Made in L.A. and available in other gorgeous colors including teal and red, from store-after-my-heart A+R. $158ish
How do you spin aluminum, anyway?
Posts Tagged ‘ideas about wanting’
Want: Hand spun aluminum succulent planters
Thursday, August 6th, 2009Coveting expensive beds, stalking designers, and “How much a… can you take?”
Friday, June 5th, 2009
That there is the Blu Dot Dodu bed, a $1,599 felt bed with French seams that I really frickin’ love. A few months ago I decided to email Blu Dot to say, Pretty please keep me in mind should one of these beds happen to fall off a truck and need to be discretely sold on the cheap. Their customer service specialist Joanna very nicely wrote back with a list of local retailers who may order, and (fingers crossed) drop, and need to get rid of such a bed. Cool.
Then I got their new catalog, and this scruffalufagus (in my bed) has a fascinating tattoo across his chest. Matthew and I pieced together the lettering from his various open robe shots and came up with “HOW MUCH A… CAN YOU TAKE?” What’s the A? Art or ass or analogy were my guesses, with money on art. Check it out:
How to know? Well, why not email my new friend Joanna? Here’s what she said:
Hello Carissa.
Thanks for your email and interest in Blu Dot!
You and your boyfriend are correct; the gentleman’s tattoo does say “How Much Art Can You Take?” Good detective work!
Feel free to contact is with any further questions or to place that Dodu Bed order!
Kind Regards,
Joanna
Ok, so the Blu Dot people may think I’m stalking them (they’re from Minnesota, and probably glad for it), but they get an A++ for customer service.
Case closed. Sign up for their catalog.
Want: Light up letters
Wednesday, May 13th, 2009If I had a spare 250 pounds, these would be mine. Recycled from companies gone out of business. Character:
Want: Turquoise sandals from Camper
Monday, April 27th, 2009
I met a girl in the park wearing these and I was like, squee! Campers! Squee! Too bad they’re $135 and nowhere to be found on sale…
WANT: Dress of the Month Club for April, purple denim with piping!
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009
Nice work, ladies! Purple denim with purple piping!
$100 over at Dress of the Month Club, where they post a new dress every single month. Get on their email list to get in the club.
I ordered a custom $100 dress through their Dress-O-Matic, it’s going to be multi-colored seersucker!
Wahoo, sunshine!
Want: A nap
Monday, April 6th, 2009
My most popular tag is “ideas about naps,” and also I want to nap in the sun right now, so I’m stepping up the napping posts.
Want: Tord Boontje Future Flora Lamp
Thursday, March 26th, 2009
I’ve grown a little tired of the Tord Boontje laser cuts lately, in the same way I grew tired of the snarky writing in McSweeney’s. Both were original, even glorious, and my first encounters made me gasp…and then it was everywhere, imitated endlessly, touted by people whose tastes I don’t admire. But this Future Flora Lamp has me on board, just like how a visit to 826 Valencia won me back. You’re right, I love you, I need you, be mine.
$99 for non members at MOMA store, or $79.20 plus 20% off through Sunday if you become a member (regular member discount is 10%). Membership is $60 if you live more than 150 miles from NYC, $50 if you’re a student, $75 if you’re in the city (and can I sleep on your floor?).
Gorey Goopy Liquid Bookmarks
Monday, February 9th, 2009
To end a day of ransom notes over book bags, I just had to give you this. Some of my best loved books already look this way, especially the cookbooks. It also brings to mind that old college joke of learning by osmosis when napping on your books at the library (or campus gardens). $29 at DesignBloom, a quirky little internationally stocked site.
Also, new tag alert! How did I get this far without a tag for ideas about reading?
Weird. I picked up a new book recently, so we’ll get back to Things to Read, Drinks to Drink soon.
Want: Crocheted baubles (and the ability to crochet)
Monday, January 12th, 2009
Here’s another one to add to the ever growing list of Things I Would Like to Make Myself and Never Will (which is now a tag for me to track such things on this blog). Crocheted rings, bangles, and *drool* a choker. $90, $85, and $350, respectively. The balls are created using a plastic ball form, but the bangles and choker have a felted cord as the base, which is then wrapped in crocheted bands. If I could get my act together and learn how to knit and crochet, this would be my first project.
Sunday is supposed to be Craft n’ Drink day with my friends at the Bye n’ Bye, but yesterday we were all too hung over from a naked lady party the night before. (Win: Liz’s dresses. Fail: Sequined black and white shirt with petal sleeves. BTW, follow that Liz link to see Amy in my apartment and me with much, much shorter hair).
These are available at Kjoo on Etsy, and created by Maria Riberiro, who is apparently Portugese and sweet to boot. Read this interview on Resurrection Fern where Maria explains learning to felt from a Martha Stewart tutorial, so maybe there’s hope for me, after all!
Top image from Resurrection Fern, bottom 3 from Etsy.
