…from the vintage fashion collection of Boston’s thirteen eighty-five, beautifully captured by photographer Jeff Allen. Not only that, but at the recent Baked Fresh market, thirteen eighty-five’s creator Effie found a fabulous yellow tent on ebay to house her collection (and read what she says about what it was like to be under the tent on such a grey day! yet more proof that yellow is bound to brighten your spirits)

Some of her pieces are still available in the thirteen eighty-five etsy boutique, click here to have a look-see.

Hmm now we’ve featured homewares, art, fashion and even DIY in this yellow love week line up… so what’s missing?

A new blog discovery for me, found via Jen at Nectar & Light, is The Unicorn Diaries. I was so tempted to show you a collection of images from her stunning posts but instead I give you just this one above because I insist you must see this for yourself. magic.

Alana has a recipe for yellow cupcakes with chocolate buttercream. She also has a beautiful blog.

Now if you haven’t downloaded Issue 5 of Mankind Magazine yet then you simply must. It is the handmade issue and it is so full of awesome artists and designers that my head is spinning. And let me just say this: if for some reason you ever thought that handmade was “daggy”, then read this issue and your whole mind paradigm will be bathed in a glorious goldeny (handmade) light. So get to it! You can also donate or sponsor the mag, click here for details.

Courtney from under a paper moon filled her blog last week with maps & globes – an awesome collection of posts for those of you (that’s me) who love using maps in home decoration. Some of my favourites of her magnificent map posts are here, here and here.

And I just love this post written by ness.

Happy reading mes amis!

The Tapestry of Trees by Jude McConkey was taken just the other day in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan on a foggy cold Autumn morning. While processing the image, Jude explains that she placed a golden etched overlay on the scene in photoshop to give it a tapestry look. Not only does Jude have an etsy shop but also a beautiful website, check out more of her work here.

I love a bit of DIY, don’t you? But let’s face it, DIY can often be a bit tacky, a bit ‘yesterday’, a bit umm, uncool. DIY can also be super complicated and since I’m an impatient little sausage, as well as having the attention span of a goldfish, my choice in DIY is: simple, short, sweet and stylish. So here for you today I’ve gathered a few of what I think are the coolest DIY projects around…

This handmade necklace is more than awesome. Not only is it super stylish and hip, but it is made from old stockings and tights by Lady Smaggle. I found it over at textile and jewellery design student Felicity Gleeson’s blog. Apparently the necklace has been doing the rounds on the web for a few months now, but it’s all new to me so I thought it might be news to some of you too. The how-to instructions are right here.

Grace from Design*Sponge also loves a bit of DIY, and it was through her that I discovered this super cool bird mobile by Spool. It’s the perfect project to use offcuts of fabrics (which I seem to have alot of) and you can keep adding to it with more petits oiseaux over time. You can even handstitch it if you don’t have a sewing machine (mine is sitting in storage in Sydney) and if you make the mobile for a newborn, you can send a new little bird each birthday. For instructions, just click here. Spool is a shop located in Philadelphia, a city I once called home (here’s a shout out to all you Philly birds, I love ya!). So if you live in Philly, go check out Spool, they have heaps of cool fabrics and generally seem like cool people.

And last up is Lena Corwin who is well, pretty swell. Her book Printing By Hand looks a treat and her ‘printed’ dresser project is la classe. It was featured in Etsy’s The Storque recently, you can read how to make it here.

I’ve always been a DIY gal, but with my workload and personal obligations increasing over the last couple of years I’ve slackened off on taking time out to ‘do it myself’. Also moving around the world has slowed the pace of my DIYing no doubt. But along with finding heaps of cool DIY projects on the web while researching for this post I found my own stash of ideas that I have been collecting over time to make into a book (I know I know, one fine day!). It’s funny because when I made the decision to move overseas I had the limited space of just one suitcase, and its situations like those that you realise what is important to you. In my suitcase was not clothes (I showed up all but nude when I first arrived in Paris) but notebooks. All of my notebooks. Filled with my ideas, loose written work, drawings, thoughts, and book concepts. And below is one of the notebook bundles – a pile of notes for a book that I have been working on for years, and look – how serendipitous: they’re bound in yellow…

Anyway, it got me thinking that I should make DIY a feature here in the (blog)house. But since I have just begun the blog favourites feature, I think I will save DIY for 2009. What do you think?

For now, I shall leave you with a few more fabulous DIY projects that I found around the (blog)block:

gingko, oil on canvas by karen appleton

Thank you to Diane at inspiration by design for the introduction to Karen’s work. And alas, I did not win Diane’s painting ! But Diane might paint some of the dresses that were posted which I think is a great idea, I do hope she paints mine.