Author Archives: amy

Pinning for Pikaland

I’ve started a little Pinterest board to open up the call for friends and illustration-lovers to share some of the wonderful artists they’ve found online here and it’s been so fun to rifle through the many lovely pins by our contributors!

Here’s some recent favorites from the Picks for Pikaland board (there’s already more than 700+ pins in there!) so if you’d like to join the fun as a contributor on our Pinterest board, I’d love to hear from you!

Eduardo Sancinetti via Marina Molares

Naomi Wilkinson via Flora @ The Round Window

Emiliano Ponzi via Telma Baptista

Étienne Beck via Ana Pez

Petter Almgren via Estibaliz Hernandez

Bendik Kaltenborn via Vesle Serena

Sara Pulver via Marina Molares

Desktop wallpaper series: Mia Christopher

Mia Christopher desktop wallpaper 2012

Happy Labor Day!

Today marks another release in our wallpaper series, and this time we’re featuring the ever fabulous Mia Christopher (who’s busy wrapping up her last semester at school!)

She’s a multi-disciplinary artist based in San Francisco who’s doing lots of lovely experimental works with color being the main focus! You can see more of her work on her website, Etsy shop and over on Flickr!

Other sizes:

1024 × 1024

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To see all the artists in our desktop wallpaper series, head here!

Daydreaming at night

Scouts Honor Co.

A lot of times, my day starts with a long list of to-dos. And when the day is done, I’m happiest when I see that most of them are checked off for the day. And so I go to bed, but instead of going to sleep right away, I think about things. Things like ideas that I’m working on, and of how I’d like things to run around here.

And it just occurred to me that I daydream at night. Mostly.

And I stopped myself one night because this made no sense. Why shouldn’t I daydream when I’m awake, instead of doing this at night where I’m haunted by possibilities and get all worked up and unable to get into a restful slumber?

I’ve come to realize that my days were filled with things I have to do, that I forget to think about the things I want to do.

And therein lies the problem.
Turns out wandering does wonders for the mind.
But a wandering mind at night just… wanders.

Daydream instead.

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Have a great start to the weeks folks!

Image by Scout’s Honor Co. – a stationery studio based in Burlington, Vermont, who hasn’t been getting proper credits on Pinterest!
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