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My dear sweet husband has a beard. A growing beard. We really don’t know when it will stop. And for some reason the beard has become quite a popular item in our culture in the past year or two. Men seem to become friends based only on the fact that each of them has “returned to his roots as a man” by letting the hair on his face grow freely. I’m always amazed at how many things i’ve found that are beard or facial hair related, so i’ve decided to share them here!

First, the reason why I get excited when I see beard-things.

This is Justin’s groom’s cake at our wedding. His younger brother and mom made it! The design is based on the t-shirt from Whiskerino 2005. I think it slightly confused some people, but was a big hit!

I got SUPER excited when I found the red card on our honeymoon in San Francisco. I’m sad to say I don’t remember which little design shop we bought it at, but it was one of these two. I just bought the white card on Etsy from eggagogo. It’s perfect and soooo true!

I bought this moustache key hook for my hairy faced man and it hangs proudly in our home. This picture from seller benfloeter is much cooler than a picture I would take of ours, so don’t go thinking my house is this cool. It’s close, but not quite.

And I haven’t purchased this, but it might make a good present for us if you’re ever looking! Another gem on Etsy from seller ashleyg. I really like all of her illustrations and will probably pick one up sooooon.

Just for cuteness, here’s the hairiest member of our family, Ozzie.

That’s all for beards today! If you ever see any beard things let me know! It’s becoming a weird collection at our house, as you can see.

the first thing i saw when i got on etsy today was this super awesome wonderful HANDMADE baby banner, for only $18! having spent the last four years hand-cutting paper, i can tell you that this is a GREAT deal. if you know anyone with a new baby (they have boy versions, too) you should so order this! you can also get custom made ones with the baby’s name like this one.

With Hurricane Ike quickly approaching the Texas coast, I thought it would be interesting to go back and look at some of the posters from the Hurricane Poster Project that was established after Katrina hit in 2005. Some really great posters came out of this terrible event. It’s pretty wonderful to see how designers can use their talents to influence and contribute to our society rather than encourage people to spend money they don’t have for things they don’t need. Here are a few of my favorites.