Here's a little triva titbit (gee what a word right?) from the team at YEN. Back in the day, an itsy bitsy 14 year old Björk formed an all-girl punk band, creatively  calling it 'Spit and Snot'. Subversive huh. Pretty impressive for 14 however. I think at that age I was still wearing Oshkosh overalls and sticking glitter chopsticks in my hair. I didn't have a union leader father and an activist mother though, so whatever.
Anyways, doesn't that make the lovely B all the more delectable? She's still the best thing to come out of Iceland, bar Hafdís Huld and Sigur Ros. 

Branded "Martha Stewart Living for the Millenials" by the New York times, it would be logical  to assume that Design*Sponge, a daily design site run by American writer Grace Bonney, is where you end up after you've got three kids and a penchant for frilly aprons. But that's where you'd be wrong. With 55, 000 daily readers, Gracey the 'modern Marth' must be doing something right. My pick of the site is d*s desktop wallpaper project, which sees a different artist each month creating a customised calendar. This month's star playa is the charming Nate Duval.

If typography is your thing, then the Daily Drop Cap is your go to. Brooklyn based designer Jessica Hische is one of those all round clever kids who's wise beyond her years, especially when she whips out gems like “the work you do while you procrastinate is probably the work you should be doing for the rest of your life�. Following her own advice, the typographer and illustrator began to blog a hand-crafted initial cap each day for the benefit of other bloggers. It's really quite lovely.

YEN is still loving a good oggle at The Selby, after all this time! What better time than the Summer holidays to give your crib a little makeover. Get to the weekend markets and start the hoard ladies.

Finding these in the '09 archives made me wish so very much that I was born a boy. Who wouldn't wanna strap these 80s b-ball inspired beauties to their toes? Jeremy Scott for adidas originals = my likely imminent sex change. I'd be fighting everyone for these (crips vs bloods style) to get my hands on some.

ZOMG GIRLIEZ. Lomo has just released a hot pink Valentines Day version of the Fisheye 2 for you and your beau!!!!!! It's totally hot and sexii and you can take awesome indie-cool photos thanks to it's 180 degree circular distortion feature! Just don't forget to upload them 2 ur facebook ASAP!

When I'm having a bad day, things of a fuschia nature usually make me want to play that punk rocker song on repeat and bury myself alive. Luckily I saw this neat little baby on a good day, and instead was reminded of rainbows, toffee coated apples, marzipan delights and giant glittery unicorns. Grab one for your analogue lover here. Even better - buy it for yourself, get it express posted to your door and write some kind of kinky accompanying love note that will have all your busybody housemates clutching at their hearts and you seriously questioning your level of asexuality.

 

I hate cats. So much. I hate it when they arch their brittle spines and rub them against your leg and the way they skulk around your friendly neighbourhood drainpipes like they own the streets. If someone bought me a book about cats, I would politely accept it and then proceed to choke violently on my own self despair. If someone bought me a real life cat as a surprise, I would immediately issue a restraining order. Despite all of this, I love The Catorialist. It makes fun of Scott Schuman's self congratulatory prose, which I have grown to hate more than any furry feline.