Tag: Honor Roll

• My favorite type of music juxtaposes buoyant, happy music against lyrics that will either make you laugh or blush (see: Belle & Sebastian). Add in a little life relevancy, and a cute retro style to the video, and you’ve got the recipe for my new favorite song. (NSFW!)

• If you’ve been wanting a rug like the one in my living room, you’re in luck because there are suddenly tons pink zig zag rugs out there!

• This is cool. Snap a photo of a room, take a ceiling height measurement, and get a 3D design plan.

• I wish I could afford to make these planters mine. I’ll take an orange one, please.

• I spy: tree stump tables.

• Oh, you guys. I can’t help it. I’m always a sucker for sentimental jewelry like this.

• Have you ever heard of a hair rat? Sounds terrible, seems helpful…

• Cute bow ties for little guys. (Wouldn’t August be especially handsome in one?)

• It’s a simple design, but I’m loving the pockets and handles on this chic iPad case.

Holy cow, you guys. I wrote a LOT of stuff around the web this week. Here’s more.

• Ever wonder what a letter mailed from the Dagobah System might look like? (Geek.)

• Here’s what inspires Thomas O’Brien.

• Whoa, whoa, whoa. Where’s the fire? (Eleanor and August were both super into this firestation.)

• Crazy floral print handbag for only $29, coming right up!

• I hope to be as fab as Iris Apfel some day. I love this illustration of her (and a bunch of other fashion icons, too).

• And they lived Happily ever after. With cute art on their walls. The end.

• Best desk ever. Those balloons are structural!
  [via Design for Mankind]

• When I’m alone at a party and my best friend shows up…

• Perhaps I’ve found a taxidermy project to top all of the odd stuffed animals at my mother-in-law’s cabin?

• You should date an illiterate girl.

• …And you should marry a geek.

• …So you can experience the beauty of familiarity.

• Bring on the striped bags!

• I wanted the $300 shoes, but I like the $25 pair I bought instead.

• I sense a Pinterest pinning spree in your future…

• You can get this entire outfit for less than $100! And it’s super cute.

• These are the alphabet magnets I have on my fridge. Stainless steel, lowercase serif font, and no primary colors or plastic. They’re letter magnets for font nerds and design snobs!

• So nice to see Anna’s home through Victoria’s photos. It’s amazing how different a home can look when shot by someone else!

• These vintagey paintings are lovely.

• How to pose like a fashion blogger.

• Former Lucky editor Kim France is blogging for girls of a certain age.

• I want to create a fairy garden for the kids, but this one raises the bar considerably.

• Everything I wish I could be.
  [via Design Crush]

• I’m already a smidge into (OK, way into) miniatures, so these solid wood bookends with tiny landscapes on top are calling to me.

• A Soul Bird would be a suitable gift for a lot of occasions both happy and sad, and it’s a beautiful display piece.

• How cute would this little cable car toy be for passing notes back and forth?

• These matching father and son tie and bow-tie sets are the cutest.

• I want a few of these in every color.

• After a few trial issues, it’s official: HGTV Magazine is here to stay!

• May the force be with you, and also help keep your tie in place.

We’re giving away a custom work of art for new parents from Little Cord Art. Enter to win here.

I’m in Toronto, checking off a few Lovely Life List items. Crossing the Canadian border… check. Giving a keynote speech… that’s happening tomorrow at BlogPodium. I’m excited (and a smidge nervous)!

I’ll be taking Monday off to spend some time with my family after being away this Memorial Day weekend, so I’ll be back here Tuesday. In the meantime, here are the things that have made this week’s Honor Roll.

• Vanity Fair has rereleased their Impossible Interviews from the 1930s as on online exclusive.
  p.s. I feel like this series is their modern counterpart: short imagined dialogues.

• This garden shed designed by Orla Kiely is as cute as you’d expect.

• What’s that you say? You haven’t yet had your fill of Orla? Oh, all right. Here you go!

• Comma rules rule. I like to think that my grammar is pretty solid, but I picked up a few things.

• “You only need one confetti [ring] to remember the party.”

• I want two Clump-O-Lumps. One each for Eleanor and August.
  Plus, two is just way more fun. Gotta mix ’em up!

• Turn your recycling into truly recycled toys. Clever!
  There are some cute stickers to be had here, but I also got a lot of crafty project ideas.

• Hello, glittering shoes of awesomeness.

• Upside down Ns — they’re everywhere, gah!

• I love a good business card, don’t you? (p.s. My new cards still make me smile when I hand one out.)

• This photo series will blow you away.

• ZOMG. Can you imagine picking up a hitchhiking John Waters?

• Please let the new Mindy Kaling project be good.
  (I kind of love her.)

• My favorite indoor/outdoor rugs. I bought one for the basement and I’ll write about it here next week. Can you guess which one?
  not so subtle hint —————>

• An end table for geeks! I want one.

• Have you seen the new web series, Olive Us? It’s really sweet.

• The new Orla Kiely line for Bed, Bath & Beyond is out.

• I’ve started writing a column for Better Homes and Gardens’ new Style Spotters blog! My first post featured graphic flat-weave rugs.
  (I guess I’ve been on a rug kick this week?)

I write for Glidden’s My Colortopia, and right now they’re partnering with Circle of Moms for a Dream Nursery Giveaway inspired by What to Expect When You’re Expecting (only in theaters).

Check out the nursery I designed, and enter to win!

• This is why you should have a life list, à la Maggie. (Here’s mine.)

• On business and motherhood.

• I wish this camera was real.

• The best take on a flying carpet ever.

• This font automatically makes different charts (pie charts, bar graphs, etc.) out of the numbers you type out. Makes me wish I had some infographics to prepare.

• Oh yeaahh!

• I suppose I should have posted this book on May the Fourth, eh?

• Now you’re cooking with gas charcoal! (Every year, I want this grill.)

• A whole bunch of cute, affordable ways to update your bathroom.

• Do you ever try to match shoes with your kids?

• Oooh, burn!