"Dear Diary, I am a silly girl. Dear Girl, I know." Erin Hanson, recoveringlazyholic.com

"When one door closes, another opens." "Everything happens for a reason." Sage advice often only appreciated in hindsight. Such is the case for Erin Hanson's provocative design art, the result of heartbreak, inner neurosis, and joblessness.

Hanson started the site as a blog in 2007 after the end of a long-term relationship. What began as "a cathartic outlet with no real focus or aim other than to give me something to do" evolved into an attempt to rediscover a creative side snuffed out by 80 hour work weeks, the likes of which she would blame for the breakup as well.

In time the blog grew into the recoveringlazyholic that exists today, created primarily to showcase her amazing photography. According to Hanson, photography "fills me up, makes me feel good, and serves as snapshots of moments that captures those feelings." Hanson's photos are phenomenal, they have a hauntingly beautiful Lynchian quality that gets under your skin. However, it was the design art, a.k.a. "stuff," and the open honesty of it, that had us entranced on our first visit to the site. She describes those pieces as "more a means of purging and embracing my ridiculous ideas and neuroses, getting rid of the fretting annoyances in a way that seems slightly less loathsome than a diary; [they're a form of] self therapy."