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!

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

images from Camper

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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!

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My daily to-do list only seems to be getting longer and longer these days... Rather than feel overwhelmed by the sheer number of things there are to do, I've decided to really focus in on the way I attack the list, and the tools I use to help me. Here are a few that I think could work (and look good in the process!)

1. Action Organizing Clips by Mateo Ilasco // 2. Planner Bag from Holiday Matinee // 3. The Time Timer! // 4. Susy Jack* Day of the Week Clips, available at See Jane Work // 5. Poketo! Tomorrow Planners, available at the OrangeBeautiful Studio+Shop! // 6. Wenge Series 3-C Clock by Jason Linde.

There's never a lack of fun, unique + inspiring goods from the designers selling over at Supermarket... there are just too many for me to show off all of my favorites, so here are a quick (6) for my short list ::

1. Icosahedron Acrylic Painting, $45.00 by Magna Paint // 2. Embroidered Wall Hanging, $68.00 by Neawear // 3. Dip Greeting Card, $5.00 by Milk and Cookies // 4. Chevron Pattern Notes, $9.00/10pk by In-Vita Paper Studio // 5. Neo Tribal Beaded Bar Necklace, $24.95 by Ferociter // 6. Rusty Spring Photographic Print, $30.00 (8x12") from Misha Ashton Photography

Click HERE to see the looonnnngg list...

I'm going to pick up one of these prints by designer/illustrator, Nick Agin to hang above my desk at the shop... In my opinion, it's probably one of the best pieces of advice ever.

Grab one for yourself, and/or check out more of Nick's work here.

Yes! After much shopping-around, and backing slowly away from the normal $100.00 price tag - I'm finally getting my hands on a sweet Lauren Clutch from Hobo International...

What made me splurge? Well, paying only $49 via a special Hobo boutique over at my new favorite place, Rue La La! That site is soooo dangerous!...

I want this bag!

Blame it on my mom's ongoing bird phobia, but I've avoided bird-anything my entire life. When birds were everywhere in design a few years ago I sort of quietly shunned the trend. Which is why I can't entirely explain my attraction to Anthropologie's insane Conure round rug, above, and Trot Home's flamboyant ceramic birds, below.

The 5-foot diameter rug would be perfect for our upstairs hallway, which I describe as a "satellite" hallway (I'm sure there's an architectural term, and that's not it) where the rooms all radiate off a hexagonal, central landing. The colors in the rug would tie together all the wall colors of our bed and bathrooms.

And for some reason I'm seeing those pink birds on my mantle! (I'm sure this would drive my poor mother crazy whenever she visits...)

Top image from Anthropologie. Bottom image from Trot Home.