Come and play at the Letter Playground!

Do you love hand lettering? I know I do! At work I do a lot of hand lettering, but I don't get so many opportunities to do it once I get home. But now I have no more excuses because one of my favorite artist, Nate Williams, just launched a brand new website called Letter Playground, a place to explore and play with letter forms. It's so new that Nate is still working on adding more impressive features, but it's already working very smoothly. You can get a jump start before the site is officially launched simply by registering. You will get a confirmation email after your registration and then you are good to go! Now go create and share it with the world. The sky is the limit!

Note: Nate has already created a whole page of super fun letters on his website. Check it out!

La Cabra

El Caballo

El Buey

El Mono

Mixies is now on my Flickr

As I mentioned in my previous post, I got lucky and found this amazing set of Mixies cards in a local antique shop for $3. The illustrations in this deck are absolutely stunning. It took me a couple of hours scanning and cleaning the images, and now the Mixies set is on my Flickr. I tried to track down any information regarding the illustrator but couldn't find anything. If you know anything about it, please let me know!

Also, while I researched online, I found this blog posted by The Jacky Winter Group, an Australian agency for illustrators, and how they put together a set of promo piece using Mixies as their inspiration. Check it out.

Mixies® is a product by Ed-U-Cards, ©1956

Lucky Find + Super Cute Music Videos

I got lucky today! I found a box of "Mixies" in a local antique shop for only $3! Here's just a teaser. It will take me a little bit of time to scan everything, so stay put. (Mixies ©1956 Ed-U-Cards Mfg. Corp. L.I.C. N.Y. Prid. in U.S.A.)

Also to kick start the long weekend, here are two super dooper cute music videos by U900, a Japanese Ukulele Duo. They will for sure put you in a good mood!

El Ratón

Best birthday card EVER!!!

I should have shared this one long long time ago (my B-day was in June)... My friend Steph (also the guitarist in Softee), knowing how much I love Javier Bardem and luchadors, made this card just for me. Better yet, she fashioned this from a GIGANTIC Hallmark recordable sound card (11" by 11" to be exact and has awesome sound effect; when the music plays, the whole card shakes), and the theme song is "Mexican Hat Dance"... Isn't it perfect? It's so great to have creative friends! :D

Want to see the details of the card? Click the photos and then after you are in the Flickr page, click "all sizes" above the image.

La Serpiente