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eep.

Ivana Brata — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 02:53:35 +0000

Easter and bunny peeps-eating might have passed but looking at this particular diorama from The Washington Post’s Peeps Show totally made my day :) It’s not surprising that this diorama, which idea was taken from one of my most favorite movie ever “Up”, ended up being the winner of the show.

This is how they created the “illusion” of the house being off the ground.

And here’s my favorite detail of the diorama…

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Isn’t that just simply adorable?!

betsy the paper doll

Ivana Brata — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:32:51 +0000

Here comes another vintage treasures. When I discovered this Betsy McCall paper doll site, I was immediately feeling nostalgic. Although I didn’t grow up with Betsy specifically, I did grow up with lots and lots of paper dolls. I probably bought them almost everyday at the street stand in front of my school. Gee, how long ago was that? So nostalgic! *squeals*

Being a bit environmental friendly, I put together my Betsy paper dolls on Photoshop with the handy Magnetic lasso tool. Of course it’s more fun to print it and cut it, but oh well… :)

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vintage postage stamps

Ivana Brata — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 22:20:46 +0000

I found this amazing Tumblr page filled with vintage postage stamp designs (via designrelated). I was one of those people who embraced collecting stamps as a hobby when I was a child. I remember that I had 3 big books filled with vintage stamps back then in my home country. I must remember to look for them when I go back there for vacation this year! :) Meanwhile, this vintage postage stamps were found on Tumblr and I’m smitten.

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Magnificent Minimalism: TV Show Posters

Ivana Brata — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:01:01 +0000

Simple lines, clean and neat type treatments are sometimes the solution for our complicated design problem. I forgot about that lots of times. These TV show posters by Albert Exergian are a good reminder :) Don’t they make you smile? :) The two last posters are my absolute favorite TV show ever :)

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Vintage Wallpaper

Ivana Brata — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:11:15 +0000

If you like vintage wallpaper with patterns, you would love 5qm’s site. I’ve been spending my 30 minutes adoring each of the pattern’s loveliness :)

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Love What You Do. Do you?

Ivana Brata — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:46:29 +0000

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Do you love what you do? This is often a discussion I have with my hub. Now that I am self-employed and freelancing, I think more about it these days. This design brings back memories of college life. Staying up all night doing projects and having to present it in the morning. Trying to get a ride to the nearest Ace Hardware for nuts and bolts to bind this book design. Brainstorming for ideas and writing them on a huge wall of white board. Ah, the innocent and young days! I kinda miss those days :)

Modcloth Love.

Ivana Brata — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:06:12 +0000

I was scouring on Modcloth yesterday and just fell in love with their apartment and book collections. My uttermost favorite is the conversation plates. And the taterpots. And the toothbrush holder. So much cool things!

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Engraved Book Cover

Ivana Brata — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 21:23:52 +0000

These engraved book covers by Engraved Your Book are just so endearing. This first one is designed by one of my illustration hero, Amy Ruppel and kinda matched my previous post :) Don’t you just love it?

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Here is one of my favorite :)

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Cuteness Overload: Lollipop Workshop

Ivana Brata — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 21:53:50 +0000

I was over at Bakerella, one of my most favorite baking blog, and almost fainted to spot these cutesies.

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Doesn’t that make you go “Awwwh…”? I couldn’t believe my eyes. How very, very cute! Lollipop Workshop makes the cutest lollipop doll. And guess what… they make custom birthday and wedding cake topper :) I love everything on their Etsy shop! Literally, everything!

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Up.

Ivana Brata — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:09:43 +0000

The husband and I are very thrifty. Or cheap. And I’m not ashamed of it :) We love watching movies but we always wait until the movies appear on the dollar cinema. No worries, you can laugh ;) We pay $2 for movies on the weekend, or even 75¢ every Tuesday :) It’s not hard to wait most of the times, but when it comes to Pixar movies, it’s hard for me. I’m a HUGE fan of Pixar movies and I was so itching to watch Up that was launched May 29th. Man, that’s such a long time ago, so clearly, I am so incredibly late to be writing this post. Just as the proverb says, better late than never ;)

So, I finally watched Up last week. Even though it’s Pixar, I tried not to have any expectation about the story. All I knew was that this grumpy old Carl guy tied millions of balloons to his house to make it fly. So, when I watched it, I was so blown away, touched, and inspired in many ways.

First of all, i just LOVE looking at the millions of colorful balloons up in the sky. And then there’s that cute vintage looking house of Carl & Ellie. The whole house is just so darling! The wall colors, the decoration, the “Paradise Falls” painting, the mailbox… Everything just made me smile. Delightful.

Love the story, love the graphics, love Carl, Ellie, Russell, and Dug. And the balloons :) It’s totally worth the wait.

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