Usually, I would wait until closer to Christmas for a recipe like this, but it is so versatile that I wanted to give you the chance to try it out a few times waaaay before the holiday. By the time Christmas comes, you will be the star of all your holiday parties, thanks to this…
Home textiles and accessories are my two favorite categories for gift-giving: they pack up nicely, they don’t come in sizes and they are things that people often covet but hold off on buying for themselves. One item on my list of covetable textiles is a pair of frosty dew placemats from Satsuki Shibuya shown above….
Speaking of cool ceramics, anyone in the LA area should make an effort to see My Head Disappears When My Hands Are Thinking, a collection of works by Geoff McFetridge with Heath Ceramics. I was introduced to Geoff’s work through the documentary Beautiful Losers, and I’ve been a huge fan ever since. His loose rendering style…
It seems there’s been an abundance of cool sculptural ceramic designs lately. Does anyone else feel this way? I already purchased an air plant hanger from Mudpuppy and a bunch of secondhand ceramics from local thrift stores. I know I should slow the influx of things into my home, but these hanging ceramic pods by Farrah…
Our family loves a gift theme. We have given knitting, crafts, cooking, sewing and even butcher shop-inspired gifts in years past. This year we are excited by the multitude of handcrafted, naturally sourced and locally focused gifts available (many of which come from our hometown of Portland, OR!). “Natural” is a rather broad, all-encompassing term…
As soon as Amy and I set foot back in Brooklyn, I started planning to pack up and head out again for the first-ever Portland Bazaar, which I organized with friends and all-around awesome dudes, Matt Pierce and Greg Hennes. We’ve been working overtime to get the final details together, and this week I’m posting…
What an exciting moment this must be: to take a photograph of your new retail space and have ideas for the interior design buzzing in your head. You know from Grace’s post this morning that she’s successfully secured an office space for next year (yay!), so I have some idea of what that feels like….
This is why I love Before & After projects: The ingenious hacks, makeovers and modifications you all come up with will never cease to amaze me. Tanya of Dans le Townhouse is never short on great ideas, but this is one of my favorites, as it puts works of art to use in a wonderfully…
I allowed myself to slide headfirst down the slippery slope of bird-dom on Tuesday with a roundup that included an embarrassing amount of bird ornaments. That lead me to set this image (he’s so sleepy!) as my desktop screensaver, and now I’m giving in to this adorable owl-covered Owlet wallpaper from Turner Pocock. Their papers are…
When it comes to rugs and flooring, I almost always prefer bare wood floors. If that’s not an option, I tend to gravitate to thick rugs, but those are just an invitation for my cats to go claw-crazy. So lately I’ve shied away from floor coverings at all. But these pretty, new mats from Domestic Construction…
For the past eight years, I have been running Design*Sponge from the deeply recessed divot in my polka-dotted couch. It has happily been my own personal headquarters since the beginning, but just as I’m not the same girl I was when I started D*S, neither are my working needs. Slowly and organically, D*S has grown…
