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Oh, the sadness I feel as magazines {now Cookie} are still dropping like flies {Domino & WonderTime earlier this year} around me. A relatively new, but a ridiculously quick ascender to the TOP of my list, UPPERCASE, sent vintage postcards with their last issue and invited submissions of any kind. At the time I was working on July’s Feedsack of the Month Club, so my postcard got sewn, stickered, handwritten & letterpressed {i used both uppercase and lowercase U wood type letters} before it was all said and done.

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I would love to contribute more to this curious, contagious, creative magazine and many of my other favorites before the era of the printed magazine is gone altogether. Please, Please tell me that won’t happen. Here is my current subscription list:

{1} Garden & Gun {2} Uppercase {3} Seeing the Everyday {4} Martha Stewart {5} Dwell {6} Sunset {7} Communication Arts {8} GOOD {9} ReadyMade … and then two digital zines {10} Plenty {11} Craft

Some of my euro faves are Junior, Donna Hay & Living Etc.. I have also recently discovered Selvedge, …

I’m curious! What is on your subscription list?



{ sad zine saturday }

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oh, no no no! Remember number eleven on my 25 random things??? well it’s about to come crashing down! the world has lost two fabulous magazines this week, TWO of the greats : Domino and WonderTime. I am sad to say goodbye to that monthly mailbox surprise. The rest of my list, i’m almost afraid to mention, I can’t take anymore publishing plummets:

{1} Seeing the Everyday {2} WonderTime {3} Garden & Gun {4} Martha Stewart Weddings {5} Dwell {6} How {7} Communication Arts {8} Domino {9} ReadyMade … and then two digital zines {10} Plenty {11} Craft

I think you can now get ReadyMade digital style too!, maybe I will go with some of my euro faves Junior & Living Etc. to fill the holes in my heart? What is on your subscription list?



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Meant to post this a while back. I am in awe over the design, innovations and clever details of this amazing live-work space recently featured in ReadyMade Magazine. Shauna Alterio and Stephen Loidolt transformed their Philadelphia rental into an artistic and functional haven that I continue to marvel over. You can delve more into their creative minds here.



“i don’t get medicine”
2008/12/30, 7:01 AM
Filed under: Design, Green, Handmade Revolution, Inspirations, Life | Tags: , ,

wreath_readymadeAbout a month ago, my little boy was found standing on the bathroom counter with the medicine cabinet open and the infant tylenol dropper in his mouth. Yikes! My husband and I were upset {the generic brand container was not childproof} and made a big deal out of it in hopes of scaring him out of never doing it again. It made quite an impression on him – he brings it up almost every day – and hasn’t done it since.

This medicine cabinet beauty made an impression on me. I saw it in my recent issue of ReadyMade. An already well-thought-out packaging re-design, upcycled into some holiday goodness by Tammy of the Precarious Tomato.