Design Rangers Camp Blog

Those of you that read our blog with any frequency or are fans of Design Rangers on Facebook know that I frequently post links from Design*Sponge. I pretty much love every thing they post, but here are a few favorites that have popped up this week.

1. These twig push pins are super cute and it’s a great way to re-use twigs and branches that have fallen off of your neighborhood trees. Seems like a must have in the new Design Ranger office!
2. I’m pretty much convinced that everything cool in this world comes from Brooklyn. My dad was from Brooklyn – which I believe makes me 1/2 cool. Our completely awesome friends Tammy and Ehren are from Brooklyn – when ever they come to visit they always bring us awesome gifts from some fantastic little shop in Brooklyn. Okay – they main point is… I love this letterpress bear card, it has die-cut arms so the bear can hold a little something, too! And yes, you guessed it. Brooklyn made.

On a much more serious note – did you know there are 884 million without access to safe drinking water? A very sad WOW came out of my mouth when I came across that fact on www.waterforpeople.org’s home page. Water For People is a “Denver-based international development organization supports sustainable safe drinking water and sanitation projects in developing countries”. The organization worked with Duffy & Partners to launch their new re-branding campaign, Joe Duffy is an amazing designer that I have always admired and he has done it again with the Water For People brand. A happy WOW this time.

It’s been light years since we have done a link round-up and I’ve been inspired by the real light saber battle going on directly behind me (kids home from school due to a snowday) – here is a blog post for the Star Wars lover in all of us. But first few Star Wars fun facts:

• FUN FACT #1: Way back in the day you couldn’t buy movie tickets on line. Really. You had to wait on line at the theater. Yes, it was the stone age. The day Episode 1 tickets were pre-sold at our local movie theater Chris had to work so I waited on line for 12 hours with a 3 year-old Dalton. Let me say that again. I waited on line to buy movie tickets to Episode 1 for 12 hours with a 3 year old. Wow.
• FUN FACT #2: Did you know that when Chris and I were married we had Han Solo and Princess Leia action figures on top of our cake. Chris’ mom made Leia a veil and a sweet little bouquet of flowers.
• FUN FACT #3: Chris and I walked into our wedding reception with the Star Wars theme song playing.
• FUN FACT #4: We have 10+ toy light sabers in our house.

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Happy Halloween!

Here are a few great pumpkin ideas, just in case you are still looking…

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I have decided to quit calling this the “Weekly” Ranger Round-up, simply because I cannot guarantee you that I will get to it every week! I’ll feel a lot less guilty about not getting it done every Friday if I give you the disclaimer – “I cannot guarantee that I will get to it every week.” Oh, and I used to number the Round-up. I think I’ll nix that too. I’m just going to cross my fingers that on the days that you have the time, you’ll check out our blog. Maybe you’ll be pleasantly surprised, “Hey, bonus! A Ranger Round-up. Mid-week even. What a surprise!”

I really enjoy writing the blog and doing the link round-up. Does it put food on the table? In most cases, no. So of course I do the work that pays first. My favorite quote, that I believe I made up, is “Life gets in the way of my life.”

Without further a due, the Weekly Ranger Round-up…

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