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Category Archive for 'Imagination'

Freecycling Your Unwanted Stuff

Is anyone out there familiar with Freecycle?  If not, you should check it out.  It began as an ingenious idea that instead of throwing things away, you should first offer them to people in your area who might need them.  No more garbage trucks hauling away your old furniture that still has some life in […]

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How Green is Your Holiday?

Green-Christmas.org is a website that offers some interesting tips on how to keep your holiday eco-friendly. One of them is getting a “living” Christmas tree, “which is delivered in a pot, remains alive through the season (don’t forget to water it!), and is picked up after New Year’s Day.” I had never heard […]

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Wedding Bells

Planning a wedding is hard enough, but trying to do so on a budget in an environmentally friendly way complicates things even further. Still, as I plan my wedding, I cannot help but think of all of the potential waste and resolve to avoid as much as I can. Some brides- and grooms-to-be are doing […]

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Hi there! This is Dave, co-owner of 302designs, and one of the original, founding partners. Have you ever wondered what the history behind our name is? The number “302″ is actually the basis for the entire philosophy behind my company. What follows is a story of truth, passion and optimism.
It all started […]

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I’ve only just discovered the 101 things in 1001 days project. I know it’s been around for awhile now but I only just stumbled onto it last night. And this morning it got me thinking, mainly about whether or not I think I could actually do that and perhaps more importantly could I even think […]

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Monarch - I’m a huge fan of her stuff. And she’s got tons of beautiful designs that would make great gifts. A few of my favourites for V-Day are Love You stamped necklace, Elephant pendant, and Old Fashioned Love pendant.

Studio Mela - check out her prints.

TickleMePinkBoutique - I especially love this necklace.

The weird […]

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In a post last week I used a comic by Toothpaste for Dinner, by far one of my favourite web comics. Let’s back track a bit though. A conversation with my mom last week made me realize how inaccessible the internet was to such a huge demographic, which includes my mother, that I am now […]

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Hacking isn’t exactly a term that most people know or bring to mind when discussing furniture and home decoration. And “uniqueness” isn’t exactly a term applied to Ikea. For those who can’t stand the Swedish home store, Ikea epitomizes all that is sterile and homogenized. Remember that scene from Fight Club?
However, Ikea hacking gives […]

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Shibboleth

Shibboleth is the latest work of art to be installed in the Tate Modern Turbine Hall. The artist, Doris Salcedo’s decision to use the structure of the hall itself is a first. Previous artists have chosen to fill the space, whether with sound, light, boxes or a giant spider. Salcedo’s Shibboleth is a chasm that […]

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Design Discovery

An article in the New York Times about the highs and lows of buying for home furnishing stores is accompagnied by a slide show of some of the items that have been selling like hot cakes or gathering dust. It’s not so much an interesting slideshow in terms of consumer spending habits, but rather a […]

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