1 Etsy Pillows

Heather at AT posted about Green Groove Pillow at Absoluut's Etsy Shop {1st pic} earlier today. I went to check it out and low and behold there are many fantastic designs available that feature great vintage fabrics...Check them out...

1 Ork Neighborhood Posters

I love these Ork Neighboorhood Posters...Chicago and Brooklyn are available now, Manhattan, Boston, and San Francisco are comming Dec. 1...I wish they would do NEW ORLEANS!!!

Images: Ork Posters

2 The Great 2008 Calendar Search

I have started my search for the perfect 2008 wall calendar for my office...like everything, it has to be perfect: beautiful and functional...

Pentagram Calendar available at Ken Knight

Stendig Calender available at See Jane Work and Ken Knight

These two classic designs have great graphic typography, and you know I love the black and white...but there is no room to write events...

Snow and Graham Calendar available at Luxe Paperie

This one features some of my favorite paper designs, but again has no room to write...

Whomi Calendar available at See Jane Work

This one has lots of room for notes , which can even be color coded, and it has fun graphic bands at the top and bottom...very functional, but not as attractive...It reminds me of my 2007 calendar:

The Real Simple Calendar available at Mead which works and I really like...I just need something new to look at this year....

Magnolia Moonlight Wall Calendar at Magnolia Moonlight's Etsy Store

I think this might be the winner so far...fun and functionally...

Has anyone seen any other great calendars lately???

0 Sukie

Sukie , a husband and wife team out of the UK produce some amazing little notebook designs. Several versions are made from recycled paper and all contain great graphic covers. My favorites are the travel journals, which include lined, graph, and blank paper bound with envelopes and pockets for collecting. They also have great textiles: pillows, tea towels, and sketch book bags.

Images: Sukie

0 Perch! Design

After yesterdays post, I wanted to know more about the awesome Perch! designs available at Three Potato Four. I discovered via Perch! Design that they handmake multifunctional objects in Brooklyn using products that are environmentally friendly. My favorites are the bowls/baskets, vases, and pendants...And the color schemes and names are great too...

O Bowl and Basket Bowl

A Container for One Thing and Tiny Basket

Vessel: Ivy and Let me Look at You Vase

Zooey Mini Chandelier and Walker Pendant Light

Images: Perch!Design

3 Three Potato Four Love

As if I didn't already love Three Potato Four enough...

Campy Yellow Planter by Perch! and Pear Bud Vases

Tea Cups Tea Towel and Yellow Mason Jar by Perch! (more to come)

Large Round Bird Tray and Melamine Leaves Tray

I would love, love, love to have a shop like theirs one day...

1 Furniture Dreams

We are in desperate need of a new coffee table...Ours is the perfect size and height, but wobbly and not terrible attractive...Every time Courtney's kids come over I cross my fingers that they will lean on it just right and it will crumble into the floor so I can justify a new one (This is one of th bf's items if you can't tell...)

Anyway, until now I haven't found a table that I really liked that meets our needs...we eat sitting on the floor, so it the table has to be an appropriate height in order to be conducive...moreover it needs to be simple and beautiful with clean modern lines...

Eh voila...the LAX Coffee Table from Mash Studios available through Design Public...I love it...it combines an organic element of the wood with the modern powder coated aluminum, has simple lines, and is a nice size...now if only it didn't have a $710 price tag..

But since I'm dreaming anyway...I'll also take one of these Colorful Cabinets by Finn Juhl...

2 Elum Designs

Fabulous stationary, notebooks, and wrapping paper by Elum Design...

5 Non-Wedding Registry

In honor of not getting married/being pregnant, I'm putting together a registry for myself...to buy myself...

Ribbon Collection available at notNeutral...

amount requested: I want them all...

City Plates available at notNeutral

amount requested: One of each, starting with New Orleans

Adam and Ribb Teacup Set from Just Scandinavia

amount requested: two each. one for me. one for you.

Kate Spade's Gwinnett Lane Creme and Gwinnett Lane Turquoise available at Macy's

amount requested: four place settings each color...

Rosanna, Inc Boho and Dinner Party

amount requested: enough to serve everyone at brunch...

Platinum Chandeliers and Party Raffle by Rosanna
amount requested: I don't mean to be greedy...(one of each)...

Snowden Flood's Urban Landscape Plates available at Three Potato Four

amount requested: you get the picture...

2 Blueprint Wrapping Paper

Have you downloaded these amazing {black and white} wrapping papers?...Thank you Martha...

0 Five and a Half

How awesome are these notebooks from Five and a Half? "75 pages of sugarcane fiber and postconsumer recycled paper, a pocket for looseleaf notes, a resilient spine that opens flat for writing, drawing and painting across pages, and because all good things come in great packages, a myriad of cover designs for you to choose from." They are a bit pricey...but could be a earth friendly DIY...
Images: Five and a Half

3 Ocean Springs / Apartment Therapy Cure Week 8

This weekend I visited Ocean Springs, Mississippi, hometown of my good friend Courtney and the Peter Anderson Festival and Walter Anderson Museum. Ocean Springs is an small community on the Gulf Coast with a very strong artistic identity. Much of the cities artistic history is based on the work of the Anderson brothers, who felt that an artist should create affordable work that brought pleasure to others, and in return, the artist should be able to pursue his artistic passions. These ideas are evident throughout the city and especially the festival.

I had very gracious hosts and tour guides who took me to see many amazing points of interest in the city...One of my favorite tour sessions was an early morning pajama clad drive around town.


Our first stop was to search for the allusive elephant...an interesting family story regarding a stolen elephant that belongs to my good friend Courtney's husband...I should tell you that his lovely grandmother with whom we stayed is an accomplished writer, so they stories and history that I acquired where quite amazing...

Next stop was the Ruskin Oak...an amazingly beautiful tree that dips and curves above and below ground...perfect for climbing children and relaxing respite...

Next stop was the harbor, which I'm hardly doing justice with these images...it was so peaceful and beautiful...you can certainly understand how the artists are so inspired living here...

The best stop we made was a trip down the unpaved road into the Shearwater Pottery Compound...although the modest structures that were severely damaged by Katrina are still being rebuilt, we saw the most surprising sight...a small tent on the side of the road filled with the original screens used for screen printing...this struck me as so amazing, a testament to the nature of the community, where art is so accessible and respected that these wonderful works of art can simply be placed in a tent on the side of the road and no one bothers them...

Now on to the Peter Anderson Festival...

Highlights included: TatoNuts donuts, the most amazing donuts I have ever tasted, yes better than Krispy Kreme...Courtney's crazy kids (my "nephews")...Government Street Grocery where we had very cold and refreshing Newcastles...and a trip to the amazing Walter Anderson Museum where we saw a great Mac Anderson Introspective...

For a tiny town, this festival is huge...there are over 300 vendors and 100,000 visitors were expected. The arts and crafts go on forever...but there are some really great artists. I picked up a couple of great, affordable pieces including several silhouette works and a Walter Anderson Waterspout print...um which is why I'm counting this as my Cure project for this week.