CFS Loves

 TEA! The English love tea. I seem to be offered a cup of the stuff everywhere I go. While I love tea, Earl Grey is not for me and  mostly I opt for green. Here is some interesting browsing to go with your cuppa of choice.

•  Propaganda posters for the ‘Social Network War‘.

• Jessica Stanley’s  The Quiet Tourists Guide to Hackney couldn’t be more timely! It’s an insider’s view on everything that’s good and great in East London. As it’s all local to me, I will be merging this list with my London must-see list.

• A recipe for tomato and curry leaf soup - it sounds delicious and the photos are gorgeous. A perfect autumn lunch.

• Mad Jack Fuller’s pyramid inspired grave – as photographed by Barbara Ryan.

• Landing pages for lead generation. Excellent stuff for anyone advertising and making sales online.

• What Girls Need. So refreshing and insightful. Read this now, whether you have a vagina or not.

• Why writing a novel is like running a marathon.

• And in a related vein – Seth Gobdin writes about Failures & The Dip or why you have to push on through.

• Back to the Future - this meme has gone on for a while, but here’s a batch of fresh recreations of family photographs. I’m tempted to make my own!

• DIY party animal candles – perfect for both young and old celebrations.

• The Beekeeper’s Bible is high on my reading list with a ‘extensive history of beekeeping section, a food and drink section, a domestic uses for bee products section AND a craft section’.

• And last, but certainly not the least of this list – Steve Job’s iconic Stanford commencement speech. Read it, and take a minute to think about how this man ‘dinged’ our universe.

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•  Urban stargazing in London – a project by Oscar Lhermitte.

• Even famous authors get rejected…

• Where Children Sleep –  by James Mollison features children from around the world, and their bedrooms. It’s a provocative, moving series – and will make you ask a lot of questions about the rights of children.

• Exploding paint typography: watch these videos, they are gorgeous.

• Hello! I want a one of these Peugeot café racers. It’s such a sweet moped, forget the pedals, let’s go gas.

• I really like James Clar’s artwork: Global English. It’s exceptionally clever.

• How to talk to little girls. Yes, yes, yes. This approach (engaging them not complimenting them)  is good! And works excellently with  grown women too. “Cute shoes” is such a dire way to start a conversation.

• Juliewillyoumarry.me – a super cute illustrated proposal. This was lovely.

• Kate Moss wedding photo.

• Enjoy the holidays in Paris with Prêt à Voyager’s list of (mostly free) summer fun!

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• I love The Selby’s shoot of Karen Inderbitzen-Walller and Delphine Avril Planqueel’s home. It has a very retro and bitsy Kiwi feel to it, reminiscent of a grandmother’s house. And they have the cutest bunny!

• Yee-haw Letterpress – some darling artworks here, in the vein of traditional Americana.

• An iced watermelon in Korea.

• A list of the top 10 misused English words.

• A squee worthy gallery of baby squirrel photos. I can’t wait to make friends with squirrels in the UK.

• I adore these hand-coloured photographs of Japanese life from the late 1800′s to early 1900′s.

• It’s touted as a DIY wedding hair style – but to me this pretty Gibson roll on Cup Of Jo says classy dinner date, or summer picnic.

• Video: a year of make-up applied to the face in a single day.

• David Lynch fans, check out these photographs of Twin Peaks locations, 20 years on!

• Devour: a series of clever space/saucepan images by Christopher Jonassen.

• These candy striped camera straps by Union set my heart-a-flutter.

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