The touch, the feel
The fabric of our lives: cotton.
The fabric of my kitchen: white dishes.
Remember when I was obsessed with white ceramic teacups?
Well, I still am. Maybe less obsessed at this point and more infatuated with with. I just love me a lovely white teacup.
Just imagine, the touch and the feel of these beauties:
This set Mori is from designer Masahiro Mori, born in 1927 in Saga, an area famous for its production of ceramics. These cups were originally designed in 1969 for blind people to distinguish what is contained by feeling the cup.
How interesting! Gah! I love design.
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I guess after seeing two theater shows and two recitals this weekend I am in the mood for black. No, not gloom and doom- the performances were incredible! and we’ve had couldn’t-ask-for-better weather lately- so the whole black thing is more inspired by performance attire perhaps. Though nobody at the performances actually performed in performance black… Nope, it was all floor length dresses (for the junior and senior recitals) and flashy Fosse dance type costumes (for Sweet Charity the musical). In any case, here are some black and white things that’ve caught my attention recently.
qlocktwo Time in words / spells out time
A matrix with symmetrically arranged characters forms an additional square on the inside. Some of these characters glow in pure white, thus forming words that describe the time.
How cool that it’s also available as an iPhone app!
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After the recitals there are the receptions. It’s been interesting to see how each student performer’s reception is pretty much a reflection of them, whether it’s sushi for a Korean student, fruit and veggies for le hippie, or snacky stuff for the boys and sweets for the girls. Anywho, though food and mingling are the main attraction of the receptions, if I had a reception I might just jazz up my table with some pom pom garland. I know, slap me now, it’s so very Martha Stewart to dress up a table. But look at the garland! And lordy knows I love paper crafts!!
A tutorial if you’d like to make your own.
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In addition to all the performances I attended this weekend, during the past week I was lucky enough to catch a voice recital and snag a porch seat. Enjoying the lovely breeze and pre-dusk sky while being serenaded! My porch didn’t look like this…
Via Home Design Find
…but I sure did feel like I was on cloud nine, or a relaxing vacation. (This picture is DIVINE in my eyes, what with the white everything, the pillows aplenty, and sky sky sky. Ah!)
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Summer is (almost) back also
‘Maters!!!
Purple veggies! I’ve had both purple peppers and purple carrots (and purple string beans) before and they’re really reallllly good!
These beautiful photos (and so many more) are from Cannelle and Vanille, Food, Life and Photography.
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And not to ruin the mood (but it will), here’s some food for thought that’s relevant to some bigtime current politics. This quote is from the clinical director of a health center speaking at the congressional briefing following a lobby day speaking about how managed care has dramatically changed treatments–and not for the better.
Normally, you look in a cookbook for how long to bake a cake, and the recipe says to bake at 350 degrees for an hour. Managed care operates under the premises that you can make the cake at 500 degrees for 20 minutes and still have a finished cake. The irony is that often the cake looks done on the outside, but the inside is still completely raw. And if you let the cake sit for any length of time, the uncooked interior causes the whole cake to collapse.
Not cool.
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Kewl:
(found on Belle Maison)
Kool (the ‘k’ being for Kate Spade meets Jonathan Adler):
Also from Belle Maison
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Guess who’s back…
is back.
Found on All Things Paper
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I wish I had made this up myself
I really like this! Not because this is a way of decision-making that can be used for everything (that would not be advised), but because the way the message is stated it makes a hard task (decision-making) seems so simple, and by doing that it becomes almost inspiring, like, maybe everything could be this simple if you frame it right! Fresh, fun thinking. Thinking that makes you think optimistically. 
Found on Happythings
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Hallmark has yet to make these
Tax season’s greetings (a little early, although everyone better be preparing already!)
From Up Up Creative
Sometimes don’t you just want to “control-z” something you do?
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A drop cap for me!
Typographer and illustrator Jessica Hische is known for making wonderful, inventive drop caps that she offers for FREE on her website Daily Drop Cap. I love looking at her drop cap creations–some I like, some I don’t care for– and I’ve been waiting around for a while for a good one of ”my” letter. Well, here it is, I just think it’s great! J’adore j’adore!!
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I don’t get many visitors to my Boston apartment, but I’ll have you know that my couch is a shmorgasborg of pillows! Comfort– it’s what I go for. If I ever redecorate (or have a beach house that I want to decorate all New England-y) I’ll keep these pillows by Erin Flett in mind. Clean, fresh, colorful, bold– comfortable.
The Maine-based graphic and textile designer of her new line of silk screened pillows, she hopes they will speak “to the stylist soul”.
Seen on decor8.
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