January 13th, 2010 by jennifer

jellyfish made out of PET bottles + gabriel gastelum's photography
I love jellyfish to the point where I’ve considered getting one as a pet. unfortunately, pet jellyfish are notoriously difficult to care for. another option are these fake LED pet jellyfish tanks. even if I was feeling impulsive enough to drop $170 on LED jellyfish I wouldn’t be able to because they’re sold out. a more realistic option would be to make some of my own like miwa koizumi’s PET bottle jellyfish designs. time to buy a heat gun.
and to the right is a fantastic self portrait by photographer gabriel gastelum. found on flickr.
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October 6th, 2009 by jennifer

fashion photograph "bearing gifts" by draman via flickr
- orange/white reversable corsette belt by duende via etsy
- sand and seashells dress by amour sans anguish via etsy
- the doily dress by amour sans anguish is ridiculous and awesome, though I think I like the back view better
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September 3rd, 2009 by jennifer

cottonblue lace and linen tote and olivia bee photography
I took a few days to figure out what I’d like to start focusing on with the bumblesea blog. my decision: more fashion designers, accessories, fashion photography, and DIY projects of course. in keeping with my new theme here are two of my favorite flickr photos! a girly and simple lace and linen tote by cottonblue, aka wan, a japanese fabric addict. and a photograph entitled “away” by the very talented and very young olivia bee.
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August 28th, 2009 by jennifer
my mother can rarely change my mind about anything, but the last time I visited my family she convinced me to get some sea salt while grocery shopping with her. in her effort to convince me that I needed more than morton salt in my pantry she went into detail about the health benefits of sea salt and it’s superior taste to table salt. I was only convinced to get the salt grinder when I looked closely at the clear bottle and noticed that the course salt grains looked like tiny quartz crystals. the sad truth is that I am a very shallow person, even when it comes to decisions about salt. the salt was cute, so I got it.
I have some doubts about how healthy sea salt is in comparison to table salt, but it tastes all kinds of delicious. this has resulted in me running out of the stuff only a few weeks after purchasing it (shut up, I cook a lot.) I need more of the crack salt so I turn to google, which opened my eyes to the wonderful world of HIMALAYAN PINK SEA SALT?! this stuff looks so amazing it should not be edible.

bumblesea wishlist: himalayan pink sea salt
flickr photos, clockwise: 1. himalayan pink salt and goji berries by dessert first 2. salt of the earth by allanthinks 3. himalayan salt crystals by certified su 4.pink sea salt from natural green chemistry company by fooderati
in addition to pink sea salt, google also introduced me to an amazing blog called stuff white people like. stuff white people like #119: sea salt. thanks mom, for making me even more white than I already am.
here you go stalkers, the newest bumblesea interview on aspiring couture. if you don’t feel like reading the whole thing, here are some highlights for you.
“The design for my next jewelry tag has the words ‘You can’t take this where you’re going’ on the back.”
“My boyfriend constantly asks me what I’m writing down, I yell ‘IDEAS!’ and continue violently scribbling my chicken scratch down. I wake up with ink on my face and sheets from me writing on my arms in bed the night before. There are sixteen to do lists on my desk right now. I’m never bored, my brain works faster than my body can keep up with.”
“Only take business advice from people who are successful in your industry. Seek these people out and form meaningful, long term relationships with them, everything else should turn into white noise. On the other hand, try to keep your head out of your ass. Let me know how it works out for you. Seriously, email me.”
Tags: bumblesea, flickr, inspiration, photography
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August 26th, 2009 by jennifer
oh, I’ve been slacking on the blog… well.
I like olga ert’s sculptures of little creatures covered in flowers. I think she’s primarily an illustrator and most of her work is done under the name “inkpanda”, you can check out her work on behance, blogspot, and flickr. I believe she’s japanese, but lives in russia and speaks russian on all her online profiles. obviously I can’t read anything that she writes so that’s about the extend of my knowledge of her work. but hey, it’s pretty, right? that’s all I need to know.

bumblesea loves: flower horse sculpture by olga ert aka inkpanda

bumblesea loves: flora / fauna flower creature by olga ert aka inkpanda
Tags: art, flickr, flora, inspiration
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August 19th, 2009 by jennifer

nets photograph by femme de manille via flickr

dragon fruit photograph by femme de manille via flickr
I obsessed over dragon fruit (enough to name a bumblesea necklace after them) after seeing some photos of them on flickr. I got my hopes up about how they’d taste, spent five bucks on a single fruit, and it ended up reminding me of a mediocre kiwi. maybe it wasn’t ripe. what can you do?
at least they’re pretty.
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August 18th, 2009 by jennifer

bumblesea photoshopped polaroid with honeybears

original polaroid - lightning heart challenge
I finally cracked open photoshop to work on the lightning heart polaroid design challenge (mentioned here) and I also ended up using one of the free les brumes textures (mentioned here) to layer on top of the illustration. I love honeybears.
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August 15th, 2009 by jennifer

free photoshop layer textures by les brumes via flickr

free photoshop photography filter textures by les brumes via flickr
- les brumes offers hundreds of amazing textures for photoshop geeks like myself to use for free. I can’t keep this find to myself, it’d be cruel. click on the images to check out more of her free goodies.
- house of gems is sponsoring a featured jewelry artist contest. enter to win and you could receive up to $500 to spend however you wish at their store. the contest deadline is today: august 15th and I just found out a few hours ago! fate? hurry up and enter here.
- I haven’t been posting/promoting the past few days because I’ve been spending all my time playing with PHP in order to have dynamic content on bumblesea. originally I installed joomla and skinned it to look exactly like my current site. I think I was searching for some PHP plugins when I came across indexhibit and fell in love with it. I’m scrapping the entire joomla project, it’s bloated and unnecessary for what I need. I’d prefer to support other small companies with similar taste in design if possible. is anyone still reading this? hi, mom!
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August 9th, 2009 by jennifer
so I got the idea of making an ecosphere from robayre’s blog. after a few days of making it I let the snails and critters that were living in my ecosphere go, primarily because it wasn’t entirely closed and the water started reeking. the stench rivaled that of my valerian tea, which as you might already know smelled like six asses. I tried, ok.
I think I’ll just stick to keeping my zen garden on my desk for now. but every once in a while I like to peruse flickr for the most interesting photos of ecospheres, to think about what could have been. I’m so happy flickr has finally updated their search function, the previous search didn’t load any images for me half the time. oh, and I have a secret weapon against the spaceball.gif photos I despise so much. I’ll let you in on my little secret in due time.

bumblesea DIY ecosphere - "pet algae" photo by digital existence via flickr
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