I want to go to Australia for lots of reasons (mostly wallabies) but here’s another: Yayoi Kusama‘s installation at the Gallery of Modern Art. Over the course of several weeks, he gave thousands of kids thousands of stickers, turning the once-white room into a rainbow of colors. It’s called “The Obliteration Room” and I love it so very much.
Author: Katy Kelleher
Snow.
I really wish it would snow.
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On The Rocks.
Here’s another place I would like to live forever. Too bad it’s a restaurant (though it’s not very creatively named—The Rock Restaurant is descriptive but not particularly romantic).
But doesn’t it look like a place where tropical hobbits would live? Or Dufflepuds!
Anyway, I need a vacation. Would someone please fly me out to Tanzania?
Gift Guide
This “Cloche With Babies” costs $395. I could totally DIY it.
Here’s what you’re getting, according to the Restoration Hardware site:
“Mounted on posts and arranged beneath a glass cloche, vintage forms from a doll factory make a striking sculptural statement.
- 28 industrial doll forms, reproduced in resin and mounted on metal posts
- Displayed beneath a tall cloche of hand-blown glass with a solid wood base“
If I owned this, I would sit around in a huge leather chair, thumbing through my copy of The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death while staring pensively at my baby-filled cloche.
I know this is kind of old, but I just saw it today: How To Avoid Huge Ships (or, as I am calling it now, the best and most useful self-help book that has ever been written by man or beast). I’ve just read ALL the Amazon reviews and they are killing me. I’ve spent the past half hour sitting on my floor cracking up manically. The best.Okay, now that I’ve gotten that out of my system, I can go back to posting tiny things and treehouses.
Sensing a theme?
I need this! At first I thought it was just a really adorable flashdrive, but it’s a real, working camera. Here it is on Amazon. After the Little Printer and the Tiny Postal Service, I think this miniature camera is going to officially kill me with cuteness.
Little Things
In a similar vein as the World’s Smallest Postal Service (so tiny! so cute!) though possibly a lot more useful: the Little Printer. You can hook it up to your smartphone and print out various things—grocery lists, notes from friends, etc. While it’s not available for purchase just yet, I already know I’ll use it almost exclusively to print my To Do lists. I write approximately nine thousand lists per day, and this would make them infinitely cuter (which in turn will make me more likely to complete them. Or so I hope.)
Picture of the tiny printer’s tiny to-do list, after the jump.
Say Hello to Milkshake
For the past two months, I’ve been working nonstop with the amazing Amy Jurkowitz to create this lovely website: Milkshake Kids. It’s a daily email that delivers only “good” finds (i.e. eco-friendly, handmade toys or BPA-free dishware). As I’ve probably mentioned, I’m the editor, which is a really wonderful job (for so many reasons, the least of which being that it allows me to work from my bed) and I couldn’t be more proud.
Sign up, check it out, or just think about how tasty Milkshakes are. I will consider your support (and creamy cool thoughts) my Christmas present.
Nesting
Obviously, I need to live here. I would line the insides with giant feathers and the shredded remains of all my clothes (one does not need sweaters when one lives in a human nest). Why don’t I already have a human nest? I have no idea.
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Essentials
One of my favorite possessions is my tiny red Swiss Army Knife. It’s missing a toothpick and dull as all hell, but I will never take it off my keychain. I’m not usually sentimental about objects (I wear jewelry from old boyfriends without a thought, and accept fully that I will eventually break almost everything I own. It’s in my nature) but this is one of the few things I will fight for.
Why? Well…
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