with the mainstream publishing industry struggling these days (r.i.p, gourmet), it’s been wonderful to see so many independently and self-published magazines and books on the market. one of the self-published magazines i’m most excited about is a new food journal called “remedy quarterly“. remedy describes itself as “stories of food, recipes for feeling good” and is illustrated in pink and red colors that i find impossible to resist. each issue will have 48 pages (8.5 x 5.5 inches in size), be printed in 2-color offset printing (like the old community cookbooks that inspired the authors) and will be 100% content, ie: no ads.

the first issue’s theme is “home” and includes a q&a with tim of lottie + doof, an interview with will gilson (of cambridge’s famed garden at the cellar) and a story from stacey slate, writer for the ny times food blog bitten. kelly, aaron, jillian and ari (the boston/brooklyn-ites who founded the mag) are currently raising funds for the magazine, but you can go ahead and pre-order or subscribe and get all sorts of goodies like recipes and homemade cookies on their website. i love the promise that this publication holds and am excited to see what sort of creativity comes from the lack of glossy magazines available on stands. here’s hoping that more pubs like remedy (and my fav: edible brooklyn!) can fill the shelves one day…

ps: click here to check out remedy’s clever list of hangover and spicy food remedies on their site…

pps: click here to check out jill’s final post on rain solutions, yurts and domes!

good morning! i am so glad it’s finally friday- it’s been a seriously TGIF kinda week. but before we get started with the rest of today’s posts i wanted to thank lucy for her amazing guest posts this week! today she’s wrapping things up with a great guide to her favorites in melbourne’s fitzroy area. click here to check it out!

i also wanted to share these gorgeous leather bike seats from leather artist kara ginther in madison, wisconsin. she creates these incredible hand carved brooks saddles that are almost too pretty to sit on- though i think i could get over that eventually ;) click here to see more of kara’s work online. thanks, kara!

[click here for this week's ask d*s column about vintage bike sources]

today i’m incredibly happy to welcome one of my favorite bloggers, lucy feagins of the design files, to the d*s guest blog. i’ve been following lucy’s melbourne-based blog for some time now and really love the way she discusses- and celebrates- local australian design. this she’ll be introducing us to beautiful places and talented people in her home base of melbourne- and she’s kicking things off with last week’s sneak peek subject (and talented artist) neryl walker. click here to check out lucy’s full post!

artist henrique oliveira has made a few small blog runs already but his work is too incredible to pass up, especially on before & after day when we celebrate the idea of turning something old into something new and beautiful. henrique reuses old and peeling wood and turns them into these incredible curving, undulating installations. i am dying to see these in person, but in the meantime, i can’t think of a prettier piece of eye-candy for thursday morning. via mandr.

when it comes to anniversaries, leather is not a material that naturally makes sense to me. but erin and nicole have come up with some really beautiful ways to celebrate this unusual anniversary material. even if you aren’t celebrating an anniversary, their selections are too gorgeous to miss- click here to check out the full selection on the d*s guest blog.

today d*s guest blogger and artist extraordinaire elisabeth dunker is sharing some images from her everyday life. i love getting little glimpses of people’s days and this certainly looks like a beautiful one. click here to check out all of elisabeth’s images…

*ps: i’d like to plead “book insanity” for deciding to round all the corners on post images for the past two months. i don’t know what i was thinking. today we resume with normal, non-rounded images. sorry for the momentary brain lapse…

i just wanted to say a quick thank you to house beautiful magazine for including us in their holiday china feature. the magazine invited a group of people to work with simple white china from pottery barn and dress it up in their own unique way for a non-specific “holiday” setting. i tweeted a little peek into our shoot at saipua last month and am happy to share some more images of our take on the china here today.

d*s editors amy merrick and sarah ryhanen helped style the shoot, creating beautiful flower arrangements and working with a gorgeous mix of vintage blue and white and ironstone plates. i was so thrilled with the way it turned out and was so happy to see it in this month’s magazine. click here to see the magazine clip. thanks to amy, sarah and house beautiful!