lucida handwriting, i find myself wanting to curl up in a ball and cry. certain fonts just rub me the wrong way - mostly because other people don't seem to understand that fonts

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when i was in university i wrote an essay about behaviour in art galleries. i can't quite remember what class it was for, but it had something to do with people and architecture and public spaces. eventually that subject is what inspired my thesis.* probably because it has always been an issue that has perturbed and fascinated me. without realizing it, the essay i wrote was biased because i was

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when i worked at the kitchener-waterloo gallery, i remember seeing a picture of artwork that was just a series of lines. something about the simplicity and organization of the piece attracted me and i knew i wanted to try the same thing. call me a copy cat, but in all fairness, i've seen various versions of this style of colourfield art over the years. case in point: these wicked colourful

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this is project forty-two of fifty-two projects. for more completed projects click here. project forty-two | take some chopsticks from your kitchen drawer, and, along with twenty-five dollars cash and a chinese take-out menu, seal them up in an envelope. mail off the envelope to one of your currently unemployed friends, your college aged kid brother or sister... alterations | we've been

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yesterday we had a stationery party at my friend's house. she kindly offered to host the party for me which worked out well seeing as i don't even have a table... i took full advantage of her dining room table by arranging my stationery and baked goods all together. it was a great success and i met some lovely new ladies. below are some pictures of the things i made* * disclaimer -

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remember when i posted about these amazing ceramics by blackbird studios? today i wanted to showcase her jewelry. i'm not really one to collect too many artsy tchotchkes because i worry they won't all look nice together. but jewelry...well i'm always collecting that. you just can't have too much i say! shop blackbird studio jewelry

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one hundred and fifty-nine envelope templates. the most i have ever completed in one grouping. i'm concerned i have some version of carpal tunnel syndrome as my right and left hands have intermittently been going numb but hey, don't they look pretty?

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last year i read about the sketchbook project and i thought it sounded really cool. i was intimidated by the idea of "sketching" however. when i came across it again this year, and i got the chance to view some of last year's books, i realized its not specifically sketching but closer to a free for all expression of creativity which can include drawing, painting, writing etc. so i ordered mine,

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a couple of weeks ago i was reading this blog and i came across the term "synaesthesia" (or synesthesia). the author asked "how can heather be a brighter name than george? how can a calendar surround you?" questions that at first sounded a little nutty - even to me. but then something clicked and i thought "i know exactly why it's brighter! and of course a calendar can surround you. the reason

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surreal, natural, technical, digital, geometrical, fantastical - this artwork* by 20x200 artist jennifer sanchez blows my mind in every possible way. there is something to be said for artists that create something so loose and free, and yet are able to form it into a composition that is pleasing to the eye. to me that is a sign of a true artist. sanchez describes her work as a study of

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this is project thirty-eight of fifty-two projects. for more completed projects, click here. project thirty-eight | on one of those rainy days when the season is not quite ready to make its shift into the next, those noticeably different, quirky days that bridge summer to fall - take a picture outside the one window you always go to when you just want to stare outside and feel comforted by the

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it's been a great week for isavirtue. twenty four stationery sets (as seen below) were accepted on consignment at smoking lily's sister store, the milkman's daughter. i also received a large order of sixty-five sets from the papery. woohoo! ok...now i have to go and get to work! shop isavirtue

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i'm loving these simple but uniquely geometricaly shaped pendants/necklaces by eve cg designs. as i get older, i find myself less and less obsessed with big chunky pieces and more drawn to tiny bobbles that have just the right amount of quirk to draw in the eye. eve cg designs

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