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It turns out the sewing contest my sister is in is a Top Chef (or I guess Project Runway, I’ve never actually seen it) style elimination competition. So if you have a minute to spare, please please please go vote for Lindsay at:

http://projectrunandplay.blogspot.com

One day late but I’m really trying to stick to my font recommendation resolution.

I’ve been on a bit of a distressed font downloading kick lately and Old Press by Galdino Otten is one of my favorite specimens. The lettering is great and the erosion looks really natural. Great choice if you have any grungy designs brewing.

Download at dafont.

New Font: Sewing Patterns 2!

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If you downloaded my previous Sewing Patterns font and liked it okay but just wished the fashions were a little bit older, then have I got the font for you.

Sewing Patterns 2 covers the 1910s through the 1940s. Downton Abbey styles? Check. Flappers? Check. Tailored suits for ladies? Check. And hats! So many hats.

Free for personal use with commercial licensing available for $15.

Download it here.

Something Fresh

Maybe it’s the new Theme Garden set up, or the fact that the customize screen doesn’t work at all on an iPad, but I’m having trouble getting excited about working on themes for Tumblr lately.

It might be time to try something else for a while, learn something new. Ecommerce could be fun. Creating themes for Magento or WordPress shops.

Should be different at least.

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I haven’t been doing a very good job of keeping up with my font recommendations. So let’s try this again and see if I can manage to get a post up every Sunday.

To kick things off, here’s Barbarello by Su Lucas. It’s an awesome barbed wire style font with all the symbols and everything.

Download at dafont.

Everyone loves mom blogs, right?

I don’t know a lot about sewing or children or sewing dresses for children, but I do know, for a fact, that my sister is the best seamstress and my niece is the best model. Here’s the proof:

So if you have a heart and thirty seconds to spare, click here and vote for Lindsay, Etc. – Summer Serenade Shift.

Jay-z's 99 problems, verse 2 - Saint Louis University

Line-by-line legal analysis of Jay-z’s 99 Problems.

Excerpt:

At the time the song takes place, the New Jersey State Police had an active “drug courier profiling” program that would absolutely have included the observable facts here: Jay-Z was: (1) young, (2)male, (3) black, (4) wearing attire favored by drug dealers (the hat way down low).