{please visit pretty smitten here}
I understand turquoise is THE color for 2010. I don’t know about you, but turquoise (although beautiful and always in my heart) was my color last year. This year is beginning to show herself as moss green. Elizabeth Johnson feels my pain. Johnson is the face behind Pretty Smitten, a company [...]

{please visit lovely pieces here}
You know how when you fall in love the world looks somehow brighter? The sky is a deeper blue, the flowers shine and even the clouds sing of spun cotton as they cushion rainbows. Ashley Austin obviously knows that feeling.  Austin is the mastermind behind Fine Day Press, a line of [...]

{please visit modern chic home here}
Nothing makes me happier when I am scouting for the BSP then to A) find a gem that perhaps you haven’t heard of yet, B) finding a contributor that totally ‘gets’ the project and bonus C) is a kindred spirit. Interior Designer, Julie Thigpen the founder of Modern Chic Home [...]

{visit graphic image here}
We had the extreme pleasure in September of last year to do a feature + give away with Graphic Image. They gave away a generous Italian leather dictionary and thesaurus set.  Miss K and I considered many times entering to try to win ourselves, after all they are our favorite books and [...]

{visit chronicle books here}
If you are an avid reader you probably have your favorite authors but not necessarily a favorite publishing house. Well, I love books and I love nearly anything from Chronicle Books.  Viewing their newest catalogs inevitably fills my wish list each and every time. It is easy for me to deem [...]

{please visit dingbat press here}
There’s just nothing like your home team winning the Superbowl (proud Louisiana girl + Saints fan here). Except maybe beautiful, letterpressed calligraphy. Adrienne Berry of Dingbat Press understands my love for this art because she’s made it her mission to create amazing examples of such. Outside of her love for her [...]

{please visit jimbot here}
I was first introduced to Jimbot on Apartment Therapy last summer. My household has a strong affinity for all things robot and monster and I fell in immediate and undying love with the mind (and subsequent artwork) of Jim Demski. Demski lives in Wisconsin with his wife and baby girl and spends [...]

{please visit vol. 25 here}
I first was introduced to Jessica Rose, the beauty and brains behind vol25, last March via Indie Fixx’s Free Your Soul art project. Imagine my giddiness when I saw that she was the next contributor here at the BSP!  Jessica, a self-taught artist, was a quarter of a century old when [...]

{please visit bink & boo here}
by Miss Krista
Thrifted materials, limited edition inventory, bright and sunshiny colors, adorable and unique baby accoutrement, one of a kind pocketbooks…should I continue? Seriously, if I haven’t captured your attention, we need to talk about priorities. Take all of the above and throw in an authentic SoCal aesthetic and you’ve [...]

{please visit hard candy here}
There’s so many ‘Where were you questions’ that can be asked to start a conversation.  Ie. ‘Where were you when Kennedy was shot?’, ‘Where were you when the Beatles broke up?’, ‘Where were you when MTV launched?’ For most of us we don’t have an answer, we weren’t even a twinkle [...]