bread of many

FREE PRINTABLE : PINWHEEL STATIONERY SET

noreply@blogger.com (haley) — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 17:19:00 +0000

I'm sure we all agree that Friday totally rules, but today is an even better Friday than usual because I have a present for you!

&Presents are the best ever! Especially useful presents!

&This useful present features the pretty little pinwheels I've been drawing all week!

The set includes :

5.5" x 8.5" letter sheets (2 to a page - I recommend printing these on lightweight paper)
5.5" x 4.25" (A2) folded note cards (2 to a page - I recommend printing these on cardstock)
5.5" x 4.25" (A2) envelope template (These are also best printed on cardstock or heavier paper)

The Pinwheel Stationery Set is free to download and print as many times as you want, but is not intended for resale or any other commercial use. Etc. Please be nice, y'all..

download PINWHEEL STATIONERY SET

Please enjoy and have an excellent weekend!

I'll be spending mine with Tisa, my dear sister, to celebrate her birthday!

HELLO AGAIN! PLUS : FONT FEST! (PART TWO)

noreply@blogger.com (haley) — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 13:48:00 +0000

Hey y'all!

I really tend to hibernate in the winter, especially when the weather goes from so so cold to cold as the dickens! Here in DC that change happened in the past week or so, and as a result I've mostly been holed up in my house under blankets.

&you know what that means!

No?

It means : ~~wasting~~ spending so much time digging through the internet!

During a recent dig, I stumbled upon this post on Pikaland which turned me onto this legitly badass typography resource on the legitly badass (and legitly in spanish) neo2 blog! They feature loads of unique lettering styles by loads of illustrators &designers.

LOADS!

I wanted to share some of my favorite fonts (which are freeee to download!) and barely got past the first page of them before having way too many for sharing to be reasonable.

So instead of all my most-faveys ( way too hard to pick ), I instead give you this little taste test of what you'll find on the site :

{ psst.. I highly recommend you click this pic so you can see these fonts in BIG size. worth it }

links :

Agadulce by Luis Vicente Hernandez Gonzalez
Nico (shown : Nico Medium) by Ipsum Planet
Minimeter by Anton Studer
Goodbye (shown : Goodbye Black) by Anton Studer
Isosibilia (mistakenly shown as Iso Type) by Rodrigo Fuenzalida
Laser by Oscar & Ewan
Motion (shown : Motion One) by Anton Studer

{ p.s. 'font fest' heading is in Pee Pants Script via this post on Poppytalk }

{ p.p.s. image under sample text is the design from my Reckless Pumpkin Flat Note Set available in my Felt & Wire shop }

*****

p.s. i have green hair now!

It's pretty fun. I feel kinda like a vegetable.

In a fun way!

I decided that if I were a vegetable I would be a haleychoke. Just makes sense.

FRESH RELICS : 2008 POLAROID ADVENTURE!

noreply@blogger.com (haley) — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 13:09:00 +0000

Sup y'all!

I'm back ( yay! ) after a crazy-nutso-hypersuper-busy ( barf! ) couple of months!

Over the past couple of weeks I've taken on the supremely daunting task of finally getting around to scanning some of my 300 million bazillion drawings/chicken scratch/photographs/small weird bits of paper.

Jeez louise, talk about tedium. ( ugh, actually, let's not )

Anyhow, since I'm spending all these mind-numbing hours doing this, I thought I would share some of my most favey thingsies from.. The Past..

( oh la la! )

..including so many polaroids..

welcome to it!

One fine day in the year 2008, my best pal PJ and I set off on a day trip to a far off suburb. Equipped with a polaroid camera, we bought thrift store disguises immediately upon our arrival and did weird stuff while we explored the town.
( fact : this adventure was the first time I'd ever used my polaroid's self-timer for some reason )

{ pre-disguises : }

{ post-disguises : }

{ these next two are supposed to look like a magic trick, I think }

{ this one is my favorite picture from the day. took me foreeeever to set up }

{ in case you're wondering, the red smear on my face is fake blood. }

We used a few packs of film on this trip, so I know there are bunch more polaroids from that day.. somewhere around here..

At the end of this post I find myself wondering whether I'm too old to play dress up and have photoshoots?

( maybe don't answer that ! )

FYI -or- I COME CLEAN ABOUT WEIRD AL

noreply@blogger.com (haley) — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 19:28:00 +0000

My name is Haley and I legitly love Weird Al. I think he's a genius. He is, you know.

{ click for a big ! }

Have a rockass weekend!

TODAY'S TRAPPINGS

noreply@blogger.com (haley) — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 15:58:00 +0000

Aloha, good people of Komputerweldt!

This is just a quick post wherein I will show you the packaging of an order I just shipped out :

The smaller guy on top is the actual order, my Paper Keys Mini Note Set. The tiny note cards & teensy envelopes were slipped inside a glassine bag, which was sealed with a cardstock bag topper heavily decorated (maybe too heavily? this is very possible..) with a bajillion paper snips & finished with a label.

the larger part is a handmade envelope cointaining a few bonus surprises (surprises are rad!). I can't tell you what they are cause you know, surprises an' all. I drew a stitchy line along all the edges on the back of the envelope.. you know, just to give it that certain je ne c'est quoi. The envelope seal was made from a drawing I did.

which brings us, lastly, to STRING : the no-fail finishing touch!

I don't much care for a plain manila envelope, so I used some completely crooked pieces of card stock to cover it and make an address label.

Then I mailed it! Yay!

In reality I am knee deep in packages. Packin' packages all the live long day, yes sir. ..I'm telling you guys this because I want you to brace yourselves for what could be a veritable onslaught of PACKAGE PICTURES.

I will attempt some self-control &try to maybe only show a couple of other packages, but in case that fails.. don't say I didn't warn you. I did! I just did!

SHOW & TELL : PSEUDO-ADVENTURES IN BOOKBINDING!

noreply@blogger.com (haley) — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 00:12:00 +0000

hello, kids! wanna see some stuff i made one time??
YES, GOOD!! LET'S SNEAKY-PEEK!

LITTLE-KNOWN BUT COMPLETE &TOTAL FACT :

BOOKBINDING is officially my newest &totes most favorite pastime in all of the land!!

#1 hobby-style supreme!!

..I haven't even been doing it a year, so obviously I still have a ton more to learn before I can be crowned King of all the Books and open my own technicolored bookbinding dojo.. or whatever..
..but even as a beginner I'm completely infatuated with the whole process.. it can take a long time but it is just so satisfying when it's finished.

check it :

For some reason I have a much much much easier time working hard on a project as long as the end result is intended as a gift for a person I like lots. It sort of gives me an excuse to make.

Soooo, with this in mind, I recently decided to make a gifty little set of blank book-babies for my singularly all-star champ of an older sister..

I printed all the patterened papers myself, using kits from A Print A Day's digital shop Parasol Co. as well as designs from Reprodepot Pattern Book : Folk (which, btdubs, is a *sick* resource.. it's endlessly useful and inspirational)

The books are small, a little less than 4 inches square, so I made a slipcase-style home for the little guys (now they'll never get lost!). The slipcase was also a chance (read : excuse) for me to flex my box-making skills(nerd nerd nerd)

The inside pages of each book were made with a lightweight paper that coordinated with the cover pattern. The paper was cut into strips and accordion folded before being glued into the covers, which were made beforehand. Making the covers first gives the glue time to dry while you bind the bookblock. yay!

(sidenote : making accordion fold books is so so fast and so so easy, which leaves you more time to do things like.. say, build a slipcase. I always feel like I'm cheating a bit when I make this type of book because of how quick it is, but that's insane.)

I'm pretty pleased with how they turned out. They're pretty adorable and the size is just right : Small enough to bring along in your bag, big enough to actually be able to write/draw/glue things into.

I can't wait to see what my sister fills them with! I have a plan to make a whole bunch of these and document a month in each one.

best sib-sis I ever had!

FONT FEST!

noreply@blogger.com (haley) — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 13:07:00 +0000

Due to an acute case of insomnia last month, I managed to add over 25 new fonts to my obsessive collection..

&then I realized that I should share the wealth! { plus that helps me justify the amount of hours I spent looking at fonts.. }

also: One of my goals in life is to:

a) find, & b) hang out next to: the Tumtum tree!

from the Jabberwocky by Lewis Carrol...

Yeah.. I think about that old tree a lot.. { hence the text in the font samples }

..Right. Chew on this! { these! }

psst.. click for big-style action

1. Amandine

2. Combustion Tall BRK via Fonts 101

3. Chinese Ruler

4. Trueblood

make-a-click, make-a-big

5. Armenian Circus

6. Men In Black Credits

7. Miss Brooks

8. Coventry Garden NF

click. big.

9. Giddyup via Fonts 101

10. My Underwood

11. Peppermint Canes

12. Witched

**** unless noted otherwise, all of these here fonts are from FontSpace ****

Oh wait! TOTAL BONUS :

The font I used to number the uh, other fonts is none other than mine very own-made Romantique!

You can download it here, and while you're there, you may as well grab my other font, Shirtsy!

Enjoy!!

WANT/NEED : AS IN : I WANT. NEED. A NEW OUTFIT

noreply@blogger.com (haley) — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 00:01:00 +0000

please!

babydoll dress - $22 - dirty betty vintage

lace up boots - $19 - haley sea

monarch wing necklace - $16 - what the rock

PHOTOS : GHOST SCHOOL

noreply@blogger.com (haley) — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 09:31:00 +0000

Derelict buildings never get old. All my favorite playgrounds have been inside the ruins of old schools.

Fading into squalor so that twenty years later I can run amok : that is what schools are for!

{ yay immaturity! }

At the end of April, PJ and I quested to Woodstock, New York, where my brilliant cousins Ariana & P live.

They are pretty much The Wussup in every sense, and took us one day to a run-down Catholic school nearby..

{ yay adventure ! }

it. was. reallyrilly cool. the proof is in the pudding(pictures) :

{ Read More! pitchers from BUILDING #2 after the jump, y'all! }
{ p.s. I am so obsessed with the skeleton staircase outside BUILDING #2 }

{ them doilies behind some of the pictures are from another Pugly Pixel download, Paper Buffet }

The Lovely Blogger List !

noreply@blogger.com (haley) — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 18:35:00 +0000

I've said it before : I love, love, love Lovely Clusters. Love. What's not to love?

dreamy handmade thingsies + color/product categories = such such a pleasant way to view things

{ specimen : a blue cluster }

So when I saw that Rachel (the lovely clusterer) had started the Lovely Blogger List, I was all like : 'I'm gonna do that!'

So here is my lovely blogger introduction. a h e m

If you are soooo in love with me now, you can visit(stalk) Bread of Many on a few other fine websites here on the World Wide Web :

felt + wire shop | flickr | twitter | facebook

or if you are soooo in love with me now but must. have. some burning question answered personally, you can email me at breadofmany{at}gmail{dot}com (wussup!)

&if you are soooo in love with the Lovely Blogger List now, you can click this here pitcher and join up yerself :

******

{ btdubs : the washi tape clip art that you see haphazardly slapped onto my introduction is a free download from the completely amazing Katrina of Pugly Pixel. sweeeeet! }

WANT/NEED : FOR THOSE WHO L-U-V SUMMER FROCKS

noreply@blogger.com (haley) — Fri, 28 May 2010 18:59:00 +0000

Despite the fact that it's totes overcast and almost(almost!) chilly here in DC, I ended up spending most of the morning daydreamin about the summer wardrobe {i.e. dresses dresses dresses} that I would somehow like to obtain. like immediately.

/////dresses to dream about courtesy of Modcloth\\\\\

Orange You Cute Dress, $75
Mod Retro Indie Clothing & Vintage Clothes, $140
lucarne dress, $85
try a different angle dress, $60
try a different angle dress, $60
frock of love in destiny, $60
frock of love in destiny, $60

' WHERE HAVE I BEEN? ' YOU ASK?

noreply@blogger.com (haley) — Thu, 27 May 2010 20:06:00 +0000

..as perhaps you've noticed, I've been missing from the blog for a pretty long time now.

I feel pretty rotten about it, but I want to give all of you an explanation :

Trouble for me started sometime in February when I was confronted with a sad and pretty traumatizing change in my life.

I was not ready to face the situation, which proved to be very complex and demanded an absurd amount of my time and energy.

At this point, I'm not perfectly comfortable talking about the specifics of my situation here because I'm still working on just being able to cope. I'm really hoping that it won't hurt quite as badly soon and I'll be able to give you the details.

Shortly after the whole crisis began, things got even more complicated and upsetting when I was forced to move back to the US very suddenly. After that, I quickly became very ill, most likely from stress, and it has literally taken me these four months to get back on my feet again..

{ psst.. I really hope I'm not sounding melodramatic or something.. I'm just trying to explain everything without having to go into the particulars before I'm ready }

I have really missed le blog (to a fairly dorktastic level, I think)

&am thinking that maybe re-focusing on it might actually help me

deal with all the utter stinkwad stuff.

So!

{ 'so' is always immediately followed in my head with 'sew buttons on yr underwear!' ..but i can't for the life of me figure out why. anyone? }

right. So!

The first order of business will be a re-introduction of sorts, &then :

to fully get myself outta the pits,

an acknowledgment of the good things that have happened in all this dang time.

gee whiz, glad to be back, i'll tell ya what

{ b t dubs, y'all : i kind of have decided that centered text on a blog is sort of annoying..

so. a pact with myself : never use this formatting on a whole post again. 4serious }

FREE PRINTABLE STATIONERY SET - YAY

noreply@blogger.com (haley) — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 05:58:00 +0000

Hey y'all!

I've had all manner of nice things happen in the past few weeks so I figure I ought to pass a little of it on -- and it has been a while since I've given you something to play with.. so here's what I made you!

There are two PDFs:

- one with 2 sheets of milk-on-graph writing paper (approximately 5"x7"), and

- one with a milk-on-graph envelope template (approximately 3.5"x5")

..the writing paper fits perfectly in the envelope once it's folded, and the envelope has a white label space already on it, ready for you to fill in!

download the writing paper here

download the envelope template here

the only rule is that you use it for personal use only.. print it out as many times as you want, give it as a gift, whatever, just don't sell it or steal it, plz.

I think milk cartons are pretty freaking cute, btw.

ENJOY!!!

HAPPY HAPPY, MY LITTLE BIRD!

noreply@blogger.com (haley) — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 06:26:00 +0000

Today is my big sister's birthday!! She is my best friend and my best bird and my best partner in crime..

She's in DC and I'm in England -- I miss her so so much, and really wish I could give her a hug and a present and go to her party and sing her happy birthday (which always made her cry when we were little-- we had to sing 'zippety doo dah' instead)

I love you, Tisa, have a freaking dope day!

GIVEAWAY DETAILS!

noreply@blogger.com (haley) — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:01:00 +0000

I meant to post this yesterday, but I was sick as a dog..

but I'm very pleased to announce a giveaway on Design Crush this week!

I'll be giving away a set of my HUSH note cards to celebrate them being in Vogue Knitting!

you have until Monday, Jan. 25 to enter -- click here to go to the post!

good luck!

PRESENTS, PAPER, PROMO CODE, PRIZES !!!

noreply@blogger.com (haley) — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:30:00 +0000

Today is Justin's birthday! He's celebrating by taking a nap right now and I'm staring lovingly at my wrapping job on his presents.

I got him a bunch of really cool stuff ( 4/5 presents handmade, thank you very much! ).. I wish he'd wake up so he could open them!

*****

Last night while I was on the phone with my sister ( I miss America! ) I came up with this new product for my shop! I really like it

*****

Also, I want to thank everyone who entered to win the Bread of Many giveaway on the Bright Side Project! It was so much fun reading all the answers people gave.. and it put me in such a good mood, that I've come up with a little ( big! ) deal for you all!

( psst.. I'm having another giveaway on one of my favorite blogs this week.. check back tomorrow for deetz! )

have an awesome week!

PINCH ME ! - BREAD OF MANY IN VOGUE KNITTING !!!

noreply@blogger.com (haley) — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:54:00 +0000

When I got contacted via etsy in September about having my "HUSH" Note Set printed in the Winter Issue of Vogue Knitting, I was really really excited.

&now that the issue is out (pick up a copy! it's an awesome magazine even without my note cards in it, ha) I'm really really excited all over again! I just got my comp copy yesterday and had to share immediately!

!!!!!!!!!!!
It's totally made my month!!!

WANT/NEED : FOR THE CORRESPONDENCE OBSESSED

noreply@blogger.com (haley) — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 08:10:00 +0000

{ via weheartit }

I've had this little obsession with vintage mailboxes brewing inside me for a few months, it's one of those things I am dying to collect and yet I haven't gotten any further than oohing and aahing over etsy listings..

{ via flickr }

which is pretty much what I was just doing, ha..

check these puppies out -- they're not even terribly pricey! ( new new new years resolution : stop being lazy! shell out for a dang mailbox! )

1. Mid-Century Modern Mailbox - Austin Modern - $45

2. Vintage Mailbox - Mareo - $21

3. Vintage Brass Mailbox - storybook charm - $19

4. French Vintage Metal Mailbox - Just Me, Justine - $19.99

5. Box of Envy - Els treasures - $42

JUST THINK of the organization possibilities! I'd like to hang them all up on an office wall next to each other.. maybe to organize mail (duh) or paperwork for different jobs..

sigh.

LIL' BITS & BOBS AN' ALL

noreply@blogger.com (haley) — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 03:03:00 +0000

So! The snow is finally melting here in Cambridge, and thank the lawdy lawdy cause boy am I tired of almost-falling down... (scary and embarrassing!)

Today I got my bangs cut for free at Aveda. I just walked in and asked the stylist to trim them. Nice salons never charge for that. Which is awesome, because I love free services and also because I'm righteously terrible at cutting my own bangs.

Also, starting.. um.. today (ha) I'm documenting what I wear each day. I don't have any really artistic reason, I just want an easy project that I can add to everyday. I'll make a little book: "Vanity Pants" or something.

I really like these new pants I got which are comprised mainly of holes but also with some black thread in between. They're neat cause I can wear any color tights underneath and they look totally different!
Also, I looooooove the brogues that Justin got me for XMAS! Totally awesome gift!

my favorite rings. GET IT? The tambourine is A RING. &the ring is A RING! mmmyeah.

I recorded some music for a new project today. I'm pretty excited about it. Maybe I will share? I'm kinda shy sharing music with you all.

Of course, say the word and it shall be done! I've got a band for every genre!

Now I'm off to (hopefully) make some crafty stuff. Lately I've been getting so overwhelmed with great supplies I don't even know what to create with them. Anyone else relate to this?

What are y'all makin?

MADE : POST X-MA$ PRESENT

noreply@blogger.com (haley) — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 07:47:00 +0000

So I know the gift-giving holidays are over but earlier today my fingers were itching for a big project...

I ended up making this Organizational Box Set, which I'm going to give to a dear deer auntie of mine..

first I made six notepads (4"x5", using scrap paper for pages, bits of a cereal box for a sturdy backing, black cardstock for a cover, and a label I printed out), one for each day of the week..

next I built a little box for it to live in

(more of the cereal box cut to size and covered with patterened paper.. plus eyelets and a little ribbon for ties) which unties to reveal..

two pockets (more printed cardstock) for to put the daily notepads inside!

BUT it didn't stop there! Next, using 2 more sheets of cardstock, I constructed A BOX to hold the notepad holder in (ha) !

and voila! a gift is made!

The intention is that each notepad can be used for the day's shopping or to-do lists and thrown in a purse &later be returned to the book-box-thing.

I like it a lot.

Anyone else made anything cool lately?

BREAD OF MANY ON THE BRIGHTSIDE PROJECT !!!

noreply@blogger.com (haley) — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 12:51:00 +0000

Hope everyone had an excellent holiday! Today is Boxing Day in England except I don't really know what that means, ha...

...However, here I am with a Boxing day present for you!

I'm very happy to announce that Bread of Many is today's giveaway on The Brightside Project !!!

The Brightside Project is probably one of the most enjoyable diversions on The Internet.

{ WHY : }

Each day a new artist or shop owner features a generous giveaway

EACH. DAY.
GIVEAWAY.

As if that wasn't fun enough, the way you win is by answering a question of the artist/seller's choosing! Easy! Interesting! Yes!

My question involves ghosts vs. aliens -- two of my favorite topics...

To see the prizes and to enter, point your browser or surf on over (or travel by means of other dorky internet expression) to The Brightside Project !

(... and while you're there check out some of the other great giveaways!)

psst.. the Bread of Many giveaway runs through January 2nd and the winner be announced on the 6th.. have fun!

MERRY X-MATH, IF THAT'S YOUR CELEBRATORY THING!

noreply@blogger.com (haley) — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 13:02:00 +0000

I'm really excited about Christmas this year, it's the first time I've ever gone out and bought my own tree.
Justin and I picked out a nice fake one -- 4 ft. tall (our apartment is tiny) and.. it's.. black!!!

Man oh man, I never knew I wanted a black tree but it turns out that it's the best thing I've ever owned! I get excited everytime I look at it!

I made ornaments out of patterened paper, since the tree is small I didn't want to over-clutter it..

YAY

and now I am happy!

Happy holidays, y'all!

GREEDY GREEDY GIFT GUIDE

noreply@blogger.com (haley) — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:03:00 +0000

1. "vie et mort du rouge gorge" - pulsatilla, $28
2. "bee beard" - oh my cavelier, $23
3. "magic" - jackie bos, $40
4. "blush" - gabrielle kai, $30

5. "spock the clown" - burnt feather, $15
6. "goblin market-golden curl" - heidi burton, $26
7. "where i go to think" - kiki and polly, $20
8. "cat's cradle" - honeylux, $14

9. "black cat and bird" - cabin + cub, $15
10. "terrariums" - hillary bird, $15
11. "sweet" - margo's originals, $18
12. "collecting feathers" - made by anna, $30

13. "decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse" - groundwork, $30
14. "equinox" - alicia bock, $35
15. "S-W-A-N" - wren & chicadee, $8.50
16. "and then there are those moments you simply won't forget..." - velvetimages, $25

(ok, so i am very greedy for art..)

HAPPY BLACK FRIDAY!

noreply@blogger.com (haley) — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:11:00 +0000

i think BLACK FRIDAY is a really cool name for a not as cool actual thing.

that said, to celebrate BLACK FRIDAY and it's weird new cousin CYBER MONDAY, i will give anyone who orders from me this weekend a free SCOTT'S NARWHAL greeting card with your order if you mention "black friday" in the message to seller..

happy shopping!!

p.s.

MEANWHILE, IN THE PRESENT...

noreply@blogger.com (haley) — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:37:00 +0000

this is goin' on : (psst.. click to see it big, ok?)

and the best part about that is : it's true!!

i am in LOVE (that's L-O-V-E) with this mask! (which i got here!)