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About Katie: Katie has been a product and textile designer, an art restoration specialist, and an interior designer/merchandiser. Her interests are focused on finding well designed items that improve daily life as well as reading fiction and making stuff. (View Profile)

 
 

Friday Links

  • Fabric Made From Sheets Of Dryer Lint
  • NYTimes: The ‘Busy’ Trap By Tim Kreider
  • All 135 Space Shuttle launches at once
  • Letters of Note: Slaughterhouse Five (via openculture)
  • I Stole This From You (via Tumblr Tuesday picks)
  • FACEMATH (also via Tumblr Tuesday picks)
  • Think your place is small? For comparison, get a load of this: King’s Cube via @core77
  • LazyTruth is a free Gmail gadget that automatically triggers fact-checked content when you receive a misleading email forward.”
  • Have a great weekend!

    Joyce Cabinet

    Remember this? It’s now available in red, perfect for a punch of color in any dull room. The Joyce Cabinet balances a spare painted frame with an incredibly warm wood interior. Sliding glass doors with plenty of shelves and drawers makes it a perfect choice for storing your collectables, and while inspired by the Victorian era optometrist’s shopfitting, it certainly looks thoroughly modern today.

    Available in solid timber and painted finishes with interior options of shelves and/or drawers and combinations thereof.

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    Purchase Information:

    Price: £5855
    Available from: PINCH

    Make Tea Not War Postcard

    A sentiment well worth remembering in times of stress, this postcard will be sure to get your message across… and then perhaps end up pinned to a bulletin board (or even put in a frame?). That’s what I would do with it.
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    Purchase Information:

    Price: $1.75
    Available from: Paper Trail

    Grand and Petit Trianon Lamps

    These aren’t new, but they are affordable and pretty lovely for the price- definitely worth keeping in mind if you need something eye catching that doesn’t break the bank. Designed by Paula Arntzen and named after the palace of King Louis XIV. Post-consumer coated Tyvek makes for a lightweight material and allows a soft glow through the folded slits.

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    Purchase Information:

    Price: $99.00 - 150.00
    Available from: YLiving

    Go Clean Bags

    Don’t let dirty laundry or wet suits get you down when traveling- use these Go Clean Bags to separate and store your items appropriately. There’s quite a few bags to choose from, so you can either purchase the few you need separately, or spring for the Go Clean Set ($58) which includes the Laundry Bag, 2 Shoe Bags and 1 Stuff Bag.

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    Purchase Information:

    Price: $18.00 and up
    Available from: Flight 001

    Hot Pot BBQ

    Summer sales are happening now, and this little grill is currently priced at $79.95 (reg $124) at the MoMA Store. It’s a grill AND a planter, which is nothing short of fantastic for small porches and patios. Just how smart is it to hide a grill (when not in use) under the guise of a real planter? Pretty smart, I’d say, and especially handy should you choose to plant herbs and such in said planter.
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    Purchase Information:

    Price: $79.95
    Available from: MoMA Store

    Little Corkie Picture Rail

    Smart. This picture rail is made of cork so you can pin small items and papers to it, which makes it an even better spot for all your favorite things. Artwork and photos fit nicely into the top aluminium channel picture rail.
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    Purchase Information:

    Price: £20.00
    Available from: What’s Mine is Yours

    Stowaway Bed

    Under the bed storage is nothing new, nor are drawers built into the bed itself. But chalkboard drawers beneath a platform bed are something a little new as they provide some labeling fun (maybe you’d be more motivated to organize given there’s chalk involved?), and might just be the upgrade you’re looking for if your bedroom is short on storage.
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    Purchase Information:

    No longer available.

    Cardboard Birdhouse

    Everyone can afford to provide shelter for the birds at this price. This birdhouse ships flat, and after a few simple steps you’ll have a pop up (weather-resistant) cardboard birdhouse fit for your feathered friends. Could be fun to decorate as well, if you prefer. Measures 10″ tall; wood dowel for perch included.
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    Purchase Information:

    Price: $6.00
    Available from: Paper Trail

    ET HOP Hors D’Oeuvre Tray

    While this might be a little above your budget, it does look entirely handy for hors d’oeuvres for a small get together or party. A wood carrying rack allows for 5 bowls of different heights to be carried together, and when you place the bowls and rack down, the bowls sit on the table and reveal their topography. See video below.

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    Purchase Information:

    Price: $250.00
    Available from: Fitzsu

    Proud to Lick and Kitchen is for Dancing Tea Towels

    Nothing wrong with either sentiment, and, come to think of it, it’d be nice to have a kitchen motto. Which one would be yours? Both tea towels are printed in the UK on 100% Unbleached Eco Cotton.
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    Purchase Information:

    Price: £10.95
    Available from: Howkapow

    Bike Hanger by Woodstick Ltd.

    How about a faceted bike hanger? Woodstick Ltd. brings us a handcrafted hanging option that would blend nicely with many a modern interior, and, best of all, it doesn’t cost an arm and a leg. It uses an easy to use mount system that can be installed on various wall surfaces with just 3 standard screws.
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    Purchase Information:

    Price: $239.00
    Available from: Woodstick

    Source: Svpply

    Roman Numeral Dice

    Stay familiar with Roman numerals by using this set of dice. You might even rattle your opponents as not everyone can easily add up numerals, especially compared to the dots found on usual dice. History moment: according to Wikipedia, “the oldest known dice were excavated as part of a 5000-year-old backgammon set at the Burnt City (Shahr-e SÅ«khté), an archeological site in south-eastern Iran.”
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    Purchase Information:

    Price: $4.95
    Available from: Spoon Sisters

    Friday Links

  • Heather Benning turns abandoned home into human-sized dollhouse
  • I think we’ve linked to this animation before, but in light of the recent Higgs Boson discovery, what the heck, here it is again (on openculture): Dark Matter Animated
  • A Dress Made Out Of 50,000 Gummy Bears “…weighs 220 pounds, took three weeks to complete, and requires the strength of three adults to move.”
  • Pit Cherries Cleanly and Easily with a Chopstick and Bottle
  • ‘Holi’ – A colorful short by Variable
  • Instead of a stroller at the airport, use a cardboard box.
  • Barry Rosenthal: Found in Nature (via thisisnthappiness)
  • Have a great weekend.

    50/50 Color Pencil Set

    Instead of carrying around (or stashing away) 24 color pencils, how about just 12 two tone pencils? This tin of double-ended full size colored pencils will keep all your favorite colors on hand without taking up too much space in your pencil case or desk drawer.
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    Purchase Information:

    Price: $12.50
    Available from: Spoon Sisters