Design of the Day

Lucky Stripe Studios, Creations by Lea de Wit

I love this flower, given to me by Tess. It is a lively glass sculpture by San Diego glass artist Lea de Wit. It has beautiful red and orange swirls and a meandering vine stem.

Under the name Lucky Stripe Stuidos, Lea designs beautiful jewelry, ornaments, vases and lighting for the home. For Christmas, I gave both of my sisters a hand-blown glass ornament precious metal leaf from Lea's collection. Click here to go to the Lucky Stripe Studios homepage.

She also has an exhibition beginning next week. Go check it out!

"Impressions, Patterns, Textures"
Solo Exhibition of Lea de Wit's Hand-Blown & Kilnworked Glass Wall
Hangings, Vessels, & Sculpture

Artist Reception: March 12, 2008 from 5-7pm

Civic Center Art Gallery
505 S. Vulcan Avenue
Encinitas, CA 92024
760-633-2600

The glass wall hangings portion of the exhibit will be on display now through March 30, 2008. The vessels and sculpture portion of the exhibit will be displayed now through April 29, 2008. Gallery hours are M-F 7am-6pm (closed March 7 & 21, April 4 & 18).

No other place would make sense

Somewhere in between the one thousand "last minute changes" I have to do today, I decided to fit in laundry. Laundry, not because I thought it would be fun, but because the jeans I've worn 5-6 times are starting to stink. My Dad once told me that he used to wear his jeans until he could smell them, then he'd wear them a couple more days. I on the other hand decided to wash mine once they became offensive. So with 5 giant piles of sorted laundry on the floor, where else was Lola to nap for the day? On the clean laundry of course.

Design of the Day

A new section here at Heather Ink! Everyday I will post a design I found either around the web, from my home or new stuff that's coming out.

Click the "Read more" link below to see the full post.

PoachPods, Silicone Egg Poachers

Just crack your egg into the cup and set in a pan of boiling water. The end result is a fabulously domed egg with no mess, and because the egg won't stick to the silicone there is no need to add butter or oil.

These little jems are available at Amazon.com, two for $9.95. Click the link below to go there.

Working breakfast

It's not the easiest thing to keep typing over, but when I have a lot of emails to send or work to do I like to eat at my desk. Lately we've been having a soft boiled egg, homemade wheat bread soldiers for dipping, homemade lemon curd and a banana for health.

Be careful of what you ask for

FAMILY ALERT. OLDEST NEPHEW IS SET TO ATTEND A PROM. ALERT. ALL SYSTEMS GO.

Not only does he have his drivers permit, but now he's going to the prom? With a date? What? This is not possible. Alright. Maybe it is possible, but I will never say I like that fact that he is 16, with giant feet and a deep voice. (I am still taller than him though so all is not lost.)

With the tuxedo rented and the plans falling into place, my sister bravely decided to invite 22 high school kids to her home for a pre-prom party. I received a call for help with the invitations. Yay! If I can't be there to take a thousand embarrassing photos of the kids then I will do my best to contribute in other ways, other embarrassing ways.

For the invite's creative direction my sister was thinking "clip art" and "something with a tuxedo theme." I was thinking, "Do I have any of Jen's prom pictures?"

After a quick call to my parents, a couple of scanned photos arrived in my email box.

My creative direction was falling into place. Last week I picked up some great free dingbat fonts from BittBox.

The theme of the prom is "Our own constellation." Puke. Gag. Vomit. Regardless, these stars worked out perfectly. I got the rest of the details from my sister, and she unknowingly was supporting my endeavor to make this:

I hope she likes it!