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Chair socks

Delightfully silly - yet on one level practical (prevents floor scuffing) - these chair socks designed by Chris&Ruby made me laugh. (via)

Animals abstracted to fine lines

Iconic illustrations created by Tyler Lang at Always with Honor as part of a series called Glory of Vermont.  Lovely, emblematic, and like how they are captured in motion.

(via FFFFOUND! and my sister’s Google Reader shared feed)

Cute animal napkin rings by Jonathan Adler

Okay, I admit it, I love me some pretty kitchen accessories.  Completely frivolous but utterly adorable, I have been admiring these napkin rings by Jonathan Adler.  Anyone else completely in love with owls?

(image via Nesting Blog)

Cut Copy Dance

The Cut Copy Dance, a signed print you can order - by Justin David Cox.

Best of new blog discoveries

(Photo by Sandra Juto. i love owls!)
My blog interests have lately taken a drastic domestic turn, as I dream about my future house (very far away, but a fun distraction) & other design interests such as my new fascination with letterpress printing (a possible future hobby?) &, of course, Etsy.  The dangerous thing about discovering [...]

Designer Femke de Vries replaces plastic with leather in the iconic ‘plastic bag’

While reading the blog NextNature, I was miffed to see that designer Femke de Vries made a design statement by creating a bag made of leather that appears to be the typical plastic bag.  A quote from the statement on the site reads: “The most anonymous, brand less, recognizable ‘throw away’ bags made in leather [...]