Appracadabra » typography http://appracadabra.com/blog The magic world of children's apps and books. Sat, 27 Apr 2013 13:23:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Spring is in the air (typographic birdhouses) http://appracadabra.com/blog/all/spring-is-in-the-air-typographic-birdhouses/ http://appracadabra.com/blog/all/spring-is-in-the-air-typographic-birdhouses/#comments Thu, 08 Mar 2012 19:00:13 +0000 Diana http://appracadabra.com/blog/?p=2342 typographic birdhouse

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Daffodils, little lambs, tulips: in March the Netherlands shake of the winter and start thinking about spring! Time to get out and about, or into the garden to plant new flowers and other green stuff…

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To be honest, I don’t have green fingers. Everything instantly dies when I am to take care of it (only plants, though, I’m pretty good with mammals). That’s why I really like these vintage style typographic birdhouses, made by Jeff Canham! I want a lot of birds coming into our garden and make little babybirds…

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Do you think these vintage type birdhouses will be alluring to birds? Cause they sure do attract me!

 

 

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About Mary Kate McDevitt

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Mary Kate is an illustrator and hand letterer living and working in Portland. She runs a fan-tas-tic Etsy shop, here, in which she sell wonderful handwritten objects. Handwritten Letters is a 365 days project in which she commits to writing a handwritten letter everyday for the next year .

Follow her handwritten letters each day at her blog HandwrittenLetters, here.

My Mary Kate Mini Goal Blackboard

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I’m very happy to own one of Mary Kate’s handwritten objects! It’s a little black board from her Mini Goal collection which I treasure very much. It’s written by hand, in chalk, and I enjoy looking at it every day!

(found via Creature Comforts wonderful blog!)

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Since we don’t have an official office space yet, we’re still kitchen table nomads. But with all the good coffee and Swiss chocolates in Marlis’ & Xanders home, that’s no punishment at all :-)
Another great thing of being here every week is being amazed by wonderful finds in this designer’s home. Like this chalkboard week calendar Marlis made. Beautiful! I like wednesday (coffee.. yum!) and sunday… What’s your favorite day on this calendar?

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(O.., and that’s me taking a pic of that nice chalk board! Not so glam, I know, but somebody’s got to do the dirty work…)

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See, this is the kind of thing we love… If only they were not sold out, one of them would be hanging at our office wall very soon!

Check this fab letterpress print (designed by Joe Newton) out at I love Typograpy, a real cool website on, well, typography. As I said, it’s sold out at the moment, but they might rerun it. And if they do, please let us know…!

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