Salvaged Bottle Lamps

You know when you're drawn to something so much, it almost Care Bear stares to your insides and makes you freeze? Or maybe it's that everything around you freezes & you think I could marry this. Well, I do. And it happens over a range of things - art exhibits, songs, food - and in this case, lamps. I saw these maison martin margiela salvaged bottle lamps in the most recent Remodelista newsletter, and I stopped in my tracks. And, they provided a little DIY checklist to make your own version. I must must make one of these.

Valentine Goody Bag

Send some paper love this week with these little limited edition Valentine Goody Bags. I screen printed the bags over the weekend & I just love them. Some may say hearts are too cutesy - and maybe they are - but they make me smile. And I'm such a small bag nut - I use them for everything. So I especially love this one. And it comes free! (The set is $26 and includes a notepad, a box of note cards, an L&H pencil & a handwritten little heart tag.) Check it out here.

From the Desk Fridays: Custom Work & Clean Up

This week (or at least part of it) was supposed to be office organization focused. But people are getting married! Lots of brides & grooms-to-be are coming to us for their save the dates and invitations - so we've had to put our office clean up mission on hold. We did get the first very important step done - the step where I have to constantly chant, "It gets worse before it gets better" - lots of editing, recycling and donating. Next step - installing shelves this weekend to better utilize our tall walls. (It might just be me, but a shelving system seems to be my golden ticket to organization.) Next week will be reorganizing our inventory, supplies and samples. And it's my goal to have a little Before & After post for next week's From the Desk Friday post. Fingers crossed!

[Above: A couple recent stationery sets. (I can't show you people's invitations just yet!) The first would be great ordered with a few different liners to mix & match. The second is a very grown up set for a male Princeton alum. Both are pretty simple - but I love them.]

Soy Este Wallpaper

I recently came across these fun wallpapers distributed by Soy Este. I have a thing for multiples - and things removed from their original context. These are a perfect fit for me.

In real life, I would choose just one of these wallpapers for my home - to catch people by surprise & make them look twice, and not - Oh, another gum wallpaper in here, Sue. But because these fun wallpapers warrant a little fantasy-apartment decoration, I've identified rooms or uses for each of them.


I'd put this one (above) in a children's bathroom, because they should be so lucky to have a bathroom to themselves and stare at candy while they pee.



I'd put this on one wall of a game room. (You'll shoot your eye out!)



This one inside a shelving unit in a bathroom. Pretty.



I'd line my childrens drawers (or mine) with this one.



And this one for a small home office. Seeing lots of matches out like this looks to me like the matches have been freed from their tiny box coffins. So while this room may be small & full of papers with numbers & obligations, you're not locked in there.

See more wallpaper at Soy Este.

133 Buildings

I love this print by Nate Duval. (The desktop calendar version he did for design*sponge is free & right here.) Last year, Nate designed three greeting cards for L&H. I must think of a way to collab again. He's so talented.

Book Jackets & Bookmarks

I was instantly drawn to these book jackets & bookmarks. I think Alice's Adventures in Wonderland might be my favorite.

[via Cup of Joe]

School Cork Boards

It had been a while since I was in a middle school when we went to see our nephew play indoor soccer out in SLC last week - so maybe I had forgotten how schools decorate their halls (oversized cork boards & paper) but I loved these simple paper borders - a little crafty & nostalgic and definitely happy. I might need to start one up at L&H.

We're rearranging our office this week and I found a cork board behind some filing cabinets - in all its naked ugliness. There's no chance it's getting hung up without some of this school house love.