Quiz: Guess the movie

Do you love the cinema? Do you love typography? A Friday time-waster for you: guess the movie based on a letter from its poster. (And I think from now on I shall use words like "film" and "cinema" when chatting about movies I've seen. It will make me sound much smarter. For example, "After viewing the film Zoolander at the cinema, I purchased it for our motion picture collection." Sounds smart, right? Except for the Zoolander part.)

Printable cards

Cameron Blazer offers you a free printable thank you card and envelope. Or download these boldly patterned flat cards, customize your message, and print away. Hmm, now I just need to engineer some kind of color printer giveaway on this blog; wouldn't that be something?

Let's all redo some furniture

Poking around in the Furniture Redo Flickr pool made me want to drop everything and run to the nearest Goodwill. Folks have uploaded photos of furniture they've rescued and revived, and it's guaranteed to inspire you to paint something. I especially enjoyed this, this, this, this, and of course, this.

Images above by All Things Artsy.

Brown Links vase set giveaway

Yesterday Fed Ex delivered to my doorstep these porcelain vases. Love 'em. Modern and cool, and dishwasher safe! The design is Brown Links by notNeutral. And good news for you: two lucky readers can win their own vase set, compliments of Accent Furniture Direct! Just leave a comment here before Friday (7/10/09) at midnight CDT with a way of contacting you, and two random winners will be drawn. Winners will be announced on Saturday in this post and emailed.

Accent Furniture Direct offers furniture and home decor pieces in a huge range of styles. Some of my faves:

UPDATE: Giveaway is now closed. The lucky random winners were commenters #530, Katie, and #538, Desi of Forth. Congrats!

Fallen Princesses series

In the Fallen Princesses project, photographer Dina Goldstein explores alternate outcomes for Disney's princesses. What if "happily ever after" didn't pan out? JPG Magazine publishes more of her thoughts and a preview of the series here. Poor Rapunzel.

Mini jello watermelon slices

Happy Independence Day weekend, people of the United States. I leave you with this idea for petite watermelons made from jello and limes, by Chocolate on My Cranium. You can make some for your picnic tomorrow. Have a good weekend!

(Image from Chocolate on My Cranium)

Origami lotus

I made little origami lotus flowers the other day. They're quick and cute! Here's a good video with instructions.

This is all you need to make them. Have fun.