Weekend spectacular: Great Gives, and Life in O. C.

Crow and Canary has a great give this week! She has some cute questions about your 1st album, Cd, cassette etc. Does it date me that my first music was 8 track? Ummmm maybe I was retro before my time.
Perhaps I should consider a give...let me know if there is interest...it would be something design-y!

So does Stacie !



She has some fun gives from great Etsy designers like Persnickety Home Designs. They are based right here in Colorado too!



In Ouray we have friends who post the most delightful pics....for a little taste of life in the O.C. (Ouray County, Colorado that is.)
I bring you...
Craig's blog

I Felt the Light! I heard the eco*

Great price, great design! 2Modern is having a fantastic sample sale right now! Have I told you lately how much I love a good bargain?

Felt lighting people! On sale too...you could do these MIO capsules for a while and then pass them on if grow tired of them... or you could buy more and cluster them for a really amazing effect.

My only issue- and it's a minor one, is that they are hung by a white cord. White cords can be clean, modern, whimsical; but more often than not, they look like college or post college home furnishings (obviously cheap). Can you believe I'm complaining at this price though? I mean HONESTLY!

I've saved the best for last. As all of the above these are eco products! Go green...or am I not allowed to say that in '09? Green is still good but I think the buzz word police have banned the term and are opting for simply "sustainable."

The Hightower Gallery Stool is truly brilliant. I'd love to have four. I'd drag them in and outside, stack them like sculpture and even let sticky hands touch them...nothing a quick swipe of zen cleaner can't fix!

Pretty aren't they?

I'm Going Soft....

They say staging is all about fluffing and the pillows...let's just say they never hurt.
These are by the Etsy designer of Maries Cosy Cushions. It was hard to choose. My white, Grizzled Gray (dark pewter), black , and silver office will need a little punch of color.

Pillow
by Li-Young Lee
There's nothing I can't find under there.
Voices in the trees, the missing pages
of the sea

Everything but sleep.

and night is a river bridging
the speaking and the listening banks

a fortress, undefended and inviolate.

-From Book of My Nights