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The 500 Colored Pencils of Felissimo | Spot Cool Stuff: Design

2010-08-15T09:03:00.000-07:00

Love these guys over at Spot Cool Stuff. As always, they've spotted some, well, more cool stuff ;) Interesting twist on the "______ of the Month Club". Check it out. The 500 Colored Pencils of Felissimo | Spot Cool Stuff: Design

Thank Hue, Thank Hue!

2010-07-29T19:40:00.000-07:00

Rachel Perls is one amazing woman. Over the course of the last year, I was fortunate enough to discover her blog, Hue: "I created this blog to catalog and share my color-related findings. From architectural interiors to marketing, color has a major impact on our lives, and I'd like to draw attention to it's importance. If you love color, I hope you'll enjoy this blog. Welcome!" As a follower of

Long Distance Relationships

2010-07-27T19:29:00.000-07:00

Okay - I know exactly what you're thinking. Rest assured, I have not strayed into any kind of psychoanalytical personal development realm. At least not here in this blog. My very good friend has had quite the busy summer, filled with lots of traveling to various states for family reunions, weddings, birthdays, graduations, well...you know, family stuff. Big family, big events. And a lot of them

I'm Still Here!

2010-07-21T08:56:00.000-07:00

Hi Everyone!!!! Boy, it's been awhile and I sure do apologize. Time flies when we're having fun. I would like to assure you that I have not gone anywhere. Life just needs me more than my blog does right now. But I assure you, it's all good. September will mark a new chapter for my family. Therefore I have decided it will also mark a new chapter for this blog. I plan to mix it up quite a bit

The Next Generation of LED Light Bulbs Will Replace Incandescents | Spot Cool Stuff: Tech

2010-06-08T04:27:00.000-07:00

The Next Generation of LED Light Bulbs Will Replace Incandescents | Spot Cool Stuff: TechRunning through blogland and wanted to share this with you.......Sorry for being so quiet lately.....that'll change soon enough!!

Can I Quote You On That?

2010-05-22T17:05:00.000-07:00

Over the years I've collected an assortment of inspirational quotes so I thought I would share with you just a few of my favorites about color. Which one is your favorite? Color is but a sensation and has no existence outside the nervous system of living beings. Nicholas Ogden Rood, American Physicist, 1831-1902 “Who told you that one paints with colors? One makes use of colors, but one

I Love Elephants

2010-05-07T04:34:00.000-07:00

sourceThe Elephant Parade/ London worldwildlife.org wildnet.org elephantcenter.com The Elephant Listening Project and many others......... source

Time Travel

2010-05-05T17:51:00.000-07:00

I think I was born forty years too late... get on board here to go back in time

Art and Good Tastes

2010-05-02T05:34:00.000-07:00

Monet's Dining Room Bucket List:Giverny.

Simple as ABC

2010-04-19T04:56:00.000-07:00

Life has been crazy busy - which is a good thing. The not-so-good-thing is that I'm struggling to find the time I'd like to devote to writing creative posts. Therefore once in awhile, I'll be doing a post where I'll be throwing out to you some stuff that is just plain cool. So,...Catch! The Butterfly Alphabet I first saw this poster years ago in a friend's home. Love at first sight! Not only

A Very Cool Place

2010-04-08T06:27:00.000-07:00

This morning, I stumbled across this site for Heath Ceramics. Wow. Beautiful, beautiful ware. Their pieces speak to form and function in a way that is so simple yet so seductive. ( And the design of their website is pretty amazing, as well.) In my perusal, I also became incredibly sentimental. Now, I have never been to the actual facility or their cool, new retail store in San

Home Sweet Home

2010-04-03T09:48:00.000-07:00

source What defines the word "home" for you?

Windows to the Retail Soul

2010-03-24T11:35:00.000-07:00

source In the era of online shopping, brick and mortar stores are, thankfully, still amongst us. Whether on a real, live, noisy, street with traffic lights, corners and sidewalks, or contained inside a mall, it is still possible to actually WALK into a retail establishment. I have a fascination with a store's front window display. A successful one draws me inside whether or not I need to go

Sh*t Happens

2010-03-21T14:02:00.000-07:00

Frank Lloyd Wright's son's amazing carpet hits the auction block. Bummer? To quote one of my fave blogs Dinosaurs & Robots: "David & Gladys Wright's house in Arcadia, AZ has long been one of the major sites for the pilgrims of his father, Frank Lloyd Wright. FLW built it for them in 1951 out of concrete block, with Philippine mahogany built-ins and all the furniture, from the beds to the

To My Peeps

2010-03-11T05:40:00.000-08:00

Spring is in the air - Yay!!!! It is always a hopeful time of year. The milder breezes caresses us with inspirations of all kinds. The birth of new ideas, new plans, and new life. This year, Spring has opened up some doors for me that will require more time away from my trusty li'l computer. So, my own posts and visits/comments to others may be a tad less frequent for awhile. In the

Now You're Stylin'

2010-03-08T02:44:00.000-08:00

Recently, a reader emailed me because she wanted to re-design some rooms in her home. Actually, she termed it as wanting to redecorate them. In fact, based on the info she shared (primarily that she has little, if any, budget for new purchases), a re-design is what she is looking at doing. The difference being is that she wants to use what she has but in a more styled and pulled together way.

Back to Basics

2010-03-04T04:35:00.000-08:00

What follows is amazing. "In 1967, Rhoda Kellogg published an archive of c. 8000 drawings of children ages 24-40 months. (See Kellogg, R.: Rhoda Kellogg Child Art Collection. Washington, DC., Microcard Editions, Inc., 1967; now available at LexisNexis, Reed Elsevier, Inc..) Up to now, as far as we know, no other archive of early graphic expressions was ever published, including a large

All Over the Map

2010-03-02T09:08:00.000-08:00

Many folks out there have blogged or written articles on the many creative ways to incorporate maps and globes in decorating your home . No matter how often I come across one of them, my interest is never any less piqued than the time before. The fact is that maps and globes are timeless treasures with very cool graphics. Their variations, vintage or not, are enormous. Taken out of the

....And The Living Is Easy

2010-03-01T06:11:00.000-08:00

Think Summer. Here.

Never Too Many Cooks In The Kitchen

2010-02-28T04:51:00.000-08:00

Everyone who agrees with one or more of the following, raise your hands. "The kitchen is where all of my company ends up hanging out in." "The kitchen is where the kids do their homework." "The kitchen is where I set up my laptop and pay the bills (or write my blog or catch up on emails or....)." "The kitchen is the heart of the home." etc, etc........Feel free to add on here. I grew

Everything Old is New Again

2010-02-26T13:15:00.000-08:00

It used to be that it was hip to have a massive piece of furniture, a/k/a a television armoire or entertainment center, claiming both real estate and visual importance in your living room. Even though we all admit to loving our media equipment , and even though they now all come in flat screen and barely there components, we still try our best to camouflage them. Personally, I don't have a

First Impressions

2010-02-25T18:50:00.000-08:00

Actually, your home's curb appeal is responsible for the first first impression that people get from your little piece of heaven here on earth. For the sake of this post, let's pretend the car is parked, your guest is at the front door and you've greeted them into your abode. The following pictures are some more of my favorite things; foyers/entryways from which I would be more than eager to

Por Que Parquet?

2010-02-23T14:14:00.000-08:00

Parquet flooring. Quick! What is the first thing that comes to mind? For many I bet words like character, warmth, desirable, amongst other lovelies come to mind. For me, images of funky 3rd floor one room apartments with dish towel curtains targeted at financially strapped college students come flooding in to my head. I'm all grown up now and trying so hard to be mature about this. So, can

"Yeah..that totally works!

2010-02-20T17:41:00.000-08:00

I've been sitting around a lot this weekend with hot tea and crackers by my one side and a sniffly, sneezy hubby on my other side. We're quite the pair this weekend. But what better excuse to catch up on some DVR'd shows, flip through the piles of magazines I keep meaning to spend time with and pulling fun images off of the web? I'm no Oprah (darn it), but I thought I would share some of my

Where to Put the Guests?

2010-02-19T04:59:00.000-08:00

Not sure where to begin on this one. I'll just let the pictures do the talking. Remote control. Ceiling hide-away. Strong. Expensive. Totally George Jetson cool. specs/info. The Murphy Bed ain't your grandma's Murphy bed anymore.