Category Archives: Design
Decorative Tiles Make Me Tingly
If Batman Was a 19th Century Woman
When is a Rock Not a Rock?
Happy Father’s Day, lovelies! In honor of all the dads out there, today’s post is about something very butch. (Well, very butch for me anyway.) Continue reading
Do-It-Yourself Houha Design
Disobedient Women
“A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience.” ― Naomi Wolf
Secret Decoder Ring 2.0
Happens to me all the time. I’m on the street, in a club, or somewhere else noisy, my phone is in my bag, and I miss a call. Not anymore, I won’t!
Etsomnia™ Volume II
et·som·ni·a (/etˈsämnēə/), noun, 1. a sleep disorder caused by obsessive Etsy browsing. 2. the surprising arrival of weird handmade merchandise ordered in one’s sleep.
Thank goodness for the internet.
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Pardon me, do you know the time . . . on Venus?
Do you have $330,000 burning a hole in your pocket? Do you also have a burning need to know the position of a neighboring planet? If you answered yes to these questions, then have I ever got a bridge watch for you. Continue reading
Good Day, Gdańsk
vu [vy]
adj
a meaning of coolness
“you are soo vu”
Gallery Walls For Dummies!
Really Little Boxes on a Hillside . . .
An Attack of Etsomnia™ Volume I
et·som·ni·a (/etˈsämnēə/), noun, 1. a sleep disorder caused by obsessive Etsy browsing. 2. the surprising arrival of weird handmade merchandise ordered in one’s sleep.
Oh, Etsy, I wish I could quit you. Continue reading
Drinkable Gifts Only

dpotera / Foter / Creative Commons
I have a big birthday coming up this year. A BIG birthday. Continue reading
Hansel and Gretel Sold Separately
Death by a Million Paper Cuts
Genius/Artist/Weirdo HR Giger Dies at 74

Birth Machine ©HRGiger.com
Today, we lost a brilliant mind. Continue reading
I Didn’t Even Know Stalinesque Was a Design Style

©Andrea Wyner for The New York Times
“I decided I wanted to design the apartment in the style of a senior bureaucrat of the early Stalin period,” said the owner, antiques dealer Sergei Bobovnikov, 47. Continue reading
Sadder-But-Wiser Pottery (A Beautiful Story Told By a Smart Ass)
The Power of Dust
“We are Dangerdust. Every Week we take over Columbus College of Art & Design’s chalkboard. It’s the best form of vandalism.”
















