--> Our brand-new 2012 Desk Calendar is now available on our Etsy shop!

Modeled after our super-popular Perpetual Desk Calendar, this calendar features the each month of 2012, digitally-printed on 12 different colors of French Paper Co. stock! There's room on the back of each card to fill in important dates and special events... and the cards are housed in a deliciously letterpress-printed display box, perfect for your desk, countertop or mantle!

+PLUS FREE SHIPPING for all of our blog readers: Just enter "OBLOVE" at checkout and your shipping costs will be waived! (Includes our awesome international customers, too!)

If you want both a 2012 and a Perpetual Calendar, check out this listing for a combo pack discount!

Friday, December 16, 2011 at 01:20PM


I'm completely nerding out over these gorgeous pieces by Lora Zombie.

You can pick up a print or two (while supplies last!) right now, over on Fab.com!

Friday, December 09, 2011 at 12:45PM


Bakelite USB Key 21 (8GB) €86 (about $116.00) by Alain Berteau, available (in multiple colors!) from tamawa... via MoCo Loco


MÜNCHEN bracelet (sterling silver w/ leather band), by Tonia Welter.


Four Eyes USB Drive (2GB) $32.00 by Willie Tsang, available at the Curiosity Shoppe


USB Locket (2GB) $240.00 by Emily Rothschild


Wooden USB Stick (8GB) $82.00 from OOOMS


Clé USB (4GB) $55.00 from byAMT.

Tuesday, November 22, 2011 at 10:30AM


It's back to being 60˚ here, so we're not quite ready to bust out the cable knit sweaters... while we wait for the inevitable freezing cold, here are some mock-cableknits to keep you thinking warm!

1. Cable Knit letterpress notecards, by elum, available at GREER Chicago, $13.00/6pk

2. Amazing Vivienne Westwood printed jacket, from Harvey Nichols, £560.00

3. Letterpress Cable Knit Coasters, by Red Bird Ink, $50.00/set of 20

4. Faux Cable Knit Scarf, from Eleventy, $20.00

5. Cable Kint Ceramic Tall Cup, by reshape studio, $28.00

6. Grey & White Cable Knit Picture Frame (4x6 opening), from craftbelly, $30.00

Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 04:15PM


Gold Foil Award Ribbon Stickers, from Knot & Bow

Thanks to everyone who submitted their name to our Relaunch Giveaway! I was so excited to see how many people were still checking in on the blog, even after our hiatus!

So, as promised, here are our winners - chosen randomly from a list of over 200 people! I used randomizer.org to randomly + unbiasedly choose our (9) Runner Up Winners and our (1) Grand Prize/Ultimate Collection Winner ::

If a last name wasn't entered, I included elements of people's email addresses, as to avoid any confusion with entrants having similar names.

I'll be sending all of the winners a direct email this weekend in order to receive your shipping addresses - and your goodies will ship out next week!

As for the rest of you who entered but didn't win - don't worry - there's a little somethin' somethin' coming your way, too!

Thanks again to everyone who entered! We're so excited to be back to blogging!!!

Friday, November 11, 2011 at 05:50PM


I'll be the first to admit that I do not do holidays... I'm not one to decorate - even for Christmas - and, in the last 5 years, Jw and I have only had one Christmas tree, and it wasn't even a real tree: it was drawn on a chalkboard wall!

That said, I'm loving the Holiday Section over at Anthropologie. Those of you who do decorate, get over there right now!

Friday, November 11, 2011 at 03:27PM


I'm so excited about Jessalin Beutler being on Fab.com today!

You're gonna want to get over there before everything sells out! Sale starts this morning at 10AM!

Wednesday, November 09, 2011 at 09:59AM


2012 Monster Calendar, by 55His, in collaboration with illustrator, Chris Sandlin.

Buy one here and check out 55His' blog post about the process of making these beauties.

via NOTCOT.org

Tuesday, November 08, 2011 at 05:00PM








images from Camper

Tuesday, November 08, 2011 at 02:40PM


( ENTER GIVEAWAY HERE )

After a six-month hiatus, the SCOOP blog has gotten some rest, done a bit of re-tooling, and had its feel + focus completely revamped.

You can expect the same design perspective, addiction to style + fashion, and love of print, type + paper that you came to know with the SCOOP, but from here on out, you can call us the OrangeBeautiful Blog!

As a special welcome-back, we're going to get things started with a right proper GIVEAWAY. There will be (10) WINNERS total:

(1) Grand Prize Winner will receive the Ultimate OrangeBeautiful Collection, a package of more than $250 worth of OB's most popular products, including letterpress greeting cards, stationery, hand-bound notebooks and journals, limited edition prints & more!

the remaining (9) Winners will receive a package of $50 worth of our newest limited edition items - currently only available in our north-side Chicago shop!

If you want to ENTER the GIVEAWAY, simply follow the link below by this Wednesday, November 9th 12midnight CST - be sure to clearly enter your name & email address, so that we can easily contact you later and request your shipping information.

Thanks for reading... be sure to bookmark the blog so you won't miss a thing!


ENTER HERE

Monday, November 07, 2011 at 05:00PM


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