today i’m thrilled to welcome one of my favorite artists, maria vettese of port2port press, to the d*s guest blog. maria just launched a new card society this weekend, has a great new lines & shapes book with lena corwin coming out tomorrow (stay tuned for an interview with them tomorrow!), and is blogging weekly on 3191 miles apart. but this week i’m excited to have her back at d*s guest blog. she’ll be writing and visually documenting “simple pleasures” this week so click here to check out her first post!

in addition to maria’s posts, i wanted to kick off the morning with these lovely placemats from tallu-lah cards. i’m in the process of redoing our dining room a bit so i’ve got table settings on the brain. click here to view the full collection at tallu-lah and shop online ($16 for a set of 10 paper mats).