I love my cup of coffee every morning. I really do. Sometimes, I wake up just so I can have a fresh cup. It is my big motivation and inspiration everyday :) We actually love this coffee from San Francisco, called Blue Bottle Coffee (we used to live right around the corner from their Hayes Valley kiosk) and we just couldn’t have anything else after drinking that coffee everyday and now that we live in NYC, we actually subscribe their coffee twice a month ever since we moved here. (oh, I actually have blogged about it before! I will keep saying this over and over.) Yes, it is THAT good. And it is so worth waking up for.

Anyway. I’ve been finding some coffee related cool items here and there so I thought I should share my coffee love to you today <3 Enjoy!

Hello Darkness My Old Friend print (via scoutie girl):

Heart Coffee Scoop (found via etsy storque):

Love Coffee Mug:

Strong Coffee Poster:

hmmm these things are inspiring me to print something new… with coffee love in mind :) Something to think about… (sip sip)

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Wishing you a very Happy Valentine’s day!

As you know, I could never get enough “hearts” and when I realized, my flickr favorites and etsy favorites were filled with hearts! So I decided to share some here for a celebration of… love! Enjoy :)

Heart Factory:

via dottie angel:

Tiny Sterling Silver Heart Ring:

via dayataglance:

via mrs. french:

Heart balloon planter (my friend yuki also sent me this shortly after I hearted this on etsy):

via kygp:

via sa_su:

Vintage sweet Valentine Card:

via tinytoadstool from dadaya:

via simple + pretty:

Happy Happy weekend! <3<3<3

I will be back on Tuesday! (Monday is a President’s Day holiday here in US and we are celebrating our pre-wedding-anniversary! *we got married on the President’s Day, but the actual date is the 19th… and the actual celebration will be on the 19th so it is “pre” anniversary… yes, it’s complicated :))

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Last year, I printed the LWYL special edition in black with red heart… and this year 2010, I printed the special edition in… one of my favorite color combinations, gray with hot pink heart! I really had fun printing as the heart always makes me happy :)

Type setting without letter “O” — yup, there would be a heart there…

Adjusting the placement.. I love the accidental typographic art. So great.

When everything is set, just print away…

Next, set the curved linoleum heart in the place in between where the letter L and V were placed.

Hand mixed hot pink on the press…

a pink heart :)

Even though you thought you placed in the right place, you always have to adjust around until you have it right.

and there it is!

Live What You Love Special Edition 2010:

I hope you enjoy the process and the new print!

p.s I printed more orange, too… It had been out of stock for a while… but it’s back :)

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Happy February! February is my favorite month, love is in the air (not just Valentine’s Day, but we have our marriage anniversary — a leather year!) and I am saying hello to my new year (age) later this month, so exciting!

To start the month, I wanted to share these beautiful little white hearts by All Things White — love the vintage buttons and its details. I would love to hang it on my door or on a wall… so very lovely!

Hope these will make your Monday a happy one! :)

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Much Love by Ashley G. Inspired by a vintage heart doily… it is so calling me, I must answer…

Perfect for the black and white area for our house… It can go with these pillows, too…

Here is a red one. Few more colors are available and they all look so cute, I want to have them all if I could… :)

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This week, I saw some more “I Heart” things…

(via Bloesem)

(via swiss miss — available here.)

And did you know this is all coming from an advertising campaign for New York City?! (I tried to look for the original commercial on YouTube, but I couldn’t find the right one…) I didn’t know that until I saw the movie Art & Copy — pretty amazing to think about how ad campaign effects soo many things even 30-40 years later!

Happy Friday, everyone!!

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Came across this heart alphabet! Created by New York based freelance illustrator, designer and artist Thomas Fuchs.

(found via Type Theory)

Heart Fish hearts HEART! :)

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I saw the Wonder Bread / Hostess Cakes truck the other day on the street of Brooklyn, I thought it was the cutest thing ever. I’ve seen their logos and packages for I don’t even know how many times for as long as I have lived in the United States (which is more than 12 years…), but maybe this truck’s simple design of it caught my eye… the heart and the colorful polka dots on white… sooo cute that I had to take a picture.

Thursday morning inspiration… :)

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Just wanted to make a quick announcement that I have found some of the poplar Live What You Love prints after cleaning around (yes, they were buried…) — brown ones and special edition (mounted!) — please grab them as I won’t be printing these for a while…

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OK, this poster is so up my alley, I don’t even know how to express my feeling!! I love typography poster from BlueTypo’s Flickr photostream. It is available for download and print, how generous and how awesome!! I of course downloaded it. immediately.

((swoooooon))

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