The newest addition to the side table, Paulina from HEB. Not even sure what kind of plant it is, but it is so grand. It grows fast, and came in a cute patterned pot which I promptly painted bright colors.
This book has a deceiving dust jacket. It is an Art Director's Annual, a collection of ads from any given year. The explanation on the inside is that the art directors who designed it thought it was such a great issue, people might want to steal it. So, they made a fake dust jacket on the inside of the real one. Just flip it around and the book is concealed!
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This was the first book on typography I ever bought for myself. It was purchased in a panic because a creative director I worked under told me to come up with as many type ideas as I possibly could in one weekend. I was working remotely from my cousin's wedding in rural New Hampshire (quite literally, remote) and would run back and forth to the car with my phone on hotspot mode to do work after swimming in a crystalline lake. I bought the book before I left and took a ton of photos of the pages before I left for the wedding. I'm rambling.
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My old laptop, no longer functioning.
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Jonas Wood, my favorite artist (living) of the last few years. My vases are based on his, his are based on someone else's and so on and so forth.
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Two more art director's annuals. During my first course in the advertising portfolio program in school, I searched the pages of these books for inspiration for my first assignment. It was especially helpful that they are each 150 pages, because we had to come up with 100 ideas ourselves.
A clipping from a friend's towering pothos. Mine is dying, perhaps because it is simply in a giant kombucha bottle full of water.
A regular candle in a candlestick holder I made from polymer clay.
Salt lamp graciously gifted to me by my best friend when she moved. When people see it they often ask if they can lick it.
The rick sticker I stole it from a bathroom door near Barton Springs.