The San Francisco Treat

I can’t remember ever seeing an Anthropologie window or display that wasn’t cool. How fun is this display of the Golden Gate Bridge at the Market Street store in downtown San Francisco? I just wonder what they’re going to do with all Rice-a-Roni when it’s time to take it down…

Edgy, Cool Stickers!

When I was a little girl I used to love stickers. Most kids do, don’t they? Well last weekend…I rediscovered stickers. I was browsing the sale section at the art supply store and spotted a cool looking book: Sticker Bomb 2.

It looked interesting because the images on the cover were not cutesy but graphic, intense and funny. But I wasn’t about to buy it because what I really came in for was spray paint (I’ll have to tell you in another post about the spray paint drama that happened later that evening in my apartment…). A few days later the hubby tasked me with decorating the vintage Gibson guitar we bought him at an antiques fair a few weeks before. I told him excitedly about the sticker book I had found and we headed to the art store. I panicked when I didn’t see it with the rest of the sale items, but after digging a little deeper we found that it had been hidden behind a stack of flowery folders. Ha! It was ours. And better yet, for 40% off! Later that night we embellished his guitar, his iPad cover, my notebook and the decal on my laptop.

I was on a roll. I was totally sticker happy. This book was mad cool. It had an introduction about the street art and culture of stickers written by some of the artists whose work was featured. All of a sudden I felt that I sort of understood the stickered bathrooms of cool bars & live music venues. That Saturday we  planned to add stickers to our bikes (and anything else I could get my hands on) but first we went to my friend Marlene’s garage sale. We bought some very cool stuff, including a CB2 floor lamp with large metal shade. You can probably figure out the rest….yes, that night I most definitely made a sticker project out of it. We’re really into how this new creation brings some edgy-cool (a quality we love about street art) to our living room. Oh, and check out that fantastic horse pillow I bought from her garage sale as well…

I’m going to order the other book in this sticker series. Stay tuned for more sticker creations. Like how my old, boring microwave becomes totally pimp.

Hello?

Posted on the wall in Bica, a coffee shop (that serves fabulous espresso) around the corner from my house. It’s not design related, but “so what who cares?” It’s probably the best thing I’ve ever seen posted in a coffee shop. Or anywhere for that matter. And, yes, I did tear off one of the pieces at the bottom for myself!